2 things to consider for his history 1 What happened to his Mother when she failed to become the Oracle
2 How do you think the camp reacted when he returned alone from his quest in failure especially since after that failed quest there wasnt anymore issued
i feel like we brushed over the “luke and your camp have history” too quickly. what was this history??? should i remember this from any of the books because i don’t
Tariffs are paid by the US companies that import goods, so no money is flowing into the USA. It's just going from American companies (and, eventually, American consumers) to the government.
This post is a microcosm of the silent collapse.
We live inside a system that weaponizes participation.
The more you comply, the more you’re drained.
•Work harder → get a raise → get penalized by insurance.
•Be productive → increase your value → watch that value siphoned through invisible channels.
•Follow the rules → get punished by the rules evolving faster than you can keep up.
This is not a bug. This is the design.
Healthcare premiums are just the extraction mechanism.
They are the tip of a deeper spear:
•Corporate America no longer competes for talent. It captures it.
•Wage increases are not signals of advancement. They’re bait for a deeper net.
•Every system - healthcare, taxes, housing - is tuned to absorb the margin between survival and freedom.
The individual is left running, exhausted, on a treadmill that speeds up the moment they get ahead.
This is not capitalism.
It’s inverted sovereignty.
What this man is experiencing is the death of meaning.
He’s not just angry because premiums are rising.
He’s angry because he feels the betrayal.
He did what he was told. He played the game.
And he realized, the game was rigged from the start.
That’s the fracture.
That’s the real wound.
It’s not economic. It’s existential.
The deep signal: Belief is collapsing from the inside.
And that’s the moment that matters.
•Revolutions don’t start with slogans. They start with resignation.
•Systems don’t fall from war. They fall from internal withdrawal of belief.
•Collapse doesn’t begin when the poor get angry. It begins when the middle becomes indifferent.
That shrug - that “what’s the point?”-
is the death knell of empire.
And it’s happening in real time.
@jackjxdd@unclesuppy@tonystatovci Yeah as soon as he crossed the river to camp Jupiter he lost the curse of Achilles just on the vague promise he'd see her again
"If you've got nothing to hide, you should support Digital ID for social media."
Uh - your dissenting political opinion is what you'll need to hide.
That's how government censorship works.
Who needs cable when you can watch Congress for free?
Senator Josh Hawley introduced his bill to ban stock trading and the room LIT up.
You won’t want to miss this recap 🍿 🧵
All you censorship supporting retards just got played
They tricked you braindead sacks of shit into supporting censorship because it only started with "pr0n"
Now that they know they can get away with it, they're going after everything
I hope everything you love gets destroyed
Everyone pointing out he honed his basics is failing to realize that Jiraiya should've pointed out that shadow clones share their memories and could've used a couple to teach him other techniques wether jutus, sealing arts, or kenjutsu part 2 in replies
If this bill gets passed, it's because you grease balls on the internet couldn't stop infighting on whether the Left or the Right was responsible for this.
If you give a damn about anonymity and censorship, we need to let it be known *TOGETHER*.
LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD
I want to break down the whole "porn game censorship" issue really simply, and hopefully change the minds of some pro-censorship people who are okay with the takedown of these games because they think they're "weird." First, let's talk about Steam:
Steam is adherent to local laws in the United States. Steam has always taken a rather hands-off approach to the sale of video games, with lax rules that essentially amount to "don't break the law." One of those laws (specifically in D.C.), which Steam is incredibly strict about, is erotic or lewd depictions of children, fictional or not.
SO RIGHT AWAY: these censorship advocacy groups are *LYING to you* by stating that the games they targeted sexualized children. Steam carefully reviews *every game* that is submitted for sale to their platform, and they are incredibly strict against the sexualization of minors/loli. So no, these were *not* child abuse games. The 1,000+ games banned from Steam were just cheesy incest ero-games that, for most people, would seem rather vanilla, especially by comparison to real porn (which has 'fictional' depictions of incest all the time).
Next, let's talk about payment processors, specifically Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal:
There's about a 99.999% chance that *every single person* reading this post uses, or has used one of these payment services. They essentially have a complete monopoly over non-physical sales: it's kind of like if there was one big, all-encompassing bank controlling *everyone's* money around the globe. Now imagine this giant bank, which has control over what you can/cannot purchase... suddenly has the power to tell stores what they are/aren't allowed to sell... disregarding any actual laws and operating entirely on the basis of what they find "morally acceptable."
Many people find contraception morally unacceptable. Many find abortions unacceptable. Many find violent movies and TV shows unacceptable. Many find violent video games unacceptable. There's most definitely people who would be morally opposed to you earning money through your OnlyFans, or watching any sort of porn, or buying sex toys and/or lewd lingerie. There's even people morally opposed to things like religion, anime, etc.
With all of this in mind: ask yourselves if you think some random strangers, strangers who no one elected or decided should have any sort of power... should be able to just flip a switch tomorrow and decide "x-thing that you enjoy is immoral, and therefore selling it is not okay." That is essentially what just happened to over 1,000 games that were previously being sold through Steam, games that existed on the platform for years without issues. Games that are entirely optional, appropriately age-gated, and consumed by other adults in the privacy of their homes.
Regardless of whether these games offend you or not, the problem is simple: VISA and Mastercard should *not* be deciding what sort of fictional content is/isn't allowed. By essentially forcing Steam to remove these products, they are abusing their monopolistic power by more or less threatening to bankrupt a company in order to enforce the worldview of a select few people. This is a major problem, and it exposes a major problem with the power that these companies currently hold.
Again, even if you personally find these games offensive, there's nothing to stop them from deciding tomorrow that GTA6 is too violent and/or sexual and shouldn't be allowed. There's nothing stopping them from deciding that movies featuring blood/gore shouldn't be allowed on services using their payments or shown in theaters. There's nothing stopping them from targeting services and products you *personally* enjoy or rely on and halting their sale tomorrow.
These people were not elected by anyone, which makes what they're doing wrong. They should simply not have that power. There is no justification for publicly traded corporations that pretty much every retailer in the world relies on to function deciding that things can't be sold, so long as those things are not breaking any laws. Keep in mind these are the same companies that happily offer their payment services to things like online gambling, psychic hotlines, companies which exploit child slave labor and/or sweatshops, and real-life legal prostitution services which are often directly tied to human trafficking.
Their motivation is not "doing the right thing" and if it was, they'd be going after these businesses instead. Their motivation is power and control, and that should put you against them by default. We MUST regulate Visa and Mastercard and stop them from working in the shadows to undermine the legal sale of digital goods and products at the behest of braindead, shady activist groups like CollectiveShout.