• GladiusB@lemmy.world
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      I agree and I don’t. Yea we could go that rabbit hole. Or I can relate with something that effects me financially. Because politics are part of life. I don’t want to organize this shit. I just want to exist and hope good things for people.

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      "maybe stop spending on only fans John, and for fucks sake, stop crashing at mom’s basement and get a fucking job "

      Is a really good answer

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        John stares at you until you remember he moved out a decade ago and manages an entire super size grocery store now.

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          Good for him, that’s what we all wanted, hence the previous answer. It’s a win win. He’s out of here, with a job and we all can finally stop listening to his fapping all over the house. Not to mention the savings on stain cleanings

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    talks about the state of the world, good and bad, and it’s causes.

    This guy: “Politics! Not again!”

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    “We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the alter of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present.”

    • Screwtape, “The Screwtape Letters”, C.S. Lewis

    Screwtape (and fucking Putin and Elon) want to remind us all to talk over and past each-other, and really focus on what divides us, this Thanksgiving.

    They hope we all do our best to ensure that each of our normal safety nets are as alienated as possible, in preparation for whatever bullshit they want to push on us next.

    Let’s all remember that our individual differences in opinion on how to solve their oppressive regimes are the best way to keep us from seeing that we’re in a class war, not a political one.

    Edit: And Screwtape sure as shit needs us not on speaking terms with the blue collar workforce who make up at least half of the union we will need to form, before this is all over.

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      Omg I loved that series - one of the more deep things I’ve read, at the time and possibly still since as well.

      I particularly remember the gluttony example - it’s not about an amount of food so much as caring about food, more than Remember The Human i.e. the wait staff who brings it to you.

      He definitely helped shape my personality, in caring about people over “rightness of stuff” - like if the toast isn’t perfect but good enough, now I’ll still tip.

      There are just some things worth paying attention to, and everything else should kinda fade away into the background as being irrelevant.

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    Everyone has 1 vote. The influence of that 1 vote on your life is probably smaller than that of an affectionate relationship with that relative. Imo political confrontations are better kept for the street/pub/doorstep. The unspoken agreement not to touch on the topic must come from both sides though.