I've spent my entire life deluged with insane space-related conspiracy theories and what I've noticed is that the sentiment that space travel is fake has dropped dramatically in the last few years, even as other more insane beliefs have proliferated
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everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness
It's interesting to be from a tall poppy culture looking in at America because clearly the US system of selfishness and personal largess corrupts everything around it, and yet even without it we find ruin all the same by tearing down anyone who even suggests they might be more special than we are
If anything, the public openness of the modern racists has led to me experiencing less private racism than I did in the 90s and 00s precisely because people no longer imagine I'm secretly harbouring beliefs beneath a thin veneer like them
They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.
last night I achieved a perfect run in a video game that I've been obsessed with since 1988, making me the world's best player in a way that can't be dethroned. This matters because the only other person on earth who is obsessed with this game is my brother, and he is now forever #2
I for one appreciate the current era of politics because you really get to see laid bare the weird coalitions that have been corralled into the two sides, both seemingly unwillingly
Lately, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has been siding with Democrats to call for extensions to health care subsidies and supporting an effort both Speaker Johnson and President Trump oppose to force a vote on releasing Epstein files.
