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[Naturegirl1999]

Let dad, Bernard Sanders handle that, late stage capitalism is like the lottery: everybody can win, just not all at once. I'm a scrub yet I live very decently, your country is richer.

At least the council of elders is cutting you some slack I presume  ? At least I hope so for you.

It's time to bring back arranged marriages! to secure alliances between rival fiefdoms.

do you ever have nightmares about corporate feudalism like I do ?!

I hadn’t thought of corporate feudalism before, if it were to happen, they would have even more power than they already do

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[MrRoboto75]

Let dad, Bernard Sanders handle that, late stage capitalism is like the lottery: everybody can win, just not all at once. I'm a scrub yet I live very decently, your country is richer.

Bernie won't make it past the primaries, they'll pick Biden even if he has no merit whatsoever.  And an idiot senate will roadblock any real change anyhow.

And even if the US is rich, most of it goes to a few dozen people or blowing people up in the middle east.  The economy never recovered since '08, and its set to take another downturn.

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[Iduno]

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Honestly, to me it feels like dating these days is objectively shit.  Something like half of everyone reports being lonely and either a quarter or a third of all people haven't had sex in recent times.

My main grevance is it feels like every place to meet people, at least in my area, is gone.  There's no bars to drink at, gyms and bookstores are just antisocial, meetup.com tends to be a wasteland (either only people I'm not, or its during work hours), and my job really leaves nothing either.  No one to meet and talk to, no one to date.

Online feels like some sort of scam, as in actual success means less profit for them.  But honestly online dating existing has changed dating culture, seemingly for the far worse.  Its very hard to use those apps and not feel like jaded shit.  The odds are far too poor and the competition far too great.

I feel like most of my issues relationship-wise were planted ages ago and are now massive trees of, well, issues.  I try to improve things, but its incredibly long-term and neither I nor anyone around me ever even notices a difference.  Its massively disheartening, things just never really seem to change.

Lacking financial stability doesn't help, either. People don't feel comfortable bringing someone else into their life when they can barely take care of themselves.

If it comes to that I advise taking as many drugs as you can in our last remaining years.

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[TamerVirus]

Pro tip for those going to consume large amounts of mind altering substances in the near future:
If you think you can fly, trying taking off from ground level instead off the roof of the nearby condo

[Naturegirl1999]

I’ve been thinking about how corporations hold more power than governments, and that rich people who care only about money are fucking the planet over, and how even if we stopped emissions and pollution tomorrow, there will be devastating effects, and how humanity is still adding to the already very bad situation making it worse, and how we are all screwed

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[scourge728]

I’ve been thinking about how corporations hold more power than governments, and that rich people who care only about money are fucking the planet over, and how even if we stopped emissions and pollution tomorrow, there will be devastating effects, and how humanity is still adding to the already very bad situation making it worse, and how we are all screwed

I think about this about 90% of the time I'm awake every day

[Yoink]

This talk about governments and fiefdoms and shit reminded me of an idea I was pondering yesterday: why not dissolve all large nations and turn them (back) into city-states? Would be a much healthier setup, it seems to me.
The decisions of each government would actually be relevant to their people, instead of basically trying to do the same thing with the confusing shemozzle of state vs federal laws and all such nonsense.
Also, if one was fed up with their homeland, there'd actually be a reasonable chance of them finding someplace better.

Pro tip for those going to consume large amounts of mind altering substances in the near future:
If you think you can fly, trying taking off from ground level instead off the roof of the nearby condo

Or an indoor mezzanine.

[Naturegirl1999]

I’ve been thinking about how corporations hold more power than governments, and that rich people who care only about money are fucking the planet over, and how even if we stopped emissions and pollution tomorrow, there will be devastating effects, and how humanity is still adding to the already very bad situation making it worse, and how we are all screwed

I think about this about 90% of the time I'm awake every day

I think about it a lot. Every time I talk about it I start crying because of the hopelessness

This talk about governments and fiefdoms and shit reminded me of an idea I was pondering yesterday: why not dissolve all large nations and turn them (back) into city-states? Would be a much healthier setup, it seems to me.
The decisions of each government would actually be relevant to their people, instead of basically trying to do the same thing with the confusing shemozzle of state vs federal laws and all such nonsense.
Also, if one was fed up with their homeland, there'd actually be a reasonable chance of them finding someplace better.

Pro tip for those going to consume large amounts of mind altering substances in the near future:
If you think you can fly, trying taking off from ground level instead off the roof of the nearby condo

Or an indoor mezzanine.

I think the only way for this to happen is civil wars and the death of leaders of the large nations. There are already many civil wars happening in various places. I don’t see a peaceful way to implement this, I could be missing something though, but according to history large nations tend to break into smaller ones violently

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[Yoink]

I think the only way for this to happen is civil wars and the death of leaders of the large nations. There are already many civil wars happening in various places. I don’t see a peaceful way to implement this, I could be missing something though, but according to history large nations tend to break into smaller ones violently