I (also) know Victoria’s secret, she was made up by a dude. Jax.

I got myself a mega blocks pirate ship, about 20 years ago, give or take. I still have it. All my kids and nices and nephews and now grandson has played with it (and trashed the shit out of it, but meh) I still rig it up as a nightlight on top of my wardrobe. It still makes explosion noises with flashing lights, and launchable cannon balls. (I should probably check those batteries…) Doesn’t look like mega blocks, looks like a ghost / ghoul type pirate ship model. Came with treasure, a heap of peg leg pirates, and a giant killer octopus. I still have the octopus. One of my top favourite possessions.

I think the heavy leaning on antisemitism, is just a convenient scapegoat / straw man to distract from committing genocide aka colonising, in this day and age. If they all say the things, in unison, they can keep collecting their money / take the valuable resources they covet. None of them believe the words they say, it’s a tactic to tangle you up in arguing around different topic and sidetracking. They’ve gotten you off topic, they’re controlling the narrative, they set the rules and parameters of the definitions of things, you have to spin your wheels arguing against a statement, designed to cause you frustration, and be difficult to answer. You can’t argue logic or morality or justifications, with someone who isn’t talking to you in good faith, they’re only design is to obsfucate, and that’s all you’ll get from them. They’re used to a time when the people reporting the events to the populous, were in thier pocket, if not actually controlled by them. Those times are changing, rather than enter into dialogue or discussion with them, or about their arguments, the power is in showing their actions, something they’re losing control of, and desperately scrabbling to get back, with the purchase of tiktok.

You forgot to mention the rca cables. So many rca cables.

I understand your worries. The wars are going to effect lots of things, supply chains etc. I’m not sure how oil will effect housing here, I’m curious how you see that effecting housing specifically? For real, Genuine question. (I’m not being snide.) The government should absolutely do all of those things, and they easily could. We do already have enough homes, it’s not as much of a shortage, more a problem that investors have hoarded up all the stock. They keep homes vacant, for prolonged periods of time to force the price of rents etc up. The government could easily tax investment properties, to tip the scale back in favour of it being a home first, and an investment second. We have enough homes, currently, and we are building enough homes to technically keep up with demand. It’s being manipulated to overinflate prices, currently, though. On census night in 2021, for example, more than a million homes were recorded as unoccupied. We could easily use homes that are vacant, or old military or mining bases. Theres options for both homeless and refugees. Theres so many options to fix the current, artificially created crisis.

It’s not refugees raising the house prices, you’ve been listening to the Murdoch propaganda, my friend. It is hard to avoid. This is literally a created system, by policy geared at benefiting investors. Have a look at how many real estate investors are in politics, currently. When you gear policy towards benefiting investors, don’t build and underfund the competition that keeps prices at bay (public housing), the system looks like this. When you hear “blame minorities / blame immigrants etc” that’s the people with their hands in the pot, trying to create a straw man, so you don’t look at them.

You got this. Or, Believe in yourself.

I like, nothing matters, because everything is made up anyway.

Their levels of empathy, their relationship with their own ego, and, similarly, their levels of selfishness / egotistic/ egocentric. That’s the core that drives, they’ll make decisions on who to betray from that core, with no care for others, they become quite dangerous to be around. That said something people are good at pretending they have empathy and aren’t egocentric, but if you wait and watch, pretend always has cracks to see through. And i don’t mean small moments of overwhelm. I mean, polar opposite behaviours that seem outside their morals, when not in an extreme emotion. You will usually see little things around the edges, and your instinct is to excuse it away, because it doesn’t fit the narrative, don’t do that bit. Little things around the edges might look like casually stealing, possibly just small things, sometimes even from friends, jealousy or a hatred for someone for no apparent reason other than they’re good at something the person in question is, too. Wanting a lot of attention, without giving anyone else room in the spotlight, or giving less and less room for others in the spotlight, until it’s all about them. Passing blame, it’s always someone elses fault, or excuses for everything they do that they feel are a reason to be able to do the poor behaviour, rather than taking responsibility, learning and growing. Unable to metabolise failure, at all. If you look up fixed and growth mindset, (Carol Dweck) narcissistic types, always have a fixed mindset. Where they’re Unable to utilise mistakes or failures to learn and grow, and believe that you are inherently born good at things or not, rather than practice at anything making you able to be an expert at something.

I cannot remember the reference right now, but it’s said that anyone can become “genius” level at something, if they just put 7 years of practice into it. “Bad” people, practice being like everyone else, they are very good at learning what you want to see, and mirroring that, for a time, it’s not something anyone can hold up for very long, but that said, I’ve seen it held up for a year, odd, at times.

If you wait, don’t get enmeshed with someone too quickly, they usually try to move fast to enmesh you, and remember that a lot of what you see in anyone around you, is what your brain imagines is there, you put a “persona” on people, all people. What’s in everyone is a complex mix of a different set of morals, and emotional maturity, privilege and perspective of the world that’s shaped by their unique upbringing, surroundings and environment. Even two siblings can have very different upbringing, surroundings and environment. And everyone has bad and good, in them. What you need to assess is the harm they could or do cause you and what you need to do to keep safe, keeping in mind that psychological, emotional and verbal abuse, are as harmful as physical abuse. And then decide what level of involvement is safe for you.

This has been so enlightening, thank you everyone for the answers, I really appreciate the perspectives, yours the most!

Wouldn’t men sleeping with their tops off, be the same as women sleeping with their tops off, tho?