Wes4Humanity @ Wes4Humanity @lemm.ee

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Grew up in New England. My friend moved to Montana, and was absolutely bullshit that there wasn't a Dunks on every corner... New England runs in Dunks, the rest of the US not so much. He felt like the "America runs in Dunks" ads we'd seen or whole lives were a lie, and so our whole lives were a lie lol

Good news! Post people donate heavily to Dems and not much to Republicans... Not sure about the dark money though... No idea why he's got breakfast there... Think he might be losing it

They probably did... Folgers and Jimmy Dean are pretty right-wing, but Post gives mostly to Dems according to open secrets... I don't know about the others

Just letting us know what not to buy ever again

Imagine it's 7500bce... Most humans are still hunter gatherers but in a few places people have started banding together to form cities. The world is savage, hard, and dangerous. Life is short and cheap, and just like chimpanzees today don't feel any moral qualms about murdering rival troop members, humans hadn't really evolved socially to the point of thinking of all humans as inherently "special" or worthy of life... Some could say we still haven't all evolved to this point.

In that context what we were left with was a bunch of sociopaths. And no wonder. Most people would be somewhat sociopathic if their siblings died in infancy or were carried off to be slaves or eaten by wolves, their parents were murdered in front of them, their village was slaughtered and burned, etc. So these city people, and soon the surrounding people's, saw sociopathic behavior as normal and even something to be worshipped. (Again, some of us still do)

Sociopaths don't hesitate to harm other people to increase their own power and wealth, even when they don't really need anything more to live comfortably. In a world where might makes right, this was a huge advantage and the most horrible and brutal sociopaths rose to become kings of their city states.

There is some evidence that hunter gatherers groups would occasionally get a sociopath among them, but more often than not that person would be shunned and banished from the family. It was only when cities became a thing that there were tons of people from many families, so even if you're family kicked you out, you could just find other sociopaths who had been kicked out, and together you could just kill anyone who denied you.

There's also the fact that as soon as people started settling down and using agriculture to create excess food, the hunter gatherers around them started trying to take that food because hey, free food. So then you need to start defending your food stores, and again sociopaths rise to the top because they are the most ruthless "defenders".

Those sociopathic traits continued in the ruling class throughout all of human pre history and history. Right down to today where people continue to worship the sociopaths like Musk, Trump, or even Hillary. It's a childish thought process of "my dad can beat up your dad", which makes me feel safer, even if sometimes my dad also beats me.

Edit: just to add that the only reason we can even have this conversation is because, for the first time in human history, large swaths of the human population HAVE socially evolved to the point of recognizing innate human value, and thus can also recognize sociopathic behavior

What if we glorify horrible contemporary people because we're taught to glorify sociopathic behavior through how we're taught about historical horrible people?

God... Imagine having to be his therapist... Anyone who's able to make even a little progress with him would deserve a Nobel prize

Begs the question: who's getting paid the difference right now? And how much are they paying which elected officials?

All wealth is created by workers... Any wealth used for the good of all society is coming from the workers same as all profit does. No need to add the middleman... Just charge it all to the corporations... First our work pays for society, only what's left over after should be considered profit

Eliminate all taxes on individuals, charge the whole bill for a functioning society to the corporations (preferably at the same ratio as the corporations make profit, ie if a company makes 10% of all the profit that quarter they pay 10% of the bill)... We the people democratically decide what all is included in a functioning society

Not sure if you're just doing the prompt or really asking, but I've never heard the 6 word story given a name, so I'm not sure

Please God no

Please come home

Isn't it: For sale: baby shoes, never worn

Zero reason for the Clintons to speak... In fact if they could just disappear forever and let us put that whole narcissistic sociopath episode behind us, that would be fantastic

The global oligarchy wants power and ownership of everything... They just use the US to do their dirty work... They used to pay us pretty well to turn a blind eye, but they stopped doing that

Yes, and remember, there's like 100 people/families who are THE major shareholders for all the big corporations... But they make it impossible to figure out who exactly they are because they hide behind blackrock and vanguard... If we're going to name and shame anyone, it should be the owners.

Pretty sure most of them gave up on freedom of the press a long time ago... Now they're just pr for the oligarchy

Does your mom or sister have legal custody of you?

The press needs to stop going to these things and stop reporting every little thing Trump does... Just treat him like they do Bernie, pretend he doesn't exist