“Si miras fijamente al pudú, el pudú te devuelve la mirada.”

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I mean you can call yourself that if you want, but no, we don’t need a special name for your occupation / stage of life / population density of your place of residence configuration because everyone’s already used to people they consider paradigmatically similar to yourself coming into their lives and workplaces.

    Your world view is now predictable and known. Your future is not a wide array of endless possibility. Your potential and its course have been approximated with an acceptable degree of certainty. You’re not part of the new and exciting or terrifying winds of change anymore. People know what to expect from you. You haven’t merely worked for a living within the system, you became and now are the system. When the young reach the age of adulthood and come out to the world to claim things they feel entitled to, today it is sometimes you who holds the keys that determine if they get it or not.

    Things would be different if you were a centennial (millenials are so passé), of course, but even if you attempted to rebel against your role as a system perpetuator, you’d just be another drone that has been adequately enslaved like the rest of us responsible workers, voters and citizens, only you’d be having a mid-life crisis.

    But it’s not all bad. At least we can laugh at their vocabulary and tell them a thing or two about “how we used to do it back in the day” while they doomscroll.

    Hope you have a great week, fellow middle-aged drone! :)




  • Yeah, couldn’t agree more. I don’t know really know that much about LA cops myself but they have a p bad rep for discrimination of blacks and browns such as myself. I guess they’re just following what the higher ups of their organization tell them they have to and conforming their own tribal crowd mentality.

    We had similar riots here in Chile back in 2019. I don’t blame the people who destroyed my neighborhood or tried to set the apt building I live in on fire (several times) any more than I blame the cops shooting bbs at the crowd wildly and taking out kids’ eyes… I was upset at both of these things of course but at the same time I realized how foolish it would be to expect any different from anyone of the same background, social ties, world view and living situation.

    It’s crazy how reasonable and kind people with different world views can perceive the exact same situation as inspiring cathartic liberation or the end of civilized society.










  • For years, there has been a lot of backlash against the “objectification of women”, which i can totally understand because it’s a “dehumanizing” term that looks at people like objects, not as actual human beings.

    But the same is happening with the concept of “nazis”: If people are referred to as “nazis”, that means that they are being reduced to their political function; to their ability to hate.

    That is a dehumanizing term. The view should be that people are humans first, and nazis second. People deserve rights, and a good life, not because they’re nazis, but because they’re humans. That is how people should be looked at.

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    I’ll see myself out… Have a nice day. :P