Vilageidiotx

The EC hasn't yet met what are your predictions for what decision our Humble Benefactors will make?

mmmhm, them yellow states

The EC hasn't yet met what are your predictions for what decision our Humble Benefactors will make?

ITT we don't talk, we just post photos of piss colored states.

The Fourth Horseman Came - a Post-Apocalyptic NRP

Reserving Washington DC and environs, as show on this map.

Also reserving the presumed fate of the US government as a natural consequence of that choice.

One weird trick that will win you any argument.

The thing about mental health is it is mainly for describing people who have serious trouble in society. You see this with homosexuality, which one hundred years ago was considered disordered because the nuclear family was not just a primary method of social organization, but also an economic one, so not naturally fitting into that pattern would make life difficult. It took changes in the economic and social patterns for people to look and say "Well, at this point we are making life difficult for them on purpose, if we let up they'll fit in as well as anybody." and bam, homosexuality drops off the DSM.

Go forward 100 hundred years into a time where education is critical and your ability to do the work is integral to your future, and ideas like ADHD appear. One hundred years ago somebody who had trouble focusing in school could drop out in the eighth grade and still get a good job without too much effort. 200 years ago school wouldn't even be an expectation. But now, school is pretty damned important, and having trouble concentrating school can be considered disordered.

As the requirements for living a standard life become tighter, so do our definitions of disordered.

Also why, though we all know politicians and successful businessmen tick off the boxes for antisocial disorders, we don't usually toss them into that category in a real way. Sure, they are psychopaths, but we as a society seem to accept psychopathy as necessary among the aristocracy. If it fits in with the model of social organization we've decided to go with, we just don't considered it disordered, even if those exact same traits would be considered disordered among the general population.

One weird trick that will win you any argument.

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While I'm not American, that's always the vibe I got from the state your (you presumably are) politics're in. It's one of he reasons why anytime some sort of discussion comes up about 'are you republic or democratic' or 'are you conservative or liberal', I'm never able to really go into it because I see both sides as flawed and the system fundamentally broken. I'm too much of a reconstructionist/deconstructionist in my philosophical analysis to be able to ever 'follow a side' in a situation -- I only follow my own terms.

This is probably more serious of a discussion than was the point of the thread though, but, eh, I'm not gonna hold it against myself for spamming in a shitposting thread. Anyway, just woke up, so I'm gonna get something to eat.

@Shoryu Magami

It's sort of built into the system. In some ways what is happening now is more a return to the norm than a deviation. There are a lot of situations, economic and political, where we aren't so much treading new territory as returning to the system as it was before World War 2. Because yeh, the economic instability, the vicious political division, the rabid editorial media, these are all mainstays of American society that just sort of faded into the background at the end of the twentieth century when we had sustained economic growth all across the board.

One weird trick that will win you any argument.

Yeah, unfortunately that sort of strategy is a lot less effective when it's a group vs. another group, since generally speaking in order to brand someone as 'insane' you need to be able to isolate them. Though I'm more inclined to think the masses are insane, but then I'm one of the 'crazy' people so I would think that.

@Shoryu Magami

It's two sides pointing at each other and saying "Look how insane they are! Those guys are nuts!" while the people in the middle are trying to reconcile that information without feeling too put on.

Rohirim?

mr trump is mr gollum

NOT SAURON

@Luna_Maria

I dunno, Sauron has more in common.

-Lives at the top of a tower
-Is orange
-An ancient evil left over from a prior eon, once a lieutenant of the prince of darkness himself
-Wants to make their followers (Orcs/White men) great again at the expense of the rest of the world
-Hell bent on destroying the ivory tower (Liberal intelligentsia/Minis Tirith, a literal Ivory Tower)
-Would be upset if you dropped his jewelry in a volcano

All Gollum got going with Trump is advanced age, a tendency to make silly faces, and a penchant for calling his enemies "Nasty".

Fun fact: I made an election thread in spam last month on the assumption he would lose and I would get to post this video. The absolute worst thing about him winning is he ruined my fucking joke.

Lurking, waiting,

Did I ever tell you about the time I lost my virginity to a lawnmower?

@Rusalka

Did you just not have the ten bucks laying around the pay the guy?

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

@VilageidiotxWe don't boil it often for no reason. usually I boil water only to make food as I eat a lot of pasta. My mother was probably doing it to water to the Christmas tree.

@vancexentan

Aha. I just had this image of your parents and you keeping water boiling into the depths of the night.

What does boiling water do for the Christmas Tree though? Do they not like lukewarm water?

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

Know what's some big fucking hypocritical? My mom constantly telling me to watch the pot on the stove when I am usually aware of it and just walk away to wait for it to boil. Then having both her, AND my father fall asleep (after an admittedly hard day of work) forgetting that she had a pot of water on the stove with the burner on, and nearly burning our fucking house down. If I hadn't smelt something burning we'd be on the street right now waiting for the fire department to bail us out of what is left of our house.

@vancexentan

why do you guys boil water just for no reason so often?

like, usually if I am boiling water, i'm about to do something with it so i'm standing right there. just turn that shit to the highest setting and it'll boil in five minutes.