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1. Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 11:11:04 JST Kenny Blankenship
   The rot in modern America runs deep
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   • WhiteExodite (bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 11:30:41 JST WhiteExodite

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     @DW2 it really does feel like this country is a corpse shuffling about on muscle memory alone, like something out of System Shock. how long before it rots beyond functionality, or before the parts revolt?
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 11:30:41 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @bleedingphoenix @DW2 Boomers could really end it. They’re the only reason a lot of infrastructure remains functional, from what I can tell. Everywhere I go there’s a nice, energetic white man in his 50’s working alone, talking about how he’s keeping the local X going, often adding “jeez I don’t know how many years it has left”

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   • VaxxSabbath (vaxxsabbath@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 11:50:47 JST VaxxSabbath

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @bleedingphoenix @DW2 and yet, amazingly, the same man will talk about how you need to “pay your dues” and suffer through making twelve bucks an hour forever “because that’s how it works, you put your time in and then you get to the big bucks (in thirty years) (after the country is South Africa) (after we hit Weimar levels of hyperinflation)”

     rather than, I don’t know, walking up to the jew running the operation and saying “I need three assistants that I hand-pick paid $80,000 a year, today; I need a budget increase of 50% for maintenance; I personally also need a pay raise of 50% effective immediately; and if you have to dig into your fucking diversity budget or matzah slush fund to pay for all of this I don’t care, either produce it right this very fucking instant or I quit and you can maintain this shit yourself”

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   • Hollyjollytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 11:50:47 JST Hollyjollytailspike

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     @VaxxSabbath @WashedOutGundamPilot @bleedingphoenix @DW2 Why would I work for a local utility making $24 when I could work for a private company making $26-$35?
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   • blaaablaaaa (blaaablaaaa@hermit.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 11:51:30 JST blaaablaaaa

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     Those guys are like 60+, retired twice, and run their own consulting business doing exactly what they did before for 3 times as much since they're the only one who knows what's going on. 😂
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   • :hacker_o::hacker_k::hacker_u::hacker_u: :sonnenrad: (okuu@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 11:59:26 JST :hacker_o::hacker_k::hacker_u::hacker_u: :sonnenrad:

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     @bleedingphoenix @DW2 That's the thing. The Regime has become so deranged and neurotic that it's impossible to tell if it will last for 1000 years or will collapse next week. Only time will tell, but if history is any indication, I'm guessing it only has a few decades left.
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   • Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 12:00:44 JST Kenny Blankenship

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     @okuu @bleedingphoenix I feel I should point out that Houston, the fourth largest city in the US, was telling its residents to boil water a few months back.
   • VaxxSabbath (vaxxsabbath@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 12:11:26 JST VaxxSabbath

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     @monsterislandcolonizer @WashedOutGundamPilot @bleedingphoenix @DW2 this gets to something very deep

     the answer is, of course, “because your neighbors need you at the local utility”; and you could, in a better world, be making that extra money there, were it not for constant jewish strip-mining

     the boomer in this scenario doesn’t insist that you do, or use his position as leverage to compel that outcome, because he is invested in the system as it currently exists, because that system produced him (The Greatest Generation Ever) and therefore must have some objective utility and goodness to it; any failure on your part with respect to that system is, therefore, due to your own personal failings (unwilling to eat shit or eat bugs for long enough, “lack of work ethic”, “lazy”, insert all the usual boomerisms here), and can in no way reflect the existence of a fucked system (which in turn devalues his status with respect to it; he “got lucky”)

     here’s the critical thing, though:

     the millennial in this equation is also invested in the system at this point, because he (she/xer/whatever) has spent so long attempting to comply with its increasingly insane dictates that it is now a humiliation to admit that they should have walked away from it long ago, and therefore, they also double down on compliance and supplication because it’s all they have left

     the future belongs to the person who creates for these people a Golden Bridge, across which they can retreat while keeping their self-image intact; “I’m not an idiot, I was just tricked by evil people”

     and this is why Noticing is getting increasingly suppressed: if you happen to notice that all of the architects of this shit have extremely suspicious noses and last names with precious metals in them, that is a very plain conclusion that can be drawn and it is very easy to figure out what to do next, and that fury will be magnified beyond comprehension once a channel for the release of all that narcissistic injury is opened up

     and gosh, it’d sure be a shame if that happened

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