[–] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's like 99% of our problems are caused by these fictitious entities called states asserting their perceived entitlements to rule over lands and people and compete with other states.

If your cat or dog can't see it or experience it, it's not real.

Business = cat can't see it, isn't real
Money = can't see it or pieces of paper
state = can't see it, isn't real
borders = can't see it, isn't real
law = can't see it, itsn't real, some point at paper with marks on it as proof
POTUS = big smelly orange man
SCOTUS = old people in robes
house = big shelter with food
apartment = shelter with food
Store = bigger shelter with more food
2003 Toyota Corolla = shelter that moves
Lamborghini = shelter that moves
gender = can't see it, isn't real
sports = play

Real Things

tree = tree
food = food
suffering = suffering
consent = consent
love = love
home = home
family = family
community = community
sex = sex
violence = violence
defense = defense

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Dolly is one of the few people you can say this about in her eulogy and it wouldn't even be disrespectful.

    Dolly was a real one, as someone who doesn't usually care about celebrity deaths, or country music, this made me sad, she will be missed.

    Here's a little story: In my garage growing up we had a metal can (idk if it was like a bedroom trash can or what) that had Dolly on it. I'm guessing it caused me to have a dream that I thought was real until I was about 10 years old. I had a memory of pulling up to Dolly's house (which in my false memory was like a 3-bedroom in southern California a few blocks from my house) with my Mom and her and my mom had a conversation sitting in Dolly's living room as I played on the floor with toys. I must've been about 10 before it clicked into my head that there was no way my mom was buddies with Dolly Parton and that she lived just around the way lol. But I grew up thinking she was a family friend. In a way, she was.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    in-groups and out-groups

    There are 2 types of people, those who think might makes right and those who think consent makes right. The might-makes-right type form rigid hiearchies and well defined in-groups and the group leaders are always working to shrink the group and demonstrate status.

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