I mean it is clear that it’s an aggregator

Did you mean aggrrrregator?

Tommy Robinson

That’s the name he took on to come across more blue collar. His real name is:

Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon

Tbf it would be pretty cool if he uploaded the templates for the artwork online, together with a how to, that way the piece could be put on walls by anyone.

A politician cashing out after leaving office?

Color me shocked

Or, you know, being complicit in genocide

There should at least be a maximum age. Geriontocracy is just not normal.

Old farts should sit in care homes, not ruling nations. Term limits and the same age cutoff as the regular blue collar worker and then go paint bad pictures on your ranch like W Bush.

I didn’t think I’d ever get a very opinion of the latter, but here we go.

Good luck with the very gradual road upward.

There might not be going back, but going in general and moving just for the sake of moving is a net positive.

I wish you well in the direction you move in and hope you may encounter a trustworthy fellow traveler to share your load and road with.

It’s a very slow progress. Like you don’t really notice your shoes wear in and then wear them down. It is weird enjoying things that you’d be too jaded to even consider enjoying before. But it takes time to register that you are actually enjoying something, I had not much context for that.

It’s not instantaneous, like its often portrayed in film (Theoden de-aging in LOTR f.i.) You need to re-learn a lot of things, like someone in a severe accident learning to walk again. Only it’s in your brain. First you need to realize you are not in constant stress anymore and threatened by everything in life all at once.

And then you need to slowly learn to relax all those mental muscles that were all balled up in paroxismic spasms for far too long.

And after a long time of trusting this new norm without getting betrayed by life or significant others you gain the mental state in which you discover that you are enyoing simple things. Those at first only slightly penetrate your walled garden as you are too careful to allow deep feelings to sway you (as deep feelings have betrayed you before). But step by step you are amazed by tiny, almost insighnificant things that bring joy to your soul.

Thats’s where I am at. I am both overjoyed at feeling things and so sorry for my former self for being in that locked-in state. But I am grateful for the experience and proud of the fact I persevered and not given in to suicidal thoughts. I am really happy at my current state of being even though every once in a while, like a craving for cigarettes I gave up a couple of years ago, I am drawn into a short burst of ‘appèl du vide (call of the void)’ where I imagine things unraveling again.

It’s not an easy road and I certainly needed the support of others. But the most important currency is trust. Trusting yourself, trusting your friends/significant others. And most likely you will never see as much support as someone in rehabilitation over drunkenly crashing their car into a tree, as the wounds are not visible. But it is worth it at some point you will realize how big of a handicap depression actually is and it’s such a free feeling not to be tied down by it anymore.

Precisely why I thought that quote validated highlighting. He’s in the purgatory between following orders and thinking for himself.

The way he brings it does endear me.

This is exactly why I quoted that bit. Introspection is the natural enemy of fascism, and this employee isn’t deferring to outside reasoning for his actions.

I mean outside of him feeling obliged to abide by his superiors, he’s really thinking (starting at least) for himself.

It’s really not the ‘where’, it’s the general thought ((less)(ness)) we should not be slightly relieve at other people doing stupid shit, we should -as people- make a stand against stupid shit.

I think we should unite against stupid shit being laid upon us by greedy people rather than laugh at each others’ misery.

About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’

“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”

The reall heroes indeed. Still this Chad got to draw some needed attention to the outright stupidity of it all…

It’s kind of grating that it’s so bad in the United States that people start applauding the EU doing stupid shit too.

We should be united against this stupid shit, not laughing at each other over our particular forms of suffering.

If only there were rates one could work out how many of currency x could be exchanged per dollar.

I’d like them back in the cars business too

Propaganda works to change how people perceive the world.

The photo in question. Please download and share for the Streisand effect!

That’s a Shiaa thing

That’s a novum for me, thanks for that bit of info.

Steps forward. Focus on the positive