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[Dave Greene @GreeneMan6]

I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don't know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story.

It goes something like this:

> be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school
> reach High School
> steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues
> also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening
> focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks
> get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored
> the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with "The Conversation"
> politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!”
> graduate with top marks and recs. Your degree is essentially in “Current Thing-ism”. Have no broad understanding of history or philosophy.
> Your concept of human events is just people being oppressed for 4000 years until feminism and progress happened in the 20th c.
> despite the Global Financial Crisis, immediately get hired by a government/media org because they want someone who “understands the role of female politics in our new digital era!”
> most of your colleagues share your perspective, the ones who don't are older guys on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation that disagreeing with you would certainly involve.
> great awokening happens, double down on Current-Thingism politics
> organe-man-bad and COVID happens, triple down on politics.
> you are 15 years deep in your career, you have never once genuinely engaged with a peer who didn't validate your worldview or who you didn't consider a "token" opposition to placade your political enemies
> vibe shift happens, establishment uncertain, time to have a "conversation" with the people you've considered deplorable
> have conversation, hear non-progressive opinion that is common in the modern world, historically ubiquitous
> react with schock, umbrage horror. "Can you even believe this is happening?"
> confident that non-progressive opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea how to actually refute it
> unaware just how deeply you have been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated man on the street has more practical understanding of what politics is than you do with decades of "experience."

[GODFOE UNIVERSE @GODFOE_UNIVERSE]

This is a female shame technique. She’s attempting to signal to the audience that the guy is “weird”. It’s how the entire media apparatus operates.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

The phenotype that epitomises modern culture.

[blue @bluewmist]

every time you replace “this is hard” with “what’s the first step?” you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving).
that’s neuroplasticity in real time.

[Bull @bullincrisis]

The calf I was thought the field was endless, now I know every fence by heart.

[RM @RM236354]

@BeAlterEgos @cb_doge Which Republicans are in the files?

[RM @RM236354]

@Chamaerion @afneil To try and piss off Trump because he's mad Trump doesn't respect or talk to him much directly. Pure narcissism, in other words.

[RM @RM236354]

@MrCDraws @CrimeLdn Lol

[RM @RM236354]

@Doc_Rogno @jonatanpallesen @MichaelAArouet It may make you feel more comfortable and good inside to believe so. But if you actually sit down and think it through, you realize it's a self-evident truth.

[RM @RM236354]

@jabhaikamkar @AndreasHale Finally free

[RM @RM236354]

@Doc_Rogno @jonatanpallesen @MichaelAArouet Culture is downstream from genetics

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I knew a man who lost everything and he became softer. i knew another man who lost everything and he became a monster. same fire different metal. the pain did not decide. they decided. and most people do not know they are deciding.

the ones who transmute pain are dangerous in the good way. they have been somewhere you have not been and they came back with something and you can feel it when they walk into a room. they are not pretending to be okay. they are actually okay and that is terrifying to people who are pretending.

pain that is not transmuted gets transmitted. you will give it to your children. you will give it to everyone you touch. it will leak out of you sideways in ways you cannot see and everyone else can

i do not trust people who have not suffered. there is nothing there yet. they are still theoretical. suffering is the entrance exam and some people fail it forever and some people pass it once and become real.

the secret is you have to go toward it. you have to want it more than it wants you. most people run and the pain follows. the ones who turn around and walk into it come out the other side and there is another side and no one told you because the ones who know cannot explain and the ones who explain do not know.

God buries the gold in the wound

[RM @RM236354]

@stephmudryk @iamtomskinner Agreed!

[RM @RM236354]

It’s a men’s mental health walk, so no.

They can set up their own troon mental health walk if they want.

I certainly believe they have higher rates of mental illness and suicide than most, so it’d probably be a very good idea for one of the them to be inspired by Tom and to start one. Hopefully they do.

[RM @RM236354]

@MooseBrah @iamtomskinner While males commit suicide at much higher rates in this country than any other ethnic group does.

It might be related to that.

[RM @RM236354]

Hi, I may be able to help.

You’re a pussy because you grew up in a pussified society. A few years of Reform governance will change the culture and help toughen you up internally.

The anxiety problem you’re experiencing will be solved over time by the thing you’re anxious about. Just sit back, chill, and let it happen 👍

[Atem @AtemPsyche]

Living with urgency.

You don't have as much time as you think you do. The days are long but the decades are short. You blink and decades will pass you by.

Make this your new mantra:

Do it now. Do it now. Do it now.

If something can be done in the present, there is absolutely no reason to wait. Delay is the enemy. Urgency must become second nature -- especially for the things that truly matter.

Act as if hesitation could cost you everything, as if inaction would lead to irreversible loss.

Picture the worst-case scenario if you don’t move now -- the kind of regret you’d carry for years.

[Neet @neet_sol]

"why do you want this job"

i've always been passionate about affording food

[RM @RM236354]

@Thekoonpatrol @PubWanghaf you possess no soul