[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

They can't let him get to prison, and if they do, they have to make sure his cellmate plays along, or they arrange rewards for the group that takes him down.

If anyone in wherever he gets housed picks up what he did, he could end up leading the greatest prison revolt of all time.

Charasmatic intellectuals with an inherent distaste for authority are the most dangerous people for authoritarians.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

And the benefit of using the harassment of women against you in the future if you step out of line.

It's *consequences for thee and not for me" at the finest.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago

Goddamnit

Two morons arguing moron talking points calling each other morons. What the fuck is going on anymore.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

IDK he might be a little aware. His constant "deer-in-the-headlights" stare might be that awareness just beginning to form and it generates something remotely similar to fear.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

I call bullshit on the DNA on the bike and shells.

The backpack? He didn't do it so how the fuck did he drop it?

I mean everything in the case has been bullshit. The entire world can see it. The rich just need to make an example out of him to show it's pointless to resist.

They fail to learn from history.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago

That is way too coherent to be Trump.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

No, it's somewhat more disturbing.

Kirk was outside of the shooter's in group. In Fascism those in the out group need to shut up and get out of the way. It doesn't matter to the shooter that Kirk was an ultraconservative bigoted lunatic, he wasn't conservative enough. Since he was still talking and not getting out of the way, the Fascist believes he has an obligation to fix that problem.

And what's stranger, is that there is no doubt in my mind that Kirk thought the same thing about Fuenes. But they would both agree that if I had any public speaking ability (or any speaking ability for that matter) I would definitely be more important to sanitize first.

Fascists are elementary school boys left without supervision. That's all they really are.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

They believe the left consists of no one but minorities, lgbtq, and women.

I'm not kidding at all. I can walk right up to these conversations people will have and no one will blink an eye.

But they believe it so much that they will kill other white men who don't conform to the group. That's why Kirk was killed. He was a man that existed outside the in-group and needed to be cleaned up.

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I want to point out that Orthostatic Hypotension is normal to some degree.

If you experience it changing positions while sitting, or notice exercise and heat intolerance, talk to a doctor. In the short term drink enough fluids and get a bunch of sodium and potassium in you.

Edit: Im going to step out here and say that I am personally familiar with a condition called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. It's somewhat uncommon, and has a lot of potential causes. COVID-19, specifically, can trigger it because of the way it attacks the nervous system. However, the symptoms of POTS are also the symptoms of a BUNCH of other much more serious conditions. It's a diagnosis by ruling out other things. When they get to the step of testing for POTS it's hilariously easy. They monitor your heart rate and blood pressure, stick you on a moving table, and tilt you.

On the downside, POTS itself is incurable unless the underlying cause changes or improves. This happens in many people, I was unfortunate enough that they discovered I had unexplainable neuropathies. Either the nerves were damaged when I was young, or they didn't grow correctly.

The upside is that we can manage POTS symptoms. Avoid heat. Build lower body muscle, increase electrolyte intake, and drink a lot of non-caffinated and non-alcoholic liquids. I take salt pills, drink Pedialyte daily, and have a prescribed (and extremely cheap) medication. It still happens, but it's manageable, and I won't die from a head injury anymore.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

My inability to tan is no longer a laughing joke.

I'm privileged to be a wasp, but more specifically, I literally cannot tan. I'm not albino. I'm just pale. now have a privilege that not even everyone in my family has.

My dad is a wasp, but tans really easy. In Missouri and Indiana, he's been profiled already like this. Over a decade ago too. Black hair, tan skin. That's it. That's all that does it.

There's a very disturbing plan here. It makes the Nazi racial policies seem tame.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

258,000,000 deaths in America is one thing.

But this sort of thing impacts the rest of the world.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Arguably? Putin is the problem.

Trump is nothing without people with actual power. He doesn't have the brain capacity to actually do anything.

Netenyahu is a small weak man of a small weak nation with too much concentrated wealth and too much fingers in the western world.

If you take Putin out, the rest of the world stands a chance at ridding itself of the evil that Zionism has infected it with, regardless if Netenyahu is around or not.

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I didn't care for the musical nature of it. That aside:

The first 'Joker' clearly established that the main character was Arthur Fleck. Clearly suffering from mental illness as a result of abuse growing up, and the people he murdered were abusing him in some way. To me, as a long time Batman fan, this 'Joker' was anything but Joker.

  1. He didn't take pleasure in chaos.
  2. He wasn't anti-batman in anyway.
  3. A clear back story that lined up with his behaviors.
  4. Clearly a dude pushed too far (kind of like Killing Joke, but it didn't line up with that character's style).

However, when he was in the 'Joker' role, he became clear headed and focused. So now the 'Joker' clearly isn't Joker but the beginning of Joker?

In Folie A Deux, we see him continue to be abused, still having strange fantasies, a system failing around him, and noticably the 'Joker' character is resonating with people fed up with all sorts of bullshit. The collective desire to burn it down and restart - very common theme within the Batman comics and joker. We see Harley Quinzel introduced, and as we discover throughout the movie - this is the actual Harley Quinn Psychiatry, brilliance, obsessed with Joker to the point that when Arthur says it was just something he made up to do what he thought he needed, she quit him. The last parts of the movie tie is completely together. Ricky, who is killed by the only guard that is sometimes nice, breaks Arthur, realizing murder happens to those undeserving by those who 'shouldnt' be doing it.

Joker escapes after the court room explosion (with a burned Harvey Dent, that was badass). He's rescued by enthusiasts, who he escapes from. He encounters Quinn and she says that his "fantasy was all that mattered, and it's gone."

When the Joker is murdered at the end by the psychopath, he starts it with a retelling of the joke Arthur told Murray. Albeit, one that was significantly better delivered. He also notably uses a knife, and is laughing the whole time, and gives himself a scarred smile. This man, (if Warner Bros could ever finish a good DC series) would likely continue to be an evolution of 'Joker'.

This all works because:

  1. Joker rarely has a back story, and famously is stated to prefer his origin to be "Multiple Choice."
  2. Several comics and media (Notably the Arkham series of video games) explore how Joker is not confined to a single person. Unlike Batman who has very specic goals, values, and traumatic origin, Joker is a shared 'idea' between these individuals that reject the value of civilization at all.
  3. Harley Quinzel was only introduced in the 90s, but her main obsession with Joker evolved over time as he abused her, or burned things she learned to care for, but seemingly remained obsessed because of some 'fantasy' she provided him, UNTIL he broke that fantasy and she quit him abruptly just like in the movie.

I don't think it was a great movie. But it actually reimagined the same Joker story in a new way that I did thoroughly enjoy. And it left it plenty open for more stories from it, just as all good DC stories do.

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This is what I do for work I guess

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It will still break them if you try it

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I'm talking like one person brought in all the money for a decade, then a divorce happens. Some of it makes sense - a house with mortgage, one spouse buys the other out of the house. Which is great, but if one spouse doesn't have the income to take a loan out to buy the other, does that mean that the spouse who does have the income has the choice to buy out or sell?

Similarly, things like 401ks and pensions I imagine you can't just take out half the cash in them and give that to their spouse. Or does that have to be a loan for the amounts in those plans?

Is it debt all the way down for both?

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Let me set the stage: Newly single dad of a young kid. After COVID-19 I haven't done much outside of my home and taking care of my kid. I work full time-remote, and between the kiddo and leaving room for a hobby or taking care of the house, it seems like the only other thing I have time for is sleep.

The thing I know is that this is likely an issue with my anxiety and anxious attachment. The conclusion we've arrived at in therapy is that I gotta meet people. I apparently forgot, or don't know how to do that. Where to meet people. It's not a big city, but 200k-300k people in the county.

Maybe I'm looking for something of a strategy more than anything.

edit: thank you guys, I really appreciate it!

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