I like how they said that they were gonna "release" some more info in a doomed attempt to keep people calm but couldn't even manage that. I betcha Trump is already on the golf course this late on a Friday.
So you'd rather have someone be hateful than kind? Like, I get it, MAGA deserves the hate. But is looking down on people for having a conscience really the best mentality to have? Would you call your mom a pussy because she felt bad for saying a curse word?
So are we supposed to just give up and just accept that every election is going to swing to the right now? Assuming they don't rig elections, how are we expected to get people over to the other side if we treat them like garbage even if they realized they fucked up? I don't think it's very wise in this current situation to continue to make enemies when we are all in danger. The fact that people are breaking away should be a good thing and we should encourage it instead of just calling them stupid. If one of your friends joined a cult and managed to get out, would you be pissed at your friend for falling for it or be pissed at the cult that manipulated them? In cults there are always hierarchies and the majority of MAGA are not the people we see in podcasts and on the news. Those are the people in charge and are the ones that convince people to join for their own selfish reason by being loud and portraying themselves as the victims.
Seriously, go look up videos of people that were in cults and tell me that it's their fault. There are people that would rather kill themselves than try and leave the cult because they are so scared. We only see this on a macroscopic scale while we never consider the small scale things going on all over the country. These people have literally been brainwashed and the people on the "outside" would rather call them stupid than give them a chance at fixing things. All that does is reinforce the idea that the cult is better because everyone else hates them.
Edit: I'm not saying we need to forgive them. All I'm saying is treat them like people instead of all of them being monsters.
You also have to take into account people that are not sure or simply don't care that much and have no opinion.
Just 17% of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the case, a weaker rating than the president received on any other issue in the poll. Among Republicans, 35% approved, compared to 29% who disapproved and the rest who said they weren't sure or didn't answer the question.
Can you upload videos here? Last time I tried I couldn't figure it out. I wanna make a super fancy one of these in Blender or something. I'm trying to get back into using blender and I think this would be a neat way to get back into it. :)
Or the doctor was more worried about telling him something he didn't want to hear. Or he doesn't give a shit about what some random doctors tells him.
Because they're not pissed about whether or not he's on the list, they're pissed about the fact that he's part of the swamp that he promised to drain. We're talking about the people that said they'd vote for him even if he shot someone in the middle of the street. They never cared about whether or not he was on the list they just wanted him to drain the swamp. And everyone on both sides of the political spectrum know that the people in charge on both sides were involved with Epstein and vote for them anyway.
If you go to conservative communities online they'll say "yeah but what about Biden?" If you go to liberal communities they'll say "yeah but what about trump?" The only reason we think the other side is okay with Epstein is because we've both been told that the other side has that position. But in reality, everyone wants them released regardless of political views.
That bonus alone is what I make in an entire year. Meanwhile these people are throwing it around like it's chump change while saying I'm not allowed to have healthcare.
If cell phones weren't as ubiquitous as they are now I can definitely see it not being an issue in the past. But with literally everything being online and on our phones I could easily see something going badly. Like, I don't think you can even buy maps at gas stations or rest stops in the US these days and those things used to be everywhere. And without being able to use GPS, call someone, and in some peoples cases won't even be able to buy anything since there are so many people that rely on things like Apple Pay, there are so many things that can go wrong with one point of failure. Most people wouldn't even know what day of the month it is or even how much money they have without their phone.
One of the reasons I keep a map in my car, which I've actually had to use a couple times when my phone died on a long drive.
I think what my point is mostly about is that once one person does it for an arbitrary reason then everyone does it for an arbitrary reason. I guess I'd say that it breaks the trust of the commitment very easily. I've seen it with similar situations all the time. I have a discord server where I play games with all my friends and one day one of the people in the server disabled the ability to see what they were playing. Next thing you know everyone is hiding their activity and nobody knows what anyone is doing. Instead of being a feature that was sometimes disabled it turned into a feature that is sometimes enabled instead. And I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just that it's the way things go.
It seems like a good idea in theory but there are so many issues with this. First of all, it's a good way to keep track of your friends and make sure they are safe, but at the same time if a stranger gets access to a phone they will know where all their friends are. That'd be a wet dream for stalkers. Secondly, it seems like it would be a good way to make sure your friends aren't doing anything shady, but that also means if they are doing something that they don't want their friends to see they could just leave their phone at home which is very dangerous. And if you just disable the tracking that immediately breaks the trust of the friendship even if it was just over being embarrassed about going to McDonalds three times in one day.
I get it if it's a tight friend group, but as you get older you really start to notice some of your friends are just shitty people. I cut ties with more toxic people in my 20s than I ever thought I would have to. I could only imagine what some of them may have done if they could track my every move. I've had people I consider friends break into my house before I ever even noticed anything toxic about them.
The only ones trying to stop this are the elites, MAGA influencers, and politicians. You go anywhere online right now and everyone, regardless of political views, is calling for the files to be released. This doesn't just have momentum, it's basically full steam ahead at this point. I went to r/conservative on reddit and they are absolutely pissed. They still don't believe that Trump is involved in some instances, but they are up in arms about this. It's crazy how Trump is so narcissistic and in love with himself that he didn't realize that people actually care about the horrific things that happened to the victims and want consequences for the people involved. He thought that people would love him unconditionally no matter how horrible he acted. Turns out there is a line and he crossed it (For now, at least)
Almost forgot because I had the day off. Everything is fucked, but at least it's Friday.
Sorry about being later than usual! Had no WiFi or phone service all day. It's been on my mind all day though, I promise. :)
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying that making fun of people for having a conscience about it is just being a shitty person. The people that deserve the hate don't have a conscience about it and 100% deserve the hate.