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[–]Optimus85 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, society isn't doing it for me anymore. If I had any survival skills, I'd relocate to the wilderness away from all this shit.

[–]Ehhhhhh 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Develop them now.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The failing capitalism class is becoming more and more evident. We are damned if we do and damned if we don't it seems no matter WHAT economic system we use.

[–]yabbit 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

The world was always shit we just get more information online about the problems happening. I just hope yang gets elected so I get my yangbucks.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Seriously, he's my favorite after Kanye.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think we are going to be getting Dang and his bucks. "Dang it!'

[–]rubberbiscuit 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (20 children)

As a child of the 1970s, you're not wrong. Blessed to have been a kid back then, and I hate what is happening to America. While you blame your generation, and certainly there is blame there, I feel like my generation let you down as well. My generation is quick to divorce, settles for cheap, poor products and experiences, and allowed corporations to buy everything up and out and act like demons.

I do think you can escape to some extent. Move to as small a town as possible. Turn off media as much as possible. Hang out with people from church as much as possible. Live in a little bit of a bubble. If that doesn't work, yeah, vengeance seems like plan b.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

Religious people are disgustingly stupid.

[–]HenryGeorgeOfficial 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (8 children)

If only there were secular churches. Like built around fishing or something.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

In the UK we call them "pubs".

[–]HenryGeorgeOfficial 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can I go alone and not drink?

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The state is the church of the left.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

We are unfortunately forced to attend services. They then use the 'number of attendees' to boost their popularity. 'See everybody loves us! They keep right on coming!' when it's secretly mandatory.

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Then make like Abraham and destroy the false idols.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They did this with Windows 8 by bricking XP computers in April 2013 in a bad update then forced Windows 8 without users permission to make their computer be like a phone. They then used that to boost their numbers to show how many 'devices' installed Windows 8. After enough complaints they finally fixed the 8 shit by adding a down arrow that lets you remove a bunch of crap you don't want and added drivers but by that time so many hated 8 that MS went with 10 when they should've just had 8.1 and leave it at that. 10 wounded up being a whole new ball of wax that pretty much ended what was left of the independent software industry outside of digital download.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Those are called associations.

(I am already rate limited by just replying to a bunch of people. How hard can it fucking be to have a place where I can just reply to ten people in 15 minutes?)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your living in one right now!

[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Like Isaac Newton?

[–]HenryGeorgeOfficial 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is easier to be religious than not. Firstly, to quote Bukowski, those who preach god need god. Which is to say that the people who believe god are those who find it comforting. This is similar to how people who use whores find it comforting. Secondly, it comes with political, business, and social advantages. Which is to say, that saying "I love god and god loves me" on live television, meeting business partners at church, and getting a lot of social credit for putting $5 in the tithe basket every week are easily interpreted as acts of selfishness.

Religion is not a selfless act. I pray on a mountain, in a field, or by a stream, to a non-religious god called nature. I can't say I believe people who pray in front of others are praying at all. I understand the value of the social aspect, but I despise the hypocrisy, dishonesty, and self-righteousness of organized religion.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Participating in organized religion is an act of aggression.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We can't ask anymore whether he was actually religious. I know a lot of people that just do the routine out of social considerations.

Just because someone writes down that he is religious, doesn't mean he actually believed that bullshit. Also, perhaps he was just indoctrinated. Adding to that that calculus is easy compared to modern calculi, and finally, compared to a theoretical intelligence, all of humanity that has ever lived is stupid. So, it just depends on what your point of view is.

Arguably everything any human has ever come up with is trivial from a theoretical perspective. This is something that is difficult to accept for most people that tried hard at "studying" something in university or whatever. Fundamentally, humans are really nothing special.

[–]jamesK_3rd 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ah the religious atheist showed up... With the obligatory "religious people are dumb, you must worship the state like us enlightened folks, there can be no other."

I knew you'd get here, just didn't know it'd take you this long for that comment.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn't say it the way he did, that seems rude to me, but it does strike me as a bit ... Odd to worship a man made religion. I like the Bible, it's an interesting book. Have several versions. I like Biblical history. But the religions themselves hardly strike me as divine, they strike me as something men invented.

Not that there aren't benefits to it, networking, peace of mind, fellowship...

I lost faith when I noticed our church took in about a million bucks a week, but did fuck all for the community. That's not Godly, that's a business.

[–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lgbtp? Yeah

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Flagged for antisemitism.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Define 'religious people'. Sounds like to me you are the one with a problem and don't want to hear about Jesus's salvation. He is ultimately our emergency door out.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Obviously experience and opinions will differ, but I think that small towns are overrated and churchgoers can be some of the most disgusting snakepeople.

Not that I condone not going to the church, just saying that it attracts some very hypocritical, double-faced bastards.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Rainbow dystopia

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I want us to get collective vengeance on the people heading this destruction.

inb4 Saidit suddenly gets a lot of traffic from news sites

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reminds me of the r/kratom sub back when the gov was trying to ban kratom, a dude there filed freedom of info reqs for the investigation and they were screen shotting the sub! Stuff we all recently said... They had a big crack down on what you could say after that, which sucked, but it was because the gov was trying to use our own words against us.

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You may find people via the greater reset.
https://thegreaterreset.org/
But there are many other such groups.

[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I want to find a group of people who want to recreate something as similar as possible

Colonia Vianna is already similar. The Arkian ethnicity is an attempt to create a lasting group that is similar. And Reactionary Software is trying to recreate good software. But I realize that people prefer complaining to solutions, so they won't join these groups.

[–]EthnocratLiteral Nazi 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nietzsche warned about this. It's basically the world of the last man.

[–]BravoVictor 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I generally agree. But know that we're not the first to experience this. Empires rise and fall, and ours is just one in decline. That creates minorities out of everyone who struggle to find a community out of the chaos.

But as far as declines go, ours is far from the worse so far. The fall of the Roman empire plunged all of Europe into chaos for centuries. The fall of the Russian and French empires resulting in mass executions.

Obviously, I can't predict how ours will go, but people learned to live and raise families even in those shit holes. We'll manage, even if it won't be fun.

[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So many men end up suffering due to the current state of society. You are definitely not alone in feeling like that.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. Like one other poster said, we aren't exactly the first to experience this, but certain things are still different.

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Read the 2nd Amendment.

[–]Airbus320 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You misspelled "yes."

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You don't want to read a foreign country's legal documents! 😮

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hate how all these posts seem to occur 14 hours ago which signals to me that these are all bots or shills. Otherwise many posts like this I'd agree upon.

[–]portace 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Life post-WWII may have been better for American boomers, but it's been a dystopian shit show for quite a while.