thats the thing, though, if you only ever want positive engagement with your fellow man, where do we form empathy towards strangers? Where the hell does society occur, if we are filtering all language through a vibes-based pachinko machine?
if our leadership’s best take is, ‘plug your ears, forget about the horrible violence, just wait for years…’
that is the opposite of leadership. you are irrevocably inculcated in failed liberal ideology
praying RN for u <33
“Entering a total stranger’s discussion and leading with your private anxiety is as off-putting in social media replies as it would be in real life. If you wouldn’t interrupt a stranger at a party to announce that America is doomed, don’t do it here.”
this take is why this guy is invalid. To these people, everything is a party, don’t step on my toes, don’t interrupt my vibes, etc etc liberal in-group flailing vapid futurisms to maintain legitimacy this country is over
this kind of disaffected ‘we’ll get to it later’ politicking is what got us here in the first place. sucks to be u, CA
it would be known as usury in an earlier period, say, 13th century Italy