@Liza137823 Very glad you’re not my neighbor- this is seriously petty. I could see if it was late at night with a loud band playing or something, but this? 🤷🏻♀️
@StephenKing The problem are the fringe lunatics that get all the attention on both the left and the right. The co-dependency is astonishing- one party can no longer exist without the other to vilify. Both are equally pathetic.
@MrPitbull07 Sorry, we are not on the same page here at all. While I agree that servers should make a livable wage, the current system forces reliance on tips. If you can afford a $1500 dinner tab, you can afford a decent tip. This was a d*ck move, not a power move. Eat at home.
The moment you find yourself moving in lockstep with a mass, repeating its talking points, dismissing inconvenient facts, defending contradictions, and rationalizing betrayals, you have completely surrendered your mind.
This kind of thinking is profoundly limiting. It shrinks the human experience down to a narrow corridor of approved beliefs and sanctioned emotions.
You trade the full spectrum of perception for a sense of belonging. You lose nuance, depth, curiosity, and the strange joy of discovering you were wrong.
Liberty lives in the capacity to question without requiring permission. A liberated mind can hold two opposing ideas at once without panicking or collapsing into dogma. It can sit with tension, uncertainty, and incomplete answers. This is how reality gets examined rather than rehearsed.
A liberated mind carries its own authority, and that is precisely why every system tries to cage it.