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   prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:09:02 JST prettygood
   I hate the people around me, specifically the way that they are, and how they disrespect their own history. I am ashamed to say that, but I can't keep silent any more. These people are fucking cowards. Appalachian people like to walk around with a "fuck the rich man" attitude, but these people are *bottoms* when they say that.
   
   In Eastern Kentucky, workers are absolute cucks to a degree I struggle to express. The coal wars took place in the 1920s. One hundred years ago, miners stood together and said "fuck you" to the bosses, and declared war on corporations, PMCs, and the fucking national guard. They literally fucking killed the people trying to oppress them, and they were right to do it. Their reward was better pay, improved safety conditions, and a chance to live another day, even if only their children got to fully realize it.
   
   Nowadays, the bootlickers around me are crying out "please daddy make strikes illegal". The indoctrination by corporations is terrifying. This phenomenon isn't even specifically mine workers anymore. I don't give a shit what industry you work in, as a working person, you are my sibling. But how can you live with yourselves? How do you sleep at night after spending a day begging to be oppressed?
   
   Your grandparents are ashamed of you. Your great grandparents would spit on you, and disown your names. You're shitting on your family legacy, on your birthright, and the sacrifices made by your fellow men.
   
   I know it is no longer the 1920s. Coal is not now that power which in old days moved heaven and earth. But working people still live, we still work, and we still make the world turn. Labor still make The Machine go 'round. Sometimes the gears of progress are lubricated with blood. We would do well to remember that.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:11:19 JST prettygood

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     • Desire-kun
     @Nepiant I am surrounded by wanna-be tough guys and posers. I'm a transplant to this region, and I'm more redneck than these people and I'll fight on that hill.
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     Desire-kun (nepiant@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:11:20 JST Desire-kun

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     @prettygood misanthrope PG
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:13:20 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     @prettygood reminds me alot about the central ideas in "A Brave New World" and how it manages an authoritarian society without the citizens noticing it
     
     the more you are comfortable, the more you will do to maintain that status quo in the short term. Making a better future is hard, unpredictable, and sometimes dangerous.
     
     I think its also a product of the general dumbing down of the populous, the simple minded cant really think beyond what they have been instilled with.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:15:11 JST prettygood

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     @theorytoe I dunno about the dumbing down part. I can't fathom that a 1920s coal miner was somehow less dumb than the average person in 2020. Unless you mean *willful* ignorance in which case yeah you're correct.
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:22:40 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     @prettygood idk maybe its just the university™ experience but anybody with average intellect seems rare
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:25:39 JST prettygood

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     @theorytoe it isn't an education issue, in the sense of what you know and what you don't. Its a socialization issue. People don't feel connected to the person literally standing next to them. Instead of "that could be me", people have adopted "glad that's not me lmao". My brother in Christ, that might as well be you. "There but for the grace of God go I" doesn't go very fucking far in the real world.
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:34:11 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     ah fair point, I guess I missed the point
     Though I guess that begs the question of what you mean by "connected"
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:36:39 JST prettygood

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     @theorytoe I mean basic fucking empathy. People living their whole ass life online has made them unable to identify with real people, in real demographics, with real problems. Everyone became an ideologue instead. Instead of focusing on commonalities they focus on differentiation. The class war psyop wasn't even necessary, it happened naturally.
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:43:22 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     fair actually, though i feel like its also a product of cultural rot (im also stupid and may just be regurgitating nonsense)
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:44:48 JST prettygood

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     @theorytoe no, you're just putting a label on the problem, which is some degree of accurate.
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     Desire-kun (nepiant@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 15:59:57 JST Desire-kun

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     @prettygood This post is yet another strike to my beliefs, making me question again if it's worth it to kill people.
     
     When you kill someone, you're ridding the world of all that personal experience, knowledge, and wisdom. Decades are cut off of a life. A life I might have lived, given different circumstances.
     
     I've tried again and again, but I have yet to come to terms with killing. I'd do it if i were forced to, and I'm sure I'd come to terms with what I had to do, but while I try to legitimize killing someone just because you see them as your enemy*, I STILL have yet to come to terms with that.
     
     I keep wanting to show them the greatness of life and any necessary wisdom so that they see past our differences and become willing to collaborate. The attempt to connect is like:
     https://soundcloud.com/cadmiumsound/cadmium-x-skrybe-x-riell-eat-you-alive-1
     
     *this is notably different from "because they are trying to kill you"
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 16:02:28 JST prettygood

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     @Nepiant one of the most cynical things you'll ever hear me say is that some experience/perspective isn't worth preserving. There are some people's POV that should not be shared.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 17:05:04 JST prettygood

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     @Nepiant >Should we rid the world of those experiences too?
     
     Yes. Fuck that, nobody should be on the receiving end of that.
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     Desire-kun (nepiant@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 17:05:05 JST Desire-kun

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     Rape and murder, eh...
     
     I can't help but abstract away the taboo nature of those experiences.
     
     A happening that no-one should have ever gone through. A side of the victim you shouldn't have been able to see... It's all just prudence. My science-obsessed mind wants a thorough account of everything. Not to imply that I'd ever willingly send a victim through that experience.
     
     Also, in the distant future we'll be able to experience those things with full immersion from the criminal's or the victim's perspective in a entirely fictional setting. Full-dive VR games.
     
     Also also, I've jacked off to all sorts of heinous porn before, which is like the experience from the criminal's side, just less real. Should we rid the world of those experiences too?
     
     What makes it special?
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     Clover (clover@akko.wtf)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 00:07:33 JST Clover

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     @prettygood the consequences of McCarthyism and the red scare 😔
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 00:07:48 JST Pawslut420

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     @prettygood @theorytoe it's hard to when the friend you'd take a bullet for views you as a name and icon on screen

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