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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 23:05:13 JST Bread up, Bro
   you're seeing this because fresh people are realizing there are real problems, and acting like this is part of the normal process of coming to terms.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 23:05:38 JST Bread up, Bro

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     They see a huge problem and want you to say "do this silver bullet action and it will be fixed"
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 23:06:17 JST Bread up, Bro

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     They call it "rage bait" because it's making them mad, and they don't want to be mad, they want to ignore it and go back to doing other things.
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     AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️ (alabasterbrick@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:13:18 JST AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
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     The furthest right in our current regime believes everyone bleeds red and pissrael is our greatest ally
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     jb (jb@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:13:19 JST jb

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     > two decades following the breakup of the USSR
     There did seem to be at least some men in positions of power that loved the country and its native stock
     We don’t seem to have a single man of this kind in a position of power in the US
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:13:20 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     @sickburnbro This is why it is valuable to study the two decades following the breakup of the USSR. There is no quick fix or one simple trick to reconstruct an economic and political system spanning a large land mass/polity. It's going to take a long time and it's going to hurt.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:53:27 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Biker Fren
     @ACL9000 that's not "americans" - it's conservatives. They are the people that are defined by not wanting to change.
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     Biker Fren (acl9000@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:53:28 JST Biker Fren

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     @sickburnbro Americans love their one-time silver bullets. It's never about "be different from now on", for most of us.
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     Latigo Morgan (latigomorgan@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:58:35 JST Latigo Morgan

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     @TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro That's why I study the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and Ferfal's book on Surviving During the Economic Collapse in Argentina and SELCO's experiences in the Bosnian war.
     
     We are headed for one or the other or a combination of some or all of them.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 05:59:07 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @LatigoMorgan @TrevorGoodchild my bet is spanish civil war due to the international influence.
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     Biker Fren (acl9000@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:05:37 JST Biker Fren

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     @sickburnbro Oh, I don't know... it feels fairly universal, sometimes. People flipping out over ozempic is on that wavelength. Miracle-Gro.
     
     What made me start thinking along these lines years ago was when I was getting myself out of the situation normie-style living had put me in, and while I was busy restricting myself and beating myself up, all the discussion around me was focused on "What *additional* goodie can I eat in order to become fit?" and it blew my mind. It was way normal to find people out there who expected One Weird Trick to work without supporting effort.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:06:24 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Biker Fren
     @ACL9000 well, everything in society is like that, and has been since the 50s. it's all about selling the miracle cure.
     
     We'll need to get out of that on a societal level.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 23:31:11 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @InvictusManeo @TrevorGoodchild @DemonSixOne yes, the grip of equalism is incredibly powerful.
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 23:31:12 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • Radians
     @DemonSixOne @sickburnbro Extremely relevant, especially considering there are equally large fracture lines in Amerikwa
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     InvictusManeo (invictusmaneo@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 23:31:12 JST InvictusManeo

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     @TrevorGoodchild @DemonSixOne @sickburnbro "The cult of simple", Trev.
     Midwits need it, desperately.
     Like magic wand and all that, it helps their little mental gymnastic with which they tolerate this situation, instead of rejecting it.
     The moment they're confronted with the bitter reality of what was going on, they are broken in despair.
     
     They WANT to think that they can fix a polity like they could fix a dishwasher , deep inside they know that is not possible, but the desire to hold into their magical beliefs (such as "equality") is stronger than their grip on reality itself.
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 23:31:13 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • Radians
     @DemonSixOne @sickburnbro Russian death rates from alcoholism at that time period correspond to current American death rates from narcotic overdoses. Both are deaths of despair afflicting the native stock
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     Radians (demonsixone@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 23:31:13 JST Radians

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     @TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro The 90s were a wild time. I think the Yugoslav wars are a relevant topic as well.
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     Radians (demonsixone@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 23:31:14 JST Radians

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     @TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro I somewhat feel like we are in a similar looting phase as Russia was during the Yeltsin years, where external powers mined the land and people for resources.