life vs. universe
Will there be a woman on my 2024 presidential ballot in Maryland? What did I say about never voting for a man again until women are truly equal in the US?
There is no announced Green Party candidate who is a woman. The only woman running in the Democratic primary is in last place of three, and the only press coverage she gets is when her campaign managers quit (yeah, they keep quitting, I'd volunteer if I didn't have a day job). The only woman running in the Republican primary is at 3% in the polls. There is no announced Libertarian Party candidate who is a woman.
Women candidates for president are so 2016, we're over that now. We've taken away your Constitutional right to an abortion, so stay at home and pregnate. You don't get to rule the world. That's for men only.
It's hard to believe the Supreme Court has four women on it. How did that happen? And three POC. Yet, thoroughly conservative. You did it, affirmative action, you succeeded in having a Court that looks like us, but then they overturned affirmative action.
The first woman Prime Minister ever in the UK was the most hellishly conservative of them all.
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"Nothing is fucking universal because the universe gives zero fucks about YOU"
Christians imagine a God who does care about you, and who created the universe, but there's no evidence of either creation or care. Imagined comfort. A cosmic parent who actually gives a fuck.
I countered: I think it works the other way around also in that most individuals give zero fucks about the universe. The universe is made up of individuals who give zero fucks about each other.
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There's a name for it, scientists have studied it, the "empathy gap", as though empathy is the norm. Look around, scientists, empathy is the exception.
If reincarnation is a thing, I want to come back as a being with even more empathy. If I practice empathy in this life, can I level up for the next?
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Predator
I was informed you were a predator
I elected not to listen.
The only use you had for me
was to make your body glisten.
--Victoria Feathers
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I could sit here and feel empathy for every fucking living thing, but it wouldn't matter, empathy is only electric currents inside my own brain conjuring up representations of the outside world. We may be "social" animals, but this socializing is a mutual mirage.
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If I weren't a social animal, would I still feel empathy? Maybe they all do. Maybe the universe does care, but caring itself is worthlesspointlesselectriccurrentsinside
I don't want your empathy, I want to feel good,
what makes me feel good,
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I keep asking, why do the cats like their heads rubbed? They don't rub each other's head. This is why they keep humans around, to rub their heads.
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Over the past 60 years, the number of hours worked (on a job) per person in the US has increased by 22%. During that same 60 years, inflation-adjusted GDP per person has soared by 224%. We are way more productive; why are we working more instead of less?
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The “self-actualization” philosophy insists that we live in a timeless present, that history means nothing, that we simply create the world around us through the power of the will. This is a kind of individualistic fascism.
--David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
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We're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay last year's rent
This year's rent, next year's rent
Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent
We're not gonna pay rent
'Cause everything is rent
There is no announced Green Party candidate who is a woman. The only woman running in the Democratic primary is in last place of three, and the only press coverage she gets is when her campaign managers quit (yeah, they keep quitting, I'd volunteer if I didn't have a day job). The only woman running in the Republican primary is at 3% in the polls. There is no announced Libertarian Party candidate who is a woman.
Women candidates for president are so 2016, we're over that now. We've taken away your Constitutional right to an abortion, so stay at home and pregnate. You don't get to rule the world. That's for men only.
It's hard to believe the Supreme Court has four women on it. How did that happen? And three POC. Yet, thoroughly conservative. You did it, affirmative action, you succeeded in having a Court that looks like us, but then they overturned affirmative action.
The first woman Prime Minister ever in the UK was the most hellishly conservative of them all.
-----
"Nothing is fucking universal because the universe gives zero fucks about YOU"
Christians imagine a God who does care about you, and who created the universe, but there's no evidence of either creation or care. Imagined comfort. A cosmic parent who actually gives a fuck.
I countered: I think it works the other way around also in that most individuals give zero fucks about the universe. The universe is made up of individuals who give zero fucks about each other.
-----
There's a name for it, scientists have studied it, the "empathy gap", as though empathy is the norm. Look around, scientists, empathy is the exception.
If reincarnation is a thing, I want to come back as a being with even more empathy. If I practice empathy in this life, can I level up for the next?
-----
Predator
I was informed you were a predator
I elected not to listen.
The only use you had for me
was to make your body glisten.
--Victoria Feathers
-----
I could sit here and feel empathy for every fucking living thing, but it wouldn't matter, empathy is only electric currents inside my own brain conjuring up representations of the outside world. We may be "social" animals, but this socializing is a mutual mirage.
-----
If I weren't a social animal, would I still feel empathy? Maybe they all do. Maybe the universe does care, but caring itself is worthlesspointlesselectriccurrentsinside
I don't want your empathy, I want to feel good,
what makes me feel good,
-----
I keep asking, why do the cats like their heads rubbed? They don't rub each other's head. This is why they keep humans around, to rub their heads.
-----
Over the past 60 years, the number of hours worked (on a job) per person in the US has increased by 22%. During that same 60 years, inflation-adjusted GDP per person has soared by 224%. We are way more productive; why are we working more instead of less?
-----
The “self-actualization” philosophy insists that we live in a timeless present, that history means nothing, that we simply create the world around us through the power of the will. This is a kind of individualistic fascism.
--David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
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We're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay last year's rent
This year's rent, next year's rent
Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent
We're not gonna pay rent
'Cause everything is rent