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║ the american revolution was literally just... rich people trying to avoid │
║ paying taxes │
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║ and the poor people went along because, like... yeah inflation's really been │
║ fucking with their budgets │
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║ so in the end it made most households wealthier... │
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║ (built upon the backs of slaves, mind you) │
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║ ... but as time went on the rich wanted to pay less and less. │
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║ they had their opportunity with the World Wars, and after the first (when │
║ America, previously a mid-tier country at best, suddenly industrialized) they │
║ realized "oh hey war profiteering is pretty profitable"... │
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║ (something that was known quite well to the British) │
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║ ... and then the Rockefellers and such, whose descendants never lost money but │
║ nobody knows their names, did it again in WW2 and the Cold War and. │
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║ anyway │
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║ the entire country is a game of numbers and spreadsheets in the ivory towers │
║ (literally, towers with nothing but opulence) and it always has been. │
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║ fools like me believe in the mythology. fools, but propaganda appeals to truth. │
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│ CW: scary-tiktok │
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they show you things on TikTok or whatever that are years and years old
all you see are what they want you to see. not the empty cities, the slowly
decaying parts, but the renovations that are "new" for the past 7 or 8 years.
and deepfakes means that nobodies face is to be trusted. what is tiktok but a
bunch of fresh faces?
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when people are alone, they fall alone, with nobody to bolster them up.
a fallen ally is a blow to morale. shaken morale makes you unsteady - broken
morale is the enemy's win condition.
help your allies. bolster them up. find those whose cause you share enemies
with. we're going to get through it together, or not at all.
though I do know we will get through it.
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ran out of characters before I realized I needed a content warning. So I
screenshotted the post and put the text in the alt-text.
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canvas? neat! here's a time-lapse of /r/place (2022)
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@user-1209
change is a natural part of the cycle of life.
when your thing dies, make another. defend it for a time, you might even
persevere true. but should it's end be apparent, be displaced and fight for
something else.
the largest pictures require the most maintenance. meaning they are the easiest
targets.
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never trust your heroes
they are not meant to be trusted. but they are still valuable and important.
learn from them, apply what you can, and cherish the best parts of them when
they inevitably fall and let you down.
if they betray you, fucking burn them. if they let you down, accept their
apology but don't give them responsibility until you can trust them again.
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