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Living paycheck-to-paycheck doesn’t necessarily mean hardship, and LendingClub makes the distinction between those can pay their bills easily and those who can’t. Only a fraction of high earners – roughly one in ten – reported issues covering all their household expenses in April, according to the survey.

I guess the distinction is whether it means hardship for LendingClub. Fuck me, imagine reading shit like this credulously.

Hehe “trigger” warning

Wonder how many Texas golf courses are fed by the Rio grande basin?

Hamas tunnels in their aorta

He had no resistance, he had no plan, he had no ideology, or grand vision.

I think the small difference in our opinions is perhaps our different meanings ascribed to the word “resistance”, which does not (in my mind) have anything to do with a vision or an ideology. It can of course but a simpler, baser resistance is what he did, and what i mean.

Why couldn’t Lawrence just become the killer the US military wanted him to be? Perhaps he himself didn’t know, but in the end instead of moved by the inexorable power to change in to something he was not, he resisted this change. He could not be moved, could not be moulded into what they wanted him to be, “went crazy”.

It wasn’t a choice, youre right. He couldn’t become it. And unfortunately (j/k fortunately. a speech would be dumb) he didn’t have the screen time to write a speech on why he did what he did. We’re left to guess why he made this decision. Now if we all had an assignment to write a paper on leonard’s motivations but weren’t allowed to use the word “crazy” or anything about his intelligence, what would one say was going through his mind?

Great movies that don’t tell the audience everything also invite the audience to make these connections themselves. There’s no right answer either of us will walk away with here but it’s a fun exercise and a good one; one shouldn’t just dismiss these ideas because they are not spelled out explicitly

Any act of resistance was by complete accident. He was just pushed over the edge.

Are those two things any different, really? Some people, maybe most people, respond to unrelenting pressure by giving in. Hell maybe Pyle was mostly like this for the most part. Maybe most of us also have one thing we can’t abide, one thing where we’d break before we aquiesced. Isn’t that what resistance is?

Ah so he broke his own record. A 104 yo lady almost beat him but died (naturally and unrelated to the jump) before claiming her prize, so he must’ve done it for the love of the game right? I am fairly confident after reading that his record will now never be broken. How many centarians even think about shit like this? What a guy.

Ok 'bears! Finish this headline game! I’ll start

His mind is decaying faster than… American Democracy

His mind is decaying faster… and furioser.

His mind is decaying faster than fetterman’s bait n switch

I already have me copy!

Dunno. Send in another zionist to check his shoes

Well, maybe not the party but the true bluelievers are looking at the severed arm and crying “why would Russia do this?”

“not doing enough to protect aid workers and civilians.”

Killing. Killing aid workers and civilians. Good Christ is libspeak fucking nauseating

Ok i guess I’m Godwinning but how come nobody else said ‘hitler youth’ yet?

I think it’s that, and also that these publications are written for the exact people their language is targeting.

Good point… That must be why i read these things and greet this weird feeling they I’ve heard this language, verbatim. I see myself holding a stale donut at every mgmt meeting I’ve ever been forced to attend. They’re not really talking to you. They’re just talking points. Points you then see repeated in media ad nauseam.

It’s not only demeaning because it’s so obviously bullshit, it’s, it’s… also paternal or something.

But maybe this is like you say, that it is even worse, they they’re not really talking to us at all.

it normalizes the kind of dialogues they’re having behind closed doors and helps shape the direction of that dialogue as well.

If the media aren’t even talking to us, but the caps, could that fact be why online libs are so consistently arrogant and dismissive?

Believing a lie like OPs piece means adopting the language too, and the imagined position of power that comes with it. It sounds just like how their bosses talk.

Threatening that lie also threatens their imagined position of power. Their arrogance is mental protection from the chains that bind em.

Sorry I ramble a bit, your comment was insightful and got me thinking.

Luckily, if you’re like me and didn’t read this piece precisely because you knew it would make you angry, rest assured you don’t have to.

Judging by genzedongs excellent summary, it’s clear that once you’ve read one of these garbage capitalist apologia pieces you’ve read “all” of 'em.

Well i really can’t imagine either future president is gonna do a good job at foreign relations. Biden will complete his zionist project and/or Trump will probably do the same except maybe fight with bibi on whose contractors gets to make most of the money (talking out of my ass here) rebuilding the wreckage.

This might help https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnG53304Hk

I think it’s super not real. So unreal it cycles back to real again. Poor thailand boy.

I don’t listen to much non English music so you’ll have to deal with me sending anime op/eds lol.

I felt a frenetic energy in the first song you posted that i feel is captured by mashles op here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9rVKos-oGnQ and if your don’t hate that i will send more as i think of them. They won’t all be anime (probably)

Edit:

Old and english but dope

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gAjR4_CbPpQ

Muse (not psychedelic but rocking, no lyrics) https://yewtu.be/search?q=Muse+micro+cuts

Thank you very much :D