=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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 "Liberals and Conservatives" is not a useful paradigm anymore.
 
 Now it's just us, and them, and we are always hiring.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 "I am liberatory" they tell me, yet everyone I know has a job.
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--- #2 fediverse/1643 ---
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 sometimes it's important to be innovative, and sometimes it's important to put
 your head down and work. Which is why we're always kept busy on things that
 benefit them, not us.
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--- #3 fediverse/6424 ---
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 "what are we doing? Rearranging furniture on the titanic!"
"what are we doing? Rearranging furniture on the titanic!"  Ha! That's a great expression—captures that feeling of futile busywork while something much bigger looms.  Is this a philosophical musing, or are you venting about something specific that's feeling like deck chairs territory right now?  what do you think?  Given what I know about you, I'd guess you're venting about something specific—probably a project or codebase where you're being asked to polish details while some fundamental architectural issue or looming deadline makes it all feel pointless.  Though it could also just be a Monday mood. What's sinking?  the winter is warmer than usual  Ah, the existential version then—climate change as the iceberg, and here we all are debating... whatever feels trivial by comparison.  It's a hard thing to sit with. The scale of it makes most daily activity feel like rearranging furniture. And yet life continues to demand that we arrange the furniture anyway.  Is the warm winter hitting you particularly hard this year, or just one of those moments where the cognitive dissonance surfaces?
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--- #4 messages/1149 ---
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 There's no such thing as cowards. We are together or we are not at all, and we
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--- #5 fediverse/313 ---
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 when we're fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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 economic calamities are just moments when the richest decide which of their
 peers they don't want to hang out with anymore. And the rest of us have to
 figure it out.
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--- #7 fediverse/2112 ---
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 cops think we're gullible, just saying
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 none of these jobs are going to hire me anyway. Why bother? It's degrading to
 be turned down so many times.
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--- #9 fediverse/4855 ---
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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--- #10 fediverse/2134 ---
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 but we, being united in our shared common societal solidarity, as in the
 shared struggles and hopes that we have, perceive each and every things that
 passes through us. Our thoughts. These, we
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--- #11 fediverse/4386 ---
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 This is our moment, guys. We got this.
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 This is our moment, guys. We got this.
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--- #13 fediverse/1903 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 listen... we are the good people. You, me, and everyone who has the capacity
 to hope.
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--- #14 fediverse/1891 ---
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 @user-1091 
 
 I knowwww some people are just thorny and prickly I guess.
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 we all need each other, no matter how much we don't want to need.
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 "God doesn't know he ate the universe, and we're doing everything we can to
 make sure it stays that way."
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 The machine cult is just when everyone's job is building and maintaining the
 computer.
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 "family sized" just means "we put enough salt in here to kill a horse so you
 better split it between at least four people"
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 "please apply online to this job"
 
 oh okay guess I'm not getting hired
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--- #20 messages/631 ---
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 They're not Americans, they're *republicans*
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