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3 words: Gympie-Gympie enema

Hahahaha… Fuck.

I’d love to open the news one evening and not feel like we’re another step closer to the apocalypse.

Honestly, fuck Trump. Where my Luigis at?

I’m reminded of a comment I saw on Reddit which I saved a while back. Can’t remember who posted it, but I often think about it:

Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about “meritocracy” and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren’t visiting the carnival. They’re the ones working it.

Edit: Looks like it was originally a Hacker News comment reposted on Reddit

Thanks for the detailed response. That is absolutely wild

Is this true? Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me but I’d never heard this before

I think both of you are oversimplifying.

Choice and freedom take on an entirely different meaning when you have a state media bombarding you with anti-Ukraine propaganda 24/7. It’s easy for us to say from the sidelines that we’d never get swept up in a war against innocents, but probably a lot of the soldiers have been fully indoctrinated with the idea that Ukraine are a threat to their families. Not to mention they probably now have friends and family who have been killed or wounded in this war.

Putin is the real villain here. He not only started the war, he’s the one who has kept it going by his refusal to withdraw troops, silenced political opposition, lied to his population, influenced global politics in his favour by buying elections, and used his subjects as fodder in this pointless war.

It’s fucking twisted the amount of suffering one thoroughly evil man can cause.

My partner is a scientist and has to travel to the US for work later this year. We’re both dreading it, given all these stories of people being detained at the border.