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MEAT
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22255 posts 		Mon Jun-18-18 12:07 PM

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"I’m struggling to “live normally” when the world feels so chaotic"


  

          

I don’t have a well developed ability for cognitive disconnection
So I’m having a very tough time going from “this report is dumb and I don’t feel like responding to this email”
To infants are being physically pulled off of their mothers breasts because white nationalist are running the country and congress reps are complicit in not checking this human rights monstrosity.

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I’m struggling to “live normally” when the world feels so chaotic [View all] , MEAT, Mon Jun-18-18 12:07 PM
 
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do you talk politics at work?
Jun 18th 2018
1
I don’t talk politics at all really.
Jun 18th 2018
2
two things.
Jun 18th 2018
3
Every single year since the war began I’ve seen dead bodies
Jun 18th 2018
4
      good lawd.. you are a vet?
Jun 18th 2018
9
           No. I’m just a dude that listens to people in passing.
Jun 18th 2018
10
                I know a few but hopefully no one who has images on their phone
Jun 19th 2018
70
n/m
Jun 18th 2018
5
Good for you.
Jun 18th 2018
6
      haha, damn
Jun 18th 2018
16
This right here
Jun 18th 2018
7
Apparently just listen to music and expect survival
Jun 18th 2018
8
History gets real: Right wing people thought President Obama would
Jun 18th 2018
11
This is a myopic take. But it’s the typical one.
Jun 18th 2018
12
Well, you can analyze how wrong the other side is but they are not
Jun 18th 2018
13
K
Jun 18th 2018
14
Right? this shit is actually scary
Jun 18th 2018
15
      Getting scared isn't going to help. They elected a President
Jun 18th 2018
17
           Rules, laws, systems, positions ... you white?
Jun 18th 2018
18
                2 sides exist. They side you don't like elected Trump. Neil Gorush is
Jun 18th 2018
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                     As global white supremacy grows my already tenuous safety on this
Jun 18th 2018
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                          2 sides exist. I'm having no problem living normally because I know
Jun 18th 2018
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                               You could’ve just said you’re white.
Jun 18th 2018
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                                    they're not going anywhere
Jun 18th 2018
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                                         You all, not they. You.
Jun 18th 2018
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                                              they're not going anywhere
Jun 18th 2018
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                                                   lol, peak
Jun 18th 2018
29
                                                        priceless exchange homey lol.
Jun 19th 2018
54
Such wise words, they say one thing, but others say another thing
Jun 18th 2018
35
and analyzing how wrong right wing is going to make them go away?
Jun 18th 2018
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      Nobody here thinks they just "go away" so you can stop that
Jun 18th 2018
42
           Their support either loses at the ballot box or it doesn't
Jun 18th 2018
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                White
Jun 18th 2018
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                What is the purpose of anything you're saying in this thread?
Jun 18th 2018
47
                     Dude feels that my concerns are political not existential
Jun 18th 2018
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                     whatever it is
Jun 18th 2018
49
One side is correct, though.
Jun 18th 2018
36
and how will that make them go away?
Jun 18th 2018
39
there's blame on many sides
Jun 19th 2018
80
Life is short...focus on you and yours
Jun 18th 2018
25
RE: Life is short...focus on you and yours
Jun 18th 2018
27
Is Florida not getting lower? Forcing renewed gentrification?
Jun 18th 2018
28
Is that the cause you want to direct your energy toward?
Jun 18th 2018
30
On the real, I agree with bentagain
Jun 18th 2018
31
      we need a GNN. Good News Network
Jun 18th 2018
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           I like how the evening news shows (NBC, ABC, CBS) end w/ a happy story
Jun 18th 2018
34
           As much as I try to find things to enjoy...
Jun 18th 2018
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                We gotta find middle ground, we need balance (c)
Jun 18th 2018
43
                I can't believe enlightened individuals still rely on cable news outlets
Jun 18th 2018
51
                     4-5 is probably being generous lol
Jun 19th 2018
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                we have 5 or 6 networks running negative 24/7/365
Jun 19th 2018
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                     LOL! Thanks for the tip. I'll use it when I'm looking for some gloom & d...
Jun 19th 2018
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                          the thing is we don't even have to look for the doom and gloom
Jun 19th 2018
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                               Man, my girl did the same thing with NPR
Jun 19th 2018
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                                    my daughter born a few months before my Dad passed
Jun 19th 2018
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meh. no one cried for my great grandmother's grandmother.
Jun 18th 2018
33
I hear you and it's very frustrating
Jun 18th 2018
40
I have a new kid. She’s great. But 10 hours a day is spent on BS
Jun 18th 2018
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      I really wish I knew the answer
Jun 18th 2018
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           My grandmothers lived as Black women in Texas
Jun 18th 2018
50
Chaos is the new normal. Media is forcing us into complacency. Plating n...
Jun 19th 2018
52
And this whole separating children from their family been fcking with me...
Jun 19th 2018
53
My entire night last night was nightmares
Jun 19th 2018
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      I can't even listen to that Pro-Publica video. The description alone was...
Jun 19th 2018
64
When was the last movie you watched that didn’t have a gun or
Jun 19th 2018
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      I watched Moana with the kids this weekend.
Jun 19th 2018
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      conditioning culture
Jun 19th 2018
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So there's the idea of a Circle of Influence
Jun 19th 2018
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Cool bro. Meanwhile the Trump administration is committing human rights
Jun 19th 2018
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      https://mamabearandhercubsdotblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/positive-p...
Jun 19th 2018
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      Is this horror not horrible?
Jun 19th 2018
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           I can only control what I can control...
Jun 19th 2018
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                My ask of you is that at some point in all of this prepare things you’...
Jun 19th 2018
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                     how can I prepare for things I haven't considered?
Jun 19th 2018
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                          consider them.
Jun 19th 2018
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                               but what is "them?"
Jun 19th 2018
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                                    ok
Jun 19th 2018
75
      My bad for replying to a vent piece
Jun 19th 2018
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I don't like people very much these days.
Jun 19th 2018
76
It's a rough balance, and I haven't found it.
Jun 19th 2018
78
I'm sure a lot of people feel as you do
Jun 19th 2018
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we need to be more honest with ourselves...the cognitive dissonance on t...
Jun 19th 2018
81
Hmmm
Jun 20th 2018
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      Nope
Jun 20th 2018
85
Media breaks are good. Activism is good. Spirituality is good.
Jun 19th 2018
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