#It still worked

[glow-kitten]

I was stressed and crying at work today, so my boss brought his baby over for me to hold and feel better, and the baby threw up on me

[count100]

Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Canada to comment on your politics. It sounds horrible from what I've heard, and maybe violent activism is nessisary there.

I can, however, comment on you observations of the US and history. For one, the outsized influence conservatives have in the US isn't so much because of their willingness to be violent as it is a consequence of a system fundamental designed to give them an edge. Reforms have been proposed, and are being enacted in some places, to take that advantage away and it really has had an impact.

As for the violent revolutions you cited, half of them ended in unmitigated disaster. A 50% chance of your revolution killing an enormous portion of the country's population and leading directly into a brutal autocracy is not a great sign, and the circumstances in the US, at least, remind me a lot more of the conditions for failed revolutions than successful ones.

However, you do have the evidence of Nelson Mandella backing you up. He tried a peaceful revolution in South Africa and it just did not work, but once he started blowing up factories it drew more attention and scared major players in the economy, eventually leading to real change.

If you want productive violence, look to his example, but even then he didn't upend everything and start all over. As the op said, any ideology that says the only solution to the world's problems is destroying everything is wrong and probably a cult.

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

[curiosity-killed]

There are truly very few forces in the world as strong as the inertia of staying up way too late doing fuckall

[vampireghostlawyer]

i will never forget in 2022 when i went to the same starbucks every day for like 4 months. and every day i ordered the same thing (grande iced matcha latte with oat milk). and every day it was the same barista and he was so rude to me every single time. and then one day i got in line and he immediately started making my matcha latte when he saw me and as i went to grab it off the counter, he stopped me and looked in my eyes and said "i'm sorry i'm such an asshole to you every day. this job sucks everyone is such a dick to me and youre the only regular who isnt so i take it out on you. and that probably wont change but im sorry anyway." and then the next time i went, he was rude as fuck to me again like nothing had ever happened. life is so strange.

[w1lmuttart]

The lake town

[mad-world3]

It looked like this

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[epoxyconfetti]

[hansoeii]

only you.

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[stargoyle]

"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

[larkiethings]

shaking my head while playing neko atsume so people know that I don’t support outdoor cats

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

Please note. The orange one is not included because A. He isn’t a billionaire. And B. Calling him obnoxious is too kind for him.

[anartificialsatellite]

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

[itsajollyjester]

“Would fall in love with me again if you knew all I’ve done?”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.