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15 Jun 2025, 8:41 am

Someone once told me and kept telling me that even though things in The States are bad, they're no where near as bad as they were during either The Great Depression or the height of the Civil War.

Can you still say that now? Because it looks like we'll be getting both again at the same time soon.

Also WWIII is imminent.


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16 Jun 2025, 8:48 am

I've been saying that the US is headed on the path to economic ruin and a Civil War-like crisis for the past several years and yet I've always been dismissed. I feel like Cassandra in "The Iliad", you know? The prophetess who tried to warn the Trojans that their city was doomed to be sacked but the Gods cursed her to where nobody would ever believe her. :|



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16 Jun 2025, 11:00 am

^Even more infuriating when regardless how much good points we have, folks like them tend to have a hogwash excuse like using our autistic traits to not take us seriously. :x

If this kind of crap does end up hitting the fan, that fault will be placed upon them for refusing to listen to us in the first place! :roll:



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16 Jun 2025, 12:11 pm

UncannyDanny wrote:
^Even more infuriating when regardless how much good points we have, folks like them tend to have a hogwash excuse like using our autistic traits to not take us seriously. :x

If this kind of crap does end up hitting the fan, that fault will be placed upon them for refusing to listen to us in the first place! :roll:


Yeah plus me having a diagnosed mental illness (Bipolar Type 1) in addition to my Autism hasn't helped my case either. It's amazing how once you get a mental illness you become a second class citizen of this world. It sucks. :-|



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16 Jun 2025, 3:48 pm

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Netanyahu says killing Iran’s supreme leader would ‘end the conflict’.


The reality is that killing Bibi would end the conflict.


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16 Jun 2025, 6:15 pm

I went to a local comedy show recently and the first comic was just transphobic. Didn't even try to mask it as a joke. Hearing the laughter from the audience was...lonely. I was glad that I hadn't invited my friend, whom is trans and was disowned by her parents. She's probably heard worse but it was a crappy reminder of how some of the world thinks.

Made me realise how out of place I am. I know this will likely read to some as overly sensitive but it's a strange feeling. Being the only one not laughing.


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16 Jun 2025, 6:18 pm

Lost_dragon wrote:
I went to a local comedy show recently and the first comic was just transphobic. Didn't even try to mask it as a joke. Hearing the laughter from the audience was...lonely. I was glad that I hadn't invited my friend, whom is trans and was disowned by her parents. She's probably heard worse but it was a crappy reminder of how some of the world thinks.

Made me realise how out of place I am. I know this will likely read to some as overly sensitive but it's a strange feeling. Being the only one not laughing.

Frankly, some people don't know the difference being actually funny, and just being plainly offensive.



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17 Jun 2025, 6:21 am

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Netanyahu says killing Iran’s supreme leader would ‘end the conflict’.


The reality is that killing Bibi would end the conflict.


83% of Jewish Israelis support the war campaign against Iran. A dead Bibi would have many replacement candidates still.



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17 Jun 2025, 7:44 am

I'd like to get a permanent marker and a tin of spray paint


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17 Jun 2025, 8:39 am

I reckon the bible is like "the news of the day" for back in the day


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17 Jun 2025, 3:39 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
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Netanyahu says killing Iran’s supreme leader would ‘end the conflict’.


The reality is that killing Bibi would end the conflict.


83% of Jewish Israelis support the war campaign against Iran. A dead Bibi would have many replacement candidates still.


Agreed. But none of them would have the same personal motives, whereas Bibi is using war to remain in power and avoid prosecution for corruption.


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18 Jun 2025, 9:30 am

So I'm listening to Genesis yeah and I'm thinking that "God" was just at the right place at the right time


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18 Jun 2025, 9:38 am

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So I'm listening to Genesis yeah and I'm thinking that "God" was just at the right place at the right time


Do you prefer Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins? :scratch:


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18 Jun 2025, 9:42 am

People lived long in them days

Peter Gabriel :lol:


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18 Jun 2025, 9:44 am

Noah should have called his other son Spam

They missed a trick there when they wrote the book


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18 Jun 2025, 10:01 am

I've had quite enough of that lot
It's just a bloody long list of names

I've got no patience for it


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