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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Sorry to be dumb about this, but I'm not much of a trekkie. This seems like a cool arc though, what series/movie/etc. is this from? Is this also the one where I keep seeing an old LaForge pop up?

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Needs Colorado on there somewhere too. That place is a blue oasis surrounded by a sea of red bullshit states on all sides.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I regret I only have one up vote to give you.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

We're not talking about the rise of fascism. It took decades for that to ferment in Germany and Italy as well.

We're talking about when they seize power. Then they make their move.

We're talking about the powergrab of fascists once they've laid the groundwork.

That's the part they need to move lightning fast to achieve a result, before resistance can organize against them. That's the part in history we're at right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

And hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars both to fit it and remove it when he adds it to his personal collection

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It feels awful to have someone completely change what they want out of life from under you. Know that he's probably been trending that way for a while, and it just took a while for him to bring it to words.

You're going to get angry with him soon, but what you're feeling right now is normal. You're dealing with grief, and there's stages. They're going to take months-years to work through. That's how this shit works.

There's no substitute for time.

Take how long you were together and roughly 1/3rd of that is your recovery time before you're going to have this as a distant, faded, annoying memory of a time before you were stronger and a more capable partner.

If you let yourself, you can use this as an opportunity to get stronger. I know it feels like the two of you were perfect for each other, and that you'll never find someone as special as him again, in all the ways that matter to you; and you're right, you won't, because you'll find someone that will be even more special and will really get you.

You just have to hang in there and give this some time to work through. Don't go rushing into another relationship imo, I've done that and it feels great in the moment, but all it does is delay your healing from this relationship even more. It will make your next breakup even worse, and then you're trapped in a cycle.

Take some time for yourself, give yourself a minimum of 6 months before you think about or start dating again. Nobody is emotionally ready for that out of the gate unless they're sociopaths.

You'll know when it's time. It'll feel right. I promise.

Until then, hang in there, and best of luck on the anger phase of this, that was a rough one for me and lasted longer than I care to admit before I learned to let it go.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

Fascism only has one speed: Blitzkrieg.

Any other speed would be slow enough for people to have enough time to band together and organize a resistance to this horseshit.

That's literally the only playbook. Break everything: Go fast. Hit people with so much horseshit they are still stuck trying to process the one from 2 weeks ago, because since then 5 other constitutional crisis' have happened and now they're deporting both of your neighbors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Yup. Its just the printed out constitution

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

It's because of the brain damage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They also have wildly less expensive AI models, so that argument doesn't necessarily hold up.

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