Just totally shut down land trade through the center of the continent? Wars have been fought over less lol

If he even committed the alleged act at all 🤷

It looks just like the Tik Tok ban to me. Racist/Nationalist nonsense that doesn’t solve the actual underlying problem, which is lack of regulation in the US

“the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/

Unfortunately, I think there’s an argument that insurance parasites count as a civilian population

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

Especially since gifs as article thumbnails are far from common. I’m surprised my client even supports that

Cropping a farside comic to poorly remove the signature is a new level of shitpost lol

I don’t know what app they’re from, but I’ve definitely been sent videos that are the way you described

“More classified documents were discovered missing from a the President’s Florida bathroom today…”

That doesn’t mean it’s not still a real motivation

Human rights are not “micro-things,” what the fuck? And “maybe if we let them build the camps, they’ll let us have healthcare,” is a wild take

It’s not just recent. MLK wrote about it in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963, and he referenced some considerably older sources as well:

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

And in another section:

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

Humans are really good at normalizing things. It takes a lot to push someone from theoretical opposition to direct action. It’s harder to get to that point for those not directly suffering the worst oppressions. Dr. King talks about that too.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

To squash the bourgeoisie!

He’s about as with it as you can expect the Pope to be. The Catholic Church has never really lead the charge of progress

So the answer is just to buy a lab-grown diamond, and then tell everyone it’s real, because once the poors have it, it won’t be cool anymore

Weed has helped me figure alot out about myself as well. The main thing is that I really don’t like spending all my time stressed out. It feels physically uncomfortable. I had never noticed that before I had THC, to calm me down for the first time in my life. It’s helped me break down a lot of walls my anxiety built, which were keeping me from parts of myself.

Tolerance is so unfair lol

This sounds, to me, a lot like being driven by revenge. Yes it can work, you can force yourself to move with spite, but it’s not healthy, and eventually you’re going to have a reckoning. “Paralyzing” anxiety is not good for you. Using it to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of yourself is going to leave you wrung out.

I am, of course, not a therapist. I recommend you discuss this with one.

I would definitely expect the positive effects of HRT to reduce anxiety

I hate to be the bearer of bad (good?) news, but, at least based on this post, it does not sound like you’ve defeated your anxiety. You’re just anxious that you’re not anxious enough lol