@DJJHERRERA@cosyposter I had a pair of sisters as kittens from when I was 7 in 1993 to 24yo in 2008. They were the most amazing, loving, and full of personality little girls. It's damn near 20 years since I lost them days apart from each other and I can't see getting another cat because it still hurts.
@LiindyVR See I get this. I have an avi I love but when it loads it's 250mb+. I just need to learn how to optimize it better and delete some of the toggles which I never use to make room for what I wish to add to it.
@moonchild23580 Sony, Nintendo Famcom starting a gaming revolution, ramen and other amazing food, innumerable scientific advances, and The Toyota Hilux
Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this country to be fought in somebody else's country, as far away from me as possible with a nice big ocean in the way.
Also relevant: I have a history of having lived in Europe and traveled there extensively. I was at one time bilingual in English and Spanish, and have been passably fluent in Italian and French as well. I could probably still find my way around London and Rome and central Paris reasonably well. So if you're tempted to tell yourselves that I'm some kind of parochial American hick, abandon that hope.
All that was set-up. So that, when I tell you that almost the entirety of the US electorate, not just Trump supporters, is increasingly fed up with your shit, take me seriously.
We've been cleaning up your messes and keeping the sea lanes open since 1917. And that was for you, not us - we, being very close to resource self-sufficient, don't need that investment so much. We've spent enormous amounts of blood and treasure on keeping you safe. We risked nuclear hellfire on our own cities for nearly 50 years to keep Soviet tanks from rolling through the Fulda Gap.
Even since the Cold War ended, we've subsidized your socialist-playpen welfare states and disastrous immigration policies by taking the need to maintain militaries more effective than a sack of wet farts off the table.
Now we've come looking for help keeping a bunch of rabid Islamic fanatics from getting nuclear weapons that are a clear and present danger to all of you even more than they are to us, and what do we hear?
"Waah! It's another Republican president we don't like, just like the last half dozen of them! So we're going to sulk in a corner, except when we're biting at your ankles with crap like airspace restrictions."
No. No, we're not going to take this anymore. It's not just conservatives who have had enough, it's moderates and people who used to be strong supporters of liberal internationalism.
Our citizen's willingness to pay higher taxes to protect you was upward-bounded by your gratitude. Now that we know your gratitude has effectively gone to zero, so does our willingness.
Don't expect this to change if the Democrats take power here. They are much less liberal-internationalist than Republicans now. While they might make mouth noises that soothe you, their overriding concern is the gaping, insatiable maw of their income transfer programs. They'll sacrifice subsidizing Europe's playpen socialism to feed their domestic version in a heartbeat. And there is no longer any significant Democratic constituency to argue against that.
In truth, three decades after the Cold War ended there is no American constituency at all for the massive subsidies you get. It frankly surprises me they lasted this long, that we were this patient with your cowardice and your bitchy whining.
This moment has been a long time coming. It's not Donald Trump sinking the transatlantic alliance, it is absolutely you.
@Arrogance_0024 Oh look, a Europoor has an opinion no one asked for and no one cares about. We will move mountains to get our people home. Machines can be replaced, people can't.
Very powerful to think only until maybe 4 ish years ago, Easter wasn't about Jesus. When I was young we just chased eggs and tried to find the one with money, we didn't really go to church for Easter either. My mom is "Catholic" but only by prayering really and my dad said he was Christian, but he was is in no way Christian, only adopted it by title because that's the norm. When I got older and was in a toxic relationship, I don't remember ever going to an Easter service. Church wasn't a part of my life, it was technically when I was a kid but my dad only wanted to sleep in, my mom wanted us to go but only my dad could drive and since he would have the final say, church became less and less so he could sleep. Thankfully God was calling out to me but I just didn't hear the words until 4 years ago giving my life to Christ when finally being able to follow and learn about him properly with the thanks of my Husband who helped get me connected to a church and starting to read the bible. It was always a desire when I was a kid to read the bible, I knew it was something important, I didnt have anyone to teach or read it to me, but I just could feel in my soul it was important and I needed to read it and I prayed that someone would show me one day and the day came nearly 4 years ago.
And 4 years ago on Easter, I returned to Church and I was high key going to sit in the back and not talk to anyone and flee, classic old me. Lol but God put the older woman I would in the future do discipleship with over the phone for the past 3 years or so, sharing life together. And she would introduce me to the lead of the young adult groups that helped me with bible study and meeting other cool folks, even folks who were anime and dnd fans like me. We got to play a campaign to slay demons the next next summer, and do fun stuff together like community events. And that would be the start of the domino to help me grow closer to Jesus. To grow closer to God, to find Him and for Him to save my life from my sin and myself. Oh how wonderful and powerful the Lord's love for me is! โจ๏ธ๐โค๏ธ
Easter now is the reminder that God chose to die for me, and not just me but everyone. He saw the torment and the entangled snares and trap of sin that was destroying ourselves and our souls. He saw me wishing that the things i do i could overcome, but couldn't do it alone. He saw my suffering and everyone's suffering from the hands of the enemy and sin. and He endured through everything to set us free from sin and the evil one and even death! and be able to return home to the home we lost by our own means, but Christ through His own means got us a way home again. How powerful that Easter was just eating cheap chocolate and counting up change, to now seeing how Jesus has changed me and how His love and compassion was so tremendous that He endured the worst for my sake. He knew me before I was born, and He knew I would need Him.
I hope that you can find the Lord like I had and let His love change your life. I felt like I was going in a direction that wasn't working in my life, I was damaged and used and hurt by people, I had such low self esteem, was filled with such horrible anxiety and fear. Then when I gave my life and surrendered to Jesus, it felt like life was truly back on track from constantly being rerouted by my poor decisions and be guided by God has helped my life truly have peace. All the old has washed away, and I've grown a lot because of Him who can change a heart and also give strength to change. Now i have wonderful people who love me, I have a husband now who watches out for me, God has truly been so kind and compassionate. Even in the fearful moments, I can trust in Him and without fail He's done so much and continues to help me.
I hope that you can give Him a try today, a chance. My father, I pray for him, but he's unsaved and he lives his life in sorrow and sin, sin destroyed his life and destroyed our family. And it makes me so sad to think, that if my dad had been saved when we were kids, he would've taken better care of his health, he would've taken better care of his marriage, of us, of the people around him. Etc. Right now, his health is in such shambles, he drinks and does drugs to numb the pain, he's kinda homeless, he bites the hand of anyone who tries to help him. Right now we have him blocked of course, but even before I tried helping him find Jesus and he didnt want to hear it cause probably knew he'd have to take accountability but he wanted to blame everyone but himself for his sin and short coming. My dad was the example when I was a kid to know that people are evil, and thank God for stepping in when I cried out as a Kid to be my father cause God in His supernatural ways taught me how to be more like Him than follow in my dad's footsteps. Thats how when I met my husband back then told me I sounded pretty Christian without actually being Christian, God works so interestingly! But I just wanted to show that my life bloomed when Jesus got to be apart of it, and my dad lives in darkness because he wants no part in it. But the Lord has answered my prayer in taking care of my father. But I hope that you don't have to get to my father's level to find Jesus, but even if you are there, I hope your heart can be open to recieve. For He turned everything around, and now there's no going back, and all the darkness that tried to keep me down and trapped, I can now punch in the face with immense Hope that comes from our God! โจ๏ธ Thank you Jesus for all that you've done for me, you've transformed my life and I can tell the world of what you have done for me โค๏ธ Our salvation was bought at a price I could not pay, but thank you Lord for finding me worthy to pay for it when I had nothing to give you. He has Risen, He has indeed and He helped us rise to life! I spent my whole life living in survival mode, but 4 years ago I finally started to live. โค๏ธ๐โจ๏ธ Happy Resurrection of our Lord and who will always be with us to the end of the age! ๐โค๏ธ If anyone wants to talk more about God or has questions, I'm open to chatting! ๐
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