I suffered a traumatic brain injury as a pedestrian who didn't look both ways. My answer isn't very fun but I technically qualify as I had to be resuscitated on scene.

I was in a coma for a few days and then--despite being conscious and over time regaining awareness, then vocalization, then even conversational speech--I wasn't writing any new long term memories for a couple of months. My experience of that dark period, to the extent that it isn't nothing, is pretty vague. The memories of months preceding injury are pretty blurry until the injury which I don't remember and then the next I remember is being tied to a hospital bed and chewing on the Posey mitts. I remember some hallucinating in that period, one instance is an ordinary piece of a day interacting with nurses and therapists but perceiving everything as if drawn in the Family Guy cartoon. I post-hoc interpret that memory as a vague basically dream state that got mashed in with a Family Guy memory.

So no, no afterlife experience or memories of the other side.

Fountain soda costs a few pennies per gallon, the lost earnings of which would ordinarily be counted as small beans compared to the wages saved by reducing the bodies you need to pay to run your restaurant. The pandemic taught companies though that you don't need a body for every job, you need only as many as it takes to keep the door unlocked. The single person whipped and frantic doing the jobs of eight people will just have to work harder and maybe next year they'll get a fifteen cent raise

This is the article?

NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) — Ken Paxton's impeachment trial hasn't started yet, but there is already political fallout. Not just for the attorney general, but for other Republican leaders and lawmakers as well.

When House members first heard details of the 20 articles of impeachment against Attorney General Paxton, Republican Texas Rep. Charlie Geren of Fort Worth dropped a bombshell:

"I would like to point out that several members of this House while on the floor of the House doing state business, received telephone calls from General Paxton personally threatening them with political consequences in their next election."

The whole article?

You're absolutely right, every citizen who ever makes any decision that makes another unsafe should be immediately executed. Remember this the next time you approach a stopsign, or step outside your home with no mask, or delay buckling your seat belt, or put meat on the top shelf in your fridge. All of these are absolutely damning sins. You are such a righteous and bright light of brilliant justice.

Not really a counter argument but

At least the communist system isn't designed with exploitation as the explicit objective

This is the Sound of Freedom conman, right?

Yup

Edit: I can't find the video where you can see her being groped but here's an article and the embedded video here shows her blowing her vape into the row in front of her. https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/12/lauren-boebert-removed-beetlejuice-musical-denver/

Oh hey, I hadn't heard he's been dealing with cancer. When did that start?

Hmmmmmmmm I thought prion diseases were (usually) a result of eating brain matter and occasionally the result of eating non brain matter that shared a body with a brain. By this understanding, the risk of prion diseases wouldn't be a factor as only the misfolded proteins of a brain are ones that can be risky.

Wait, she apologized?

More in depth is Umberto Eco's essay: Ur Fascism

One of the attributes I take as, if not essential then at least consistent, is the unanalyzed contradictions within any fascist system.

Speech should absolutely be always free!

Unless your speech involves disparaging public figures for transphobic bullshit, that is a crime, or educating children on facts of their own bodies and their right to tell anyone "no", that's obviously pedophilia, or actually worst of all even just sitting in your own home and thinking gay thoughts, super crime.

The only functional economic system is the free market!

But if a consumer chooses to patronize this brand rather than the transphobic one or some big corporation finds it profitable to speak out publicly against transphobic legislation that isn't allowed, those are whimp tactics that cheat the market system!

Men should be men and not sissies afraid to get their hands dirty!

But I have a bad back so I can't fix my own car, or my PTSD keeps me from obtaining a stable job and getting off government assistance, or I'd do any of those things everyone must do but the specific problem I have is the only good excuse for why I can't but anyone else who doesn't is a lazy whimp.

This is the first I'm learning how responsible she, and by extension Supreme Court Fucker Clarance, were for this part of our wet fart of a democracy's descent into dysentery.

Wait, that isn't normal?

I read his final statement as an acknowledgement that "while this sucks, no shit I'm going to do it because cats are necessary for functional human habitation"

I think it's important to acknowledge that yes, the government absolutely does have shadow organizations that violate American citizens constitutional rights. No one is disputing that.

The point that most people here are trying to help you notice is that there is help. A professional , trained therapist can help. A therapist, if they're at all qualified, won't dispute your stances in regard polygyny etc.

What follows includes some assumptions of who you are and I want to acknowledge that these might not look like your struggles. Guessing by analogy of my own experience, you feel a kind of helpless. You understand the situation as it is and you recognize that it is irrational to hope blindly that your understanding is wrong and tomorrow everything is just going to be better. A therapist isn't paid to tell you that you are seeing your situation incorrectly, a therapist is paid to learn what you tell them you understand the world is like and help you find steps you can take from the position you're in now.

The ideology you identify with is associated with a tendency toward terrorism / violent actions. That is what everyone here is trying to warn you about. You sound like what a rational person becomes in hopeless situations. Seek a therapist not because they will change your mind but instead so that someone who will work to understand how you're rational and help you take rational steps from that place to one less hopeless.

Love it!

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Oooooooooooooh

Fuck that hurts, I don't have any advice but I agree the space you describe sucks ass

Not if they're a conservative

Podcasts / audiobooks

• Behind the Insurrections
• Behind the Police

being my first two recommendations