This was in 1992. I like how George’s example, that we only help one another after a flood, no longer even applies in the US, as you have people arguing some people from some places shouldn’t be helped even after a natural disaster.

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    “Is everybody okay? Let’s get something to eat.”

    It would take me a hundred times longer to explain my politics. George was a genius.

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      I had an aunt who told me as a small child not to feel bad or give a dollar to homeless people because they’re “bad people who deserve to starve.”

      She died wealthy as a former J&J executive. What a fucking train wreck of a society where people like that get to live a life of gluttony for their dedication to private profit and schadenfreude.

      Our values are wrong. Our values are disturbing.

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        our societal values are distubing and aerodynamics allows for a specific subset of architecture for the shape of an item intended to be thrust through the atmosphere at mach 5 :/ yes

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        I had an aunt who told me as a small child not to feel bad or give a dollar to homeless people because they’re “bad people who deserve to starve.”

        holy shit. that makes my relatives callous indifference look outright benign.

        Was she hurt by a hobo as a child? fuck… what does it take to judge people like that.