Consider whether it was left out for a reason.

Sure… but how many drinks can your kids really put away?

Is this even a real question? Because it seems genuine, I will treat it as such.

Instead of hand wringing and making abstract statements, you can answer your own question by explaining what this process looks like on the individual level:

Start with you. You say we have the right to guns AND aren’t you all armed up the wazoo. Assuming this means that you aren’t armed or trained. So you have to become armed and get trained to be effective in the manner you are describing. Then you have to get organized to be effective. That involves time, opportunity cost, and risk.

Move to others. This same process has to happen across a critical mass of individuals. We can barely get unions organized in the USA. That’s trying to get people to rally behind their own economic interests. It’s an order of magnitude more difficult to get people to organize for something less tangible.

Realize it’s by design. The system (capitalism) is designed to keep us all running on the hamster wheel so we cannot take the steps necessary to become individually valuable to an organized movement. In contrast, it creates paid professional positions (the police/military) to enforce the rules of that system. Currently, those that run the system are (hopefully) reaching the threshold of what the cogs will tolerate.

Call it hypnotism if you want. The truth is that the majority of the working class is still subjected to the same top down rule that that we always have been under whatever form of hierarchical rule has been the flavor of the day. I attribute the general shock that many are expressing for the current moment to recently realizing that we are all still stuck in Plato’s Cave.

What to do. Understand where you are in the arch of history. Keep pushing in the direction you want things to go. Keep passing knowledge and training on. Keep maintaining social connections with like minded individuals. Do all this so that those who are in the right place, at the right time, can do the right thing.

The study surmised that autonomy, personal values, and the desire for freedom are some of the strongest predictors of a satisfying single life.

My take as a dad… prior to kids and marriage I had time to pursue hobbies and interests outside of work. Now, as the revenue generating cog the family machine, my time is extremely limited. Combine that with the fact that over the last 100 years the cost of living has risen faster than the average wage. This means the money maker in the family system barely has time for family interaction, not to mention personal time.

Under those conditions, to enjoy being a dad means you have to put your children’s happiness above your own all the time. If a person prioritizes “autonomy, personal values, and the desire for freedom” it’s going to be a bad fit.

I think this is what my own narcissist father meant when he told his three children “you weren’t worth it.”

As for the impending demographic problem… "Life, uh, finds a way.”

Phew… as someone who makes a living as a contractor with NYC I was worried you had a credible source.

Guess without any evidence based on the sparse information available…

federal plea + motion to dismiss state case on double jeopardy grounds. If successful, keeps his time federal and makes a possible future pardon less complicated?

I could see pardoning him grabbing a large number of votes based on his popularity?

Just guessing though

I don’t think they misunderstood. Refusing to engage with a question is a common tactic when you have nothing of substance to say.

Edit: spelling

Loved it growing up. Rewatched it as an adult and found it disturbing. Guess that makes me a disturbed child…

What’s your source for NYC being held up by the state or would be bankrupt?

"When you get to be my age, sonny, all you ever think about are the women you could have gone to bed with and didn't." - A Life On The Road. Charles Kuralt. p.250

Edit: not assuming any genders…Just preserving the quote.

A police officer testified Tuesday that Tony Moreno said he needed to kill his infant son, Aaden, so the child would not be raised by his ex-girlfriend’s family. . . “I asked him directly if he had dropped Aaden from the bridge,” Semper said during his testimony. “He nodded yes.” Semper said he asked Moreno if he threw Aaden like a half-court shot, three-point distance, free throw or layup. “He said free-throw distance. He said ‘free throw,'” Semper said.

Moreno Said He ‘Needed’ To Kill Infant Son – Hartford Courant

Out of curiosity, how well is it going for you having not seized the means of production?

I’ll be 11 years sober this year. It gets much easier. You’re breaking a habit. Your mind will rationalize and justify just about anything to get a fix (nicotine, sugar, alcohol, etc). Hell, I have quit smoking and drinking and I still struggle with late night snacking.

But over time you get stronger. In the early days it pays to go to support groups/ get a mentor. Changing your lifestyle will require you do more than just stop drinking. You may have to adjust how you socialize and destress as well.

If you stumble, be kind but firm with yourself. Learn from the mistake, adjust, and try again.

It’s only “down the drain” if you don’t learn from what caused you to stumble. Sobriety is a lifelong journey. From those posts to today you wandered a bit, but now appear to be back on the path to sobriety.

That you, brother?

Not sure but but there seems to be multiple images google image search

I think this depends on the relationship.

My father is the one that slid fascist. My approach with him is similar to what you describe.

If it were my child I would feel a responsibility to try to help them find the right path.