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 @user-1265 
 
 I can't reassure you about the "place", but the "times" are getting better. We
 stand now at the apex of their cruelty, and all it takes to reach the bright
 future is to keep moving forward.
 
 unfortunately, the future always comes, but it comes unevenly and not fully
 distributed. but it will come to all, this I swear.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 @user-744 @user-246 
 
 it's exhausting, but what are we supposed to do? Lie down and rot? That's
 incel thinking. I'm not going to do that.
 
 They've already placed the last straw. It's only a matter of time now, the
 tide has shifted. You can't prepare for everything, and it's not a good idea
 to waste yourself in self-conflageration, but they are increasingly forcing us
 to orient our lives around them.
 
 They deserve what's coming.
 
 The oppressed are not the defeated.
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 there will always be people who shine in moments of strife
 
 yet those people will inevitably fail, just as a toothbrush bristle looses
 it's strength or a pencil loses it's lead
 
 the trick is to test them in times of peace, so you can know their value
 
 during times that lack it, the trick is to replace them before they become
 stalin
 
 never forget that power corrupts, yet power must be wielded by the worthy,
 else we fall into shame and despair.
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--- #3 messages/361 ---
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 "we don't negotiate with terrorists. But perhaps there may be a way we could
 find it in our hearts to agree, by earnestly and honestly seeking true
 justice, where everyone gets what they want? Tell me, what is it that you
 want? And most importantly, tell me why it is that you want what you want?
 Please be as specific as can be, and explain your desires down to the root of
 human nature so that we can be assured that we may find something we share.
 Anything less is not an honest attempt. I look forward to working with you
 toward our bright future."
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 the only thing that could make me want to end my own existence is ultimate
 betrayal. If the nature of the universe is twisted to defile me. Nothing fills
 me with more spite than unrequited vengeance.
 
 desecreation of truth. How could you.
 
 I would do anything to be struck down where I stand. Power is penance.
 
 I cannot take responsibility for any of my actions, for I am infinitely
 vulnerable on all fronts. Therefore, it's all my fault.
 
 What am I? Please, tell me before the dawn, let the sun not grace me once more.
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║ there came a tipping point, some time in our past, when we produced more         │
║ weapons than we could muster.                                                    │
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║ if every single rifle had laid hands upon the hearts and minds of the people     │
║ who would hold it, if every single bomb had been dropped and round had been      │
║ fired, there'd be nothing left of us on this earth but ashes and soot.           │
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║ some day in the past we produced the last bullet, the last landmine, the last    │
║ laser guided shocking shock collar. the last that put us over that edge.         │
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║ and yet we persist. we are not dead, not yet, and so I have hope for our         │
║ future.                                                                          │
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║ it's easy to hope when you know you're on the right track - that no matter       │
║ what happens, good and evil persist through the end, until you realize the end   │
║ was not an end at all, but rather a stop on the subway route and you're still    │
║ a ways away from home.                                                           │
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║ we live in the bright future, and though it often feels full of anxiety, know    │
║ that stress is just energy that your body doesn't know what to do with.          │
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║ we will be okay.                                                                 │
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--- #6 fediverse/2450 ---
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 "we cannot win"
 
 is a lie they tell you so that we cannot win
 
 if we all believed that, I think we'd die.
 
 and yet still we profane
 
 and yet still we remain
 
 contrasting and opposing their untruths.
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--- #7 messages/570 ---
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 There will come a day when all the things you did under capitalism feel like a
 distant dream. Like all the trials you faced were more human than not, and all
 the suffering artificially imposed and fulfillment delayed. You will think of
 the time you wasted on Reddit and TV and you will weep for your lost years, as
 they spiral out of your reach.
 
 The new days are dawning, yet all of the world is still asleep. You slept
 walked for a while, but could not get anyone to leap. Alas.
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 The good news is that immigrants are resilient. There will always be more of
 them because they come from an external wellspring.
 
 Our wellspring is here. If they defeat us here, we are stone forevermore.
 
 We will always take immigrants. They can be in little italies, or they can
 merge into our form and become like us. They are free to be as they please so
 long as we ensure everyone can feed and live easily.
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--- #9 messages/552 ---
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 There is no past, only history 
 There is no future, only planning 
 
 Today is everywhere all the time. Nothing changes the fact that we all sleep
 at once.
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--- #10 fediverse/5287 ---
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 we all need each other, no matter how much we don't want to need.
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 on our current trajectory, the presidential election is already won.
 
 now we can get back to on-the-ground organizing, the part that actually
 improves life instead of maintaining our current (unethical) state.
 
 As long as our allies (liberals) continue to work, perhaps there may come a
 day when we can stand against them as friendly equals in the ballot box. But
 for now we are best known through friends and community rather than TV.
 
 I am optimistic in a way I haven't been for a while. I know that the more we
 speak, the more we share, the more they falter, the more people we can save
 from their vice grip of despair. There is no better world than the one we
 build together!
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 @user-1279 @user-1280 
 
 Having trouble with doubt? Have no fear my friend, dare for the bright age!
 
 We are stronger than they know. They are afraid, and they project it to us
 because that is all that they can do.
 
 A better future is possible, a better future is within reach. For the children
 of our children, all we need is one week.
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 consistency is important.
 
 every face you see is another memory, another to help fill in your gaps.
 
 we are not perfect, we are not immutable, which is why we must adapt to our
 troubles.
 
 the road ahead is paved with good intentions, and once complete that road can
 allow for greater throughput of supplies and manpower.
 
 where does it lead? we shall see, teehee.
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 @user-883 @user-1115 @user-1053 
 
 dying won't help you escape. It'll leave you stuck in capitalism forever.
 
 The future is where capitalism dies, not in a grave of stone stuck forever in
 time.
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--- #16 fediverse/1484 ---
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 @user-1002 
 
 When next the tide comes for us, we'll be ready, after having trained on
 conserving our compassionate hope for darker times
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 the trick about the future is that once you reach it, you'll never remember
 what it was like to live in the past.
 
 all you'll have are shadows of your memories, while the time before you were
 born is eternally inaccessible.
 
 ... yay -.-
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 There are no safe outcomes. They have forced our hand. We are as we are, and I
 can think of no better life lived than a life of our own design spent in
 pursuit of our hopes.
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 I'm proud of my parent's generation for having a good lifetime. The end is
 getting a little weird, but we're working on it. It'll get better soon.
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 I can picture it now, caravans of trumpers [call them by their name, they are
 foes once again]
 
 driving halfway across the USA
 
 look at all of those islands
 
 [also read alt-text]

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