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I want to preface this by saying that I personally did not downvote.

But the reason is not that hard to discern.

saying that you used to work for the police is basically the same thing as saying you used to work at a puppy grinding factory.

sure. you may be better now but you were still grinding puppies in your story.

If you generalize ‘everyone’ and someone says ‘not me’ your instinct is to call them out for generalizing?

Fuck off.

Calling what kirk did ‘disagreeing’ is a surefire sign that you are not worth talking to. Get fucked.

Stop this bullshit generalization and people might give your point more consideration.

I built my house with my own hands, and if it would help one person for the value of my house to drop I would absolutely take that hit with a smile. fuck it. drop it to 0 so nobody ever tries to take it from me. Perfect.

my home’s value is in the warmth and dryness, not some fucking dollar sign.

absolute tripe from the very first sentence right through to the end.

Almost no chance the land is owned. You don’t buy lots in most trailer parks, you rent them. And that trailer is worth about 3grand on the open market (which he could never afford to tow off the lot, negating any value it had), has no heat or AC, the floor has failed in the bathroom, and the walls are starting to bulge from mould. But the lot rental is cheap, and the trailer was left behind when pa drank himself to death at 37.

Let’s not besmirch the venerable shack in the woods.

Effin eh, cotton. Effin eh.

Counterpoint: This could very well be a picture of me from any snowstorm in Calgary when I was a teenager who’d do anything for weed. But there would be 3-4 times as much snow.

But that pain was once. And then you shoved that config into your dotfile svn and never did it again. Mine has followed me since like 2010.

(This is not me taking part in the wl/X11 argument. I am just one of those multi-window gimp nerds)

E is for pants.

You’re right. I should have said ‘akin to slavery’.

No gods. No masters.

Slavery is wrong. Forced service is slavery.

Thank you for taking the time to type up both of these.

just as a counterpoint, I live in the forest and it would take a very, very serious problem for me to even consider moving to a small town. nonetheless a city.

we lived in a bunch of different countries and a bunch of different cities over the last 15 years and I intended to never live in another city again.

having the forest friends follow me around as I do morning chores is how life was meant to be. if I could just find a way to stretch that into my whole day I’d be the happiest man on Earth.

The problem with this is that a lot of these people have been shitting on their neighbors and their entire neighborhoods for decades because they think they are the special snowflake who can survive anything by themselves and don’t need any community.

When those fucks are also broke and they come asking for help a lot of us are going to tell them to get fucked.

Those of us who’ve been building intentional communities and support systems will be a little better off, but we’re going to be wasting a lot of time trying to fight off raiders from the aforementioned group above. thankfully they’ll probably be coming single file because they won’t help each other either.

This is a take. Not a good take. But a take nonetheless.

[Edit to add - Do you just ignore what people say to you, or ask you, and toss out more bullshit in meatspace conversations? Or is that just how it works for you online?]

You JUST commented that we could see how genx is the same as boomers by looking at their track record when they take power.

Then you state that genx never took power, and are insignificant.

???

When did genx assume power?

last I looked most politicians are still white-haired boomers.