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Samuel Glompers posted:The dichotomy between my comfort and even enjoyment of the day to day and all that is happening now and all that will happen This right here is what is breaking a lot of brains, really. That everything continues to continue "normally" even as everything is demonstrably getting worse, and while anyone paying attention can see that it's not ever going to get better, but everything is normal. And we have to act like it's normal, go to work to pay bills and participate in a consumer society which is dying and which we know is dead, but which it is impossible to drop out of because the costs of doing so are completely out of reach or legislated out of existence for almost everyone. It feels like every day a steel bar is bending a little bit further, the pressure is building, at this point the end of the world would be a relief compared to this forced liminal state of anxious existential horror.
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Nov 9, 2021 19:37
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the earth is evil. we don't need to grieve for it. nobody will miss it. 
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Nov 9, 2021 19:37
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Nov 9, 2021 19:38
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Homeless Friend posted:the amerikkkan fascination with individual heroism continues while slyly obfuscating their privileged position where they are incentivized not to rock the boat as not willing to break 'normality' as if it is akin to refusing to eat toast for breakfast rather than forgoing the benefit of being fat and content through their virtue of guarding the borders of the mountain of gold. amen. right? an internet savvy guy with a platform for his brainfarts and the best he can come up with is either doing nothing differently or imma git mah gun and shoot that darn climate change guy yeeeeeeeehawwww 
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Nov 9, 2021 19:40
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Samuel Glompers posted:Nice to see the waking nightmare I live in reflected in some mainstream media. I am actually losing my mind, every day, from the vicious contrast between the horrible truth and the total inaction around me. The increasing doom is almost a comfort now, since if that really is true I can simply relax, eat the treats the horrible treat machine makes, hold my loved ones, and weep quietly. You seem to still be suffering from the just world fallacy. There is no justice in circumstances. Something being wrong has no impact on the people involved unless such a thing is inflicted. Everyone responsible will see zero consequences outside of random chance.
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Nov 9, 2021 19:42
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hmm wait a minute the metaphor don't work... imagien i edited that image so the track curved around if u run over the folks but jumps off if you run over teh treats... Homeless Friend has issued a correction as of 19:46 on Nov 9, 2021 |
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Nov 9, 2021 19:42
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God Hole posted:the earth is evil. we don't need to grieve for it. nobody will miss it. You'll feel differently when you're starving. So will I. So will everyone. You care that people are suffering and dying and you cannot escape caring about it. Even sociopaths will care once the pain comes to them.
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Nov 9, 2021 19:43
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Complications posted:You seem to still be suffering from the just world fallacy. There is no justice in circumstances. Something being wrong has no impact on the people involved unless such a thing is inflicted. Everyone responsible will see zero consequences outside of random chance. What on earth? It is exactly the injustice of the world that makes me go crazy. It is processing that injustice as a call to action and feeling like I can't do poo poo that makes me loving lose it. Just world? Of course not!
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Nov 9, 2021 19:44
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we won't have justice we probably won't even get vengeance
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Nov 9, 2021 19:45
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Samuel Glompers posted:You'll feel differently when you're starving. So will I. So will everyone. You care that people are suffering and dying and you cannot escape caring about it. Even sociopaths will care once the pain comes to them. they're quoting a movie
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Nov 9, 2021 19:46
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Rime posted:This right here is what is breaking a lot of brains, really. That everything continues to continue "normally" even as everything is demonstrably getting worse, and while anyone paying attention can see that it's not ever going to get better, but everything is normal. God, yes, this is exactly it. It would be better if I lived in an authoritarian socialist state and was drafted into some kind of environmental strike corps where my frail body was broken labouring to restore ecology and build fire breaks and build a loving nuclear power plant  all that physical pain would still be a balm to the psychological torment of all this, and at least my enfeeblement and death would be part of a societal project for a better world.
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Nov 9, 2021 19:51
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the part of Melancholia i keep thinking about is when the scientist who had been refusing and even laughingly deriding a catastrophic outcome is faced with reality and immediately offs himself like a coward
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Nov 9, 2021 20:11
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Samuel Glompers posted:God, yes, this is exactly it. It would be better if I lived in an authoritarian socialist state and was drafted into some kind of environmental strike corps where my frail body was broken labouring to restore ecology and build fire breaks and build a loving nuclear power plant
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Nov 9, 2021 20:36
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It's bad rear end how hosed we are Like, turbofucked That chart about the amount of carbon the top 1% of the US produces is just lol. makes no sense why the rest of the world doesn't band together to destroy the United states to save their own rear end Seems like the thing preventing that is the global class solidarity of the wealthy Lol
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Nov 9, 2021 20:49
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Neon Noodle posted:The existential horror of our historical moment, it's a bitch. Not only do most of our lives have no meaning, but many of us are engaged in the destruction of meaning or any possibility of meaning. the most backward take. humanity stands at the cusp of realizing its grand destiny. tens of thousands of years of consumption have brought us here, and you whine? imagine a tuberculosis bacterium mewling like this as the host's lungs start to fill with fluid. generations have stood on the shoulders of one another, all working together to bring us here. its is only now, at the great dying, that we realize true meaning.
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Nov 9, 2021 20:49
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Egg Moron posted:It's bad rear end how hosed we are but Captain planet told me that if I recycle I can save the Earth
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Nov 9, 2021 20:53
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Egg Moron posted:makes no sense why the rest of the world doesn't band together to destroy the United states to save their own rear end big boom boom bombs
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Nov 9, 2021 21:01
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I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible Hot pink with whale skin hubcaps
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Nov 9, 2021 21:08
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Wakko posted:the most backward take. humanity stands at the cusp of realizing its grand destiny. tens of thousands of years of consumption have brought us here, and you whine? imagine a tuberculosis bacterium mewling like this as the host's lungs start to fill with fluid. generations have stood on the shoulders of one another, all working together to bring us here. its is only now, at the great dying, that we realize true meaning. its this
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Nov 9, 2021 21:09
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if anything, humanity is embarrassingly late to the party in a dying universe everyone else already self-extinguished, what took us so long?
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Nov 9, 2021 21:14
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Even if you killed a major polluter, you'd just be labelled a nutcase and everyone would Strongly Condemn your actions. It wouldn't matter anyway as we're already hosed
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Nov 9, 2021 21:25
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T-Paine posted:Even if you killed a major polluter, you'd just be labelled a nutcase and everyone would Strongly Condemn your actions. It wouldn't matter anyway as we're already hosed Bingo. It's the stupidest poo poo in the world to be promoting violent acts before the establishment of a vanguard and organized working class, duh! You'll just get some dummies - who may have been useful once the preconditions were met, even - arrested or killed for no reason.
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Nov 9, 2021 21:41
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Homeless Friend posted:the amerikkkan fascination with individual heroism continues while slyly obfuscating their privileged position where they are incentivized not to rock the boat as not willing to break 'normality' as if it is akin to refusing to eat toast for breakfast rather than forgoing the benefit of being fat and content through their virtue of guarding the borders of the mountain of gold. amen. bagual posted:right? an internet savvy guy with a platform for his brainfarts and the best he can come up with is either doing nothing differently or imma git mah gun and shoot that darn climate change guy yeeeeeeeehawwww It’s even worse than that, the author clearly sees paths out of the forest but their career/comfort/reputation hinges on telling you to avoid them at all costs and accept the hopelessness of it all.
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Nov 9, 2021 21:44
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Arby's
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Nov 9, 2021 22:12
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I miss the optimism we had 7 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SL3bQXBKGA
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Nov 9, 2021 22:28
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Samuel Glompers posted:Even sociopaths will care once the pain comes to them. The only thing sociopaths will care about when the "wow, things are really looking bad" phase hits is "how can we enslave and/or eat the less fortunate to keep my belly full/my lights on for an extra day/week/month/year?" Empathy has been slowly being eradicated from the Western conscience over the past few decades. The west has been being fed largely by slave labor for decades now. We realize there's ~probably a reason~ that (some) food is as cheap as it is, but no one wants to know how the literal sausage is made because too many are in poverty or living paycheck-to-paycheck and even the smallest increase in the cost of living would break them and/or send them deeper into debt. I was alive and old/clear-headed enough to remember the  and  when gas went above $1/gallon nationally for the first time. I lived in Virginia Beach at the time and I remember hearing "kill them all and take their oil" way more times than I should have.
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Nov 9, 2021 22:54
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there's a reason every post-apocalyptic tv show and game has a scene/episode/quest where the main character eats delicious meat before being told it came from a human
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Nov 9, 2021 23:17
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Yeah, because it's all uncreative garbage.
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Nov 9, 2021 23:22
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aww someone's ears must have been burning
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Nov 9, 2021 23:23
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Fame Douglas posted:Yeah, because it's all uncreative garbage. dont be such a hater
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Nov 9, 2021 23:43
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Wakko posted:the most backward take. humanity stands at the cusp of realizing its grand destiny. tens of thousands of years of consumption have brought us here, and you whine? imagine a tuberculosis bacterium mewling like this as the host's lungs start to fill with fluid. generations have stood on the shoulders of one another, all working together to bring us here. its is only now, at the great dying, that we realize true meaning.
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Nov 10, 2021 00:04
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Wakko posted:the most backward take. humanity stands at the cusp of realizing its grand destiny. tens of thousands of years of consumption have brought us here, and you whine? imagine a tuberculosis bacterium mewling like this as the host's lungs start to fill with fluid. generations have stood on the shoulders of one another, all working together to bring us here. its is only now, at the great dying, that we realize true meaning. add this to the op
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Nov 10, 2021 00:17
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the worlds denizens have died for 6 digit years with the fear of what they would miss. the new man of this new age says "no longer"
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Nov 10, 2021 00:18
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r u ready to WALK posted:if anything, humanity is embarrassingly late to the party in a dying universe We live far closer to the beginning of the universe than to the end, there's still stellar formation happening!
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Nov 10, 2021 00:24
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Wakko posted:the most backward take. humanity stands at the cusp of realizing its grand destiny. tens of thousands of years of consumption have brought us here, and you whine? imagine a tuberculosis bacterium mewling like this as the host's lungs start to fill with fluid. generations have stood on the shoulders of one another, all working together to bring us here. its is only now, at the great dying, that we realize true meaning. *rolling coal on the way to my private jet to do a round the world trip* I'm doing my part!
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Nov 10, 2021 00:24
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Disposable plastic bags are banned, but that's ok if you use more plastic in each bag it's "reusable" and you can give away all of those you want!
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Nov 10, 2021 00:37
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Mayor Dave posted:We live far closer to the beginning of the universe than to the end, there's still stellar formation happening! yeah really it's always possible we are late compared to any other life that had chance to evolve in the 14 billion years since the universe was formed but heat death will be hundreds of trillions of years from now. plenty of time for some other assholes to roll space coal on choke to death on their own waste.
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Nov 10, 2021 00:38
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Fame Douglas posted:Yeah, because it's all uncreative garbage. don't sign ur posts
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Nov 10, 2021 00:38
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Samuel Glompers posted:Nice to see the waking nightmare I live in reflected in some mainstream media. I am actually losing my mind, every day, from the vicious contrast between the horrible truth and the total inaction around me. The increasing doom is almost a comfort now, since if that really is true I can simply relax, eat the treats the horrible treat machine makes, hold my loved ones, and weep quietly. yes
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If alien archaeologists are reading this somehow I had my body launched at the andromeda galaxy when I died so look for me between here and there. I can pay you in NFTs for reviving me with space technology. If human archaeologists are reading this I feel real bad about your hosed up planet but you ain't never had taco bell
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Nov 10, 2021 00:45
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