By the Imperious Leader's Command

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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:56 am
Yukaphile wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:21 am Well, I actually got the flu shot this year, for whatever that's worth mentioning, but I feel like COVID was the greatest gift to the ruthless ghouls at the top. And I hear a lot of conservatives saying the same about the January 6th stuff, which you know, none of the ones I know think the idiots storming the buildings were in the right in any way, but they do feel it's just going to be an excuse for further crackdowns.
Forgive me for repeating myself, but I feel like I have a prick up my ass. That doesn't mean I'm getting laid.

If you do insist on treating both sides as equally guilty, may I suggest you become a hardcore Leftist? That seems like a better way to align ideology with action than sitting in the middle.
But I don't. I think the vast majority of people are good. Well-meaning idiots who keep enabling muscles built for the dog that bites them, but good people. And personally, political activism is not my cup of tea these days. I've actually emailed my ARMHS worker about getting involved with local tree-planting charities, because I was so fuckin' pissed at the barbarians uprooting it from my backyard. Plus the landlord management's insane double standards with their paranoia about lawsuits, lol. A tree-planting charity would be worthwhile. Problem is I don't know if there's one in my city. I can donate, sure, but I really wanna get out into the community. And planting trees feels good. Like you're leaving a legacy that helps the planet.

My only seeming right-wing stance comes from regards to the entertainment industry. All they do is just so self-sabotaging to business and anti-consumer. I've felt ignored in the last decade, but what can you do. Millions of others do. They keep shoving it at us. No one can stop that. I just won't give them my money. Maybe I can't escape their grasp, but I don't owe them dollars for product I'm unhappy with, and neither does anyone else.
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Yukaphile wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:06 am
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:56 am
Yukaphile wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:21 am Well, I actually got the flu shot this year, for whatever that's worth mentioning, but I feel like COVID was the greatest gift to the ruthless ghouls at the top. And I hear a lot of conservatives saying the same about the January 6th stuff, which you know, none of the ones I know think the idiots storming the buildings were in the right in any way, but they do feel it's just going to be an excuse for further crackdowns.
Forgive me for repeating myself, but I feel like I have a prick up my ass. That doesn't mean I'm getting laid.

If you do insist on treating both sides as equally guilty, may I suggest you become a hardcore Leftist? That seems like a better way to align ideology with action than sitting in the middle.
But I don't. I think the vast majority of people are good. Well-meaning idiots who keep enabling muscles built for the dog that bites them, but good people. And personally, political activism is not my cup of tea these days. I've actually emailed my ARMHS worker about getting involved with local tree-planting charities, because I was so fuckin' pissed at the barbarians uprooting it from my backyard. Plus the landlord management's insane double standards with their paranoia about lawsuits, lol. A tree-planting charity would be worthwhile. Problem is I don't know if there's one in my city. I can donate, sure, but I really wanna get out into the community. And planting trees feels good. Like you're leaving a legacy that helps the planet.

My only seeming right-wing stance comes from regards to the entertainment industry. All they do is just so self-sabotaging to business and anti-consumer. I've felt ignored in the last decade, but what can you do. Millions of others do. They keep shoving it at us. No one can stop that. I just won't give them my money. Maybe I can't escape their grasp, but I don't owe them dollars for product I'm unhappy with, and neither does anyone else.
So let me get this straight, you are right wing because of what the so called 'woke' stuff that happened in recently?

It's not abortion, not taxation, not personal liberties, not gun control, not infrastructure, not military, but it's the entertainment industry?

Wow.
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Yuka, what city do you live in? I work with the nonprofit sector and I could certainly ask around.

As for the entertainment industry, I think that's a result of megacorps and monopolies. When Disney owns Star Wars AND the MCU AND your entire childhood, they don't really need to worry that much about a bad product sinking revenue.
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:47 am Yuka, what city do you live in? I work with the nonprofit sector and I could certainly ask around.

As for the entertainment industry, I think that's a result of megacorps and monopolies. When Disney owns Star Wars AND the MCU AND your entire childhood, they don't really need to worry that much about a bad product sinking revenue.
They don't need to worry about it when they listen to the fans...
..What mirror universe?
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I'll just say the area code, Minnesota, is 56304. That's it.

You're completely misunderstanding. If I was politically inclined, I don't know what I'd be now, but the one consistent trend I see from lefties AND righties is our system was bought and paid for long ago. So why bother getting involved? Do what you can where you can. Like planting trees. Maybe it spreads more oxygen into the biosphere. Maybe it can help fight climate change even in a small way. And there's other stuff as well. Just gotta find it.

Not woke. Kinda feels like the right-wingers are like the only people who understand where I'm coming from on this. Just watch. When the KOTOR remake lets down fans (as I KNOW is going to to happen), media spin online will insist it's because fans were demanding it. While some ARE and while some are demanding some element be "recanoinized," that's not me. I've never done that, and neither has anyone in the fan circles I hang out in. A few here do, however. So they're exactly the customer base Disney wants, and not me. It's kinda pathetic to realize one day you can literally write better fanfic than official product and you'll never get your work made part of the literary canon even if you were willing to do it freelance pro bono under an NDA.

But if right and left can agree it's the monopolies, then it does sure show how powerless we are and why getting involved IS pointless past at the local community level. I just know I've spoken with actual minorities, personal friends of mine, who reject a lot of this guilty white liberal stuff that's been invented in the last few years. Call themselves classically liberal. Maybe that's where I align, but by today's metric, that'd make me a conservative, correct? Especially since a few decades ago, the liberals of that year are the conservatives now.
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I mean, I have ZERO intent to vote next year or in 2024. This shit is just the end for me. You can't escape politics now and no one likes it. It just wasn't like this 20 years ago and I feel bad for all the kids going through all the fuckin' crap we never had to. We've fucked up the world real nice, I HAVE to wonder if deep down maybe we DO deserve to die. All of us. Just blackpill me. Wouldn't be too hard.
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Yuka, you misunderstand me about politics. I wasn't suggesting working WITHIN the system. Serious Leftists are people who want to change the system itself. The democratic party as it exists is "liberal" by their definition. Almost none of the people in power now are ones who leftists would consider "lefties".

Regarding nonprofits, is the Tree Trust close enough? https://treetrust.org/
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Well, fine then. Slap me a liberal then.

I have no idea. The web page is weird. :shock:
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Yukaphile wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:51 am Well, fine then. Slap me a liberal then.

I have no idea. The web page is weird. :shock:
Took less than one minute:

https://treetrust.org/non-profit/twin-c ... er-events/

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