Youtube comments of Ida Larsen (@idalarsen2540).

  1. I've realized over the years that both me and my mom are aromantics. As a child growing up, my parents were never the kind to show affection to either each other, or me and my brother. I always felt like something was "off" in my family due to this, and seeing how my friends' parents kissed, held hands, went on dates etc., something my parents never did. They never even shared a bedroom, because my mother didn't feel comfortable doing so. My mother was always viewed as "distant" and "weird" because of her struggles of showing what we percieve as "proper", "normal" or "expected" affection. I know my mother would do anything for us, she's truly the most loving person I know.. she just doesn't show it like a "regular" person does. It's taken me so many years of pain and agony, and total confusion to figure this all out. I remember once yelling my soul out at her for "not loving me", which broke her heart. I don't regret doing it tho, as that.. conversation, and the following talks we had after that enlightened the both of us a lot. Seeing my mother break down like that killed me inside, but it was necessary to open up and regulate the boiling lid, in lack of a better way of describing it. My parents (finally) divorced some years ago, when both me and my brother were well into adulthood, and our entire family have become so much better and much more happy and comfortable individually and together, despite my mother and father not having any contact. It just turned out best for all of us. It freed us.
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  40. It's weird just how much I can relate to EVERYTHING she said (except being famous ofc). I know very well I had a bad and frightening childhood, but whenever people (including CPS, the police and such during my teen years) asked me what was so wrong, what had happened, why I was so scared and such, I had no coherent answer. I just put up a brick wall, or started crying and sobbing hysterically, almost as if I went back to a very vulnerable child like-state, just like how I was as a (very) young child. I knew deep within that something was wrong, that something had happened. I just couldn't figure out what it was. So, people thought I was just another run away-teen, doing rebellious "teen-stuff". That hurt me so bad and made me doubt myself and my entire existence, only making everything worse. I ended up homeless, severly addicted to drugs including injecting heroin. I OD'd several times, one time I barely made it. Someone found me, cracked all my ribs doing CPR (which is really good - it means they really did it right. I was dead anyway, so I was blessed af being able to wake up at all, despite being on life support for a few days). I am forever grateful to the people that saved my life. I even jokingly thanked them for breaking all my ribs. I was fortunate enough to meet them, and they were fortunate enough to meet me again - not because I'm special or whatever, but so that they could see living proof of their hard work and heroism considering that I'd be dead if it wasn't for them acting fast and logically. Trust me when I say that group hug we had lasted for a loooooooong time with loads of tears and sobbing from all of us. Anyway. I'm not diagnosed with DID, but it's reckognized medically that I do suffer from childhood trauma as well as severe adult trauma. PTSD, anxiety, depression and drug addiction. Possibly more, I'm working with a pshychiatrist on possible diagnoses. Not just to put yet another label on me, but so that I can get the help I need. DID is in fact a possibility. We don't know for sure yet. Due to my long term, hardcore drug usage, it's a lot harder to separate one experience and/or symptom from the other. It's a work in progress. I hope I don't have any more psychological issues than I already have, but if I do, I absolutely want to know so that I can understand myself better, and make life better in the long run. It just baffled me how relatable her story is to mine, despite our differences. If anyone bothered reading this, thank you so much. If anyone reading this are struggling with whatever it may be, I hope that you get help. I hope you have, or get support. I wish you well, and a good life. I wish you'll be able to feel like you're thriving, not just surviving. You deserve it. You really do. Best wishes from me 💚💚💚👊
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  50. I'm SO DONE with religious people who for some egotistical, ignorant and sheer arrogant reason STILL haven't figured out that they DO NOT live in a theocracy. YES, you have the freedom to practise your religion and your religious beliefs, BUT that right STOPS the literal second YOUR BELIEF breaches another person's same rights to practise and exercice THEIR OWN beliefs as well. These are THE MOST hypocritical a$$holes. You CANNOT demand the freedom to exercise a right we all share, while simultaniously literally denying others that same exact right, just because they have a different perspective and belief/non-belief. I just don't understand what's so incredible hard for these people to understand.. YOUR BELIEF AND/OR EXPERIENCE IS NOT EQUALLY SHARED BY ALL OTHER PEOPLE. Don't like or approve of abortions? DON'T GET ONE. Just don't take away that right away from other people just because YOU don't agree. Imagine the hypocracy hysteria they would schreech if people tried to either force them to get abortions against their will, or deny them of their right to exercise their religion.. they'd totally lose their minds, and rightfully so. That's partly/a BIG reason why these NON-PRO LIFERS, aka ANTI-ABORTION/ANTI-FREEDOM OF ATONOMY-people infuriate the hell outta me. They are pure hypocrites screaming about religious freedom and so on who are far too ignorant, arrogant and unwilling to accept people with different beliefs from their own. They demand people respect their beliefs, while denying others that same respect, pushing their own personal beliefs down other people's throats, AND literally into other people's bodies. They're all blatantly about 'rights for me, not for thee'.. yet they claim some moral highground, while being the biggest and most dangerous hypocrites. Purely outrageous. I also find it ironic how typically at least, these "pro-lifers" aka anti-choice people usually stand for the death penalty.. go figure. I guess it's at least half way consistent, considering how in certain situations, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term/denyed bodily atonomy/right to abortion is a literal death sentence, whether it's regarding the pregnant person, the zygote/fetus in development or even both.. but yeah sure.. they care about human life. Gotcha. Smfh, it's infuriating how uneducated, arrogant and selfish these people are. There are only two sides to this issue, and that's literally the wrong side and the right side. The right side is indisputably the pro-choice side. I don't give any f's if these facts bother you. You can't claim to be standing up for and championing religious freedom, freedom of speech etc. if you conveniently only stand for what freedoms benefits and regards yourself personally. Then you CLEARLY do not understand what freedom actually means.
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  81. Although the monster that r*ped me wasn't on a crime spree similar to this guy, Jane's encounter STILL reminded me FAAAAAAR TOO MUCH of the time I got drugged, lead to his apartment, then s*xually a*used for 2-3 days. He was more lazy tho, not tying me up.. so I managed to literally crawl out the door while he was sleeping. Must've been a hard sleeper as well. He apparantly had been previously charged with "regular" assault, and accused of s*xual assault by someone else.. there was nothing but pure evil in that monster's eyes. Who knows what would've happened if I didn't manage to against the odds due to my injuries both physically and mentally, and me happening to wake up juuust enough and concious enough to realize he was sleeping, enabling me to find the door that he didn't even lock. He lived RIGHT BY the police station.. I looked like literal hell, messed up, bloodied and dirty clothes, literally just crawling around the area for another 2-3 days - I even saw a police officer standing, but he didn't check up on me (I don't know of he noticed me or not, but I can't understand how he couldn't have noticed me..). I was still too much in shock and delirium to yell out for help, I still had no recollection over what happened. Thankfully, a few social workers I happened to have known for a few years already noticed me and IMMIDIATLY took me to the hospital, because they could clearly see that something incredibly bad had happened, and I couldn't manage to utter a single word, and they knew me as someone quite talkative and social. I still remember them vividly being distressed while testifying in court on my behalf, which alone was just so traumatizing. They said they were still haunted by the sheer look of me when they found me, and how they themselves felt traumatized by simply seeing my state of being when they first found me, as if all the life in me had vanished.. as if it wasn't even me, just a rotting shell. They were heartbroken beyond belief. It's incredible just how much this changes a person. I'm still haunted to this day. He's been in prison for years already, but still.. his punishment will regardless remain a whole heck of a lot lighter than mine, as his actions changed my life forever - I had just turned 18 y/o two months earlier. Be glad to not know the feeling you're left with after something like this.
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  111. I'm SO DONE with religious people who for some egotistical, ignorant and sheer arrogant reason STILL haven't figured out that they DO NOT live in a theocracy. YES, you have the freedom to practise your religion and your religious beliefs, BUT that right STOPS the literal second YOUR BELIEF breaches another person's same rights to practise and exercice THEIR OWN beliefs as well. These are THE MOST hypocritical a$$holes. You CANNOT demand the freedom to exercise a right we all share, while simultaniously literally denying others that same exact right, just because they have a different perspective and belief/non-belief. I just don't understand what's so incredible hard for these people to understand.. YOUR BELIEF AND/OR EXPERIENCE IS NOT EQUALLY SHARED BY ALL OTHER PEOPLE. Don't like or approve of abortions? DON'T GET ONE. Just don't take away that right away from other people just because YOU don't agree. Imagine the hypocracy hysteria they would schreech if people tried to either force them to get abortions against their will, or deny them of their right to exercise their religion.. they'd totally lose their minds, and rightfully so. That's partly/a BIG reason why these NON-PRO LIFERS, aka ANTI-ABORTION/ANTI-FREEDOM OF ATONOMY-people infuriate the hell outta me. They are pure hypocrites screaming about religious freedom and so on who are far too ignorant, arrogant and unwilling to accept people with different beliefs from their own. They demand people respect their beliefs, while denying others that same respect, pushing their own personal beliefs down other people's throats, AND literally into other people's bodies. They're all blatantly about 'rights for me, not for thee'.. yet they claim some moral highground, while being the biggest and most dangerous hypocrites. Purely outrageous. I also find it ironic how typically at least, these "pro-lifers" aka anti-choice people usually stand for the death penalty.. go figure. I guess it's at least half way consistent, considering how in certain situations, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term/denyed bodily atonomy/right to abortion is a literal death sentence, whether it's regarding the pregnant person, the zygote/fetus in development or even both.. but yeah sure.. they care about human life. Gotcha. Smfh, it's infuriating how uneducated, arrogant and selfish these people are. There are only two sides to this issue, and that's literally the wrong side and the right side. The right side is indisputably the pro-choice side. I don't give any f's if these facts bother you. You can't claim to be standing up for and championing religious freedom, freedom of speech etc. if you conveniently only stand for what freedoms benefits and regards yourself personally. Then you CLEARLY do not understand what freedom actually means.
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  136. I'm SO DONE with religious people who for some egotistical, ignorant and sheer arrogant reason STILL haven't figured out that they DO NOT live in a theocracy. YES, you have the freedom to practise your religion and your religious beliefs, BUT that right STOPS the literal second YOUR BELIEF breaches another person's same rights to practise and exercice THEIR OWN beliefs as well. These are THE MOST hypocritical a$$holes. You CANNOT demand the freedom to exercise a right we all share, while simultaniously literally denying others that same exact right, just because they have a different perspective and belief/non-belief. I just don't understand what's so incredible hard for these people to understand.. YOUR BELIEF AND/OR EXPERIENCE IS NOT EQUALLY SHARED BY ALL OTHER PEOPLE. Don't like or approve of abortions? DON'T GET ONE. Just don't take away that right away from other people just because YOU don't agree. Imagine the hypocracy hysteria they would schreech if people tried to either force them to get abortions against their will, or deny them of their right to exercise their religion.. they'd totally lose their minds, and rightfully so. That's partly/a BIG reason why these NON-PRO LIFERS, aka ANTI-ABORTION/ANTI-FREEDOM OF ATONOMY-people infuriate the hell outta me. They are pure hypocrites screaming about religious freedom and so on who are far too ignorant, arrogant and unwilling to accept people with different beliefs from their own. They demand people respect their beliefs, while denying others that same respect, pushing their own personal beliefs down other people's throats, AND literally into other people's bodies. They're all blatantly about 'rights for me, not for thee'.. yet they claim some moral highground, while being the biggest and most dangerous hypocrites. Purely outrageous. I also find it ironic how typically at least, these "pro-lifers" aka anti-choice people usually stand for the death penalty.. go figure. I guess it's at least half way consistent, considering how in certain situations, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term/denyed bodily atonomy/right to abortion is a literal death sentence, whether it's regarding the pregnant person, the zygote/fetus in development or even both.. but yeah sure.. they care about human life. Gotcha. Smfh, it's infuriating how uneducated, arrogant and selfish these people are. There are only two sides to this issue, and that's literally the wrong side and the right side. The right side is indisputably the pro-choice side. I don't give any f's if these facts bother you. You can't claim to be standing up for and championing religious freedom, freedom of speech etc. if you conveniently only stand for what freedoms benefits and regards yourself personally. Then you CLEARLY do not understand what freedom actually means.
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  142. I have been interrogated (not for murder tho lol), one case was due to me being raped and the other one was me getting into a SMALL fight with some cops while I was heavily drugged (used to be an addict). This technique was used on me both times while guestioned. I struggle with anxiety and panic attacks a lot, and this was the absolute worst part of the interrogation. Not because I lied in either case, honesty is the best policy so I was as truthful as one can possibly be.. yet this was still absolutely horrifying. I'm usually not the type to find silence awkward, yet this time it was so scary because I thought they didn't believe me. Especially in the rape case, because I admitted guilt right away in my little fight with the police. In the rape case tho, I knew what had happened, the rape was extreme; I nearly died ffs. I was so scared that my anxiety would send the wrong signals destroying my credibility and chances at putting someone truly awful away in jail. Luckily I managed through and won that case (I obvs lost the police fight case, but I never even bothered trying to win that one, so). I feel like it CAN be a great tool for police to use, but not all the time. I feel like it can send the wrong signals from someone that doesn't respond well to scare tactics, like me. I start fidgeting, scratching, sweating, avoid eye contact and many typical signs of guilt, even tho for me they're not a reaction of guilt but a reaction of anxiety. Anxiety does not equal guilt. So although I understand that it CAN be affective, I feel like it bears the potential of incriminating or disregarding innocent people telling the truth.
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  158. I'm SO DONE with religious people who for some egotistical, ignorant and sheer arrogant reason STILL haven't figured out that they DO NOT live in a theocracy. YES, you have the freedom to practise your religion and your religious beliefs, BUT that right STOPS the literal second YOUR BELIEF breaches another person's same rights to practise and exercice THEIR OWN beliefs as well. These are THE MOST hypocritical a$$holes. You CANNOT demand the freedom to exercise a right we all share, while simultaniously literally denying others that same exact right, just because they have a different perspective and belief/non-belief. I just don't understand what's so incredible hard for these people to understand.. YOUR BELIEF AND/OR EXPERIENCE IS NOT EQUALLY SHARED BY ALL OTHER PEOPLE. Don't like or approve of abortions? DON'T GET ONE. Just don't take away that right away from other people just because YOU don't agree. Imagine the hypocracy hysteria they would schreech if people tried to either force them to get abortions against their will, or deny them of their right to exercise their religion.. they'd totally lose their minds, and rightfully so. That's partly/a BIG reason why these NON-PRO LIFERS, aka ANTI-ABORTION/ANTI-FREEDOM OF ATONOMY-people infuriate the hell outta me. They are pure hypocrites screaming about religious freedom and so on who are far too ignorant, arrogant and unwilling to accept people with different beliefs from their own. They demand people respect their beliefs, while denying others that same respect, pushing their own personal beliefs down other people's throats, AND literally into other people's bodies. They're all blatantly about 'rights for me, not for thee'.. yet they claim some moral highground, while being the biggest and most dangerous hypocrites. Purely outrageous. I also find it ironic how typically at least, these "pro-lifers" aka anti-choice people usually stand for the death penalty.. go figure. I guess it's at least half way consistent, considering how in certain situations, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term/denyed bodily atonomy/right to abortion is a literal death sentence, whether it's regarding the pregnant person, the zygote/fetus in development or even both.. but yeah sure.. they care about human life. Gotcha. Smfh, it's infuriating how uneducated, arrogant and selfish these people are. There are only two sides to this issue, and that's literally the wrong side and the right side. The right side is indisputably the pro-choice side. I don't give any f's if these facts bother you. You can't claim to be standing up for and championing religious freedom, freedom of speech etc. if you conveniently only stand for what freedoms benefits and regards yourself personally. Then you CLEARLY do not understand what freedom actually means.
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  161. I know right, wtf? SO many people here are blaming her and are just being plain CRUEL. None of those people see the ACTUAL problem here. This is NOTHING but exploitation and sensationalism for views, his own gain. He talks down to her so much, breaking her down even more.. while she's obiviously laying down on the floor in pain. He's kicking her while she's down, it's just cruel. I've been an addict myself and have gotten those kinds of treatment (take the TV part out of it), and all it did was make me do even more drugs. Smh. It wasn't until someone actually started treating me better and considered the effect their words had on me, after I got so mad about it all that I had to just scream in his face how terrible he made me feel, that all it did was made me feel worse and fall even deeper into my addictions that I started to even just CONSIDER that what I was doing were more harmful than I wanted to think. Knowing that you're not judged for falling was such a big comfort to me. It made me actually want to do SOMETHING about it. It took me an extremely long time and many, many tries over several years for me to actually sober up - and stay sober. I still enjoy some drugs from time to time (smoke weed daily, most at night time due to ptsd related nightmares and insomnia, a very rare couple of drinks or a couple beers and sometimes I take amphetamine/speed, although that's rare), but it's all under control. I work, pay my rent and bills and take properly care of my self, my dog and my cat. So finally, I'm doing good. If people treated me like Phil treats this lady, I'd literally be dead. I would have no incentive to try to help myself. I'd feel to shameful and worthless. Shame on you, "Dr." Phil.. shame.
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  169.  @vampirepuppy  Get lost. Just because you can't (always) "prove" rape doesn't mean it doesn't happen. (Generally) people don't lie about that. When someone confides in you that they've been sexually abused, the chance that it happened is like 99%. It's extremely rare for people to make that up, and when someone actually makes it up, it's for revenge. When anyone claims to have been raped, you can almost always guarantee that it happened. Most of the time, victims/survivors aren't heard. VERY few survivors even file charges, often due to fear or shame. The very few people that file charges are usually completely ignored by the system. The case usually gets thrown out. Those all too seldom times they actually reach the court, the survivors usually lose. Not because it didn't happen, but because it's usually way too easy to come up with a defense. It's easy to either just say that it was consentual sex, or that it didn't happen. Very few people go to the hospital (at all) in time for someone to collect physical proof and possibly DNA. Even when people do that, it's way too easy for people to say that both parties were in on it. It's also rare that people even end up with any bruises or anything else that can help prove what happened. Even I experienced it very violently once, I could've easily died, still all the physical proof my body showed was this one bruise on my leg that could've been explained by anything and my.. area being red. And this case was extremely violent. So people usually don't exhibit physical signs that make it easy to prove. You're talking about proving sexual abuse like it's as easy as following a paper trail proving fraud. It doesn't work like that. Also, this is not a courtroom, so I don't understand why you're so focused on legal terms and the legality of it all. This is not court. Nobody is accused. Nobody is "guilty before proven innocent". What we have here is simply one person sharing part of their story. He's not fighting someone in court. There's nobody to prove guilty or innocent here, so gtfo. You're just being a prick for the sake of it, and you're just wrong and foolish for that. That's really low of you. Do better.
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  171. For real. I became homeless for about three years, and I had both a dog and a cat before that happened (honestly not my fault, seriously. Long story). Luckily I knew that my dog could stay with my father safely, so she wasn't really a worry for me. My cat on the other hand was. I knew of no one that would agree to take care of my cat for me while I tried finding a new place, so I was extremely worried. I asked EVERYONE I knew, posted about it daily on facebook and everywhere. I knew I could give him away, but I simply refused having to give him up to strangers. That was so horrible, the entire thing. I wanted my sweet cat back, we loved each other so much and I knew I could provide a great home for him as soon as I found somewhere new to live. It took me quite some time, three years like I said - but I did it. I eventually did recieve an offer from a friend who were willing to take him in, but after a while she found him to be "too much" for her (she fell way too deep in her drug abuse smh, my cat wasn't at fault in any way. He's a sweetie. I panicked as I had to look for someone else. Eventually someone else I knew took him in, but after a while they broke up and we're moving away from each other, and none of them were willing to take him with them. Same route once again. These two people were my last hope (I thought), so it absolutely broke my heart. I still refused to give him up. Then, like a miracle, some friends of some of my other friends had heard about our story and wanted to help - for free, even. They took him in and cared so much for him. They cared so much in fact that they wanted to TAKE HIM, despite promising me that I'd get him back when the time was ready. I was livid, completely FURIOUS. I couldn't do anything but cry myself to sleep every night, and just the thought of him brought me to tears. I had already fought so much for him, my energy was drained. Still, the thought of losing him for good was too much for me. I just couldn't take it. I did everything and more to convince them to give him back to me. After months of living in my new apartment, I still hadn't gotten him back, but I refused to let him go. Eventually, they budged. Thankfully. I now live safely with both my pets, my dog Lucy and my cat Skurk (Norwegian for criminal, pretty much - sounds like a weird name in English but I promise you, he fits his name completely and everyone just finds it to be a cute, fitting name for him). I work and take care of them very well, more than I've seen most people do. I'm so glad that I kept fighting for us, that I never lost hope regardless of how dark it all seemed for years. I'll fight for my loved ones, my pets any time, any day. Always. ALWAYS.
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  174. If it wasn`t for free/cheap health care in my country (Norway) I would`ve been dead many years ago, and I`m only 22. Same goes for the ambulance, of course. One time someone overdosed on heroin and pills in front of me and I was the only one there, he would`ve been dead if I couldn`t get ahold of the ambulance. Same goes for me. Now some time later, after addiction, homelessness, rapes, getting robbed, beaten, I`m finally clean and on proper medication. I have a dog and a cat, a nice, big apartment, I`m able to work on my chronic pains with a professional and everything. I have been able to get some work experience, but due to Covid my work place got shut down. If it wasn`t for Covid I would`ve been working. Yes, it`s the government that helps me put food on the table, a roof over my head etc., but at the same time I put money back into the system by simply living, practically. Every time I go to the grocery store money is put back into society. Every time I pay my rent and electricity, money goes back to society etc. I`m not worthless just because I`ve fallen on my face many times. I`m glad my country doesn`t punish me for falling out of society`s norms while being underage, going on to my adult life. Things are hard of course, no one gets rich off of welfare to put it mildly, it is a constant struggle one way or another. That`s not to complain, it`s just how it is. I would never expect to recieve luxury on welfare. I`m happy to have what I have. Mostly, my life intact and not in constant danger anymore. Now, considerig I`ve gotten the oppurtunities I`ve gotten later on in life, I`m even more eager to be able to give something back myself. Whenever I have some money left, I`m always the first one to try to help out one way or another. I`ve given to charity and volunteered both during my homelessness and addictions, and after getting a home for myself and getting clean. Since I`ve met so many gracious people giving me a hand, many times without me even asking, it has inspired me to give at least as much back. Due to my life experiences, as rough as they`ve been, I`m more motivated than ever to give back and do something good for society. You can judge society a whole lot by looking at how the society treats it`s poorest. I`m amongst the poorest myself, and I`ve had both great luck and fair oppurtunities wich I`ve seized, wich allows me to actually move on with my life and be not only a productive member of society, but most likely an even more decent, giving person than I would`ve ever been if I was given everything on a silver spoon. It`s easy to judge people that are "below" you, but if we all started caring more about everyone, the world would be a much better place. If we don`t give everyone, regarldess of who they are, a fair shot in life, no one without priviliged resources would make it. That`s not fair. That`s like a monarchy without the titles.
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  180.  @seanosull2884  Welcome on board, fellow eagle! This is such a good channel. Not only is it highly educational, it's fun at the same time. He manages to in the most lawyerish way to throw harsh, yet subtle shade. I enjoy learning about laws and stuff as I've been in three court cases myself, both on the defendants side and the accusers side. For when I don't feel like listening to such heavy subjects as this one, his reaction videos are absolutely great. It's both super funny and lighthearted while also being just as educational as the serious topics like this one he discusses. The editing and video quality, as well the length of the videos are so satisfying! Also, I'm not even American or live in a republic, I live in Norway, a social-democray hehh so the laws (in general) aren't the same for me, although a lot is at least fairly similar. Still tho, learning about anything really, whether it directly affects me or not is always a good thing. Some shit in America just baffles me. I remember (just like so many others) being a child, looking up to America thinking it is so great, to the point where I didn't wanna get caught doing something illegal JUST for the fact that I most likely wouldn't be able to visit. Now it's a completely different story.. America FRIGHTENS me. I also know that at least here in Norway we often call ourselves "little America" or "America's younger sibling". I know that our laws often progress when American law does. Apparantly our government doesn't want to 'stand out' or maybe it's a matter of wanting to see how certain laws etc. affects the places that voted in new laws before we follow. So America doesn't only affect America, which is why it's so important for the US to take responsibility and realize that what they do actually affect way more people than most Americans might think. Not saying America should be a moral compass for everyone else, that they're responsible for what happens elsewhere in the world or that they shouldn't do what's best for them, they just have to know that it matters for more than 'just' America. America should just be very aware of this. I mean, they almost HAVE to considering how many wars they've not only been involved in for support, but also considering how many unjust wars they've started and/or participate in. America can be so great, but the damage being done EVERYWHERE around the globe because of America can be even greater. With great power comes great responsibility. They can't only take credit when something good happens elsewhere because of them, they have to take responsibility when things go wrong, which doesn't happen nearly enough. Too much pride is such a sucker. Sorry for such a long reply, I guess the first part was solely directed at you, but the rest were more of a read to everyone from an outside perspective. Cheers, good luck and stay safe. Sincerely a young woman from the capitol of Norway, Oslo. We're rooting for you America, just as long as you don't screw up in such a massive scale again, we'll always respect you and support you. Thank you, stay safe, stay peaceful, goodbye. Lots of love everyone.
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  194. Ana, leave this to the experts. You are not among them. People are also SO impatient. Tweeks ARE being made where leftist drug policies are in action. You just need time to allow for the actual experts to get numbers and data, so the policies can be tweeked the right ways. These new drug policies are a massive shift to what weÂīve done for so, so long. We KNOW that criminalizing and penalizing does not work. Safety and humane treatment however, DOES work. We must also remember that the goal isnÂīt to get everyone to quit drugs completely, but rather delay the age people start using drugs, prevent the number of people using (especially hard drugs), prevent easily preventable diseases such as HEP A, B and C and HIV etc. The goal is HARM REDUCTION. ThatÂīs what truly matters. Sobriety is an amazing goal for many people, but not for all. Sobriety is not always a choice for someone. The goal then is STILL harm reduction via safe injection sites, free clean needles etc., and DIGNITY. Addiction is a disease, not a criminal act. Addicts deserve dignity and respect, just as much as everyone else. Drug addiction should never make you lose your human rights. Never. Also, forcing people who are not ready to quit or seek sobriety in any shape or form ought not to be pressured. That is only increasing harm and loss of respect, dignity and bodily atonomy for said people. Sobriety comes from within. One must truly want and need sobriety for oneself in order to quit whatever drug they want to quit long term. It is literally impossible to force someone to get sober.. theyÂīll only resent you and go deeper into their addiction, because addiction is safe to them.. at least. it is what feels safest to them. I know quite a lot about addiction on a deep level. IÂīve dealt with and dealing with it personally, secondary, drugs have been a part of my whole lifeÂīs story. I sit in the board in one of NorwayÂīs leading drug organisations. So I feel fairly qualified to speak on this issue. IÂīm extremely knowledgable on drugs and drug policies around the world; not that I would call myself an expert though. Yet still, IÂīm far more knowledgable than the average person, definitely including Ana. Ana is generally a smart woman, but is clueless when it comes to drugs and policies surrounding drugs and addicted people and their needs. Sincerely, a norwegian progressive drug user and drug addict worker/volunteer who has died of an overdose before, been homeless and seen as nothing, but who have managed to rise up and fight for not just myself, but ALL who share my experience of addiction.
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  210. Try some nuance. It's not all black and white. Afganistan people of all kind have OBVS seen America as an OCCUPYING FORCE, because that's EXACTLY what they've been. Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine some other country's millitary, say China, Russia or India (just naming these as examples due to their large lands, which grants them large amounts of people, aka large and strong millitaries; just like America) decides to INVADE, bomb and kill thousands among your civilazation, forcefully, without any invitation at all. Would you then, after TWO DECADES OF WAR AND TERROR, appreciate whatever country that invaded you? OF COURSE NOT!!! But sure, logic not required.. smh. They also obvs understand and are able to differenciate the difference between civilians (like her, "simply" a reporter who's in no way hostile) and the government/an invasive, millitary force. They don't scream "death to americaNS", but "death to America". That's a big difference, which they, along with the rest of the world, unlike Americans, understand. OF COURSE you wouldn't be fond of a nation that brutally and forcefully invaded your land, your nation, your national atonomy and control. This has been terrible from the get-go, and the Amerivan government and millitary both entered and left the country in destruction and shambles, even more so when they left (which they at some point had to do. They should've left MANY, MANY YEARS ago. Staying there indefinetely is of no benefit. This war have ONLY benefitted war contractors making money off of this. That's it). Anyone believing this was for "nation-building" is A TOTAL BAFFOON. Acc. to raports, they could've had assasinated Bin Laden even just DAYS (close to a WEEK) after their first arrival. They had the opportunity SEVERAL TIMES after that as well over the years, but chose not to due to corruption and greed, which is ALWAYS their main goal. Anyone who's not figured this out yet is hella ignorant. You know.. how come there's never any debate or questions asked for funneling TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS of dollars to war contractors and the millitary, but the american public can't even get a ten year-investment in infrastructure? Universal healthcare, college etc? IT'S BECAUSE OF THE CORRUPTION. Follow the money, people. It's not that hard.
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  217. Fr 😭😭😭 I live for my pets (cat and dog), my children as I call them. Call me crazy for that, I don't care. I view them as my children. Even if I just accidentaly manage to step on my dog's foot or something like that, I feel sooooo bad and start hugging and apologizing - even if she barely noticed. One time I was cutting my dog's hair (she doesn't shed her fur, she's allergy friendly so she practically has more human like hair, hence why I have to cut it) and I was getting tired as I had been cutting her for so long. I was tired, she was tired so she started moving around a bit making it harder for me to cut, so I accidentally managed to come close to her skin on her chest while cutting. It BARELY cut her at all, but I did hear her scream very high pitched (not for long at all, it was more of a "ouch" in dog language) so I threw the scissors right away that second and I started crying. I checked her to see how bad it was.. it didn't even start bleeding, it was more of a scratch. So luckily, it couldn't have been that painful. I'm sure it was painful that second, but like I said, it was tiny and didn't even bleed the slightest bit. I started bawling my eyes out, hugging her and all. She was wagging her tail as soon as I hugged her, so it couldn't have hurt much at all, and she understood that it was just a little accident, nothing on purpose at all. That just goes to show how much I love and care for my pets. Even the slightest little "could happen to the best"-things breaks my heart and makes me feel so bad. So, just the thought of doing something like this lady is doing - I could NEVER. It just breaks my heart so much. It doesn't matter at all whether I know the animals or not, seeing them hurt in even the slightest way is heartbreaking. I don't understand people that willfully aquires pets, only to not give them proper care and love. I've seen homeless people literally taking so much better care for their dogs than this lady/family has. Having a big home and a garden is worthless if you're not taking actual care for them. I live in not the smallest, yet surely not the biggest apartment (I've lived in much smaller places than now also) but that doesn't matter. They have space to move around in here and most importantly, they're properly fed with good food and have all that they need. I take my dog out for 3-5 times a day, depending on my energy, if I work that day and on the weather (I live in Norway so our winters are extremely cold lol, so we spend more time inside during winter than summer). They're happy, clean, fed, not too big or too small, healthy and everything. Having a big home and a garden means NOTHING to your pets if you don't take care of them. It's not adequate to just let them outside in the garden, never walking them. It sure is a great bonus to your pets if you have a big home and a garden if you actually take care of them. That's definetely a great bonus. But that's all it is. It's just a bonus that makes it a bit easier for you to exercise especially your dogs. Your garden doesn't take care of your pets, YOU take care of your pets. Smdh.
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  219. I completely understand what you're saying. I'm not severly allergic to anything myself, but I do literally suffer from pollen allergies during summer time, breathing is extremely difficult and I need a lot of medications for that to just barely be able to be outside - or even inside during summer. I don't go into anaphylaxis which sounds just horrifying to me. I know what it feels like having my throat closing up, not to the point where it's anaphylaxis, but even for me it's really scary when I feel like I can't breathe.. so I can at least sort of imagine what anaphylaxis would feel like. I also suffer from several mental illnesses, like heavy ptsd, anxiety disorder and panic attacks, and depression on and off (not due to seasonal change). I absolutely HATE when people are acting like this woman who exaggerates (my 1st language is Norwegian so I'm sorry if some words gets butchered) because it puts us that actually really struggle with one thing or another. I would still like to say in her little defense that she's been heavily exposed to toxins from her home, they apparantly found many spores of different allergens in her home - which alone can cause unusual behaviour. She's on medications as well, so that combo isn't exactly working in her favor. This was talked about in another clip from this, I don't have the link but it shouldn't be too hard to find. So at least for her, she has some validity with this. I believe her behaviour has been enabled too much and that the couple should have fixed whatever problems they have with their house a long time ago instead of accomidating her (mostly) irrational or overexagerrated behaviour. Not trying to defend her too much, but there's two sides of every coin and two sides to every story. Emphathy and compassion is extremely important. Not saying we should baby or enable people at all, we should just try to understand each other's points if views as much as possible. Not to excuse someone's irrational behaviour, but to understand. When people disagree with ourselves, we also would like for "the other side" to try ti understand their point of view and how they think to better understand what drives people's bad behaviour so that it's easier to prevent people from completely losing their minds. We can't help people if we don't understand how others think. You know what I mean? This became a long "rant", sorry about that.
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  231. Regarding "leftists" losing sight on what really matters, acting more like faux outrage TMZ "reporters".. Come on. She can handle herself. She's highly intelligent and knows what she's doing. It's not like wealthy people haven't tried several times on her, already.. no need to get worked up by a dress - the MET is in NY, and it's common for NY representatives to attend - and she used that situation to her advantage. The gala is in fact after all a fundraising event, so people can visit the Metropolitan museum free of any charges. Her policies aren't about villifying the rich and wealthy at all, it's simply and common sensically about having them PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE of taxes which they now barely even do at all. If her attending some fancy events and meeting celebrities and wealthy people would somehow persuade her into going corrupt, she would've been corrupted a long time ago, but she's not. Like.. I don't see anybody b!tching about Bernie Sanders being both progressive and wealthy. People really be acting like it's impossible to hold on to your values, morals, core beliefs and principles. She's literally just logically believing in and advocating for fair tax rates FOR ALL, as opposed to now where social welfare is payed TO the wealthiest for all kinds of things BY the poor and ever-dying/shrinking middle class. She understands that that is not an equitable, reasonable, fair or equitable taxing system. It makes no sense for the poorest among us to pay THE MOST without ever recieving ANYTHING from those taxes, but have to see that hard earned money given back to the wealthy and corporations - and the same wealthy people and corporations pay FAR, FAR LESS percentage and actual income wise, yet somehow still benefit the most off of others who can't even afford basic necessities. Now that's infuriating. It's not about taxing the rich "just to add on more taxes" or whatever, the issue is that the system is entirely broken and turned on it's head. That's what AOC and progressives wants to change asap, as literally every single person would greatly benefit from it, but no.. now that's impossible due to corruption and greed.. the wealthy are exploiting the actual, representative population's work, health, needs, practically every single apsect of their entire being is fully exploited. They just ensure that they buy enough politician's votes, so the government put in place, FOR the people, BY the people, OF the people, will favorize their corrupt and greedy donors instead of the people at large. But then to also having all these money-grabbing, power hungry and selfish politicians willing to sell out the interests of their country and constituents to buy political power is so incredibly anti-democracy, and it NEEDS to stop. AOC is the least of the problem - she truly is a part of the solution. People focuse way too much on finding ANYTHING to critisize her for - both from people on the right AND left. Yet she's one of the few people, among the rest of the progressives who actually fight for equality, equity, fairness and justice. It's a GOOD thing for her to bring attention to that problem in a unique way - it got people talking, right? Now people have been FORCED to talk about taxing the rich, AOC and the progressive movement. It got people engaged. If there's one thing the left and the right can agree on, is that we all HATE corruption and money in politics. That's partly why the right wing (and sadly many so called "moderate" aka conservative or corporate democrats) are constantly desperate to nitpick their every move, actions, speech, LITERALLY ANYTHING - they KNOW that policy wise, the vaaaast majority of all americans across ALL party lines and non/apolitical people fully agrees with progressive agendas, so they CONSTANTLY fight against the progressive movement/FORCES to try to deligitimaze them.. they KNOW that progressive policies are the most popular and effective ones, but the ruling class are afraid of losing their rigged, corrupt ultimate power, rule and status quo designed to only benefit them, and them alone. Aaand because of course AOC being a young, intelligent woman of color, who's incredibly popular, she's an easy target to focus on. They are so afraid of her and the rest of the progressives, so they continue fighting her and the movement she's a big part of, so the greedy and corrupted can continue taking advantage of and exploiting the majority to continue their corrupted power at the expense of the voters, the workers, the everyone, THE PEOPLE. She's a disrupting force to the status quo rigged in the favour of them, the smallest minority with no ends to their wicked, destructive, corrupted ways. There's no end to how far they're willing to go to ensure they'll always be the ruling class, no matter how authoritarian their methods. Power is all to them, and they don't like "disrupters" like AOC, to put it mildly.. so why should we also be overly critical of her every move, as if doing just that doesn't distract from the real issues? Getting pressed about her attenting a Met Galla in a unique, tho stupidly "controversial" dress sparking a conversation about the very real, common sensical and tangible message? Getting pressed about that is sooo useless and silly, the left can get so cynical at times, jeez. Expecting that from the right is obivious, but the true left must stop eating their own. Hold people accountable? Absolutely. This, tho... just goes too far, and it helps nobody. Focus on what matters, don't get caught up getting overly critical, cynical and reactive where that's not in any way warranted. It's pathetic and hysterical. Don't get it twisted. She won't lose her principles by attending an high end galla in a dress with an appropriate and relevant message. If you think so, then you're hella underestimating her intelligence and integrity. Don't worry about an event or a donated dress, worry about her message. Imagine if everyone redirected their attention, focus and anger away from the superficial aspects here to the actual message itself... now THAT could help truly move the needle in the right way, instead of wasting time moaning about what matters the very least. Ughh, my goodness, the theathre outrage and hysteria says a whole big lot more about them and their integrity than hers. Don't lose sight on what really matters. Seriously, this is pathetic.
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  232.  @Sunaki1000  Holy moly... you're so misguided. For real. "Well it sounded like he tried to find out more about her by pretending to show empathy for her past. I mean, if it would've been selfless it would be a wrong way of showing support, if that makes sense?" NO. Just no. Oh boy.. There are clear differences between harmless chatter, trying to get to know your employees, co-workers or whatever and asking about any kind of sexual history. There's one thing for good friends (who trust each other) and such talking about sexual history, but (especially) for a person in a position of power, that becomes entirely different from having a trusting conversation. This should be obivious and common knowledge, but it sadly isn't. It's crazy to me how so many people are more eager to defend the accused rather than the accuser, a potential/likely victim. You do not talk about sexual history, especially not traumatic sexual history at work. That's an extremely clear violation of privacy and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how wrong that is. Asking questions such as he "allegedly" did like if she struggled sexually after that traumatic event is clearly an attempt at sexual advances. Why would that information be relevant for a boss, co-worker or whomever it may be? That would only be relevant information for one to figure out if they're sexually active, still enjoys sex or whatever. That's a question a therapist would ask after having built a sufficient level of trust. This is not conversational banter, this is not appropriate for someone who's "trying to get to know someone" to ask. That's waaaaaaaay too personal and invasive. ANY idiot should understand this, but clearly not. Such questions can be frightening and/or threatening for people who's been through rape/sexual abuse. There's no way to explain away that one to make it seem innocent. I've personally been raped *twice*, and I could've died the second time if it wasn't for extreme luck and fast thinking on my part. I also know several others with similar experiences. I've had a few people ask me that exact question. I've either gotten that question from highly trusted friends and highly trusted health care professionals, or from sleezy/predatory dudes trying to figure out if I'd be "down" for something. There's absolutely no in between here. For reasons I won't bother taking the time to explain, many people know of my abuse history. Recieving that question from people I trust in proper context (let's say for instance in a therapy session with sexual trauma as a theme) is okay. They ask that question to figure out how much of an impact this trauma has on someone romantically, and in order for us to figure out if that's something one would need help with resoluting. On the other hand, recieving that question from someone else, like a boss, a co-worker, family members/relatives (whom you don't have proper trust and closeness with), strangers etc. is just flat out inappropriate, disrespectful and/or even frightening or threatening. If one of my bosses ever asked me such a question, it'd make me or anyone else extremely uncomfortable and scared, especially if that question was asked without anyone else around. Like, why would anyone need that information, certainly in a work setting? There's no debating the intent of that question. It's just extremely inappropriate and rude. That's not something you ask to get to know someone. There's no way to twist that to make it seem like an innocent question. It will make people uncomfortable or scared. Even "just" talking about sex is inappropriate and too much of an invasion of privacy enough, but if you then add in abuse and trauma to that conversation, it becomes way worse. There's simply no way around it, it's just not okay at all. It's certainly hostile and extremely suggestive. If you simply want to get to know someone better, there's so many ways to do that without invading someone's privacy in such a frightening way. That's not how you get to know people. It's just not. Especially in situations like the one we're talking about here where there's a clear power dynamic (a person in a position of power vs. a person working under that person in power), this is an extremely serious abuse of power and a huge ethics violation. It saddens me deeply having to explain this, something so blatantly obivious. Smh.
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  234.  @blitzballrusher4993  Fairly true, but practically excusing the repukelikkkunts isn't okay either. They're passing SO MANY laws to ensure the elections are always rigged in their favour. That isn't new either. They've had the odds heavily stacked in their favour for extremely long, and they never win by popular vote - aka actually democratically. If the system wasn't entirely rigged in their favour, they wouldn't keep or gain any power. Repukelikkkunts ARE the MINORITY big time. Now with that being said, I do really wish the democratic party was a lot stronger and willing to fight for what they campaign on, and what their voters and majority of the population wants. I also really, really wish they wouldn't self sabotage all the time by doing everything in their power to block and discredit progressives. They pretend to be in favour for progressive policies because they KNOW that's what actually is most popular among the incredible vast majority of voters, but completely backpeddals when push comes to show. You can thank corruption for that, as well as corporate media giving them lip service - just like the literal entirety of the repukelikkkunts are corrupt. The entirety of the repukelikkkunt party is heavily corrupt and are working for themselves, their greed, lust for power, and their big corporate donors. Same goes for MOST, but not all of the democratic party - except for PROGRESSIVES. Who are THE ONLY ONES fighting FOR THE PEOPLE, and against corporate interests. These corrupt mofo's don't want any of that - they'll kill democracy if they must to stay in absolute power and be wealthier than most people can't even fathom, no matter the costs to the people or the planet. It's pure, selfish greed. Now, the repukelikkkunts ARE WORSE. They're FAR, FAR WORSE due to their dangerous, racist, bigoted, sexist, xenophobic, pro-war and nationalist views determining their policies IN ADDITION to the blatant corruption controlling their ENTIRE PARTY. At least there's a growing movement of progressives taking more and more space in the democratic party, who are able to flex that muscle more and more instead of constantly being forced by the corporates from both within the democratic party, the media AND the opposition to bend the knee. At least democrats aren't ACTIVELY trying to kill democracy - they could surely do HELLA LOT MORE to STRENGTHEN democracy than they are, but they're at least not ACTIVELY legislating democracy's death. Oh and also of course, same can be said about reproductive rights. The repukelikkkunts are becoming more and more blatant and autocratic by the day, and dangerously so - obiviously. Letting repukelikkkunts win is NOT an option. They're truly anti-democracy, and shamelessly so. They're not even trying to hide it anymore, as they've done FOR YEARS.
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  237. I completely understand what people are critizing her for, but she does have some validity here. I'm not severly allergic to anything myself, but I do literally suffer from pollen allergies during summer time, breathing is extremely difficult and I need a lot of medications for that to just barely be able to be outside - or even inside during summer. I don't go into anaphylaxis which sounds just horrifying to me. I know what it feels like having my throat closing up, not to the point where it's anaphylaxis, but even for me it's really scary when I feel like I can't breathe.. so I can at least sort of imagine what anaphylaxis would feel like. I also suffer from several mental illnesses, like heavy ptsd, anxiety disorder and panic attacks, and depression on and off (not due to seasonal change). I absolutely HATE when people are acting like this woman who exaggerates (my 1st language is Norwegian so I'm sorry if some words gets butchered) because it puts us that actually really struggle with one thing or another. I would still like to say in her little defense that she's been heavily exposed to toxins from her home, they apparantly found many spores of different allergens in her home - which alone can cause unusual behaviour. She's on medications as well, so that combo isn't exactly working in her favor. This was talked about in another clip from this, I don't have the link but it shouldn't be too hard to find. So at least for her, she has some validity with this. I believe her behaviour has been enabled too much and that the couple should have fixed whatever problems they have with their house a long time ago instead of accomidating her (mostly) irrational or overexagerrated behaviour. Not trying to defend her too much, but there's two sides of every coin and two sides to every story. Emphathy and compassion is extremely important. Not saying we should baby or enable people at all, we should just try to understand each other's points if views as much as possible. Not to excuse someone's irrational behaviour, but to understand. When people disagree with ourselves, we also would like for "the other side" to try ti understand their point of view and how they think to better understand what drives people's bad behaviour so that it's easier to prevent people from completely losing their minds. We can't help people if we don't understand how others think. You know what I mean? This became a long "rant", sorry about that.
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  247.  @MM-vs2et  The thing is tho, Germany HAVE learned from history.. America(ns) really love to really bring the point of "you know what you did" home everytime Germany is mentioned.. which is hypocritical and unnessecary, since Germany learned the importance of this QUICKLY. Rightfully so. So.. perhaps it's time to put your money where your mouth is America when it comes to this, and start doing the same.. since ya know.. America still refuse to tell their many ugly historic parts of their story, and both native Americans and African Americans are STILL to varying degrees being oppressed. Guess which country, just to name one example out of far too many, holds events like weddings and such over spots where extremely oppressed people have been brutally beaten, starved, r*ped, murdered, endured terror and forced labour +++.. Germany or America? WOOPSIE you guessed it, America! People rent out historic places with terrible history over the grounds of where people/slaves to be specific, without even specifying or memorializing it's dark history, to hold amongst other kinds of highly festive events and celebrations like weddings on plantation sites. You don't see that happening in Germany where there used to be labour camps. In Germany, it's impossible not to be reminded of the horrors of the holocaust due to memorials all over, and the ruins/remains of these camps have been turned into historic museums, without being altered to make it look better, unlike all the American places of horrors.. I could go on and on and on. Yet America loves to diss Germany any chance they get to point out the terrible history, the horrendous and unforgiveable events that took place. Germany don't hide it's terrible history. They've kept it 'on display' (in lack of a better term) to continue to educate all new generations, to make sure to not ever let anyone forget - not in order to 'blame' any German people at all, but because they truly understand just how terrible it all was.. as a reminder on what can happen if that dark history and knowledge of how easy it can be for extremism to flourish in the most awful ways if we were to forget just how dangerous it is to sow hatred, nationalism and division. Props to Germany, really. America on the other hand, who still have statues and monuments of the confederacy, refuse to teach the full story of terror with regsrds to slavery for instance (which incredibly, several people minimize ffs), who refuse to accept and ackowledge the importance of not teaching and showing the full story. Germany knows far too well what happened, and never minimize their unfortuante dark parts of history.. America's history of slavery still lingers, and is not reckognized and respected even close to how well it should be. So perhaps.. just a thought.. *cough* *cough* ... America should stop pointing their fingers at Germany, and face what's long overdue. I know America loves to pretend to have some moral highground over everything, despite glossing over so many gruesome facts, with discrimination still being far too present to this very day, including extreme voter supression being legislated these very days. If anything, America.. be more like Germany. Today, YOU have (neo-)nazis walking around proudly, including amongst your congress, as well as your last president being one of them. You're literally just throwing rocks inside of a glasshouse while acting as though you're in any way morally superior to anyone.
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  252. I'm SO DONE with religious people who for some egotistical, ignorant and sheer arrogant reason STILL haven't figured out that they DO NOT live in a theocracy. YES, you have the freedom to practise your religion and your religious beliefs, BUT that right STOPS the literal second YOUR BELIEF breaches another person's same rights to practise and exercice THEIR OWN beliefs as well. These are THE MOST hypocritical a$$holes. You CANNOT demand the freedom to exercise a right we all share, while simultaniously literally denying others that same exact right, just because they have a different perspective and belief/non-belief. I just don't understand what's so incredible hard for these people to understand.. YOUR BELIEF AND/OR EXPERIENCE IS NOT EQUALLY SHARED BY ALL OTHER PEOPLE. Don't like or approve of abortions? DON'T GET ONE. Just don't take away that right away from other people just because YOU don't agree. Imagine the hypocracy hysteria they would schreech if people tried to either force them to get abortions against their will, or deny them of their right to exercise their religion.. they'd totally lose their minds, and rightfully so. That's partly/a BIG reason why these NON-PRO LIFERS, aka ANTI-ABORTION/ANTI-FREEDOM OF ATONOMY-people infuriate the hell outta me. They are pure hypocrites screaming about religious freedom and so on who are far too ignorant, arrogant and unwilling to accept people with different beliefs from their own. They demand people respect their beliefs, while denying others that same respect, pushing their own personal beliefs down other people's throats, AND literally into other people's bodies. They're all blatantly about 'rights for me, not for thee'.. yet they claim some moral highground, while being the biggest and most dangerous hypocrites. Purely outrageous. I also find it ironic how typically at least, these "pro-lifers" aka anti-choice people usually stand for the death penalty.. go figure. I guess it's at least half way consistent, considering how in certain situations, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term/denyed bodily atonomy/right to abortion is a literal death sentence, whether it's regarding the pregnant person, the zygote/fetus in development or even both.. but yeah sure.. they care about human life. Gotcha. Smfh, it's infuriating how uneducated, arrogant and selfish these people are. There are only two sides to this issue, and that's literally the wrong side and the right side. The right side is indisputably the pro-choice side. I don't give any f's if these facts bother you. You can't claim to be standing up for and championing religious freedom, freedom of speech etc. if you conveniently only stand for what freedoms benefits and regards yourself personally. Then you CLEARLY do not understand what freedom actually means.
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  276.  @dontmindme633  The American prison system is so extremely corrupt, holy damn.. I just can't. (Not to rub it in anyone's faces, but) I'm born and raised, still living here in Oslo, Norway. Many people are aware of how our prison systems work (key word: work - because they actually work). We're ranked to have one of the absolute BEST prisons. Prison is still prison so it will never be a luxury, of course. Still, we believe in human rights regardless of their past and wrongdoings, regardless of the crime. We believe that the punishment is having to serve time and losing your freedom, not in prisons actually serving punishment beyond taking away their freedom. Depending on what type of facility you're in (maximum security, lower grade security and such), you'll have it really good, actually. Most cells even have TV's and proper furniture. Our cells looks for the most part like institutions, not just pure cells. Usually the guards and the inmates gets close to each other, playing cards, board games, watch TV together and stuff like that. Kind of similar to drug rehabilitation facilities/other treatment facilities of high standards. The focus on actual rehabilitation is the main focus, and it works. We have among the best rates when it comes to rehabilitation, which truly is the most important. Most people here who serve one sentence only serves that one sentence. It's very rare to get the revolving door "syndrome". Some people, many people think our prisons are too "good". Many think most prisoners don't deserve all they get. Our prisoners not only gets good facilities with work and/or education oppurtunities along with psychological and medical help for free, they get income provided by the government. Their prison grocery stores doesn't have inflated prizes, they're just the same as regular grocery stores. All of our prisons are public, nothing about the criminal sector here is privatized at all. No one is making a profit, so it's good for everyone in the entire country to provide proper rehabilitation, to make it as little likely as possible for people to get reincarcerated. We also have several programs solely designed to help ex-prisoners to get on their feet again, with trying to ensure work, housing and all things necessary to prevent new ex-prisoners from reoffending out of desperation (like preventing them from having to rob someone for survival money etc.). Some people may think our prisoners gets too much, but considering our extremely high success rates it's very beneficial to literally everyone. The goal should be to prevent crime, right? That's what we're doing. I've personally had to send someone to prison. Well, I didn't personally actually technically send someone to prison, but I managed to win a case where the offender ended up in prison (thankfully - he was as vile as they can get). I struggled a lot with coping with the knowledge of how good I knew he'd be treated in prison, obiviously. After what he did to me, he deserves to get tortured and burned. Seriously. It was extremely hard for a long time, especially knowing that while the person that took so much from me and hurt me in so many ways, causing me severe trauma and disability had a nice room, good food and a proper bed to sleep on, I was homeless with nothing to my name. Nothing. There's no wonder why I, or anyone elde would find that to be appaling and extremely unfair. Although it was unfair that I got just about no help except a tiny amount of wellfare money to live off of while being sick on the street, that's another issue not really connected. I later on, after finally getting better aid and an apartment, found peace with what I at first found to be extremely unjust. Despite me wishing nothing but the worst on him, I'm still extremely appreciative of our prison system. Although it is extremely hard to swallow, I know it's in the best interest of everyone that our prisoners get treated with respect and decensy. I'm thankful that yes, even him, who in my eyes is the worst human on earth, gets proper rehabilitation. It's not about what he deserves, it's about what the rest of us deserve. That's the important thing to think about. We don't help and treat our prisoners as well as we do for them, we do it for us. We do it to make the lives of everyday people safer. We don't want innocent people getting hurt, and that's exactly why we think it's important to have the kind of prisons as we have. It's not to benefit the criminal. It's done like this for us, the entire nation. What we do works. Not saying it's perfect or that nobody ends up reoffending however many times it may be, but it actually works. Our success rate is so much higher than at least most of the rest of the world, possibly even the best in the world (I'm not sure how good ranking we have compared to all other nations, but I do know we're among the best, most likely if not on the very top, we're at least among the top five). America, you have too much to improve. You wanting to call yourself "the best nation on earth" is just silly, grandiose, narcissistic and ignorant. Seriously. Your fasade may be good, but it doesn't take long to notice the tons of injustuces and (to put it mildly), flaws. I hope that one day, you'll achieve the right to call yourself the best. The entire globe would benefit from that, considering your massive influence globally. Get yourself together. I know most of you americans wants to fight for the better and are working tirelessly towards that, don't get me wrong. Please, all of you good humans out there, continue the good fight for a thriving democracy and prosperity. Please. We all need you. We want and need you to succeed. Thank you for reading everything if you did. Stay happy and healthy, everyone! ðŸŒļðŸ–ĪðŸŒļ🍃
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  299.  @Fly2kill1  Uhm, no. People who blindly follow anyone regardless of their standing or title is moronic. The thing is, NOBODY has said the entire democratic party is good. But just because we don't like EVERYTHING the democrats do, does that mean we should then instead turn around, then do the EXACT same thing you're accusing democratic voters of doing, but just for repukeliKKKans instead? There's literally SO MANY repukeliKKKans who says point blanc that they vote for whoever it might be, as long as it's not a democrat. Most repukeliKKKans think that as long as their name is associated with an R, they're deserving of a vote. Talk about throwing rocks in a glass house. I'm liberal and EXTREMELY disappointed about 15 dollar minimum wage not being included in the package. I sure do hope they'll get back to that ASAP. Still, unlike the repukeliKKKans actually found a way to deliver a new stimulus package to the public which is DESPERATLY needed. All repukeliKKKans have tried to do is to BLOCK IT. That's all repukeliKKKans are doing. WHENEVER the bill is democratic, they block it. Remember that McConnell HIMSELF called himself the grim reaper (as in he'll kill every bill the democrats come up with). That's what happens all the time. Democrats try to pass something FOR THE PEOPLE, while repukeliKKKans try to either completely block it or slim it down severly, only to then complain that "the democrats failed the people". All you do is argue, you have no valid points. Just like the repukeliKKKan party is all talk, no actual helpful actions (unless you're ultra rich). They don't stand for anything other than being on the opposite side og the democratic party. That's all they do. Why would we want such people to have control? People who only deflect and blame everyone else for their own wrong doings, while taking credit for other people's work? Ask yourself why T and his cult members didn't get anything done with regards to covid for over a year (except make things worse by spreading misinformation, blocking stimulus checks, politisizing masks etc.), while democrats have managed after not even two months to prop up vaccine distribution to make it so that each american adult not only gets the vaccine, but have sped it up to a point where the pandemic can get resolved WAY EARLIER than expected and managed to get to rival companies to work together so that the J&J vaccine could come faster. All that came out from the former administration was lies, deceit and propaganda. Now, after just a few weeks, the new administration has managed a lot more already than what the former administration managed over a whole year. Remember that it was the T administration that did NOTHING but make things worse as countless numbers of people died and that it is the democratic, Biden administration that made sure to hault this pandemic as soon as physically possible. Look at every other country on earth and their numbers. Everyone has managed this better than the States. Compotent government saves lives. Incompotent governments stands back and watch people die. Remember that it's been the repukeliKKKans who's called this virus a "hoax" and did NOTHING to help, not the other side.
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  333.  @Sunaki1000  There's obiviously a clear difference between talking about food and sex smh. Of course, some people are more open than others and that's okay. The thing is tho, sex is private and intimate for most people. The thing here tho, this goes beyond "just sex". This is about abuse. Sex is extremely intimate, so if you throw in abuse in there as well, good grief that's too much. That's not for a boss to ask about, it doesn't relate to anything job-wise and is clearly breaching privacy. Sex surely is a normal part of life and should be more normalized. The thing is tho, rape is not sex. While rape is a sexual act, it's so much more about abuse of power. Sex is consensual, rape is not. That's kinda the definition. Just imagine your boss asking you if you enjoy oral sex or something. Wouldn't that be weird and inappropriate as heck? It surely would. There's just certain things we don't bring up in everyday conversations. When you know someone has been sexually abused, it should be common knowledge that certain questions can be extremely uncomfortable. To then go and ask about not only sex, but the ramifications of serious sexual abuse in such a manner is clear cut inappropriate. End of story. Shouldn't happen. I'm sorry, but you linking a conversation about food to sex is ridicoulous. That's no comparison. Food is food, sexual abuse is a serious crime. But, since we're on that topic let's make a little analogy. Let's say someone has an eating disorder, let's say anorexia. To then have your boss know about this, only to then ask you if food have been a struggle for you since developing anorexia, is just a stupid and insensitive question. That's obivious. Just as obivious as it should be that you do not ask a sexual trauma survivor if that has made sex more difficult for them. Although it's not the same, it's fairly similar. If anyone asked an anorexic person if food has become more difficult, that would just be extremely rude, crude and obiviously insensitive towards that person. Same goes for asking such intimate and personal questions to sexual abuse survivors. Like I said earlier, rape is about power and dominance. It's belittling, to say the very least. When we then think about the clear power dynamics in a boss/employee-relationship, the power issue comes into play once again. You're then again, just like when the abuse happened, put in a position where you're made smaller by someone else's power and dominance. It's insulting and belittling. That's going way beyond boundaries, and that's what it's all about. Boundaries. Boundaries ought to be respected, and having someone with clear power over you stepping way over your clear and obivious boundaries is never okay. Personal space is something to be respected. Especially people in positions of power should be extra careful, as the playing field is not equal. This is a non-brainer.. well, it should be.
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  334.  @xgaming125g  Funny how you're so certain of your "innocense"-claims when literally over half of America + the rest of the world have seen from the very beginning (which many of us did), and if not from the beginning, people started seeing what was really happening gradually as time went on, tho still early on in his "presidency'' (more like wannabe-authoritarianism) and what Dump/Little Hitler was all about. You people are the new "Hitler-followers", blinded by fear mongering disguised as patriotism. For us here in Europe, WW2 is still not long ago, and unlike the USA, we actually see the extreme importance of teaching history with dignitynand respect, as well as with the gravitas and weight it deserves, unlike you who work as hard as you possibly can by whitewashing your own terrible parts of the past. This is one part of the many reasons we're much more able to reckognize authoritarianism and the rise of similar patterns that was seen leading up to Hitler's nazi-Germany. Although it's not the entirely same thing, it's certainly been going in a similar direction and we've seen things through a much more objective lens than many of you americans have. There are just far too many similarities. We have no reason to bash or bring America down in any way, as America is and have been a massively important part in NATO and the WHO for instance, and we don't want to weaken our relationship. So, we'd be stupid if we were to spread false information that would weaken our relationship. We WANT and NEED America to succeeed, and we've seen a clear, extremely negative and dangerous change with the Dump/"Little Hitler"-administration and it's supporters. We want you as an ally, but the last admin really destabilized that relationship. You've been absolutely fooled. The rest of the free world at least have been closely watching and objectively reporting the direction America have been going, and it's not been good at all. We, as in (most of) the rest of the globe, at the very least the entire democratic globe have seen clearly how dangerous this all have gotten. We've seen how the last admin with Dump have cuddled up with other strongmen/authoritarians like with Putin, Kim Jong-Un and Saudi-Arabia, while weakening the relations the US and the rest of the Democratic and free world. You've been absolutely decieved, and you're simply supporting a strongman, wannabe-dictator. Thinking that your little minority of Dump-supporters are on the right side of history is both deluded and ignorant. None of us have benefitted from any of this, except Dump and his ultra-rich goons, and dictatirships like North Korea and Russia, as Dump have validated and given confidence to dictators. We don't want that at all. Dump and his allies have been and are still being heavily lied to. It's time to face reality before it's far too late. It's not about democrat/republican anymore.. it hasn't been about that for far too long. This is about democracy. It's extremely high stakes. Please start to face the truth. Democracy is at stake.. for everyone.
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  348. Totally.. there are other solutions. They CAN afford the lizard, they're priorities are just severly off. They don't need to feed it as much as they do. They also spend A LOT of unnesecary money elsewhere, like on the two cars and DAMN BRAND NAME CHILDREN'S CLOTHING. Even if they were to JUST cut down on clothing (stop buying brand clothes they'll grow out off instantly and make the kids share more; passing down clothes etc.), they'd save A LOT. They got the lizard, time to prioritize. I totally agree with letting it go to someone else with the funds to properly take care of it if they had already tried to prioritize, but couldn't make it work. If you actually can't afford your pet, the best thing to do 100% is to give it away to someone who'll care for it like it deserves. Them giving away the lizard because they fail to prioritize properly, like buying Tommy Hilfiger etc. is just extremely selfish. This is my issue here. I personally LOVE pets (I have both a dog and a cat and I want more), and there came a time where my economic situation got so tight that I had to pack up and leave my already cheap apartment to find somewhere cheaper to live (I'd already tried to cut back on EVERYTHING else, I at times had to go without food just to afford pet food), and had no choice but to rehome both my pets for well over a year. It broke my heart and I just couldn't stop crying, I'd cry myself to sleep thinking about them almost every night until I got them back. I still knew I had to do it for their sake, they deserve a properly caring home, which despite my extremely cheap living, I just couldn't afford it. I have them back now, thankfully. I made sure despite huge difficulties that I could get them back when I could. Point is, when you get pets, you have a duty of care. They're living creatures. If you're not prepared for the costs and constant responsibility, just don't get any pets at all. If you get pets and difficulties later occur, you do everything possible to make sure to prioritize properly. These people seem to care more about having a nice fasade than their pets. People like that should NOT have pets. They still do, and I hope they managed to prioritize life over damn stupid clothing etc. So, both points here are technically right and I don't get why y'all argue so much. It all depends on the situation. These people could obiviously afford the lizard, they just seem too vain to put the lizard before their appearance. Totally deplorable.
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  358. I mean guys SERIOUSLY, just think of how much better represention the people of WV would have, or I guess.. ANY ACTUAL REPRESENTATION AT ALL if Sir R. Ojeda was their senator instead of the disgraced "representative" Corporate Joe Schmoe Manchin aka The Greedy Corporate Mansion-abhorrently foul, disgustingly selfish greed machine who's willing to put his and his equally greedy family, laying in bed with big oil and big pharma, resulting in a blended family consisting of his own endlessly greedy family along with local, national and international multi-billion dollar anti-worker, anti-climate health-, and sustainability-corporations robbing his own constituents, the nation at large AND the world all together due to the inevitable and extremely destructive domino effect these oil corp's have on the globe/international community all together.. Just knowing that this ONE inhumane person/senator have this ungodly amount of corrupted power is sickening to the core; which is something WE ALL should be aware of, however with the corporate "news" media and such essentially being these corrupted, pure EVIL AND SADISTIC fools' PR-firms, these endlessly greedy and outright DANGEROUS "representatives" make it close to impossible to get the truth out to people. It's just straight up evil and sadistic as hell. Pure propaganda GARBAGE being shot directly into people's veins unknowingly to far too many people we simplu can't blame for not knowing any better, as we're supposed to be able to trust these "credible" news sources, and politicians for that matter; but we just can't. Just IMAGINE how truly AMAZING it would be, not just for the optics, but for the incredibly benefitial to not just West Virginians, but for the nation at large to see the ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT Richard Ojeda just absolutely CRUSH Joe Schmoe House"boat"-Mansion in a primary, taking over this abhorrently corrupted power away from this fool, and having the truly great man of integrity and strength, Mr./Sir/the truly honorable Richard Ojeda take his seat, and actually flex those muscles to benefit those who's actually supposed to benefit.. the people og WV, and by extention, the rest of the nation and the world, both Mother Earth herself, and of course the international community. Whoof, what a dream that would be. I truly wish Ojeda one day could replace him.. both he himself deserves that, but most importantly, THE PEOPLE deserve it. Now THAT would je truly amazing. It's people like him we need to represent us, not all these other greedy, corrupted clowns who only csre about endless wealth and power, with literally no cost being too high. IT'S TIME FOR TRUE INTEGRITY TO TAKE OVER. WE THE PEOPLE AND MOTHER EARTH HAVE HAD ENOUGH FOF THE LONGEST OF TIMES. BE A PSRT OF THE CHANGE MACHINE, EVERYONE! STAY ACTIVE, AND DO YOUR PART. WE ALL HAVE A FOLE IN THIS EXISTENTIAL FIGHT FOR EQUALITY, JUSTICE AND FREEDOM.
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  366.  @Emi-mz1kc  That doesn't work. Unless they want to stop themselves, like GENUINELY, they won't. Even then, it's hard af. It's a disease, an actual illness reckognized medically. If there was a quick fix, there wouldn't be such a globally widespread and serious issue with addiction. NOBODY wants to be an addict. Nobody wants that life. Nobody ever chooses to become addicted. Who would and why would anyone aspire to that? Think to themselves that, "hey, being a heroin/meth/coke/whatever-addict sounds fun! Imma head out and try to become addicted". Just no. NOBODY EVER DOES THAT. Nobody wants to live life as an addict. Not only do we face the obivious daily struggles of having to aquire our drug(s) of preferance, dealing with shady people, violence, crime, gangs. Homelessness in many cases, struggling to even just survive (depending on the drug - some drugs kills you easier and faster than others, heroin/fentanyl/opiates in general and alcohol are the most dangerous and lethal when it comes to being an addict), getting food, water and shelter. Isolation. Sickness and withdrawal (which can be lethal). All of the obivious stuff. Not "just" that (which is far more than enough struggle by itself), but also having to face a world were we're viewed as bad people. Constant stigma and harrassment from both family and friends, the general world around us otherwise, as well as the medical community. We're not viewed as equal, nor equally deserving of fair treatment. We don't get the same amount of respect/even just basic human decensy as people struggling with an illness/being patients. Our mental health gets overlooked. We're often mistreated by doctors and such, not giving us proper help, like any other "kind" of patient would. We're not believed. Other medical issues are completely ignored/disregarded, often leaving us untreated for any other (potentially serious/even dangerous/lethal) health issues, which may have been the reason we became addicted in the first place (self medicating). The list goes on and on and on and on for far too long. We face all these potentially life threathening situations all the time, while society at large does nothing but view us as bad people or "less than". It's EXTREMELY hard. Then on top of that, everybody wanna act like they're addiction specialists around us, despite having absolutely zero knowledge or experience with addiction. Treating us like we're not worthy of life and like we're less than human is just disgusting all around, and it's a lose-lose situation. Shame won't make us better or healthier, and society won't get less addicts that way. Not saying we should be void of consequences or anything like that - just treat us EQUALLY, as we are equal. Yet for some reason, far too many people, disgustingly enough very much including medical personell and professionals, insist on keeping us down and low. Leading us to the grave, and loved ones to mourn. That's not okay. The very least we deserve is equal and fair treatment. Basic human rights and decency. Like everybody else. That shouldn't be too much to ask for. People are so cruel.
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  377. It's about time Stacey Abrahms just gets appointed Queen of Georgia or whatever (I know that's not very democratic, buuuuut..), at least for a while, just so that she can make sure that these bad faith repukeliKKKans can't rig the election and suppress democratic voters. NB!!: I'm not American so don't come after me if I'm mistaken about anything I'm about to say. Isn't most residents of Georgia black people and/or people of color (I'm not too fond of that term as it divides literally one group of people (white ppl) from everybody else with more (or a lot more) melanin in their skin. That just feels.. segregating. I just don't know of any better way to put it:/ I know POC is a widely used term and I hope it's not offensive, despite it actually being (at least a bit..) offensive. Or am I just being too PC and overreacting? ðŸĪ” Irdk. Just food for thought. I'm white myself (as you can clearly see in my pic where I'm ghostly white lol, can't help it 😅😅), so I'm not one to determine what's offensive or not. BUT ANYWAY, rambling over. Isn't the vast majority of Georgia's population POC, yet most political representatives white? Also, isn't the vast majority of Gerogia's population democrats/liberals/progressives/all in all left-leaning, yet again, their political representatives repukeliKKKans/conservatives/all in all right-leaning? Just asking. That's the impression that I've somehow gotten, and I don't know if it's right or wrong, or to what degree it's right or wrong. I literally just want to learn here, so there's no need to come at me. If ANYTHING that I said is offensive to someone, please tell me. I can't see how a single word, sentence or parapragh would be offensive as this is all rethorical, questions and objective. Still, please tell me if anything, literally anything made your nose wrinkle, and why. I'm curious and want to know. My thing is, if my first analysis is right, that seems to me to be a definite clear indicator on how undemocratic it is, and have been for far too long. I understand that there's nuances ti everything, and that just because you're black, doesn't mean that you vote democrat etc. I get that. I'm just speaking in more general terms. If my analysis or whatever is right, that'd mean there's an even bigger reason to label repukeliKKKans corrupt (I know most of them are, and I know many democrats are as well - most democrats just don't seem AS corrupt), and an even bigger reason to fight hard against these repukeliKKKans bad faith rethoric and clear voter suppression. I don't even understand how that's legal. In my country (Norway), if anything even remotely similar happened, there'd be a massive uproar. Not that anything like this would happen, because our elected officials literally can't try to rig elections. You get the most votes? You win. Our parliament is shared by MANY parties, not just two. We the people can vote for ANY existing party, and they get seats depending on the percentage of the votes. Unless you're on of the absolute biggest, most popular party, there's not even a guarantee you'll get a seat. We neither have presidents, we're more similar to the UK. We have a royal family, but they're fairly insignificant, unlike in the UK. For the most part, our royal family just represents our history, and represent us to the world. They really don't have any political influence at all. People barely pay any attention to them, lol. They're kinda just there. Our actual leader is a prime minister (who is a woman! I don't like her all too much because she's part of one of the most conservative parties we have. She's/her party is not too bad tho, they're not the absolute most conservative. Also, even our most conservative politicians/parties believe in free healthcare, abortion rights, social wellfare programs etc. All of that is standard here, not to be messed with). One party "rules all", or I guess it's more fitting to say they have the final say in all matters, but they HAVE TO work with two other parties as a joint leadership. The rest of the parties/politicians that gets certain amounts of seats leads as well, but they're mostly there to vote for those they represent, which they actually do. They all know they have to do what they promise before elections, because there's no way they can rig their way into parliament. It's not a perfect system, no system is. It's still WAAAAAAAY MORE democratic than America, and we're way more free. I don't understand how you feel you in America even come close to a democracy. America seems to hide beneath a democratic fasade, but that's it. The rest is corrupt. I'm privileged to not be an American, I must say...
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  390. That's offensive to children, despite me agreeing with the point lol. The thing is, children are simply ignorant/naive. The GQP on te other hand are just willfully ignorant, but not naive. They know what they're doing. They know better, but refuse to do better. When children know better, they do better. So there's a huge difference. The GQP is acting foolish, but they know exactly what they're doing. Children act foolish because they're children. At least children learn and grow. They own up to their mistakes, and wants to do better. RepukeliKKKans are willfully making calculated "mistakes" in order to get their badfaith point across. I respect children. I do NOT respect the GQP AT ALL. They deserve nothing but the worst, and I sure do hope that karma comes and kicks their behinds so hard, they'll wish they weren't ever even born. Shame on them. Shame. I'm not even American, I've never been there, never intend to go there. But I still care. I care, because I care about everyone. I care about earth. America holds such great influence globally, whether we like it or not. Hence why I care so much. Me, myself and my fellow Norwegians (as I am Norwegian) may not be directly affected by America, BUT we sure as heck get influenced indirectly. Not only are we in NATO together, meaning that whenever you Americans decide to invade some other country to "make them democratic" (aka STEAL their assets like oil etc.), we must follow and fight together. Not "just" that, but our politics are often greatly influenced by American politics. We've for a long time been called "America's little sibling". Our politicians have a tendency to follow their lead. Say for instance when it comes to drug laws. When Reagan declared "The War on Drugs", we followed. Same thing now. Most of us believe that marihuana should be (at least) legal medically. Many, but not as many, also believe that recreational usage should be legal. Most people in the extreme very least, believe that it should be decriminalized (along with other drugs intended for personal usage). Our politicians never dare to take such big political steps first. For some reason, they insist on always wanting until several other countries have done the same, especially America, and then, and only then do our leaders begin to even just consider change. It's like they want to see other nations/states fail or succeed first, before we implement the same policies. Personally, I think that's foolish, but that's how it goes. Therefore, I am very much interested in your (Americans) politics. They really do affect many more than just your own citizens. They influence the entire globe. It seems like Americans never think about this. They wanna be number one, the globe's greatest influence and leader, but refuse to even consider how their "lead" will actually end up influence others. You want credit for the good, but refuse to own the bad, and take accountability for the wrongdoings. How selfish and grandiose. If you wanna be leaders, act like it.
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  400. That's absolutely very true, and many people don't understand this at all. I've been struggling with this myself a lot. I've been r*ped twice, once at 14 y/o (by a 18 y/o) and once at 18 y/o (by a 44 y/o). It's terrible to dissociate like that. It's a total nightmare. Many people refuse to believe me when I explain what sometimes happens to me, which makes me feel so extremely alone. It's been a few years now since the last one happened as I'm 23 y/o now, but it still haunts me, and I'm sure it will for many, many more years to come. I can't say that it hasn't gotten better over time, but it's going slowly. I'm not getting any help. No therapy, no medications, nothing. I'm chronically afraid and feel like I'm always at the verge of crying, with little relief ever. The only relief I can get my hands on are drugs, so that's become my solution. I understand that drugs only help temporarily, while only making it all worse in the long run, but.. I don't feel like I have a choice. It's such a double edged sword. It helps right then and there, but it'll only cut me even deeper the more I keep self-medicating. I've ended up dead due to an overdose on fentanyl-laced heroin, rivotril, oxazepam, xanax, valium, ghb and alcohol. Thankfully, someone got to me in time and managed to get some life back into me by doing extreme CPR for a very long time, until the ambulance came and took over and brought me to the ICU on life support. All my ribs were broken, which obiviously hurt a lot for some weeks after, but dang.. I'd take that over death most days, absolutely. You're (most likely) not doing CPR right if you don't break at least one rib. That's just part of the process, and kinda the point. Well, the point is to push so hard that you're "manually" beating the heart for that person recieving it. So I'm just saying, if you ever have to do CPR, don't be afraid to push hard/break something! That person's dead anyway, so it's not like you're doing any harm. On the other hand, what will do someone harm, is if you don't do it at all for whatever reason. That decreases their risk of surviving a great deal. Also, before doing CPR, make sure the person actually have no pulse. You will harm someone if you do CPR on someone that's simply unconcious. So it's important to check their pulse first, while you're calling an ambulance. The dispatcher will guide you on what to do. ((Sorry, I just had to. Many people are afraid of doing CPR, but don't be, as long as you can't feel any pulse. CPR saves lives!! You'll most likely recieve a "thanku!!" if you save them, despite how many ribs you crack. Better to have broken ribs than being dead!)) Anyways. The other side of the sword is that without drugs, I'd probably be in too much pain to manage to keep going in life. So, what saves me is what kills me. I hate being so terribly haunted by this, as it feels like they're still winning. They still hold power over my life, despite the second monster that assaulted me (for two damn days straight, nearly killing me) being in prison now, since I filed charges and managed to get him convicted (which is truly a blessing, considering how many victims/survivors don't even get their case reviewed. Most people are not believed, which is extremely sad. That sets such a bad precedent, practically giving abusers the message that they'll most likely get away with even the most heinous assaults. So, that was truly a bittersweet victory, as there really aren't any winners in the end. I don't know what to do anymore. I need help, but nobody's willing to reach their hands out. All I get is doors slammed in my face.
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  406. I get your point but please value yourself. I don't know you, what your work is if you work at all, where you're from or anything. At least I sense some compassion from you, so you seem like a nice person. You could be a douchebag for all I know, but it doesn't seem like it to me at least. If you keep thinking you're unable to bring any value to life and to the world, that's not true. We're all valuable in our own way. I used to think like you. I'm a heavy drug addict, have been homeless a lot, I have criminal charges (nothing too serious, just stupid stuff that goes along with drug addiction), and I've never had a "real" job. None of this makes me invaluable or a bad person. Thinking so negatively about myself made EVERYTHING worse. I've volunteered a lot in different fields since I was just a young kid. I have a dog and a cat that loves me. I'm in the middle of a short community service sentence where I help my own community service centre, so I'm directly giving back to people that have helped me a ton. Yes, community service is obiviously something I'm forced to do, but still. I would much rather participate and help other struggling people like myself than choose a much shorter sentence in a Norwegian prison.. and let me tell you, Norwegian prisons and jails are super respectful with a much better emphasis on rehabilitation instead of punishment (we believe the punishment is the loss of freedom itself, not in getting punished in prison. Our prisons are not private, they're public aka paid for by the government. So obiviously, our prisons wants to rehabilitate instead of punishing people, in order for us to have a much better chance at not having to return to prison, because no one profits by crime like they do where prisons are private BUSINESSES). So for me it's almost like prison would be selfish, considering I got the choice between prison for 21 days or community service for much longer. So even as me technically being a criminal, I still add much needed value; because I was lucky enough to get that chance. That just goes to show that anyone can be highly valuable. Find something you enjoy doing, and that alone could be extremely valuable. No one can save the world alone, but the more people that try to do something good, the better it gets for everyone. I'm sure you have people that love you, and that alone is more than valuable. There is so much one can do to feel valuable. It doesn't have to be something obivios like being a health care professional or something like that, you can absolutely find value in just about everything. If I didn't believe in myself at all, I would never be able to achieve everything I have achieved. Please, don't put yourself down. You have value.
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  488. Cold turkey opiate withdrawal (esp in someone with underlying (chronic) pain) would bring even the most mentally and physically strong person to their knees. Easily. Same with benzodiazepines, those withdrawal symptoms however just takes longer to actually REALLY kick in. It's just as bad, just in an entirely different way.. just as bad though when it does properly kick in (after long term, heavy daily use). That can even be lethal, if not tended to properly medically. Not slowly enough tapering off benzo's can cause serious side effects and complications, such as everything from confusion and hallucinations, losing control of oneself, even seizures and.. fatality. Same goes for alcohol. I was once in this horrific "treatment" place, but they didn't believe me when I said how much and for how long I had been physically dependent on heroin, benzo's and alcohol. So the only medications I was given was to treat a few of the symptoms, like some paracetamol and ibuprofen for pains and aches (which didn't do ANYTHING obvs), nausia meds, really just BARELY over the counter medications. Nothing at all to help my body ACTUALLY taper off SAFELY. I was in a terrible shape for so long with all the personell just brushing it off, as if I was overreacting, despite my charts (BP, EKG's, abstinence scores, body temp and sweats etc) showing that I wasn't overreacting AT ALL. It ended up with me fully losing it, I was hallucinating, paranoid, my heart struggled a lot, it was both arrythmic and beating too fast, I truly crashed. Thanks to that place practically torturing me, I landed in the ICU for a while. Mind you, this was just a short summary of what happened to me when I didn't get even remotely close to the proper treatment of someone who washeavily and long term (several years) with an extreme dependency on heroin, all kinds of benzodiazepines and alcohol... a horrificly dangerous combination os stuff to be on to the degree I was, on for how long as welll. The complications from having to quit all of that cold turkey, no tapering off or any substitute/treatment meds caused so much harm for no good reason. The so called treatment I recieved could've easily been the end of me. Due to the severity end negliegence of that place, they actually got shut down. There had already been SO MANY complaints from other patients, but my case forced them to shut down until they got the proper staff, leadership and such. People had certainly landed up in the ER and hospital, a few others before me who landed in the ICU as well for under a week, but those cases were more due to patient OD's and other complications. My case however were so burtal and negliegent that they were forced to shut down. I should've never been there in the first place, I was far too sick to be there, yet they kept me there regardless, and it took them FAR TOO LONG before they actually got me to a proper hospital. I didn't "just" end up in the ER for a short time, their negliegence alone landed me in the ICU in critical condition for weeks, before they were even able to put me in another wing in the hopsital before I could continue treatment, this time WITH proper medications at a proper rehab this time. It needlessly prolonged my treatment. I was put in real danger that could've so easily ended up fatal for me. Everything of that could've been prevented SO EASILY, but no.. it was entirely cruel, negligent, irresponsible and outright dangerous. My body was so extremely weak and compromised before entering, they only made it worse, it's amazing that my body was able to pull through the entire ordeal and end up on the other side with an actual fighting chance at rehab, seemingly without chronic damage. I can only thank my weak body for being strong enough to manage to pull through, and obiviously be ever so grateful for the ER and hospital and ICU staff. It's easy for people to forget or disregard how lethal it potentially can be to stop using for addicts. It's no joke. It's not only active addiction itself that can cause so many dangerous complications and be lethal, getting healthier can also cause so many complications and even be lethal, if not treated right. Addiction is SERIOUS, people. You generally can't "just quit", as many say. It's rarely that simple.
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  525.  @msmith53  Germany absolutely learned their lesson, and quickly too. Associating the german population of today, or let alone these past decades after the war (sure, ofc not everyone came around IMMIDIATLY after, and also - MANY germans were also victims of the war, so it's far from like all germans were nazi's), would be hella wrong and ignorant. Germany is a wonderful country with wonderdul people. I'm norwegian myself, which if you know just the basics of geopraphy, you know that we're very close, almost neighbours. We're (somewhat) divided by the ocean lol, but still, not by much. You can travel there (from Norway at least) on a cruiseship in about one day. You CAN drive there as well, but then you have to go through other countries, and that takes much longer than just taking the cruise. Anyways, I'm getting off track here lol. My point is, Germany and nazism have NOTHING but history to do with each other, and that's fortunately the way it's been for most of the time after the war until now. It didn't take them long to put up memorials and everything. They've not tried to hide this history, they've 'embraced it', in lack of a better term. Which I wish is what America would've done with slavery for instance. Instead of hiding history and trying to white wash the story, Germany said to "never forget". They have tons upon tons of memorials, they showcase their entire history. It's not like you see memorial statues on every corner, of course not. Still, the last thing they did was to forget it.. they've surely dealt with that piece of tragic history the best way anyone could. I don't know how they could have done it better, really. Germany surely deserves credit for this. Credit for not trying to hide or minimize any of the terrors that went on. Credit for working hard to write a new and justifiable history. I doubt there's even any german people that even remotely sympathizes with the nazi's (I know I can't think or speak for everyone. Sure, it's absolutely possible that a very small amount of people for whatever reason sympathize with the nazi movement, but no one would dare to even sound like, or cause any suspicion over whether they sympathize with the wrong side of history or not). Were there sympathizers after the war? Absolutely. Did they fade away fairly quickly? Absolutely. I wish americans would act the same way about their own bad parts of their history. Instead, many people want to erase the bad from their history books. They're for whatever reason to scared to let people get an honest and critical education about their dark history. They only want you to focus on Colombus' "good parts", making him more hero-like instead of telling the whole story. Racism is still far too rapid and blatant (obvs, ughh) in the states. Even by seeing how native americans and black people (America's most oppressed people throughout their history) are STILL getting treated unfairly is just awful. If you compare Germany and America today, it's clear as day how much better attitudes they have in Germany, and how much faster they were able to progress. I can't remember when Colombus invaded/colonized America or when slavery was abolished, but I know for sure it's hundreds of years. Now, it says a lot when attitudes from the slavery era is still going around in America, despite how long ago it was (especially compared to how "little" time it was since WW2). America's CLEARLY done so much so terribly wrong when it comes to this. Germany at least managed to "quickly" change their attitudes. You have no excuse for these terrible attitudes STILL being prevalent to this very day. Germany managed to do a complete turn around in just a few years (remember, WW2 ended in 1945 which isn't really that long ago), while America, after hundreds of years, STILL want to remove the ugliest parts of their history. Now that's disgusting. Look, I obvs know there's so much more to American history than just Colombus and slavery, I just picked the two most noteable parts that everyone knows about. America' it's so far past due time to learn. You can't hide your past. Embrace it, so that you can come out even stronger, like Germany so clearly did. Heck, if anything, it would be far more correct to tie nazism to America than Germany. There's faaaaar more nazi-sympathizers over there than in Germany, or even Europe as a whole. That's scary. Saying neo-nazi would be more correct tho, I get that. I'm very aware of how America was an important ally for us to win the war, but still. That good fact doesn't change the disgusting fact that there are so many proud nationalists, neo-nazi's, white supremacists etc freely and proudly roaming around, shouting their beliefs out loud, with no shame. This has got to stop. Nazism of any kind should've officially ended in every way decades ago. It should have been properly over and done with in 1945. It's time to learn from, value and embrace history, to make the world better for literally everyone. It's clear as day that not hiding your bad past, but learning and growing from it is the much better option. Stop the white washing!!!
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  540. I've said this before, and I'll say it again.. I have nothing but respect and admiration for this honorary vet, Mr. Richard Ojeda for his integrity, pure kindness, honesty, passion, engagement, high sense of morals, compassion, empathy, honesty, ambission, care, willpower, decensy, his strong sense of community, fellow(wo)manship, humanity and inclusivity regardless of anyone's differences/human traits that partly represents who they are, such as their sex and/or gender, race, skin tone sexuality, age, abilities (or lack thereof), body type, weight and height, ethnicity and so forth, along with so much more nice and respectful about him. The literal only impression I've gotten from him is of him just being a genuine and straight up good man with nothing but good intentions, fighting for the world to become a better place for not just himself, but for everyone no matter where they live and their country of origin and social and/or wealth-status who deserves it (as in most people); by which I mean as in not including big oil, big pharma and just corporate goons and bafoons in general, especially those who directly causes harm onto both the earth's enviromental health as well as earth's ecosystem's health (as in everything and everyone from our woods and forests and vegetation in general, to all living creatures from microbiomes and insects to all seacreatures and birds, from tigers and lions and elephants, to apes and gorillas, to cats and dogs and hamsters and ferrets, and to last but not least us humans).. As in also of course excluding all of those who cares more about power, money and wealth rather than our health and prosperity, to big pharma businessfolks who'd rather see you, your family and friends SUFFER AND DIE literally JUST to make a slightly bigger profit and those kinds of people.. as in wealthy and corrupt people who exploit those beneath them, whether they're a corrupt politician or corporate media figure, or the CEO of a corrupt corporation who's colluding with the same corrupt politicians who then further colludes with the corrupted corporate media who systemically lies and decieves us regular people who are just trying to get by in life bothering no one, yet still gets beat down by different kinds of authorities to varying degrees based on our social- and geological factors and wealth- and economic structures. So to summarize and finish this off, I truly appreciate the Honorary veteran Mr. Richard Ojeda for his selfless and respected, integral and honest hard work and sacrifices throughout his life. I appreciate hearing the views and stands on all kinds of issues due to his noted passion, engament, and especially considering all of his life experiences. Do I completely agree with every single thing he says at all times? No, but.. that would be impossible, and I'm not this kind of echo chamber-person anyway, so I'll never agree with anything and literally everything someone says, no matter how much I generally agree with them; whether it's Mr. Ojeda himself or anyone else. Just like Mr. Ojeda, I also have a high standard of concepts such as integrity, (self) respect, honesty and critical thinking skills, which naturally results in disagreements every now and then. Considering we're both progressives, I'll obiviously end up in agreement most of the time, and whenever my viewpoints differ, it's never been due to anything other than simple differences in viewpoints, however never anything so different that I'm unable to respect the difference in opinion (don't get me wrong, I always, no matter how much I disagree with or disprove of someone else's view/opinion, I'll ALWAYS respect and appreciate other's rights to have and share their opinion, as long as said opinion isn't harmful to anyone or any community of especially already disenfranchised (groups of) people. I'll always respect people's right to their own opinion, but I also stand by my own right to disapprove both silently and vocally. Many people seem to forget the incredibly important distinction between respecting other's right to hold their own opinion and respecting the opinion itself. Decent people should always respect each other's general and important right to hold their own opinion. That however does not mean that you have to respect or validate/legitimize the opinion itself. Many people, ESPECIALLY repukelikkkunts, obiviously fundementalists as well and religious people are completely unable to grasp this simple concept, and are complete hypocrites regarding this simple concept. They DEMAND respect and honor from other people, yet do the last thing from returning the deed back. Just last night, a new friend of mine who believes in the traditional Christian god went all in on me for the simple act of me just saying that I personally don't believe in the god he believes in, or any other higher deity/power, after telling him that I do fully and completely respect his right and choice to believe in that himself. So he had been preaching for some time about god this, and god that, Jesus this and Jesus that and so forth, which by itself I take no issue with. If he feels religion is good and fulfilling to him, then who am I to say otherwise or anything like that? That's not my place or for me to do. However, I started getting a bit annoyed when he not just kept on going on and on and on preaching about this and that, but also really severly tried to impose and project his belief onto me in what only became a more and more disrespectful way. I simply told him that "hey, I'm an atheist. I always have been and always will be. It's great that you personally find solace and peace through your faith, but I would appreciate for you to not claim that not only am I wrong for not believing, but also that it's not okay, even disrespectful of me to not follow your specific personal faith". Simple and fair enough, right? Well apparantly not for him. His (lack of) logic was that not only should I respect his faith (which I already do; as in despite my lack of respect for religion as a whole in general, I still value and respect other people's faith and right to believe in whatever religionnthey want to believe in. So I don't respect or value religion, the concept of it itself, but I do however 100% respect and appreciate people's faith and their right to practise), but I "must" (yes, he actually DEMANDED this of me, ughh sigh) accept god and Jesus into my soul.. wow. In order to maks him understand my viewpoint here, I told him to flip the situation the other way around to where in this made up scenario that I, the atheist tried to make you stop believing in god and Christianity. I said this to try to make him understand how disrespectful his demands for me was. He obiviously said that I was being ridicolous and that it was extremely disrespectful, yet he STILL somehow did not understand that him doing the EXACT SAME was also extremely disrespectful... I mean, wow. Sadly, this has happened to me COUNTLESS of times, mostly with Christian folks but not exclusively.. it's mind boggling to me why this concept is SO HARD to grasp for so many people. Moral of the story people, is this.. treat others the way you'd want to be treated yourself by others. Learn to agree to disagree. Stand up for others rights, whether they personally affect you or not. All in all, lastly - just be kind to your friends, family and those around you, including yourself.
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  544.  @jessh4016  Well that depends on the individual situation, doesn't it? I have both a very much loving dog and cat, and trust me when I say their sheer presence in my life alone has literally saved my life multiple times (due to them being there for me at all times to remind me, aka 'snap me out' of that state of such severly deep depression that all I want is to.. (let's just put it mildly by saying) finally stop the suffering/endless battle with my own mentally ill mind that periodically makes life too difficult to handle. They truly are my saviours and to me they are my immidiate, closest family/loved ones that I don't have the heart to leave, because despite how I don't give a fvck about my own presence and feel like too much of a burden to go on, I deep down know that they would be far too heartbroken, so whenever it sadly gets too dark and meaningless for me to go on for myself, I continue going on, fighting, for them.. my babies. I could never do that to them, so knowing that they need me as much as I need them is enough to go on, even in my darkest moments where it all feels pointless. We need each other.. it's sad to say, but in my darkest hours, I'm reminded of my value to at least them, making it at least a bit easier to continue to fight my way to the little possibility I feel that one day, I will find enough happiness, peace and strength inside of me. That's a BIG DEAL. I also struggle with severe C-PTSD, severe addictions (opiates/heroin for the most part regarding addiction, though also a heavy reliance on benzodiazepines/aka sedatives such as xanax etc.). I'm not explaining this for any kind of sympathy, I don't need or want that - especially not from strangers. I'm explaining this for those who don't seem to understand the incredible deep connection people can form from animals/pets. I would do ANYTHING to protect them. If any human tried to hurt them even in the slightest, I'd fight for them as if they were my literal children. I severly doubt I would ever find myself in a situation where the "choice" is between the life of either one of or both of my beloved pets and another human being, it just doesn't seem realisitc. Regardless, I'd absolutely fight like hell for them if need be. However.. if an innocent human being got severly attacked from a dog for instance or some other kind of animal, I would absolutely aid the person - but that situation also depends on whether it's a matter of life or death, defenseless people like children or handicapped people - whomever, again innocent who did not incite any kind of animal ab*se mailiciously. However, if a person maliciously attacked another dog or something, I would try to defend the dog (or cat etc. - esp domesticated pets). It ALL depends a whole lot on the individual situation, all the variables and factors and so forth. You jist seem to make it all so black and white.. that regardless of the individual circumstances, humans always, REGARDLESS are more important to save. I disagree with that.. context matters a whole heck of a lot in such awful matters. In general, just due to my PERSONAL situation and circumstances, I generally care more about innocent pets and animals. Again, especially domesticated animals as they are just as much part of the family as people are. That's how I view it, and know many others who do. Again though, it ALWAYS depends. It's okay to disagree about this, but trying to make this a clear cut, open and shut case that humans always comes before animals (despite humans literally just being another species of animals.. we just happen to be on top of the food chain). To me, my personal relation to pets/animals and humans is a key part in my view. OF COURSE I care more about the life of my two own pets that I consider to be an equal part of the rest of my family than I care about human strangers. I find that to be completely natural. Ya know, it always just depends. There's really no point in this discussion, as there is no such thing as a universal answer or standard. Now, as a final point, I do agree with the TS's comment about the weirdness/disapproval of dogs, cats or whatever else kind of pet being just considered "a quirky trend". That's just odd to me. Don't get a pet just because it's somehow considered "quirky'', "trendy" or whatever. Now that's just hella weird and pointless.. rather stupid, to say the least. I don't at all respect ANY pet owner who gets a pet just because they're cute or whatever the hell. Only truly loving, responsible and people who genuinly love pets should have them, and for them - people like me, there is nothing at all that's odd about it or whatever else kind of adjective one would use. It's okay to like and love pets, just as it's okay to not like them. Hating pets however seems far more silly to me. Essentially what I'm saying here, no extremes are usually good. I understand that one may grow a hatred, or negative feelings generally towards any pet or animal IF something truly awful happened where someone got seriously harmed. I get that. However.. being annoyed over people who are animal lovers, and/or pets/animals in general for no reason, who goes out of their way to let anyone and everyone know how much you dislike or hate pets and/or animals sort of like "just because".. wth? It's okay to not be a fan or lover yourself. Irrational disdain or hatred however says more about that person than the pets/animals themselves.. Key word being irrational. Just to flip the argument a bit - I don't like babies or kids. However, I absolutely don't hate them or have any disdain for them. I of course care about their well being, because I'm not a fricking monster. Same thing goes for pets and animals. That's it. It's really that simple. I value living life. We all like and dislike different things and species and such, which is perfectly fine, perfectly normal. It's just when disinterest turns into irrational fear, disdain or hatred that's of issue. I don't see how this position is not the rstional position. I'm not "taking a side" or whatever. I just happen to care more about pets than humans - in general. That can absolutely shift based on if we're talking about strangers/someone we don't share a bond with, and vice versa. I don't see how that's irrational or illogical at all. You do know it's entirely possible to not have to choose either or, right? I guess the key in all of this is the bond and relationship we have to whatever living being we're talking about.
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  564.  @jaybee1248  And? There are MANY states that do things and have laws and regulations that are HELLA weird. So.. the fact that some states in one (developed) country does something, makes it right? Is that it? There's a reason (well, several) most states in America as well as no other developed country uses lie detector tests as proof in court. Remember that even the person that made those things up, says they don't really work (as intented). It's also important to note that even if the test was always 100% accurate, they only detect what the test subject PERCIEVES to be truthful, not what's ACTUALLY true. Like.. say you were to believe that the sky was green, not blue. You're subjected to that test, and the question is if the sky is blue, you'll answer no. The test will pick that up as truthful, despite how false it really is. See the point? It's understandable to use during investigations, but not as factual evidence in court, as it proves nothing. It's way too subjective. What some states in America do doesn't set the standard for what's right and fair. If what you're saying is true, then those states act irresponsibly. Most people really think that lie detector tests are a good and valid tool, when they're really not. So when a test is admitted and presented as evidence in court in front of a jury obvs consisting of "regular" citizens, they can be easily swayed by just that, as many people think they work really well, and is actual evidence and factual. It can truly cause innocent people wrongful convictions, as well as guilty people getting free. Allowing lie detector tests as part of the evidence should be cause for a mistrial, but that won't happen and the verdict won't be fair if they're allowed in court.
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  576.  @xgengx7530  IF you're already predisposed, then yes. Otherwise, no. This has been researched quite a lot. Drugs (including weed) has the potential to trigger things like scizophrenia. The thing is tho, it still isn't the weed's fault. If weed doesn't trigger it, something else surely will at some point. Although this is fairly rare, that's what CAN have the possibility to become harmful. We simply don't know what we're predisposed to and what is going to trigger that. That's what makes any drug use scary. Although I advocate for all drugs to at least be decriminalized and for weed to be legalized, I still think that if you're able to stay away from whatever drugs, then do so. Still, as long as you're aware of both the potential pros and cons, wait 'til you're a certain age and do it responsibly, go right ahead. For many people, weed can be absolutely great - even life saving. If you for instance have epilepsy that is hard to control, there's nothing wrong with trying weed as long as your doctor is well informed on it and have thought of and tried other treatments first. This is till individual tho. In other cases, say you're heavily addicted to hard drugs like heroin, meth, pills etc. and you find quitting everything is too hard, there's nothing wrong with smoking weed if that's what keeps you from going back to a highly dangerous lifestyle. So this is all individual. It's good or even life changing/saving for some, but for other people it's not at all good. So it's impossible to say that weed is either good or bad in general. I guess I'd say that weed is at least not harmful in MOST people (doing it responsibly, this is key), but it would be stupid and ignorant of me ti say that it's ALWAYS good. Weed in it's own nature isn't harmful at all. It's all the other possible factors that can make weed seem bad. Yet, just because someone has bad reactions to it doesn't mean that weed is dangerous. Nothing is that black and white. An analogy I like to use is to think about allergies. Just because some people can get severe allergic reactions to whatever (grass, peanuts, apples, dogs, cats etc.) doesn't mean that dogs etc. are bad. Hope this makes sense.
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  588. I'm SO DONE with religious people who for some egotistical, ignorant and sheer arrogant reason STILL haven't figured out that they DO NOT live in a theocracy. YES, you have the freedom to practise your religion and your religious beliefs, BUT that right STOPS the literal second YOUR BELIEF breaches another person's same rights to practise and exercice THEIR OWN beliefs as well. These are THE MOST hypocritical a$$holes. You CANNOT demand the freedom to exercise a right we all share, while simultaniously literally denying others that same exact right, just because they have a different perspective and belief/non-belief. I just don't understand what's so incredible hard for these people to understand.. YOUR BELIEF AND/OR EXPERIENCE IS NOT EQUALLY SHARED BY ALL OTHER PEOPLE. Don't like or approve of abortions? DON'T GET ONE. Just don't take away that right away from other people just because YOU don't agree. Imagine the hypocracy hysteria they would schreech if people tried to either force them to get abortions against their will, or deny them of their right to exercise their religion.. they'd totally lose their minds, and rightfully so. That's partly/a BIG reason why these NON-PRO LIFERS, aka ANTI-ABORTION/ANTI-FREEDOM OF ATONOMY-people infuriate the hell outta me. They are pure hypocrites screaming about religious freedom and so on who are far too ignorant, arrogant and unwilling to accept people with different beliefs from their own. They demand people respect their beliefs, while denying others that same respect, pushing their own personal beliefs down other people's throats, AND literally into other people's bodies. They're all blatantly about 'rights for me, not for thee'.. yet they claim some moral highground, while being the biggest and most dangerous hypocrites. Purely outrageous. I also find it ironic how typically at least, these "pro-lifers" aka anti-choice people usually stand for the death penalty.. go figure. I guess it's at least half way consistent, considering how in certain situations, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term/denyed bodily atonomy/right to abortion is a literal death sentence, whether it's regarding the pregnant person, the zygote/fetus in development or even both.. but yeah sure.. they care about human life. Gotcha. Smfh, it's infuriating how uneducated, arrogant and selfish these people are. There are only two sides to this issue, and that's literally the wrong side and the right side. The right side is indisputably the pro-choice side. I don't give any f's if these facts bother you. You can't claim to be standing up for and championing religious freedom, freedom of speech etc. if you conveniently only stand for what freedoms benefits and regards yourself personally. Then you CLEARLY do not understand what freedom actually means.
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  603. Oh, come on. She can handle herself. She's highly intelligent and knows what she's doing. It's not like wealthy people haven't tried several times on her, already.. no need to get worked up by a dress - the MET is in NY, and it's common for NY representatives to attend - and she used that situation to her advantage. The gala is in fact after all a fundraising event, so people can visit the Metropolitan museum free of any charges. Her policies aren't about villifying the rich and wealthy at all, it's simply and common sensically about having them PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE of taxes which they now barely even do at all. If her attending some fancy events and meeting celebrities and wealthy people would somehow persuade her into going corrupt, she would've been corrupted a long time ago, but she's not. Like.. I don't see anybody b!tching about Bernie Sanders being both progressive and wealthy. People really be acting like it's impossible to hold on to your values, morals, core beliefs and principles. She's literally just logically believing in and advocating for fair tax rates FOR ALL, as opposed to now where social welfare is payed TO the wealthiest for all kinds of things BY the poor and ever-dying/shrinking middle class. She understands that that is not an equitable, reasonable, fair or equitable taxing system. It makes no sense for the poorest among us to pay THE MOST without ever recieving ANYTHING from those taxes, but have to see that hard earned money given back to the wealthy and corporations - and the same wealthy people and corporations pay FAR, FAR LESS percentage and actual income wise, yet somehow still benefit the most off of others who can't even afford basic necessities. Now that's infuriating. It's not about taxing the rich "just to add on more taxes" or whatever, the issue is that the system is entirely broken and turned on it's head. That's what AOC and progressives wants to change asap, as literally every single person would greatly benefit from it, but no.. now that's impossible due to corruption and greed.. the wealthy are exploiting the actual, representative population's work, health, needs, practically every single apsect of their entire being is fully exploited. They just ensure that they buy enough politician's votes, so the government put in place, FOR the people, BY the people, OF the people, will favorize their corrupt and greedy donors instead of the people at large. But then to also having all these money-grabbing, power hungry and selfish politicians willing to sell out the interests of their country and constituents to buy political power is so incredibly anti-democracy, and it NEEDS to stop. AOC is the least of the problem - she truly is a part of the solution. People focuse way too much on finding ANYTHING to critisize her for - both from people on the right AND left. Yet she's one of the few people, among the rest of the progressives who actually fight for equality, equity, fairness and justice. It's a GOOD thing for her to bring attention to that problem in a unique way - it got people talking, right? Now people have been FORCED to talk about taxing the rich, AOC and the progressive movement. It got people engaged. If there's one thing the left and the right can agree on, is that we all HATE corruption and money in politics. That's partly why the right wing (and sadly many so called "moderate" aka conservative or corporate democrats) are constantly desperate to nitpick their every move, actions, speech, LITERALLY ANYTHING - they KNOW that policy wise, the vaaaast majority of all americans across ALL party lines and non/apolitical people fully agrees with progressive agendas, so they CONSTANTLY fight against the progressive movement/FORCES to try to deligitimaze them.. they KNOW that progressive policies are the most popular and effective ones, but the ruling class are afraid of losing their rigged, corrupt ultimate power, rule and status quo designed to only benefit them, and them alone. Aaand because of course AOC being a young, intelligent woman of color, who's incredibly popular, she's an easy target to focus on. They are so afraid of her and the rest of the progressives, so they continue fighting her and the movement she's a big part of, so the greedy and corrupted can continue taking advantage of and exploiting the majority to continue their corrupted power at the expense of the voters, the workers, the everyone, THE PEOPLE. She's a disrupting force to the status quo rigged in the favour of them, the smallest minority with no ends to their wicked, destructive, corrupted ways. There's no end to how far they're willing to go to ensure they'll always be the ruling class, no matter how authoritarian their methods. Power is all to them, and they don't like "disrupters" like AOC, to put it mildly.. so why should we also be overly critical of her every move, as if doing just that doesn't distract from the real issues? Getting pressed about her attenting a Met Galla in a unique, tho stupidly "controversial" dress sparking a conversation about the very real, common sensical and tangible message? Getting pressed about that is sooo useless and silly, the left can get so cynical at times, jeez. Expecting that from the right is obivious, but the true left must stop eating their own. Hold people accountable? Absolutely. This, tho... just goes too far, and it helps nobody. Focus on what matters, don't get caught up getting overly critical, cynical and reactive where that's not in any way warranted. It's pathetic and hysterical. Don't get it twisted. She won't lose her principles by attending an high end galla in a dress with an appropriate and relevant message. If you think so, then you're hella underestimating her intelligence and integrity. Don't worry about an event or a donated dress, worry about her message. Imagine if everyone redirected their attention, focus and anger away from the superficial aspects here to the actual message itself... now THAT could help truly move the needle in the right way, instead of wasting time moaning about what matters the very least. Ughh, my goodness, the theathre outrage and hysteria says a whole big lot more about them and their integrity than hers. Don't lose sight on what really matters. Seriously, this is pathetic.
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  613. Although the financial part is obvs extremely important, what's even more important is for the child to grow up in a safe and stable enviroment. Letting kids live in whatever kind of chaos is abusive. They notice and understand sooo much more than many people think. They learn their behaviours more by their parents actions, than their words. "If mommy does it, I can do it". "Daddy's hitting mommy, that's what daddy's do".. and so forth. It's so much better for any child to grow up with less money and just "stuff" than "having it all" without any stability, certainty and safety. A child is better off with one parent that loves and cares for them, living in a shelter than living in a big house with one or two parents that pays no attention to them, with parents who fights, both verbally and/or physically, emotionally distant parents etc. The child doesn't care about if they have the best and most toys, the prettiest clothes, high-end food, nice furniture, all of that. That doesn't matter. They're perfectly happy with just the basics. As long as their needs are met and they are and feel loved and safe, having the certainty that no matter what, they have a loving, protecting parent. If possible, sure, having a two-parent household in their own house/apartment, financial security and love and affection from parents who also are loving and affectionate towards each other is ideal, but having that "white picket fence"-dream is just a dream for most people. Although that's what many people want, they simply can't have it. So as long as the kid(s) always comes first and they are secure and properly nurtured, they don't really need more than that. Stability, safety, security, love and care is what matters. Not the money. I'm not saying to go ahead and just get a baby despite being too poor to ensure their safety, health and wellbeing, not at all. Getting your stuff together and knowing that you can take good care of both yourself and your kid(s) should be a priority before getting pregnant. People should never just get a baby and "figure it out" as they go. Not at all, that's extremely irresponsible. You're creating life, after all. I'm just making the important point that money alone will never be good enough on it's own.
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  616. @UCJjyiyIk4nWczsGw6xtWWEQ Lol okay sooooo you're saying FAUX hosts don't have the same inherent emotions everyone on the planet have? ðŸĪ” Hmmmm, mkay then. Makes sense. Secondly, no. He said that he have a right to know that he won't be exposed to a dangerous virus while on an airplane; essentially that he have a right, like anyone else to be safe. Whether by means of proof of vaccination or a valid, negative test before entering - as long as the public don't have to worry about their own health and safety. It's literally the same principle as eveey other safeguard we have everywhere, like ensuring that nobody brings weapons or drugs etc. Same thing. You have every right to harm or put yourself in danger, just not anyone else. Your right to do "whatever" stops the second that "right" potentially or definitely infringes on anyone else's equal rights. It never seizes to amaze me how hard that is for so many people to understand. Also as a sidenote: just concluding that what you're saying is right by slapping on "for obivious reasons" at the end is stupid. Especially since this is suuuuuuch a difficult issue for you, an issue you just can't stop arguing about, then obiviously, there's no such thing as "for obivious reasons" here. Obiviously. Then when it comes to the age-thing.. my goodness. Okay, let's just say you're right and this is "old people stuff". Are we not supposed to care about their health and lives? Their rights? 'Cause that's very much what you're saying there in that statement. You're wrong anyway.. sure, in the beginning it affected mostly older people, but far from just old people. Throughout it all, it's affected those with the weakest lungs and immune system, those with other issues and diseases like obesity/morbid obesity, asthma, cancer etc. Although younger people are generally more healthy and older people generally are in worse health, it's far from a reasonable generality to go by, as there are so many not just young people (say 20-40/50), but children, including toddlers with all kinds of health issues. Many of these people simply don't have adequate health to even get vaccinated, especially those who are immunocompromised. That's one of the main factors herd immunity is crucial. Most of us are healthy enough/have "normal" functioning immune systems to handle both illnesses and especially vaccinations. Those among us, who consist of literally ALL AGES, don't have any choice but to rely on the rest of us acting appropriatly, by protecting ourselves, which then automatically protects those voulnerable among us. We also have to take into account that as the virus have been allowed to get stronger and more resistent, even healthy people face bigger and bigger risks ourselves. There's been a steady increase of young and healthy people becoming very sick, many requiring hospitalization, some even dying. Getting vaccinated and following other basic guidelines like staying clean, coughing and sneezing into a tissue or whatever instead of just out in the open, keeping apporpriate distance etc DOES WORK. We're not just doing this to protect ourselves, but everyone else as well. If only America handled this appropriatly from the beginning, you wouldn't have 700 000 (or so) DEATHS in America alone, and covid wouldn't be able to form stronger variants, like the one domimating now, the Delta variant. If you look at stats from America where the rules have been generally quite relaxed, to other nations that took it VERY SERIOUSLY from start, where the attitude was more 'one for all, and all for one', the percentage of both death, hospitalization and infections, it's clear as day that social distancing methods work, and the super strong efficasy of the vaccines. Those nations that took it seriously from top to bottom have almost no cases anymore, and extremely low numbers of infections, and nearly no deaths and very low hospitalization numbers. It's extremely clear that the health guidelines put in place worked extremely well, and as soon as vaccinations became more and more available, it's almost entirely gone.. at least very close to it. This is pure science and logic. People like you who only care about yourself, who complained about not being able to get haircuts and such, who refused to wear masks and refuse to take the vaccine are part of the reason why this have been dragged out further. You've only worked against your own interests and wishes by refusing to take it seriously. If you took it seriously from the beginning, you could've gotten back to normal much quicker.. but oh no. Your actions helped covid flourish instead of the economy, your access to a normal life without restrictions etc. With every action comes a reaction, and your actions helped cause the exact reactions you've been protesting against. Congratulations.
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  646. Right, wth!? 500-600 dollars is EXTREMELY cheap for a dog. I spend way more a year on just my cat, smh. I always try to stay as cheap as I can due to my low income + me having to care for both my cat and my dog, but if there's one thing I'll always make sure is quality, is PET FOOD. I usually buy food for my cat online, because where I live, the only options for cat food I have is either very cheap, low quality food or I have to go to a crazy expensive vet/animal store that doesn't even for the most part have that much better food than what I find in the grocery store..:/ So I order online. Sometimes if my money situation is really tight and I couldn't order more cat food in time or the delivery is late, I have no choice but to find something else.. even though that luckily doesn't happen a lot, I feel so bad for having to buy him something else which I know isn't too good.. I obvs try to find the best of the worst and I've found ONE option which is neither good or bad, it's just okay.. I feel so bad those times, despite him luckily getting good and proper nutrition most of the time. Then I see other people with pets who just couldn't give a single damn and just buys the cheapest of the cheapest store brands! ðŸ˜ą Like, WAY WORSE than Friskies etc. I could NEVER! Even if I suddenly had NO money, I wouldn't do that! I'd literally just steal something at least a little bit better. Whatever I need to do. A lot of people just doesn't seem to understand that food/nutrition is directly linked to long term health. The better nutrition they get, the less likely you are to have to spend loads of money, heart ache and trouble for your beloved animal along the line. They demand so little from us, the absolute least we can do for them is to give them proper nutrition. That's the VERY LEAST we can do. I don't understand how Phil managed to get that severly low average number for yearly costs of one dog. I know this episode is old, but c'mon it's not THAT old! You'd gave to go a lot further back in time than this to get to those numbers.
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  687. I mean, I get and do believe in white privilege but there surely are exceptions. I've been personally and know of MANY white people who can't feel safe from harrassment, questions on how you can afford this or that and such. I think class has a lot to do with this. What I mean by this, is that there surely are groups of/including white people who get criminalized in unfair ways, just because of looks or social status. Drug addicts and (noticable) mentally ill people, homeless people, people with downs syndrome and such. Those groups gets disenfranchised heavily as well, yet we ignore that. I think class has A LOT to do with it. I would certainly say that a rich black man has more privilege than a white, homeless drug addict. This goes to show the effects on class privilege. We don't talk about this. We ignore this issue. This does NOT delegitimize white privilege, but claiming there aren't exeptions is just ignorant. Saying all white people have privilege.. no. It's important to talk about class privilege as well, the two are not mutually exclusive or deligitimize the other. Now, take a homeless drug addict that is BLACK and a homeless drug addict that is WHITE. Certainly the white homeless drug addict has a bigger advantage in that situation, due to white privilege. This is partly what makes this complicated. Now, in this situation, although the white person would have an inherent advantage on the black person, it doesn't mean that all white people get treated better than all black people. Would you say a rich, black man has less privilege than the poor white man? I would not. This is why I think privilege has many factors to it and that it's on a spectrum. It's complicated, but I hope this view on it all can start a thinking process in some people. Don't tell me that the white, homeless drug addict has more privilege than LeBron James or BeyoncÃĐ. Get my point? Two things can exist, coexist and conflict at the same time. Nothing is (no pun intended) so black or white.
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  712. You just KNOW that if all of this crap happened in another country, ESPECIALLY if it was a middle eastern country, America would sende the millitary over *stat,*, no hesitation or mercy to "implement some democracy"... America, especially all these war-loving RePUKEliKKKunts would condemn everyone as radical, extremist terrorists, and bomb the hell outta them. Don't we just LOVE the blatant hypocracy? It's truly astonoshing, though unfortunately not the least bit surprising anymore... and to see how each and every RePUKEliKKKunts stutter, struggle and fumble with their words as they either nervously and/or defensively whenever they're asked even the most simple questions (like when Jim Jordan was asked if he spoke with the former "guy"/45, aka domestic terrorist/authoritarian/moron before or after the domestic terrorist attack on January the 6th, which is SUCH a SIMPLE question. He CLEARLY EXTREMELY NERVOUSLY struggled with finding the "right" answer, mentally calculating what would seem least incrimimating.. as if he just constantly have conversations with inciters of insurrectionists, making it hard to remember if they spoke before or after such an event.. yeah right, you ain't fooling anyone, who actually have a brain with functioning brain cells, ofc; which apparantly is rare to find within the RePUKEliKKKan party and it's supporters, or rather cult members which they've turned into). They KNOW they're not innocent at all, so all they've done is turn up the rate of which they more and more blatantly lean on their beloved whatabout-ism, sheer deflection, pure attacks and anger etc. They've become this 45 loving cult that exhile ANYONE within the party which isn't really an actual political party anymore, but rather a cult disguised as a political party. They have no actual values or policies anymore, they're literally just about nothing M⁷ but gaining i as much power they can by ANY âđ POSSIBLE, blocking anything and everything the Democratic party does and wants accomplished, even if they'rm much that would benefit the entire voting population on both sides, very much including their supporters,/cult members.
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  722. Ughh, would people ever even consider to STOP being corporate shills? Jfc, this guy talking up Buttigieg as if he's somehow this amazingly breath of fresh air, star on the rise, fighter for the working class people with these (nowhere to be seen ffs) great and massive achievements that apparantly eeeeeveery single democrat loves, supports and cheers for? Like, I neither have any love or hate for the guy, however he's simply underachieved, massively underexperienced, and of course yet another corporate shill. It's literally only the DNC giving him this great coverage touting bs about the democratic voters rooting for him, despite NOBODY, NO ACTUAL VOTERS really supporting him, putting words in the democrats' mouths, putting it out in the ether, trying to manifest it into our minds that somehow HE'S THE GUY we're all loving and wanting to represent us as either VP or even actual President. It's just the DNC pouring money in his direction, not based on anything but identity politics, pretty much like they did with Kamala Harris. SURE, I would absolutely LOVE to see people of color, people identifying as being part of LGBTQ+ people, women etc. ABSOLUTELY. However, I would MUCH RATHER have say for instance Bernie Sanders - sure, another cis, white, old male, instead of for instance.. well, Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg. A corporate dem is still a CORPORATE DEM, and we'd be far better off with another traditional looking politician that's not corrupted by their owner donors than someone who happens to be gay, black, female, asian, trans, whatever.. as long as you're beholden to your OWNER donors, your skin color or sexuality doesn't really matter. It's just such a cheap shot for the DNC, they really think we're all completely and utterly stupid to the bone. Come on people, don't let them fool you with all the made up, fluff piece-articles shilling for their corporate goons and their "news" using/abusing identity politics to make us think that they're actually listening and caring about what the voters actually want, just by touting yet more of the same old bought up corrupt politicians foiled in new, "woke" wrapper by also corrupting social issues that truly does matter. It's really just a slap to our faces, thinking we won't notice.. sadly, many don't actually notice just how much we're being played. No, we need TRUE LEADERS, like Bernie Sanders of course, Nina Turner, the Squad, Jamal Bowman, Katie Porter, Cori Bush and so on. People who actually fight for their voters, not corporations. Anyone accepting coporate pack money from all these lobbying puppet masters are a waste of our time, and those are the exact people we need to get OUT of politics. Don't be naive to their tactics, look at people's voting records, their donors aka OWNERS, their record of following through with their campaign promises and so forth, and make sure you're not letting CORPORATE media fool you. PLEASE. Money in politics is literally THE BIGGEST PROBLEM, and continuing to elect the same old trash in new wrapping won't at all help. Follow the money.
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  746. This somehow never seizes to amaze me.. As a Norwegian (hell yeah, democratic socialism providing free healthcare and bans guns/heavily regulate other potential weapons to actually protect each citizen.. yet somehow we are not "pro-life", but corporate bought politicians refusing to even offer practically any basic care towards children, who likely was unplanned, thus not recieving of proper measures to optimalize it's health, being born into a system that charges your literal birth and everything else insane amounts, whilst ending up food insecure/homeless/worse, those people causing that.. are the "pro-life" ones? Shhhhhesh, gtfo, nonsensical.. people (monsters or smthn sounds more correct tbh). I've been following American politics and state of affairs in general for a fair amount of years now (because unlike many/most americans.. the rest of us actually acknowledge the importance of staying at least generally updated on other countries, esp in a global pandemic, where soooo much craziness is going on, knowing far too well the massive influence America have internationally.. I've figured caring about anyone outside "their own" isn't really of any importance at all, and that it's a miracle if they know what's going on nationally, or even state-wise/locally at all, so..yup. There's been far too many times where americans have been outraged at me or other non-americans for that matter, simply for weighing in on american politics - despite just how much America LOVES to mess around in and with other countries, lol. America surely is the land of hypocracy, NOT the free! Unless you're a massive corporation tho, then you're certainly both hypocritical AND free, because "yay, hurray for corruption!!", smfh). It's just crazy to me just the level of corruption taking place, barely facing any scrutony at all. I'm certainly aware that as a Norwegian I'm incredibly lucky and privileged simply by virtue of me randomly being born and raised here, but.. everything you guys view as "extremist, radical, progressive leftist" or whatever is just a given here.. like healthcare, abortion rights/atonomy rights in general, wellfare programs to anyone in need, no matter employment history, background etc., as well as housing benefits being incredibly common and considered yet another basic necessity met for those in need of rental help, how few homeless people we actually have, and those among us who've faced homelessness usually easily gets aid and a spot at high standard shelters, given help to get into actual properties as actual renters, whether we rent communal/from the state, the same state that gives us money for rent, food, bills, etc., or by private lenders, tho still funded/aided by the state as much as necessary, the list goes on and on. No, we're far from "lazy", we just believe in both that all people matter and deserves at least having their basic needs met, as well as believing in investing in the people, instead of corporations and such, being the most valueable investment we make. By investing in even the most poor, the economy will be stimulated anyway as those funds will go back into society.. because.. of course it does (sure, some tiny fraction might be lost by dealing in the black market, like with drugs for instance, but that percentage is really insignificant, and we end up boosting our overall economy anyway), so that's a simple win-win for both people and the government and businesses, and we hold the same kind of principle when it comes to both education and healthcare, making it (almost enitrely) free and accessable to everyone is something we all benefit from. It's not about "handouts" and all that stupid stuff made as ignorant "arguments" from people blinded by capitalism and corruption, socialistic democracy truly works in PEOPLE'S favour, it's also ofc a good and extremely important point to male that it's by far the most humanitarian way of governence thus far, it just simply works as intended. Sure, there are tons of things we can improve, not everything works wonders, which is just a reality and fact that can be applied to most things, but c'mon. That's just a caviat to democracy, nothing will ever be "perfect" as it's run by people, and no person is "perfect", and that's just the way it naturally works. What's good for us tho, an actual democracy that's not corrupt and bought, will constantly improve as both the world and people evolve, so naturally our democracy evolves with us. Our politicians have to do actual hard work and legitimately and noticeably improve our policies, as several parties have to work together, and we have many parties competing for their seats, it's not just a given that you'll keep your seat, due to a failed two-party system, rigging and gerrymandering like you guys have in America. Nope, compared to American standards, even our most right leaning politicians are progressive, because they have to in order to stay in the game. Look.. I know I'm really praising our system as if it was some kind of utopia, which it most certainly isn't - there's always tons to be done, and there's always loads of policies and such that are flat out bad and all that. Absolutely. It's just.. listening to just how corrupt, damaged and ineffective American "democracy" is, I just can't help but really appreciate how we do things, our values and principles. It's just not right at all when you're among the richest of the richest countries. It's in no way right or okay, and it certainly isn't a truly free or democratic country at all. There are several third world/developing countries I'd want to go to before America. America simply isn't safe enough. My goodness.. I can't say I have much hope, but I certainly wish that the US will severly change, and actually live up to it's so-called "ideals" you claim to live and stand by. It's not like you haven't got the means and resources, 'cuz you really do have plenty. That's partly why it's so frustrating, I guess. Knowing how great America actually could be, but have had that opportunity denied due to greedy politicians and corporations. It's one thing to not have the resources and not being able, it's just so different when the resources are in fact there, just not at all in the right hands of anyone. Your greed isn't just ruining you either.. many of your actions have global effects, like easily seen with global warming and the management of covid (and it's vaccines, ffs). You could've been a world ideal, an actual "superpower"-natiom, but you chose evil instead, bringing rest of the entire globe down with you. Ughh. Be better, please.
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  758. Try some nuance. It's not all black and white. Afganistan people of all kind have OBVS seen America as an OCCUPYING FORCE, because that's EXACTLY what they've been. Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine some other country's millitary, say China, Russia or India (just naming these as examples due to their large lands, which grants them large amounts of people, aka large and strong millitaries; just like America) decides to INVADE, bomb and kill thousands among your civilazation, forcefully, without any invitation at all. Would you then, after TWO DECADES OF WAR AND TERROR, appreciate whatever country that invaded you? OF COURSE NOT!!! But sure, logic not required.. smh. They also obvs understand and are able to differenciate the difference between civilians (like her, "simply" a reporter who's in no way hostile) and the government/an invasive, millitary force. They don't scream "death to americaNS", but "death to America". That's a big difference, which they, along with the rest of the world, unlike Americans, understand. OF COURSE you wouldn't be fond of a nation that brutally and forcefully invaded your land, your nation, your national atonomy and control. This has been terrible from the get-go, and the Amerivan government and millitary both entered and left the country in destruction and shambles, even more so when they left (which they at some point had to do. They should've left MANY, MANY YEARS ago. Staying there indefinetely is of no benefit. This war have ONLY benefitted war contractors making money off of this. That's it). Anyone believing this was for "nation-building" is A TOTAL BAFFOON. Acc. to raports, they could've had assasinated Bin Laden even just DAYS (close to a WEEK) after their first arrival. They had the opportunity SEVERAL TIMES after that as well over the years, but chose not to due to corruption and greed, which is ALWAYS their main goal. Anyone who's not figured this out yet is hella ignorant. You know.. how come there's never any debate or questions asked for funneling TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS of dollars to war contractors and the millitary, but the american public can't even get a ten year-investment in infrastructure? Universal healthcare, college etc? IT'S BECAUSE OF THE CORRUPTION. Follow the money, people. It's not that hard.
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  761. Unpopular opinion from a Norwegian here, so I guess semi-European (it's slightly complicated lolz, Google is your friend).. I absolutely find mayo, even the slightest bit hidden on some sub or sandwich or whatever, or mayo on ANYTHING AT ALL is abhorrent and a crime against humanity. I *absolutely truly HATE all things like mayo and similar stuff like ranch, mustard and all things similar. Practically all broadly milk-based, often based with eggs as well is TERRIBLY DIGUSTING and I don't get it.. never have, never will. Now i will say, I can at least respect my fellow countrymen and women for not overdoing it. Those among us here up north who use it usually use it like a simple, not overly done spread on sandwiches, bread etc., ESPECIALLY NOT something any of my fellow citizens slap onto literally everything, and I've NEVER seen ANYBODY be disgusting enough to eat it straight out of a jar with a spoon. Whenever it's used here, it's used moderatly; which for me is still far to abhorrent and outright criminal anyway, but I can at least accept people who don't eat it as if it's some kind of actual meal (ffs EWW wtf u doing, ya nasties!?!??!???😭ðŸĪĒðŸĪĒðŸĪŪðŸĪŪðŸĪŪðŸ˜ą) ffs, or don't literally DROWN whatever they're eating in mayo, ranch and all those kinds of milk/cream-based dressings and spreads, it just has no valid place in the kitchen or any other room for that matter, even in any grocery/food stores. It's truly a disgusting abomination. Sorry not sorry. I know we're not supposed to shit on people's food choices/likings/preferances, but I truly don't care. It's just far too disgusting. I like most food, I'm not some kale eating vegan, I eat most kinds of foods, so.. it's just too disgusting to even acknowledge as food at all. You may say I'm the one with the unpopular opinion, but I'm rising up to defend ACTUAL FOOD, so really, people who love that kind of are the true disgraces. I just also wanna make it clear that the stereotype of white people loving mayo etc. isn't a white thing, it's simply an american thing (perhaps canadians as well, but I don't rly know, so due to my lack of knowledge on canadians' relationship to mayo, ranch, bscly white dressing of all kinds, I won't comment on that), NOT a white person-thing, it's just a disgusting western white people-thing. Us europeans are 100% a different breed of white peole. Just saying.. the only thing left we have in common is being caucasion, THAT'S IT.. as well as some unfortunate lingering racism and misogony, just for sure not anywhere close to the same scale. That's it. We're rational, you're not. Sorry for not being sorry for not being sorry about not being sorry, lol. Straight up. We're just better than you on all counts, and we're not sorry about that. Enjoy your strokes and heart attacks, lol. We're just better than the US population all together on all counts. 😇😏😏ðŸĪ­ðŸ˜˜
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  775.  @showmytime9177  It's better to have a system that guarantees health care for everyone. Same access and quality for everyone, regardless of social and work-status. I mean, it's not like Americans don't pay taxes. So.. what's your point? It costs us all who do have universal healthcare LESS than it does for Americans who have to rely on a complicated, money-grabbing system, where your insurance (which millions don't even have) is HELLA EXPENSIVE, same with your drugs. Your statement that in countries with universal healthcare, that you have to work in order to get said healthcare is NOT TRUE. Stop being ignorant. EVERYONE, EXCEPT THE WEALTHIEST CORPORATIONS SAVE TONS UPON TONS OF MONEY BY HAVING UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. Having basic human needs met is a human right, and that includes healthcare. America just prioritize giving massive tax cuts and benefits to the wealthiest people and corporations, while absolutely CRUSHING the workers who get paid far too little. America would rather tax the most poor, and make sure to keep them poor, make them even more poor and ensure that as many people as possible both become and stay poor. You could EASILY have GREAT HEALTHCARE, infrastructure +++++ by JUST TAXING THE WEALTHY PEOPLE, instead of allowing them to pay ZERO, or close to zero. It's inhumane and makes NO SENSE that someone who WORKS, yet barely can afford rent and food pay MORE in taxes that only benefit the rich anyway, while the most wealthy who have too much money to even be able to spend in a lifetime, contribute NOTHING to taxes. YOU don't make any sense, smh.
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  786. Yeah lol he really took that way out of proportion. Ofc both vaping and smoking cigarettes is really, really bad for your health (and surely your wallet), but we all know that. She too. She have the choice to smoke if she wants to, just not in front of her child. Her child didn't consent to that. Her health is getting affected, and she doesn't have any choice in the matter. If parents want to smoke, do it somewhere else, preferrably outside so the smoke doesn't stay indoors. Having your young child right next to you in bed while you're smoking is just straight up terrible and selfish. Just don't do it. Not only with regards to second hand-smoke, but it's also displaying irresponsible behaviour. That's normalizing smoking, indirectly telling your child that smoking is okay. It's not. It's better to vape than use actual cigarettes, but still. It's just not good. I'm a long-time heavy smoker myself, I was addicted by the time I was 13 y/o. When I was young, my father was a smoker (he quit when I was around 10 y/o). He didn't smoke inside that often, but he smoked on the balcony where I always used to follow him, because I liked the smell, lol. My grandparents (father's parents) were heavy smokers as well, and they did not care about where they smoked at all. Me and my brother often went on trips with them, and when we were driving in their small car with only four seats, they smoked the entire time they were driving and barely had the windows open, so the entire car was literally packed with a massive cloud of smoke. This is most likely the reason I started smoking (so damn early as well, I believe my first cigarette was smoked at 11 y/o and it became daily at 13 y/o..). I'm even smoking a cigarette right now as I'm typing this, lol. I started smoking weed as well when I was 14-15 (still do, and I refuse to quit! Weed is good for my soul hahahh, couldn't do without it). So.. yeah. Be careful with what habits you're exhibiting to your kids. Kids won't "do as they say, not as they do". You have the right to harm your own body, but not anyone else's. That's not okay.
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  792. NOTHING is 100%. The fact is that 99% of those hospitalized with covid are the UNVACCINATED. Sure, just like how every other vaccine works, there CAN BE breakthrough cases, as no vaccine is an actual CURE. Research what the purpose of vaccines actually are. They're made to EXTREMELY MINIMIZE the risk of serious illness/hospitalization and/or death, as well as LIMIT the spread of the virus, so the more people who gets vaccinated, the less viral loads are spread around, infecting people. A vaccine does not work like a cure. What it does, is that it PREPARES your immune system for the potential real deal. With the vaccine, your body reckognizes the virus, and are much better equipped/prepared to successfully fight the actual virus. So, it gives you a much, much higher chance at not only surviving, but having less severe illness. Tho unfortunately sometimes, though INCREDIBLY RARELY, someone experiencing a breakthrough case may still become seriously ill and potentially die, despite (and I can't stress this enough) it's INSANELY rare. Some people have other conditions making them more suseptable to severe illness. These people usually have weak immune systems already, as some people just happen to be immunocompromised. Other health factors which weakens your body's ability to fight off serious diseases must also be factored in, like obesity, lung disease, old age, otherwise poor health etc. Many people have several health conditions, and the older we get, usually the more voulnerable we become - even with a vaccine. So it always depends, and a vaccine is not a guarantee. BUT just because something isn't 100% effective doesn't mean it's not incredibly effective and usually life saving. It's a matter of odds, risks versus benefits. If you take the vaccine, there's a 99% chance you'll be completely fine, or worst case scenario, still become ill, potentially even hospitalized, but you won't die. The chance of serious infection and hospitalization even with the vaccine is still EXTREMELY RARE. Turn it around, and you'll see that if you get covid and are NOT vaccinated.. especially with the Delta variant, you are very much likely to die, and hospitalization is almost a guarantee. So the choice is OBIVIOUS here. If you were to find yourself with only two options going forward.. the one path gives you a 99% chance of survival, and the only other option is a path with 99% chance of death. What do you choose? You OBVS choose the path that gives you a 99% survivability rate. It's really that easy. Do some reading on ACTUAL, CREDIBLE medical sources describing vaccine science. Educate yourself, it's not a hard concept. Stop being dense. You're just playing with fire by this point - you're willfully ignorant, and there's no excuse.
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  794.  @totovader  What are you even talking about and pressing me on it? I haven't even watched a single video. All I did was reply that the issues listed as part of the topics this dude I've never even heard of talks about are important. As in those issues being important to talk about. I didn't say anything about any of his opinions or videos, because once again, I've never even heard about the channel before, nor seen any of his videos. Is that wrong to state, now? Is it controversial or bothersome to you that I find certain topics interesting and worth talking about? You're surely getting overly hysterical over the most insignificant stuff. Why would I bother replying to you pressing me over something I'm apparantly supposed to just take your word for actually is this youtuber comments? As if I said that the long quote you pulled from wherever was "awesome" and "interesting", CLEARLY taking my words COMPLETELY out of context? There's absolutely no reason for me to "explain" how an out of context-statement/quote of some youtuber I'm completely unfamiliar with is "awesome and important", since once again, you're using my words entirely out of context. I neither agree or disagree with anything that he's said, because I have zero basis to form an opinion on about his videos, other than the brief explenation I got over what kind of topics he discuss. There's no relation between me finding certain topics interesting and someone else's opinion on any of those topics. I gotta say, you seem highly emotional and triggered by this when there's no need to get this riled up. You, the one accusing someone else of not being able to form a "thought", whatever that's supposed to mean, seem really confused yourself, considering how quick you are to jump the gun instead of actually properly understanding the comments you're replying to. If only you were able to breathe and calm down a bit, you'd possibly be able to see how irrationally bothered you are over nothing, and how your replies to me have been made by you drawing quick conclusions and assumptions over what you think my opinions are. You're really stretching here, lol. Unlike you, actual context and actual relevancy matters to me. I only state opinions that I've thought through, with all it's related context, to ensure my opinions are based on knowledge; not ignorant assumptions gathered from thin air. I recommend you try it. It really makes everything a whole lot easier, less confusing and harder to misunderstand. Just saying.
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  836. Well.. while I do agree that people in prison or jail should have access to food that doesn't make them literally physically ill, whether that means accommodating for celiacs desease, allergies, as well as religious convictions (kosher, halal etc.) ALL ACROSS THE BOARD for every single inmate, M. Traitor. G is the LAST PERSON with the integrity to speak up for that. I'm not saying prison food has to be some kind of four star meal or whatever, however they should be able to eat in a healthy manner. Just because you're in prison doesn't mean you don't deserve at least somewhat of a quality standard food. Again however, these complaints coming from this abhorrently disgusting literal traitor is rich af. If she legitimately had a consistent stance on humane prison reform for literally everybody, FINE. But she doesn't. She doesn't care about anyone else in prison, ESPECIALLY poc, or democrats overall. It's about reform for all, not "rights for me, not for thee". Stay consistent, at least.. I know that's just too much to ask for when it comed to the GQP, but still. You can't on one hand cry about how your beloved insurrectionist friends/rather political pawns are being "wrongly treated" while you're not only completely fine with the abuse of inmates that you don't politically agree with. You can't have it both ways, where you want harsher punishment and abuse for the people on the other side, but little to no punishment at all for the people who support you and you're cause. I know repukelikkkunts thinks that's how it works, but it doesn't. What a complete disaster.
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  839. Ugh, ffs yes. F*ck that!! That's the worst, most insensitive thing you can say to someone who's been assaulted, especially sexually. It's just so wrong. I understand that she said it with good intentions, I'll give her that, but it's careless, ignorant and rude to say such things. It's just not okay at all. As someone who has been assaulted in several different ways many times, including two sexual assaults (r*pe), once by a childhood/teenage years-"friend" and he second happened just a couple of months after turning 18, where the abuser was 44 years old. Gross af. I've had way too many people day the exact same thing to me. "It happened for a reason".. excuse me!?!? Absolutely not. There was no reason what so ever for that to happen. For me to be taken advantage of. For me to be so severly violated. Literally the only "reason" these CRIMES happen, is because the abuser is a messed up, dangerous and bad individual. That's the only reason. Sexual assault is never something you're "supposed to learn and grow from". No way. Stop excusing these horrible monsters. They're violent criminals. They're not "sent" by anyone as a damn "lesson". They're just sick and disturbed individuals who wants to feel powerful and in charge. They're reckless and selfish. Sure, like this young woman in the video said, she did grow from that experience, but that's only because you're forced to grow after such abuse. There's no valueable lesson from it. It beats you down, leaving you forced to either try to find some, any, whatever silver lining there may be, or stay down. The better option is to try to find a silver lining, but that's in no way the same as it "happening for a reason". That silver lining you desperately try to find is not "the reason" for it happening in the first place. Saying that line is simply excusing the abuser's behaviour while downgrading someone's (the victim's) personal trauma. It's degrading and devaluing. It's not taking it seriously. It's victim blaming. It's disgusting and wrong. Although I've obiviously have had to try to turn my traumatic experiences around, in order for me to keep going in life, not allowing the abuser to keep me down even without him present, I wish none of the abuse ever happened. I'd be so much better off without those experiences. Those sexual assaults ruined so many years in my life, I've had to deal with severe post traumatic stress disorder and will continue to do so for years. Having to deal with constant reoccurring nightmares, trust issues, sexual- and relationship issues, low self worth, depression and so much more is not something to consider a "lesson" or a silver lining. People seriously need to stop saying this to sexual assault survivors. You're only degrading us and the severity of our experiences. You're only continuing to excuse this kind of destructive behaviour. Saying "it happened for a reason" is just the same as saying we deserve to suffer.
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  853. I srsly don't understand US's ID-stuff.. here in Norway we all have bank cards w/name, date of birth etc. and a profile picture, those who drive obvs have drivers licenses, and most of us have a passport - bank cards and driver licenses are the most common, tho, esp bank cards which we ALL have, which are incredibly easy and quick to get. Our bank mails them to us for free as soon as we create our bank account, which we usually do as children from the age of 14, I believe. They expire after x amount of years, and by that time the bank automatically, again for free sends us new ones. If we happen to lose them, the bank will send us new ones within a week. That usually goes quick, because ofc when we lose our bank cards, we have to notify the bank - EASILY done by simply calling the bank to get them to block that card so nobody else will be able to use them, and they routinely ask during that same call if we want a new card, which ofc we do. That's practically "free" it's between 100-150 nok (norwegian currency)/about 11USD-17USD. Not that we even have to have that amount on our account for them to send us the new card. So, that's obvs easy for literally everyone. All these are equally valid to prove our ID at the polling places. So for us, proof of ID is a non-issue. We also have early voting with WAAAY MORE THAN ENOUGH polling places, rarely any lines at all anywhere, and we do have voting options for those who for whatever reason like disabilities, illness etc. can't go to a poll - then we have polling workers coming home to you. Voting is incredibly easy and accessable for everyone, no matter where you live here or your abilities to go outside. Surely, as long as it's this easy and accessable for everyone above the age of 18 (which literally is the only requirement to vote - that and being a citizen, ofc), requiring proof of ID is of no issue. The problem obvs comes when it's NOT that easy, affordable/free and accessable for everyone. That's the issue. It's just crazy to me that the US makes something SO BASIC as an ID such a hastle. It makes NO SENSE. Sure, go right ahead and require proof of ID - just MAKE SURE you then in the same breath ENSURES that EVERYONE gets whatever ID necessary to vote FOR FREE. If you're gonna pass those kinds of laws requiring this or that, then make absolutely sure that NO ELLIGEBLE VOTER is AT ALL prevented their RIGHT to vote. That's really the heart of the issue. I HATE these repukelikkkunts who in such bad faith tries these sneaky tricks. They KNOW what they're doing and the effects these voting laws have - which ofc is EXACTLY the reason they do it in the first place. It's not to "secure election integrity" it's the exact opposite. It's PREVENTING "unwanted" voters their constitutional right to vote, and it baffles me how it's seemingly so hard to strike down these laws, as they directly interfere with americans constitutional right to vote. The US truly makes everything good as complicated and unattainable as possible. Anyone still considering America as "the best country on earth" or even close to it is highly delusional, no joke.
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  901. Fr tho, DAAAAMN. She must have lived an INCREDIBLY sheltered and tbh TOO SAFE life. I just mean that OBIVIOUSLY any reasonable parent(s) would want to safeguard their kid(s) as much as possible, but COMPLETELY sheltering them from real life to the point where that tiny little nothing-burger of a joke/comment made her cry and feel as though her life was in danger, and that the comment wasn't simply a smug-ish comment/joke, but an actual threat.. I mean, goodness me. Obvs just assuming here since none of us knows her life outside of this little clip, but hell, if I was in that room when she started crying over that little piece of nothing, I'd SERIOUSLY struggle to not laugh due to the ridicolousness of it. That comment was NOTHING. If I recieved such a comment, or any other reasonable person recieved that comment, at most the reaction would be a simple eye roll, perhaps at most a smirky comment back or prob just ignored it.. not cry and feel threatened, even that much later after the comment. I'm incredibly understanding that we all have different tolerance levels, but dear oh dear.. that was something else. Is she a young adult or a literal baby? It seems like she's flown threw life on a field of thorn-free roses in a bed of clouds. I can't imagine being THIS sensitive. Tbh, poor girl. The second real life hits her, and she's no longer surrounded by people who protect her from any opposing opinions, people not giving her whatever she wants etc., aka the REAL WORLD, she's destined to struggle hard af. Overprotective parents and enviroments, growing up with pillows sown all over you and such is cruel. OF COURSE parents are supposed to protect you, but ALSO prepare you for the next stages of life so that they're prepared for the stages in life we all enter into as we get older and older. I'm truly not sure whether to laugh or cry over that ridicolous statement.. it's both sad when you really think about it, but it's also extremely hilarious; ESP when the dude who literally got STABBED spoke about that right after her crying over quite literally NOTHING. Geeeez... the definition of white girl tears right there.. truly the ultra max version of it as well lol. Goodness me.
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  921. How sad.. though I'd also rather go out on my own terms instead of in a cold nursing home. This is just yet another example of why assisted su*cide should be legal, especially when someone is terminally ill and/or are suffering to the point of having no quality of life moving forward. It's just far too immoral to hold on to life just for the sake of it. Just like our beloved pets are usually part of our family, when we know that they've gotten so ill in their old age that we lovingly assist and alliviate their needless suffering by letting them go to sleep peacefully; without the long, cruel and drawn out suffering.. us, the loved ones surely want all of those we love to live as long as possible by our side, but needlessly making them suffer for far longer than necessary is selfish; which is why we aid our beloved pets(/family in pet owners eyes) in such a manner. It's not for us and our comfort, it's for their comfort and dignity. Legalizing assisted s*ic*ide would be the most ethical thing to do for all parties involved, as an option for everyone where the benefits clearly weigh more than continuing needless suffering for the terminally ill and those in constant suffering with no opportunity for actual improvement in life. Forcing people to live out their lives in painful suffering with no end in sight is torture imo. It's cruel and unnessecary. Let them go of free will as peacefully as possible if that's their clear wish. It's just what's right. Don't force people into situations like the one showcased in this tragic episode. It shouldn't have to be like this.
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  954. Hell, I'm Norwegian (part of the three Scandinavian countries - we're all independent and have been for ages upon ages, but we're lumped together as one on the world stage.. oh well, Sweden and Denmark are cool, so I don't mind! But.. Norway's the best, tho. We just are). What Ana's saying is absolutely correct. I personally have been unfortunate enough in my still very young life (still just 23 y/o) to have been homeless for some years, beginning at the age of just 16 y/o. So, surely more than enough childhood trauma from both before and after that. By that point, you bet I was already addicted to drugs. I grew up in one of the poorest areas, and my family surely didn't have any resources. There weren't too much in our community generally either, so nothing really to lean in if in need. Hence the situation I found myself in. I ended up in worse and worse crowds, experiencing worse and worse trauma, becoming more and more drug addicted. People around me practically just waited to get "the call", if you know what I mean. So it was absolutely terrible. You know what eased the burden on not just myself personally, but on our community's resources and crime rates? The fact that our government cares for every single person enough to allow them some shreds of dignity, in other words money. It wasn't much, but it made sure, along with other programs, that I could eat at all, and not have to steal and such (aka.. become a worse criminal than being a drug addict stupidly is considered), in order to feed my habits. I also had the possibility of getting any kind of health care, both mental and physical. I could also spend days and nights at shelters for safety and hygiene. These things not only ensured my own personal health and wellbeing despite the terrible situation I found myself in, it also highly eased the burden the rest of the community would face by myself, along with the rest of people in similar situations just trying to survive, by doing criminal activities affecting others. It ensures literally everyone. It's not that people never get robbed or such, it's rather that the chances of that happening being decreased as much as possible. We, the poor people, weren't made desperate enough to have to rob innocent people, just going about their day. Ensuring our safety immidiatly ensured the rest's safety. Basically, we logically decided to do the math and follow simple logic. We'd all much more preferr our tax dollars going into investing in the most poor and unfortunate among us, instead of investing in beefing up the police and other "after the fact"-measures. We understand that investing in people's dignity despite their background would be of much greater benefit to literally everyone, than investing in stupid and unnessecary police and law enforcement tactics and equipment. We would much rather prevent that need for beefed up security in the first place. We know that investing in prevention takes everyone so much further, and ensures everyone's safety so much more.. not to mention, it's just way more humane and dignified. It's not exactly motivating for anyone to try to re-enter regular society when society's been nothing but cruel and ruthless to you. Because of these ideals and this humane logic, we barely have that much crime at all. Sure, getting rid of crime 100% will always be literally impossible, but we've incentivised being a law-obiding citizen much more over being a criminal. This kind of crime policy has made sure that we're all, regardless of social status, a safe and welcoming society, not ridden with crime (especially regarding violent, gang, and street-associated crimes). It just works way better for everyone, and it's good economics as well. I grew up in what was for a very long time considered part of Norway's worst places (in terms of poverty, crime etc.). We surely had our right wing politicians bring up similar talking points to the US' right wing, but thankfully the overruling political opinion over how to deal with this specific area landed on left wing ideals, which was to continue our high standards in terms of treating the population. We ended up with this massive investment involving a decade long plan to invest from the bottom up in that area. We helped people by literally increasing wellfare, massive infrastructure investments including massive human infrastructure, all of this and much more. We decided that a helping hand would be of greater benefit and interest to the entire country, instead of continue punishing people for being poor and having unfortunate and unprivileged conditions. That absolutely massive investment ended up turning this area (where I still live!) into the place in our city, Oslo (which is the capitol of Norway, yes) into becoming the place with the least crime rates. Funny how that worked, huhh. It both made this area one of the most attractive places to live, pushing up property values massively, without forcing those of us who already lived here in it's poor times out, due to our government ensuring that not only the values of the properties going up, but people wages and wellfare as well to match the increase in property values, so us "OG's" weren't pushed out of our community and homes due to the inflation. Now THIS is how you do politics. This is how you treat people. This is just what's right and humane. Our government and our society at large seeing literally every single person's individual value is what makes us incredible. We don't see helping people and investing in people as a burden at all, we see it as an obligation we all have towards each other, and joyfully so. We're happy to know that we spend our tax dollars to even out inequality, to better the lives of our neighbours, children, elders and community at large, in health and education etc. - not in cruel and unnessecary wars, unnessecary police enforcement and all those kinds of wasteful "investments", which we know don't work. No. We're much more focused on what actually matters, and fixing the root problems, instead of constantly wasting money and time just treating the "symptoms". We got it right. There's a reason we're one of the wealthiest AND happiest nations on earth, which we have been for the longest time. Take notes, people. Actually learn something.. and stay kind, care abour your neighbour and community. We'll all be doomed if we let personal greed be the ruling force.
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  1024. It's truly horrible. I've died of an overdose myself, not as a kid but still very young. I was only 20, and I've had several other OD's. The first OD I had I was about 18. The one where I died tho, that was absolutely terrible. I locked myself in a bathroom in a charity-place where you could sleep, eat and get much more help. I didn't intend to overdose, just to be clear. I only locked the door because I wanted privacy while shooting up heroin. I'd already had a lot to drink, as well as probably around (seriously) 80 rivotril, 10-15 valium and a few xanax. This was usual for me. I was going to sleep, and I took some more heroin than usual (I'd just bought the heroin and wasn't aware of how strong it was), not a lot more heroin than usual but just what you'd call a "sleep dose". I needed extra because I'd taken a lot of amphetamine throughout the day.. it simply ended up being too much of that extremely strong heroin. For all I know it could've been laced with fentanyl, but I'm not sure. Luckily a few other people notified the staff because they started getting concerned apparantly, so the staff ended up having to kick the door in. They immidiatly started doing extremely good CPR and called the ambulance. All my ribs got broken, so that's how I know they really did good CPR and that it took a lot to get a pulse. Remember this, people. If you're ever in a situation where there's no pulse and you have to do CPR, do NOT hesitate because literally each second is a matter of life or death. Remember that life in exchange for some broken ribs is as worth it as anything can be worth it. When you're doing CPR, the point is to try to "fake" a heart beat. You have to push hard enough, you're not doing it right unless you actually damage the ribs. Just saying. I've been trained several times. In those situations, you either choose between trying to save someone who's already dead, so you're not ever doing more harm than good when doing CPR. Also remember that you only do CPR when there's no pulse, so make sure you check the neck and wrists if you're uncertain whether the person is simply unconcious or actually DEAD. CPR should only be used when there's no pulse, not when someone's simply unconcious. It' easy to check and see if there's a pulse. If you're alone and someone has lost their pulse (or if they're unconcious) the first thing you do is call an ambulance. They'll guide you all the way. Call the ambulance and if the pulse is non-existent, do CPR and DO NOT worry about breaking ribs. The person is DEAD. The person's survival rate is way bigger the harder you push, use your body weight to help you. CPR should go in the tune of the song "staying alive", ironically enough. Remember, "ha, ha, ha, ha, staying alive, staying alive". Hope you all are doing okay, and that you'll never have to do any of this. It's just important to know.
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  1031. My goodness, that last scene may seem weird, dramatic or counter productive for some, but going through opiod withdrawal even without underlying chronic pain is HELL, but going through withdrawal from opiates WITH underlying pain is even worse hell.. my goodness. Been through both, wouldn't recommend. Esp cold turkey, my goodness. It feels like you're dying the most horrific death, it's impossible to describe what it's like to someone who's never been through it. For real, going off opiates even WITH the help from lighter opiates or substitute meds like methdone or buprenorphine to lessen the impact is hell. Not as bad of course, but still absolutely vile. I have definitely also hurt myself on purpose while going through withdrawal from strong opiates (heroin, oxy etc) and/or benzodiazepines to alliviate and distract from all that my body is going through during withdrawal. Having another pain to focus on, such as a broken finger or something, ironically helps. That says a lot. It's not just physically painful to go through withdrawal, it's a massive mental task along with other symptoms like nausia, cold sweats while being hot, all kinds of stomach and bowel issues, confusion, hallucinations even, throbbing headaches, feeling like your body is trying to rip itself out from the insides all at once and SO MUCH MORE. It's something I NEVER EVER want to go through again. I would've said I wouldn't wish it on anyone, not even my worst enemy.. but that would be a lie. I know of two, esp one persons who deserves to go through that over and over again due to the extreme amounts of suffering they've caused someone so innocent, someone who they drastically changed the course of their lives of to the worse, with actions so bad they wish they'd just mercy "unalive" them (aka myself..). They ensured that I would never be able to live a "normal" life, they took that away from a once innocent teen, who's only "mistake" was having to choose homelessness due to the lack of anything close to parental care, and then happening to end up being at the wrong place at the wrong time.. searching for help, as neither CPS or police would do anything but let me stay on the street. That person who took advantage of that definitely deserves to go through years of this kind of opiate withdrawal.
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  1034. There is no kind of unison opinion/belief by The Young Turks, tho.. sure, since it is a progressive network, many core values and beliefs will be the same, but it's not uncommon for all of the many different hosts to disagree. That happens quite a lot, I've noticed.. which is natural. What I've noticed about this is that there's absolutely no issue with having your own opinion as long as you share their core values, of course. That's how pretty much every network operates tho, which makes sense. Independent thinking seels to be far more encouraged here than most other places. Obiviously TYT, just like any other network are entitled to have and follow a certain kind of morals and values-system to ensure that their hosts don't deviate far from their goals and values etc. I understand why they require a standard for their hosts. You surely wouldn't want to hire someone with opinions you can't defend, whose opinions would reflect badly on TYT as a whole. Differing opinions are not disguraged, but differing opinions is absolutely not the same as differing core values, morals and beliefs. Like myself for instance.. I never always agree with every opinion from each and every host, whether that's hosts of the main TYT channel, RHQ, The Damage Report, Indisputable etc., but I can always get behind their main messages. It's impossible to always agree with someone. However, knowing that those different opinions will be respected, and knowing that the shows' and host's core values aligns with mine and comes from trusted sources is what's most important. One thing I love about TYT's all kinds of different hosts is that whether or not we have the exact same opinion or not, I can always trust that what they put out comes from truthful and well researched sources, and that it's clear that their pure opinions won't be stated as the actual fact, but rather as a subjective opinion, unlike far too many other networks who disguise their mere opinions and personal belief as factual which obiviously is not okay. Hearing different opinions certainly is a good thing, as long as the actual truth is not disguised in any way, whether the truth is likeable or not. I'm perfectly fine with different opinions and personal beliefs, I'm just never at all okay with the truth being hidden for someone's opinion to be put out as factual instead of the non-biased and fairly researched truth. It's incredibly important to distinguish the real truth from opinions and personal beliefs. I wish all news programs, regardless of viewpoint and political stances/leanings operated like this. Far too many networks are just pure propaganda these days, which is infuriating af.
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  1047. I've had to fight off people with weapons like a machete and like 4 damn cops at the same time while having close to no physical (upper body) strength, both these situations happened as a 'fight, freeze or fight'-situation so it was pure instinct, so I like to think that I'd absolutely would do just about anything to save my pets (a cat and a dog - who are both quite savvy themselves lol, despite them looking like totally adorable plush animals! My cat is a cute housecat and my dog is a labradoodle, but MAN, they're savvy and skilled af. I watched my dog kill a HUGE bird in less than a millisecond, before I could even react myself, then she just kept on going, wagging her tail as if nothing happened while I just stood there in shock). Mind you - I don't deal with armed police, we don't use guns where I'm from. They are incredibly skilled tho, in both deescalation (which is always the main goal here) and in fighting, if push comes to shove. So it's not like the cops I fought "on accident" were unskilled, because our cops are HIGHLY skilled and professional, so our cops are trusted and highly appreciated in my country, and they deserve that respect.. they're absolutely great, and ACTUALLY serve and protectthe people (I wasn't in a normal state of mind, I'm NOT a violent person AT ALL, it was just all around a bad situation where I was scared and thought I was going to get beat up by a gang or so, while the police actually just began wanting to help me, a young girl out in the middle of the night alone in one of the most dangerous, crime infested places in my country.. so it was all just a bad situation where neither I or them meant any harm. I was charged with assault obvs, but the charges were dropped during trial due to the specific circumstances and my background/history). So anyway, yeah. I absolutely think my brain would just 'shut off' like in previous instances, and that my adrenaline would take over to protect my pups, my babies. I once had to grab another both large, muscular strong dog off of my dog when she was just a tiny puppy, because that dog was loose, attacking my baby, with the owner doing nothing about it - so after for just trying to shield my dog while screaming and cussing out the owner at the top of my lungs for her to get her damn dog away from my LITERAL baby, I immidiatly just grabbed that monster dog and THREW IT as far away as possible. I hated having to do that, which is why I to begin with (very briefly) trying to protect mine and get the other dumb owner to take care of her dog as the last thing I want is to harm another animal/pet/dog specifically in this instance, but hell, come for my baby, prepare for the worst. It's just like how I'd rather protect a loved one (human) over a stranger, obvs. The dog was thankfully fine, just quite shaken.. I mean, I did have to grab it forcefully and throw it carelessly away so it could've obvs suffered injuries from that, but hell, it was a grown, extremely muscular bulldog, that landed on grass (thankfully not concrete or smthn, that would've been awful), so it went "fine". Even after PHYSICALLY HAVING TO FORCEFULLY GRAB AND THROW THAT DOG AWAY QUITE BRUTALLY, the damn owner STILL didn't care about anything, ffs. I fckn cared more about that dog than the owner did.. and that GROWN MUSCLE dog ATTACKED my TINY POODLE BABY. What a TERRIBLE person who should NOT be able to care for ANYONE, neither human or animal. Ughh, no. Too many terrible people out there. I don't get mad at animals for being animals, like that bear - they just do what they're supposed to, following instinct, so there's no foul there. Humans, tho.. ya know.
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  1049. I mean.. sure, I guess that's possible, but that seems like thinking zebras instead of horses when you're hearing hoofbeats imo lol. I just don't understand why she would drug him to make a quiet man.. quiet? ðŸĪ”😅😅 ~ Geez, it sounds like I'm taking this way too seriously lol, I promise you I'm not. I just couldn't help myself from interjecting with my analysis.. I've literally rewatched all of "JFC" (for short) aka "JIM CAN'T SWIM,* a YT-channel that breaks down and analyses piece by piece in great detail of criminal cases where the main focus is on criminology and (forensic) psychology during interrogations. He does it so professionally, making it super informative, grim, at times even hilarious, and he's always respectful. The videos tend to be quite long which I find lovely. He does a thourough job editing and putting it all together, where you're both learning a whole lot without at all boring you. I highly recommend his channel to anyone and everyone with an interest in (true) crime/criminology, (forsensic) psychology, the justice system with a high level of insider perspective and more. It's truly great. Nothing at all is fictional, they're all entirely real cases with real footage. He's truly the best one out there, and I'd recommend it to literally everyone, except those 14 y/o tiktoker's with an attention span lasting no more than 5 seconds to perhaps, and I'm dragging it here, 10 minutes. His videos are usually 45min to even 2-3 hours. Only a fraction of his vid's are under 20-30 min, the average length is about 1 1/2 hour, yet due to his excellence, you're simply longing for more, wishing they were way much longer because they truly are interesting and extremely fascinsting to watch in all kinds of ways. He's deserving of way more reckognition on YT than he gets - his videos are popular, perhaps the most popular amongst that uniquely specific subgenre of true crime, but hey.. that awful YT-algorythm snuffing the best true content creators. He doesn't make any single thing about himself, he's never even shown his face - all you notice of him personally is his incredible narration, guidance and perspective as a professional. He keeps it all as real as it gets, it's clear that he's not in it for the noteriety in any way. Highly recommend the channel, again - "JSC", short for "Jim Can't Swim". I couldn't recommend it any more... I know I alrady sound like an agent or a sponsor lol, but no. It's truly just an amazing channel that hooks you in to watch all the videos, leaving you wanting even more so you decide to rewatch them all because you notice something new each time and it never gets boring, and you're constantly desperate for his next upload. So.. yup. This was not at all intented to become a long tangent about his incredible channel and talent, but it did. What can I say, I mean.. I guess you could call it the JSC-effect, lol. I'm absolutely HOOKED. Sorry not sorry. Go watch it! ðŸĪ“ðŸĪĶ‍♀ïļðŸĪ·â€â™€ïļðŸĪŠ
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  1054. Try some nuance. It's not all black and white. Afganistan people of all kind have OBVS seen America as an OCCUPYING FORCE, because that's EXACTLY what they've been. Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine some other country's millitary, say China, Russia or India (just naming these as examples due to their large lands, which grants them large amounts of people, aka large and strong millitaries; just like America) decides to INVADE, bomb and kill thousands among your civilazation, forcefully, without any invitation at all. Would you then, after TWO DECADES OF WAR AND TERROR, appreciate whatever country that invaded you? OF COURSE NOT!!! But sure, logic not required.. smh. They also obvs understand and are able to differenciate the difference between civilians (like her, "simply" a reporter who's in no way hostile) and the government/an invasive, millitary force. They don't scream "death to americaNS", but "death to America". That's a big difference, which they, along with the rest of the world, unlike Americans, understand. OF COURSE you wouldn't be fond of a nation that brutally and forcefully invaded your land, your nation, your national atonomy and control. This has been terrible from the get-go, and the Amerivan government and millitary both entered and left the country in destruction and shambles, even more so when they left (which they at some point had to do. They should've left MANY, MANY YEARS ago. Staying there indefinetely is of no benefit. This war have ONLY benefitted war contractors making money off of this. That's it). Anyone believing this was for "nation-building" is A TOTAL BAFFOON. Acc. to raports, they could've had assasinated Bin Laden even just DAYS (close to a WEEK) after their first arrival. They had the opportunity SEVERAL TIMES after that as well over the years, but chose not to due to corruption and greed, which is ALWAYS their main goal. Anyone who's not figured this out yet is hella ignorant. You know.. how come there's never any debate or questions asked for funneling TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS of dollars to war contractors and the millitary, but the american public can't even get a ten year-investment in infrastructure? Universal healthcare, college etc? IT'S BECAUSE OF THE CORRUPTION. Follow the money, people. It's not that hard.
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  1060.  @j.c985  No. There will always be exceptions, but no. Smoking is WAY better than alcohol and it helps A LOT of people overcoming much harder addictions. Sure, cannabis is a drug but drugs are not inherently bad, as many people like to claim. Sure, you could say that about heroin, meth etc. Not weed tho. It's not for everyone and I would never encourage ANY type of drug to ANYONE unless the situation calls for it, which it sometimes does. Many of my friends have managed quitting or reducing their intake by using weed instead. It's helped many people including myself, a long time drug addict, with my heroin, amphetamine, benzo addiction and many other things.. I've just about done it all. I have had several overdoses, and I've died. I've been homeless for many years combined, I've just about RUINED practically all my veins due to excessive use of needles, the list goes on. I've been stuck at the bottom a scary amount of times, for long times. My family and friends had to start preparing for my FUNERAL, my will and everything. To all of us it was just a matter of time. Today, I'm on buprenorphine (heroin "blocker" and replacement), anxiety medication and smoke weed. That good cbd hashish. Really relaxes me, helps my PTSD, anxiety, depression, insomnia and physical pains. If I really struggle w/ not using hard drugs and needles, I smoke my brains out and either fall asleep or munch my entire kitchen, laughing at anything and everything. It's all about harm reduction. Many times, almost all of the time it's too big of a goal to quit EVERYTHIG, at least at once. It's obiviously a lot better what I'm doing now than what I did before. I'm now a board member in an organization for the welfare of drug addicts, with a focus on harm reduction instead of pushing people to sober up. We've found that that (most of the time) has WAY better results. It doesn't matter if you can't quit absolutely everything, the chance of successfull recovery or at least reduction of heavy intake is a lot higher if you not only allow time to take baby steps, not "punishing" yourself if you have a setback, and encouraging people that are really trying instead of knocking them further down if you relapse. Compassion first. If we push people too hard it's way too easy to not feel adequate enough, only pushing you down further, maybe all the way down to no point of return. Compassion and emphathy is crucial. Support is crucial. Would we rather want heavy addicts smoke some weed or completely ruin not only their own life, but damage the well being of those who care for and love the struggling person? I'd say bring in the weed.
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  1062.  @laurabXOTWOD  I'm so sorry that happened to you. I can unfortunately imagine the pain. I myself have also experienced severe attacks by strangers, one rapist who drugged me, took me to his apartment, drugged me some more and proceeded to rape me several times, choke me unconcious for days. I somehow woke up just enough at just the right time to be able to crawl out of the door and away.. he just got out of prison. Without going into too much detail, that attack was the mos severe one. It has happened two other times again after that, once where I again was forced into an apartment and another one that literally happened in an open garage in the middle of the city that's always used. I have also been attacked (sexually assaulted) by someone who I thought was a friend at only 14 at a party with literally only close friends while too drunk to move or say anything. As far as I can remember, that's the only time it happened to me by the hands of someone I knew. However, I still know that it's far more likely to be attacked in whatever way by someone close, and that the likelihood of attacks by strangers are very slim. It OBIVIOUSLY happens, so taking precautions is always good. I used to be incredibly paranoid, I still am somewhat paranoid when I'm not home alone, but I refuse to let such lowlifes stop me from living. I'm not the one that's ever done wrong, they are. I know that if there's a will, there's a way. Taking self defense classes, having a violence alarm and such other precautions is great, but beyond that, all we can do is keep on living. It surely sucks to have to think about these things each time we go out away from safety, there's however no way to guarantee safety. So let's keep living, that's all we can do.
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  1088. How damn terrifying. I'm becoming more and more in love with my homeland, my people, my cops, my social wellfare; practically my actual freedom and liberty. Norway. Good, old Norway. I once ended up in a fight with two cops, who even had to call for reinforcements. Now mind you, this was and is my first and only arrest. I'm far from violent at all. Even just verbal altercations can feel absolutely horrifying to me. I do suffer from severe trauma/PTSD from both child- and adulthood, including r*pe and kidnapping. Beatings. I became homeless at just 16, and got addicted to the hardest of the hard drugs very fast. I was in and out of the streets, shelters, institutions, hospitals, random people's couches, and continued on like this for several years. The time I ended up in a police fight, I was homeless and in a terrible condition. No food or sleep for days. Just a 'miracolously not dead'- person on tons of drugs. I never did drugs for fun, I was just completely addicted and in much more of an unconcious/zombie-like state. I barely have any memory from the incident at all, though my suboncious memory apparantly got refreshed after going to court almost a year later or so. Apparantly, they'd (the police) saw me out in the middle of the night in a very bad area, and they came up to me to both see if I was okay and to do a drug search (yes, sometimes our police (who btw only carry pepperspray for defense, nothing else) comes up to us to literally just talk and see if we're okay). I apparantly started hitting, punching, spitting and kicking away when one of them just touched my shoulder to get contact, since I didn't respond verbally. That must've caused an automatic, subconcious trauma-defense in me as it must've really startled me, causing me to flashback and completely panic, hence the fight erupting. I still can't remember any of it, not even being at the arrest cell for a day. Anyways.. I've gotten help and is recovering from all the past trauma and drug addiction. I have my own, very nice and large two bedroom flat, granted to me by the city, basically. A crucial part of our wellfare. I take goodd care of both a dog and a cat, so life is much better now, to say the least. All I recieved as punishment tho was to serve community service (120 hours by 45 days), where I served as a cashier in a charity shop. It was quite nice, tbh. So. .yup. I think I'll just stay here in Norway, with our kind cops and socialism. With my freedom and a community that (for the most part) cares for one another, no matter who we are or where life's taken us. America, you ain't the "land of the free", smdh. You've never been.
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  1114. Oh wow, I'm so surprised that someone with good wealth would be greedy enough to trick strangers into giving you even more.. jfc. Yet, those greedy mf'rs have absolutely no shame nor self insight, talking about people who are way less fortunate as "entitled", as if they - actual homeless people and such are the greedy ones despite barely having what they need to simply live. I've been homeless for years, living on the streets and if I was lucky during the coldest northern winters, some ppl would let me sleep on their couch so that I wouldn't literally freeze to death. It truly humbles you. I've absolutely noticed and kniw very well that I'm faaaar from the only one that have noticed that in general, people with the least give the most, and people with more than plenty never ever help others. Ofc, there will always be exceptions, however when you yourself truly knows what it's like to not have anything, what actual hunger and starvation is like, what it's like to struggle endlessly just to barely survive, you'll end up far more likely to give and share with others since you know just how much even the so called "small things" matters. Meanwhile those who's never had to experience such hardships, those who've been blessed in life take it all for granted and never give anything back to the world. Lastly, I absolutely despise people who fake being poor/homeless, fake disabilities, mental illnesses etc., to garner sympathy points and praise. They make those of us who actually struggles look frckn awful. I could never imagine being that cruel. This is why we can't have nice things.. ugh. Dissappointing. I just don't understand why it's seemingly SO HARD for certain people to use a brain cell or two, and to be respectful towards other people, especially those less fortunate. The world is cruel.
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  1126. Sure, go ahead and continue lying to yourself to make yourself feel better. Like.. how tf is he "winning" anything? Also, if anyone's corrupt ' It's Trump. Sure, nearly all politicians are heavily corrupt and bought, mostlye the repukelikkkunts tho. Democratic politicians are far from innocent themselves (excluding especially Bernie Sanders, he does not let big donors donate, he, as well as AOC and tge rest if The Squad REFUSE having their influence bought, ya know- since they care more abour representing those who voted them in to represent THEM, NOT letting big donors buy their votes and influence). Corruption is rooted far and deep in American politicsz and is rampid on both sides of the isle, although repukelikkkunts are far worse and more corrupt than most democrats. Unlike you, us progressives and liberals standing for DEMOCRACY, unlike the repukeliKKKunts are not so brainwashed and partisan that we refuse the objevtive reality. Unlike you, we're able to see nuance, not with a partisan tunnel vision like you and the red side. We're able to critizise and admit when some democrats when they're in the wrong. You on the other hand NEVER admit to ANYTHING wrong, but rather double down on pointing fingers and deflecting all blame, even their own fails onto democrats, as if those you support never do stuff bad or wrong. That says a whole lot about just how shamelessly bad faith you're operating. I guess it's easier to stay in your bubble than to face the reality that you've been so shamelessly lied to all along..you're too moronic to open your eyes to everything. Tearing down democrats is more important to you than creating and fulfilling valueable policies FOR THE PEOPLE. Your goal is not to improve the country and progress needed for EVERYONE (like INFRASTRUCTURE.. when did having good infrastructure become a partisan issue? Are bridges and roads not falling apart etc only an issue for democrats? It's not like democrats are the only people benefitting from good infrastructure, but as long as a bill is democratic you'll oppose it, "just because", ya know.. just to oppose it for the heck of it. Pure partisan hackery). Your sole purpose is stopping democrats from doing ANYTHING. You even have to rig and suppress the voting system in your favor, since accessable and fair voting is dangerous, aka "too democratic" for you. You know your only objective is power when oppression is the only chance you've got at "winning" any election. You're becoming more and more autocratic and dictator-esque. You care about power, no matter the cost the people have to pay. Now THAT'S corrupt. Stop calling the kettle black, mr. Pot. This is not Russia.
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