Yeeeeezs you know what you want

Do you have a go to tim hortons’ order?

Asking the real question

Yes, it does. It’s scary how much perception changes

Exactly, and neither is an asshole if that doesn’t match

Au contraire, I’m worried

The phrasing gives me bad vibes: “Caught him” instead of met him. “Took in”. Very one-sided, devoid of the other’s perspective. Makes me wonder if you view him as a person.

Uhm, people aren’t pets, you know that right?

It could be that she feels stuck. I think she wants growth, dreams, goals, excitement. Not status quo for the rest of your lives.

Neither of you is an asshole, you just have different visions on life 🩷

Except when it does (1)

I don’t get it

Can you explain why and how? Do you imagine other (better?) batteries, or the disappearance of the need for batteries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce

Congrats Craig proud of you 🤜

Oh noo. Oh yes.

Show people that the left and center are able to provide

I wonder if they can, with the reversed population pyramid most EU countries experience.

In the early 90s something similar happened in Belgium (1).

What lessened the extremism in the following couple of elections was investment (in infrastructure, healthcare, economic opportunities, etc) outside of the cities as well.

It turned out that for every tax frank gathered, 80 cents were spend on prettifying the larger cities and the major port. People were mostly (rightly?) pissed off that government represented a terrible ROI for the same group of people for decades. They would’ve been better of without a federal government. They saw their lives get worse, whilst at the same time that government applauded themselves for the great things they achieved.

I’m not sure how feasible the same solution is today, as there’s very little investment budget anyways. Most of tax revenue goes to pensions and healthcare of a reversed population pyramid.

those thoughts are prevalent enough to cause this problem.

Can take people out of the soviet, but can’t take soviet out of the people (1).

Sadly it’s a system of thought that isn’t concerned with observable reality. It’s a sentiment I recognise in most (political) extremists: the idea that your problems must be someone else’s fault (the brown, women, billionairs, … pick your poison).

And, as you noticed, banning it will indeed only validate that sentiment.

(I grew up in DDR, luckily left in early 90s. A solution is therapy, as those people are stuck in generational trauma, which is known to lessen or completely void you of empathy. But that doesn’t scale to halve a country).

That’s a known coping strategy (1). “My broken leg isn’t a problem, the problem is that other’s legs aren’t broken”.

I prefer someone with neither napoleon nor jesus complex.