It's also a distraction from the real real villains who hollowed out the middle class and funneled every drop of wealth into their own pockets. They're laughing from their superyachts whenever the middle classes bicker.
It's fun to trash the whole post-war generation, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that they were just as victimized by class warfare as we are. They benefited from the economic boom and were then lulled by their own masters into believing it was sustainable and things would be just as good for their own kids and grandkids. They were lied to too.
Never forget that the real enemy isn't any one group except for the oligarchs and leeches at the top of the economic ladder. We shouldn't focus our ire on those people in between us and the top. They're not the ones controlling the taps on the river of shit flowing down.
It boggles my mind how many cat owners just submit to the will of their furry little masters.
They are smart, and thus can understand some level of cause and effect. Which means that they can be trained. For my cats that has always been as simple as "you wake me up, you get locked in the laundry room." It only took a month or so for them to get the message.
Gotta train them that doing that doesn't get them the outcome they want. I make it a policy with my cats that if they wake me up, they get yeeted to the basement.
When they were new, that meant picking them up and carrying them to the laundry room and closing the door. It evolved to me simply carrying them to the top of the stairs and setting them on the top step, and now all I have to do is open the door when they scratch or yowl and they scatter. It took a while, but now they only bother me at night when there's another cat in the yard and they want to get to my window to look out.
I'm the opposite. I like it when the cat curls up on my feet, but I'm not a fan of just letting them stalk through the house and jump around freely when I'm trying to flipping sleep.
They can't not do that, so they get shut out. And I taught them early on that if they yowl and scratch at the door on the middle of the night, they're just gonna get launched down the stairs.
Cats only get to be the boss if you let them. They absolutely can be trained to not be total tyrants.
If there's one thing I've learned it's to not disparage someone's childhood obsession on the internet unless you're prepared for the backlash. Nostalgia runs feverish among forum users.
It has always been thus. Hucksters and frauds have been selling his finger bones since the third century. The Church was a money-making venture from the start.
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