wait til you figure out that all of human history is one giant cycle of people being incredibly cruel to other people for incredibly tenuous reasons and realize this cycle will, presumably, never end; and thus every interaction you have with other people is if not driven by transaction (what can you do for them), likely to be driven by cruelty.
sweet dreams, it doesn't get better.
that's when you send the new offer of a whopping $21.37 and add "I'll even throw in half a jimmy johns sammich if you accept in the next 30 minutes"
God is dead and we killed him
Ah, that's what that feeling was -- here I thought it was seething rage building up inside me, now I know that was simply my affinity for dick leaving my body.
meanwhile, my family: "just don't be gay for the next 3 and a half years, we don't need to leave"
... Right, I'm sure they definitely leave office as scheduled and I'm sure with how quickly things are progressing I'll still be around to see them do so. Yep. Definitely. 👍
Oh there wasn't any doubt on my part that he knew about it -- terrible people, especially terrible wealthy and powerful people, hang out together all the time -- just that he may or may not have "participated". Now I'm quite certain.
You know, when Elon said Trump was on the list, I figured there was about an 85-90% chance that was true. Like, given all the photos of Trump and Epstein together, I found it a very plausible claim, but I was also quite aware that Elon is a ketamine addicted narcissist and pathological bullshitter, so I figured there was at least some chance he was pulling it out of his ass just to fuck with Trump.
Now, however, I am 100% certain that not only does that list exist/existed, but also that Trump is/was on it. Unfortunately, chances are good we'll now never have proof. I'd not be surprised if the past few weeks have been them burning and shredding every trace of evidence in somewhat of a panic after Elon tried playing that card, just to take it out of his deck.
Ah, what a marvelous idea, we should look to the present!
[reads the news]
... Hm. I think I may have noticed a problem with this theory.
This is gonna be our white and gold/black and blue dress, huh?
Ah yes, the Ohio of Babel.
I like how even Ohio wants nothing to do with Florida.
Mexico? Could be Ohio, someday.
Florida? ... Nah, we're good.
also, missed opportunity to call our favorite vacation state Ohawaiio.
if the vast majority of your interactions with other people are neutral or positive, absent of transaction or cruelty, I'm very happy for you. genuinely. Unfortunately your personal experience, however, doesn't invalidate mine; nor does it invalidate the mountains of human awfulness throughout history and up into the present day that I could list off to prove my point -- keyword being 'could', here, as I'm not very interested in arguing, or in pissing on the parade you're apparently having. If nobody's pissed on yours, yet, why would I want to be the one to do so? so go, be happy, dismiss what I say as "cynical doomer shit" while you still have that fleeting luxury.