• snownyte@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    This is what really brings my blood to a boil, just by reading your comment. It’s the fact that it is too true, because it happens all of the time. There are still so many idiots out there, who’ll put their blind faith in so many things, thinking that they’re ‘protected’ or ‘safe’ or ‘secure’. But time after time again, they are exploited and abused in so many ways.

    And yet we simply do not learn a single fucking thing. There are few of us who’ve learned and gotten wiser from the shit we deal with. But damn the idiot pool is still so vast and massive, that it’s no wonder this kind of shit still happens. All the while, society believes in karma and invisible deities to come swooping in to save the fucking day one of these days and solve all of our problems.

    When, the rich and powerful know too that those ideals are simply lies because they happily continue taking advantage.

    And still we yet never learn. Yeah we outnumber them still, but we don’t have the smarts or care to deal with them. We just think waving signs and petitions will work.

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      5 months ago

      When I was growing up in the 90’s, there were countless over-the-top movie villains, many of which would claim that “People want to be lead, they need it, they demand it.” (Just watched Lawnmower Man, and this is nearly a verbatim quote)

      I remember always thinking that was so over the top. It still is, to just say it out loud, that is. But these days, fuck, it’s so clear that a massive amount of society does just want to be lead by the nose, but the leaders who exploit that (despite being dumb motherfuckers) are somehow smart enough to just not blurt out “You people NEED a King, and that will be ME!” (Well, maybe not Trump, he’s said he’ll be a dictator on day one…)

      I’m just so fucking disappointed in humanity and other humans.