You really never know until you’re in the moment.

I was once in a situation like that… When people started screaming I was already carrying my niece under one arm (who was a preteen no longer usually carried) and bringing her to my stepdad and telling him to get her out of here. I didn’t realize what I was doing, I didn’t hear her asking me what was happening until I was power walking towards the screaming and telling my mom (a nurse) who asked what to do that she should follow me to see if there was something to be done

Turns out a woman offed herself in a bathroom, there was nothing to be done. I snapped out of it, and I was more disturbed by how calm I was during the whole thing than anything else

But now I know. My mind will shut off and I’ll act…I have the memory of what I did, but not a single thought went through my head during the event. I was equally ready to fight someone with a gun barehanded or to cover my hands in blood to slow the bleeding. I probably would barely notice getting shot in that state

I guess I always thought I’d be the heroic type, but lots of people do. I’m shocked at how effective I was in the moment… My priorities were followed perfectly, I locked the fuck in, head empty, no thoughts, no hesitation

I think that’s always what it’s like. And that’s why you never really know… I’m not a leader, in fact my step dad is and I hate telling people what to do. But when the chips are down, I bark orders that people obey and run towards the danger automatically

And I’m pretty proud of that

I meant to delete the comment to keep things simple, but what I was going to say is something like

fine, but debt is like gambling. There’s situations where it makes sense, but it’s addictive. It’s mortgaging your own future, even when it maths out it’s a risk - shit happens

And if you over leverage and under perform, it’s over. If you can pay yourself and your employees, you’re better off never taking on debt again.

Like Wegmans. It’s the very best grocery store, everyone who goes there agrees. They grow slowly because they only open new locations when they have the cash to do so, and so they never have to compromise on quality in any way

True. We can’t let them just dance over the line, that wears away the line

If they cross the line at all, they’ve broken the social contract. They are no longer protected by it, no longer entitled to tolerance or respect. They don’t deserve to go about their lives unmolested or get invited to family dinner

It’s like, basic civilization type shit. The problem is we’ve confused what is legal with what is acceptable as a society

companies just can’t seem to know how to grow without line go up mentality.

That’s like saying “people just can’t seem to harness the advantages of cancer without dying”

If you never take money and get hooked by outside sources, you can just slowly grow, with no debt, beholden to no one

If you take the money with any strings attached at all, you basically have to grow like cancer or your company will be sold for parts. It’s inevitable at that point

Don’t take the money kids. If you have to take a business loan in the beginning - fine,

You really never know until the moment comes. If you’re that kind of person, your mind just blanks and you’re suddenly doing things

Oh, I’d feel nauseous lol, those nuggets are so gross and I don’t really like the fries

You’re projecting competence. That plan is about 4 layers too deep for them

They have no plan to survive the midterms, let alone stabilize their rule. They’re not even deporting more people than Biden was, the bottleneck is still the number of judges. The ICE facilities are all full

The plan is, give right wing terrorist groups guns and tell them to get wacky with it. Oh, and make sure we get some tik tok footage

It’s all that straightforward.

Did you know we accidentally invaded Mexico a few weeks back? Like, full on beach assault style. And then sheepishly packed up when the “fog of war” cleared

The master plan isn’t project 2025 - that’s a wishlist from crazy Technocracy people

No, the master plan is to loot the government and get away with it by earning favors from the oligarchs

The cabinet has already sold their homes to live on military bases… Does that sound like a long term plan? Or does it sound like a rat waiting for a good time to cut and run?

I literally got a text saying “Breaking! Dems to pass bill making path for illegals to become legal!”

Withdrawal isn’t what I’m worried about… You can’t cut teens off from their peers and get a good result

Those who can will evade, those who can’t will feel a crippling level of isolation. That doesn’t do good things to a teenage mind

Like teenagers, who run off social validation, suddenly feeling like they’re excluded from their society

Kids are going to kill themselves.

And far more kids are going to develop complexes that they’ll never recover from

Social isolation hits the brain like physical pain. We’re hardwired to feel social isolation as trauma, logic can’t save you from feeling like you’ve been cut off from your peers

This is going to be a shit show.

I’m not opposed to the idea that kids shouldn’t have access to social media, but they obviously do. Their social lives are online, and their insecure little brains are going to scream that they’ve been kicked out of the tribe when you cut the link

The ban won’t work, but will also cause a lot of damage

I think that’s a true statement, but again a little metric that does not accurately capture what makes a movie good or bad

Which is basically irrelevant, since you need to dope the recycled plastic with fresh plastic for most applications and no one is doing this at a meaningful scale

And even if we did scale it up, this just means the amount of plastic use will continue to increase. We’d have to find uses for the lower strength and quality plastic even

Well the real problem is that what you’re saying does exist to some extent, and it’s a very easily controlled variable

So when execs and investors look at marvel, they learn the wrong lesson. Endgame threw in an insane number of expensive actors and made an insane amount of money

Instead of looking at the years of setup and buildup of characters in this grand artistic vision, they’re working with spreadsheets to try to min-max the actor to box office numbers

It’s why everything just keeping getting worse. The finance brained people are running the world, and you can always count on them to learn the wrong lesson

And you don’t understand what being effective means.

You’re why we’re fucked.

It’s perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable

Hell, discard it even. It’s more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world

Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it’s a liability. If it’s your driving force, learn to pretend it’s not

Yeah… I’m using the word very intentionally

Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

Yeah, and a simple arm movement could put it back

It’s proportional

No? I just expect acknowledgement. Just a little head nod or basically any sound

I’m not a doorman. I’m holding the door so you feel like you’re in a slightly friendlier world, I didn’t have to do this. I don’t expect others to do it for me, but my day gets a little better when they do.

These little interactions are how a society feels friendly. It’s the fabric of civilization

When you walk through like you’re entitled to have doors held for you, then fuck you. You’re snubbing someone trying to make the world a slightly friendlier place

We need to stop with the praxis. It’s a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage

And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?

Every successful political movement is evangelical