I kinda hate the term boomer. but the OP who posted this and anyone reading it going "yeah yeah yeah steve harvey way to go!" are the epitome of the deragtory slur that is 'boomer'.
CLEARLY this is a photoshop job, poorly done... on top of that, it takes a whopping 10 seconds to google and realize this was not said by steve harvey.
jfc.
I agree except for smaller mom/pop food shops. I can tell you having a lot of experince in that realm that retail food is TOUGH. And if you are running, a sandwich shop let’s say, to be able to automate the cashier job even if it means losing a few cash sales is basically necessity at this point to compete with the big boys and with ultra inflated inventory prices and inflated labor costs. The only alternative is charging 25 bucks for a 8 dollar sandwich …. Currently we’re only at about 16 bucks or so for that 8 dollar sammich … but automation or expediting checkout is the last line of labor cutting keeping it from being a McDonald’s only world for many smaller food spots. Tip in cash for sure tho.
I don’t think they see it as changing their morality or beliefs, rather as a continuation of that morality/belief system because the authorities they hold in high regard have led them in such a direction. So therefore it must be fine. Reinforce it by telling them they are “rightl and anyone else is “wrong” and boom.
Kinda like what happens with religion, again, as a great juxtaposed example.
You can see the spell breaking on the right to some extent, but you can see them trying to cast the spell harder too to keep people numb. And I don’t think it will get everyone under the spell again, but all it takes is enough people to secure the votes.. rinse and repeat for enough time and they will have everyone under the spell again though.
Call me a doomer, but I have little hole that we turn this ship around. I pray that Q is real, like REALLY real, but so far things are heading down the shitter at an ever alarming rate and I don’t see anything happening to wake enough people up. We have seen this in history where an empire reaches sort of a plateau of comfort and quality of life and it blossoms but ultimately then is juice from the inside til it falls apart. And some people see it and know it and predict it is falling apart, but not enough are willing to do anything because they are being living so comfy and complacent.
And the problem with “wait til things get worse, then people will not be complacent” is that as we have seen again in history, when shit gets real low down and out in a country the citizenry is ripe for manipulation. That’s essentially how nazis rose to power.
That’s why I’m glad I was at least raised to hope for the best but plan for the worst. I’m not fully there, but I’m working towards teaching f my wife how to be more self sufficient and we will teach our kids, and I’m setting up as much contingency infrastructure/funds/resources as I can for them all for the future and hopefully it is enough in the end to weather through when things finally crumble and get REAL bad. That’s the best I think any of us can do. That or run for office, which I may do in the future but right now it just isn’t doable.
I was born in 1984, and for all my life was mosty around left wingers or centrists just by social choices (playing music, selling drugs, partying hard) and all of them were anti govt and anti corp… I don’t know where/how it happened exactly but yeah almost all of them are completely opposite now. The best I can muster about it is that they never believed what they believed in the first place and were just parroting what they grew up around or knew or saw in media and thought was cool… which is why they have flip flopped so easily and dramatically as the propaganda changed. They were never taught to not practicing thinking for themselves.
It’s similar to religion when parents are forceful with their beliefs - it causes a lot of kids to not learn to love that religion as much as it’s what they were taught to love vs being taught TO love how to feel and how to connect with their spiritual side. That’s why there are so many atheists and fundamentalist nuts out there I would presume. Same psychological development mechanism.
You and anyone else except some serious Cybersecurity dudes are fools for signing up for this “hurr durr just get a burner email”
Has following Q taught you nothing?
I’m fuckin worried about even having visited to the site. I am definitely not clicking any buttons on it.
What is difficult to dismiss about it? There is no proof of it. That makes it easily dismissed.
Just because a modicum of plausible deniability is created because it wouldn’t have to be publicly acknowledged doesn’t mean it is difficult then to dismiss.
It’s like God - difficult to prove, easy to dismiss.
I pray that what we are seeing is devolution - but only a fool is going to believe it is happening without direct proof.
And in addition , the majority of Christian’s who are vehemently opposed to abortion choice are mostly of the fundamentalist nutjob breed of Christian’s who follow laughably modern versions of the faith … and do not live in rural areas Rural are mostly old school Christian branches from the original Catholic faith, not some snake church h bullshit. And those type of Christian’s tend to be more the “forgive and forget” or “god will sort you out” types who believe life is a test and our choices matter and ability to choose matters.
To play devils advocate here - one can make a stand and still maintain a professional/respectful demeanor. While I like the tv show version of himself that trump does off/on at his rallies, I Only like it cuz it’s funny/meme’y and almost stand up comedy …. I still prefer, since he is/was/will be POTUS, when he speaks in a more presidential manner.
The downfall is that when he panders to the trashy masses with his tv show personality side it is to connect with them and keep their attention, but in doin so, turns some of us off who would vote for him and otherwise.
I feel he would only benefit from toning the trash act down a notch and the “leader/ceo” act up a notch.