It's not that tales like this don't bother us, Its that we can arrange for these tales to *never* bother us or at least be so brief as to occasionally and harmlessly jar us when scrolling.

that's somehow not the fault of the top and the middle helping themselves. It explains why both the bourgeoise and the wealthy are so hated. We engineer everything for our own comfort.

The purpose of this postmenopausal female is to remind her children who controls the family finances and ultimately their futures.

which reminds me of my projected endgoal of AI, our own domestication by machines acting beyond our understanding. we'll be hanging out and suddenly a robot will pick us up and put us in a spaceship and we'll come out on mars like 😳 and the robots will be like "shh it's okay, this is our new home"

biden will not reap the benefits of his vastly superior fiscal policy but there is no question that strong economic management it has set the democratic party up to be successful in ways obama simply did not

(IQ science is eugenicist bullshit but I also know my IQ, which came with a little plus sign next to it to show that was as high as those particular tests went at that particular time, and weaponize it against misogynists and racists every way I can)

There is punishment for trying to change it or speaking differently and rewards for acceptance and even escalation in rare cases. It's not fun to live in a Skinner Box but if you do, your emotional and intellectual maturity will always be that of a very unhappy toddler.

I think if you are already experiencing pain in your family emotional structure and you recognize that same structure in politics, instead of reaching to change any of it, you accept it.