arrow74

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[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

I'd blame a lot of this on the destruction of our communal living patterns. We used to live in extended family groups. It was reasonable and expected to live with your parents and siblings. If you did leave the family home it often was just to build a home on the same property.

But then the idea of the nuclear family was popularized, probably to make more money and sell house, and here we are.

To be clear since what I said has been immediately misinterpreted, family centric living patterns were torn apart by capitalism. It heavily favors capitalism when we are separated from each other and lose community. This wasn't a benign social shift

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Fire red will always be my number one as it was my first game.

Otherwise it's a hard choice between Sapphire and Heartgold. Both had great regions and lots to do.

My most played would be Diamond and it was good, but sinnoh was never my favorite region.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't think he'll live more than 4 years anyway. Hopefully the movement collapses when he does

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I made a comment self censored to "Mario bros" on reddit. Got a permanent ban. They're going scorched earth on anything moderately inflammatory

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ignores my statement of active action

Claims point was proven

Refuses to elaborate

Leaves

Bold moves

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Okay so we're going to have to define words.

Reason:

  1. a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.
  2. the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.

Please refer to definition 2.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Sure we can spend all day defining words, but that's obtuse. You very well know what I meant. Not turning an active flight around is magnitudes different than continuing arrests and deportation after a court order.

A justification requires at least some pretense of a reason. Just because you want to is a statement.

Once again, it's not a cope to acknowledge that things are bad now and they can get worse. I'm going to protests, I've stopped all discretionary spending, and I tell my story to anyone that will listen (my work has been directly impacted). Hell I haven't spoken to my Trump voting father in months. Short of taking arms against the government there's not much left to do, and frankly to get to that level the milestones on the way to the bottom do matter a lot.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Saying I felt like it is not a justification. Wouldn't call this a cope either. I know things are bad, but there's still room for them to get much much worse. I think they will reach that point. It's just watching the milestones pass now.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

There are words and there are actions, but we're not far off

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

I don't know how to make people understand the difference between personal and national debt. It's frustrating

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago (11 children)

At least they're still working under pretense and condition. They "can't" turn them around because they're already in route.

It's not good, but they are using a contrived reason. I'm afraid for the day they stop trying to justify it and keep doing it.

Things are getting to that point rapidly

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago

If they arrest more people after the court order. That will tell us for sure.

I'm not saying things are good right now, they're pretty bleak

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