VinoVeritas
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VinoVeritas
8mo ago
10 or so years ago - and thanks for the pleasant surprise I didn't know it'd changed at all
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
Anyone who would light themselves on fire on purpose is mentally deranged, damaged beyond conception, and just plain sick. I know this because I have previously been in a situation where I was made to confront what I actually cared about and what actually mattered. Anyone incapable of understanding 'this post'....
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
My bad, I should've clarified I was looking for any other example than the American Civil War
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
What examples come to mind of rot spreading down under?
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
Nothing happens, until it does. The American currency depends on the American navy regulating and protecting international trade, and you can only get embarrassed by so many Vietnamese Aghans Iraqis Houthi "cavemen" until everyone just kind of shrugs
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
As of now total Unfunded liabilities stand at 213 trillion dollars, $633,000 per US Citizen (Man woman, and newborn babe)
Therefore, let's wave through as many million new 'citizens' as possible to drive that number down. If it doesn't work, just keep at it. Quantity has a quality all to itself.
Things are just shittier in the future. Brazil is still a country. This is your future.
I wish. I have a buddy who is leaving the US to go back home to Brazil. Brazil is hardened and adapted to life with huge deadweight from giant indigenous/oppressed populations. Our thing is something brand new. This is the first time in recorded history a population was in/voluntarily invaded. If anyone can think of another time - please let me know.
Related but equally important: any examples of a people killing themselves to free their own slaves? Yes sometimes the slaves would fight, but are there any other examples of people "rising up" against themselves for their slaves?
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
Thread soundtrack or Real/full version
So a guy lit himself on fire the other day. On purpose. In some ways, perhaps because we’ve been primed by Buddhist monk seminal example, that remains an ultimate attention-getter of Western modernity. And although most everybody talked a whole lot about it, mostly nobody seemed to care much. I’ve been checking in more than usual for a post here - hoping to tack on - so I didn’t have to go first.
“Performative” seems tough but fair. It seems to me like it was a bad move and and I’m sharing my perspective hoping it leads to productive exchanges.
I used to drink a lot. I still drink a lot, but I used to drink a lot too, and back in the day it got me in trouble exactly twice. Two separate trips to jail, one night each.
The second time I drank too much, went out for tacos, blacked out while driving, and crashed. No one got hurt (thank you Jesus) and I talked my way out of charges. Just one night in the tank and a memory of the stupidest thing I’ve ever done. Happy to tell that story but it’s kind of ‘fun’ and not highly probative.
The first time I woke up in a cell not remembering how I got there. I remembered going to a bar with some buddies. A cute girl offered me her drink saying some weirdo had just given it to her. I took it without a thought, we hit it off, and my buddies made themselves scarce. Flash from chatting with her after near-to-zero-as-makes-no-difference drinks to screaming for help banging against the bars.
(Quick tangent: as you might imagine most of the other fellas unfortunate enough to be there that night were screaming back at me. Some variation of “shut up,” with profanity. They were just trying to sleep. I screamed and banged for so long that (quite precisely) like a toddler I eventually tired myself out. Then I just wanted to sleep. So what happened when they brought in a new guy? He started screaming for help, and I started screaming back at him with some variation of “shut up,” and profanity. After all, we were just trying to sleep.)
Of all the “oh shit”ers possible in life, “shooting back a drink someone explicitly warned you might be spiked then waking up in jail” has gotta be up there. I knew I hadn’t had too much to drink - but had absolutely no idea what happened between that spiked drink and ending up in jail. To even list some possibilities is to discount the galactic extent of possibilities.
In between the sleeping and the screaming, your mind will go toward certain things: the things that actually matter.
“Guess my chances with my ex are shot, she’s the only number I have memorized of anyone nearby” (no one else to pick me up). “Hope my dog isn’t too hungry or in too much pain” (without her arthritis medication). “No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried” (what will she think when I call for bail money).
Strangers dying thousands of miles away were...thousands of miles from mind.
It would've been counter productive to the point of trying to put yourself in the shoes of someone who learned really quick what mattered and what didn't - but- it also doesn't make for that great of a story. According to the police report, multiple witnesses saw me running around screaming for help, and when the cops showed up I was incoherent enough they just threw me in jail.
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