All that I know is that I was animated, and then born through my mother, onto a moldy ingot that has mountains and deer and dragonflies and melted glacier puddles. There isn't really much to do except stand on top of the next hill and continue in awe. But somehow there were beasts who came about this place in the exact same way, and they insisted that the only thing I own mortally, my consciousness, the art built and projected across the synaptic gaps in my skull, is somehow a communal experience, and that I owe them some debt for the Liberty I can feel where they feel only fear. And if this weren't enough, these beasts took to convincing poor others, who came about this place in just the same way, of this eternal human ledger which requires registration, and tribute, and surveillance, and suspicion, and human sacrifice, and flagellation, and indentured servitude, and that anyone who manages to skirt these imagined tolls is a problem and a threat and a leper.
If I am stubborn, and I am, it is because taking this beating is my fucking birthright, and I won't be disinherited of it. Every abrasion is soil tilled and claimed and homesteaded and owned. Every false kinship severed, is then butchered and rendered into sustenance.
We are not here to be happy or comfortable or successful. We are here to be an irreconcilable expression of what we know we are. And I am this.
@cheeseheadexpat@SchmukQatarlson And I realize I don't know you and I'm being forward. Please forgive that. It's the platform but we're still just guys.
But man I really think we'd all be better off if we just focused on the fire in the kitchen. Kept the fucking hordes out. Didn't steal from each other.
@cheeseheadexpat@SchmukQatarlson Yeah dude. It's a house of fucking cards. You wanna keep stacking it because it's nice and so is your side-by-side or whatever.
I want my family to thrive for a long fucking time. The dollar, as a fiat piece of shit, absolutey has to go.
Let me have hard times now.
This is the entire fucking point and very decent people, probably this dude as well, just aren't fucking programmed to see it. Makes sense. It's already wild enough we can genetically kinda handle geopolitics. This is an entire new mode and its knocking on the fucking door.
@SchmukQatarlson@cheeseheadexpat No. You have a choice between, "centrally planned, AI model driven, global surveillance communism," and, "something else, maybe US balkanization, probably not so comfy."
You just don't like that answer.
@SchmukQatarlson@cheeseheadexpat No. You have a choice between, "centrally planned, AI model driven, global surveillance communism," and, "something else, maybe US balkanization, probably not so comfy."
You just don't like that answer.
@cheeseheadexpat@SchmukQatarlson Why should I be committed to a fucking place that means nothing to me? If its important there, why isn't it important in Mongolia? I can't jive with these arguments. I'm a regular rural mechanic dude in the north woods and, as I said, I'm sure I'd dig ya, but this ain't it
@cheeseheadexpat@SchmukQatarlson Personally, safety is not high on my priority list. At least, "global safety as a society." I could give a shit if New York gets whacked. I live in the woods.
I disagree with the standard of living argument. More resources in the direct hands of people here, trading, is better
I just realized I return to this platform because it's a dive bar where you can say fucked up shit but it's 90% dudes, and most of them are retarded, but that's got it's charm, and sometimes a rad chick walks in and it gets even more retarded and then we go have a cigarette.
@cheeseheadexpat@SchmukQatarlson And yes, there are a billion domestic robberies as well. But we don't address subjects all inclusively, simultaneously, because you'd literally shut down into a dread coma.
The wars were a significant enough part of the hit to my livelihood to address as an individual topic.
@cheeseheadexpat@SchmukQatarlson I want my whole fucking paycheck so I can take care of my son and my mother. I do not give a flying fuck about the sand people one way or the other. This has been a robbery that, at 40 years old, has been going on my whole life.
@LizzyStarrrdust@jaffo_studios Alaskan Fireweed. But I have to go buy my best friend's wife zinnias today because I got hammered and stole them off the porch as a joke and then they died, and I don't even know what the fuck zinnias are.
Some lady there will know.
@LizzyStarrrdust But seriously. There's also a lot of no here. There can be 100% physical, and mental, and spiritual attraction, and care, and the whole fucking package, and it can still destroy you for reasons literally neither party can comprehend.
Dude needs to step into the major leagues.
@CallMeK1123@asparagoid Dude even as a man it totally does but all I can do is maybe kick his ass in front of someone or buy the car he wants out from under him. You guys get to fucking detonate lives when you want to. Wild power.
@LizzyStarrrdust Holy fucking "ooof." I don't wanna read this in the morning, I'm fucking into the gal.
Just.... take the destruction every time I guess and maybe this'll be wrong once? That's what I've got.
I need the contact info for the Space God infinite-being thing because "human" was a shit dice roll and I need to put all my bonus points into drawing a tag for "beloved indoor/outdoor family housecat in the country" for my next incarnation.
I'm willing to burn all my credits.
@coolkoon@soupcanarchist I hate to break it to you dude but I'm like, a man, with a real life in the real world, and I'll never meet any of these people. There are however, actual human women all around me. It isn't "simping" to fucking interact with women and have fun with it.