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It really is quite nice when you’re first starting out. You don’t feel the withdrawals as bad, a nice relaxing smoke at sundown…

And then you go through the whole addiction, quit, song and dance and realize you could have had the same benefits with no downside by just meditating or taking a break outside without smoking.

Thank god my brain chemistry makes it near-impossible to form addictions, it almost makes up for ruining my life!

vote for the lesser of two evils that somehow gets more evil every four years

Fucking THANK YOU for saying this. I’ve struggled a lot with this rude awakening, that liberals will put on a smile and pretend they’re good people while stabbing you in the back.

You can see it in their responses, they just hysterically repeat over and over - “how could you possibly not like Biden, are you some kind of fascist? Look at the enemy!!!”

Meanwhile they continue to let fascists pillage the nation, commit open terrorism, attempt a violent overthrow of the government with no consequences (who called off the national guard? Who set skeleton crew police lines? Who GAVE TOURS TO FASCIST GROUPS BEFORE THE COUP? who was texting locations of congress members to the mob?).

They talk so much about how Biden will fight Trump.

What the fuck were Democrats doing during Trump? Laying back and enjoying the donations rolling in.

Oh waah the blues had no majority waaaah. Funny how there’s always an excuse why Blues couldn’t help the people while Republicans could be outnumbered 2:1 and still shut down the government on a whim.

Have you seen him lately, semaglutide has done wonders for him.

Which is good, as the gaming industry is officially dead once we lose Valve to corporate profit chasing as soon as he passes

It’s literally genetic.

I would explain the evolutionary pressures that resulted in this adaptation and the societal factors that has resulted in completely ignoring this segment of humanity.

But the fact that you feel so fucking cute and intelligent posting from your little high horse while being completely wrong is so goddamn funny and you probably don’t have the capability to understand anyway.

In conclusion, maybe the person with a room temperature IQ shouldn’t be making false accusations at people that already follow your useless advice?

This is the paradox of liberalism.

You have blue MAGA outlets like NPR that spent the last 8 years being “fair” to both sides, telling their audience the antivax fascist psychopaths are just as valid and worthy as the left trying to give people education and healthcare.

As if conservative views are even worth recognizing.

Liberalism without a STRONG left wing always ends in fascism, and the liberals are more than happy to join the fascists (see: literally all liberal discourse on Lemmy).

Guess what the US has spent the past 80 years doing. Real coincidence every time a country leans left, they are overthrown by CIA puppets.

So now you have liberals in literal tears trying to get their guy elected without even fucking understanding the issues at play. They don’t give a shit.

How quickly people forget how major metro hospitals in the US had rows of refrigerated semi trailers because there were too many bodies

How doctors and nurses were told to wash and reuse their N95s despite it being proven to compromise their effectiveness because supplies were so low

I hope this bird flu shit blows up even worse, maybe then these dumbasses will get the message

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What a waste of evolution. We could have unironically had post-scarcity today if half of humanity wasn’t fucking evil and another 30% doesn’t give a shit as long as they get their daily Starbucks.

Popes these days are so woke. Back when popes were real men, the Emperor of Japan would be excommunicated and crusade called to reclaim Kyoto for this unprecedented insult

#MAVA

Yeah it’d be crazy if peaceful protests were violently attacked by right wing terrorists and the cops just joined in on the beatings

If the Supreme Court started ignoring precedent, which they stated under oath they would not do, and started saying cases have standing even if the damaged entity literally is a hypothetical that has never happened

If the largest union action in this generation was stomped down and made to heel

If a violent mob literally stormed the capital while Congress was in session certifying an election and were not all prosecuted as domestic terrorists and hanged, under the most advanced security state in the world that knows exactly who was there using cellular pings

Let me guess, you’re going to say the same thing in 2028 except all these things will have gotten worse and if we just hold our noses and tolerate it one more time the Blues will fix it all, just like they did in 2020 and 2012 and 2008 and 1992 and……….

“Was working illegally” as if they somehow forced an employer to pay them under the table instead of hiring a citizen. As if their income would even qualify for any significant tax revenue.

It takes two to tango, employers pay payroll and insurance tax as well.

But, I also agree. People who do not pay their fair share of taxes (even if that fair share is $0) should not benefit from the services those taxes enable.

Now you must agree billionaires and corporations should also stop receiving government subsidies because they are not paying their fair share, right?

Same thing goes for conservative regions that historically suck up funding while contributing none, right?

Anything else and you would just be a hypocrite lying about why lesser classes should be treated worse; that would be terrible!

There are studies gaining traction that pretty conclusively prove it’s due to shit diets.

Eat more veggies, fiber, and bioavailable nutrients and the rates go way down.

Turns out when you feed kids apple-flavored sugar water and ultraprocessed pop tarts and Hostess donuts literally their entire lives, their health goes to shit

Let’s remember while lazy and incompetent parents have always existed, it’s never been this fucking bad. Households working 10+ hours a day struggle to live without kids as it is in the richest nation in the world.

When your back is broken, you can’t buy your kid a reliable used car let alone college, you will never retire, and you will never own a home, it turns out raising an iPad baby with a jar full of cookies happens easier than you think.

My brother in Christ I see the spark of a good and gentle person in you, so as a fellow neurodivergent individual, please at least give this a half thought:

What you are describing is something else other than your autism. These conditions often worsen over time if left untreated, and youth trauma does not help.

People just like you and me spend 10+ years of their lives studying and conducting science to create medications that help people like us.

Please consider looking into a referral for a psychiatrist to discuss these issues further.