Sadly, many Conservatives have the attitude of "I'm alright, Jack" and could not give a toss about the underdog.
One of the reasons why I would never want to work or live in the USA is the lack of proper healthcare provision, as wel as a time-limited unemployment benefit system. Healthcare should be for all and unemployment benefits should not have a time limit on them.
Having grown up knee deep in rural redneckistan, I've always known that conservatives have always espoused social darwinism. For years, I've laughed my ass off at the repubs lacking insurance & then those very same people railing against the one party that could provide them with the help they need.
@DonQuixotedeKaw You haven't threatened anyone. Nor made any personal attacks. And you appear sane. Do what you wish but I'm not taking the comments down.
One day a paladin and a druid were talking in the scribe guild ... ah yeah ?
I mean not that your story is bad but in role playing didn't the mind exercise of contemplative perspectives jade you just a bit ?
There were times in game sessions I had to take breaks to seriously consiter the moralistic n ethical ramification and consequences of characters where magic, items and the political alliences of religious/spiritual relationships were based off of karma or alignment factors in a game.
@Curas1 And you are still digesting the consequences of adopting amoral ideologies. And that's good. Some people protect that festering turd in their guts their whole life. But I think that one day, you'll give a shit. :-D
I know how you feel about abortion rights. But, believe it or not, there are people who actually cry over the idea of needless abortions every year too. Sometimes people share different parts of the same heart.
@LeathermanFan2 This man wasn't sharing his heart. He was showing me he didn't have one. I try to be a compassionate person. To put myself into the other person's place. To empathize. I just don't think I can grasp that level of fear he must live with everyday.
There's so post saying Tetsubo is overreacting, but keep in mind that you weren't there for the situation. I completely understand where Tetsubo is coming from. Sometimes an event happens that hits you so hard that it makes a last impression on not only the person who said it, but the location that it happened in. That location suddenly becomes correlated with the awful event and damages future enjoyment that could be had there.
I can understand why you were so upset. I got into an argument recently with a staff member at my gaming store where I'm the D&D Coordinator and he believes things that are insanely self-centered and I told him so. I choose not to be friends with him and I won't be good friends with anyone with those opinions. I still do my thing at the store though because I want to make sure the players are able to have their fun, but as for that guy...I just deal with him because I have to.
My response would have been something along the lines of "You should be in porn. I've never seen a dick that big before" Using my hand to gesture his approximate height.
What a miserable, tiny little homo sapien. And I mean that in only the most literal, biological sense. And you know, I still want him to have healthcare along with everyone else.
I know that feeling. It's quite disturbing when some irate people tell the whole room that they wish "all the turks to go a concentration" especially if that commet is aimed towards some 16 year oldish girls.
When I hear statesments like that, I make sure to call that person out, in public, and make them say it again. This is to 1) confirm what I heard and 2) point out the insanity and make that person realize what his stupid mouth just said. It's a crying shame that conservatives have wrapped themselves in Christianity when their actions are anything but Christ-like. There is madness and evil in this world; do not fool yourselves.
@micahhenry It is sad, that most Mammonist & Doninionists, don't even know that they are. All the while going along, claiming to be "Christians" etc, certain that they're not in any kind of a cult. And if they do figure out that they are treasonous, parasitic theocrats, the few seconds of deep shame they feel from the realization, gets buried deep in their psyche, & is denied. But it causes an addictive logic loop, so they expect better results, from the same ritual insanities over & over again.
thats the governments objective.. too many americans are brainwashed and listen/watch the news . alot of people need to do research on their government.. start with the federal reserve...
This is why I try not to talk about politics and religion with my gaming friends. Your talk about politics ruined your comic book shop for you, and keeps you from supporting a friend of yours that owns it... I have some radical leftist friends that have said similar things about my conservative views that affected me deeply too. I think I'm just too mellow of a person to not let those things go, ignore them, and then play some games. We just don't talk about those things anymore.
What I learned from that story is evil people do exist. If he was in Nazi Germany he would fit right along. I don't know if my reaction would be to cry, but maybe get angry and leave. I don't know if World War 2 would have had the same outcome if Americans and allies all decided to start crying instead of get ting angry and start killing people who deserved to be killed.
You need to dig a little deeper into 1930s US common attitudes.
Most of our US ancestors did exactly that; cry, piss and moan, that we didn't want to get into another European war. At least those who weren't Father Coughlin followers, who wanted us to join the war, on Germany's side. If the US oil corporations had not declared economic war on Japan, inciting their reply to Pearl Harbor, the switch wouldn't have been flipped, & we'd be either speaking Deutsch or Nipponese.
I can understand and accept you taking a strong dislike to someone you disagree fundamentally with. That's fair enough and human nature. I can't understand why one guy's opinions on politics changed your view of the shop in question and everyone else who you were friends with there. It's not like you believe everyone else you socialised with there felt the same as the guy in question. Religion and politics are not totally relevant to gaming/comics anyway.
@Frenchie66667 Theocracies are currently, the deluded guiding hands of all human actions. There is nothing on this planet, that is not relevant to them.
I can understand much of what you mean by this video, I myself have been subjected to and seen a lot of people like this, and I do attribute it to where I live, the "buckle" of the bible belt.
Some people have no idea of the garbage that comes out of their mouths, and I have heard stuff like this, and much to my disdain, I have heard worse
you shouldn't generalize conservatives that way, I'm a conservative and I don't believe in killing off people. Just like on the left, on the right there are extremes but there are also the more rational philosophies. Also you should really go back to that store, I mean that guy was just a customer, not even working there, if you enjoyed the company of the owner and enjoyed the vibe of the place, don't let one A-hole ruin it, anyways, great video!
@wolfofmagdeburg "You shouldn't generalize conservatives that way"
Why not? There are a few "democrats" in office, with somewhat rational conservative philosophies & zero liberals. The rest are paid off fascists. You are a confused person, if you think for a moment that supporting the fascist machine, is not synonymous with killing worth while people off. Somehow, you are lying to yourself. If you make no effort to find and correct it, you are just as culpable, as the tyranny that you support.
@DonQuixotedeKaw I think you are confusing fascism with conservatism. Conservatism is a pretty broad political category that encompasses policies that are more traditional, in the U.S. that means promoting free market capitalism as opposed to a more socialist model, etc. Fascism on the other hand is a cult of personality where all power is vested in the state and war is inevitable as the state attempts to eliminate rivals and keeps its precarious economy and social order at home intact.
@DonQuixotedeKaw I think I proved my original point quite well: You can't generalize conservatives. As far as fascists in our government, the Democratic and Republican parties don't even come close to the ideologies of say the fascist Nazi party or the fascist Iraqi Ba'ath party. We live in a democracy whether you like it or not.
Damn... I've had issues with concervatives before but nothing that bad. I think I'd have a similar rection. Once a friends fried said to me "They should bomb all arabs of the world." And I said WHAT!? then he reframed "Well they should bomb atleast all muslims." WHAT!? "Well atleast all the radicals who fuck kids and bomb embassys." And I just said "Your really dumb, aren't you. You went from racial genoside to killing radical criminals. And I still don't agree,"
"As far right as you could get and still be on any political spectrum at all."
For the first time I believe I'm correct in the comments section here when I say WRONG. It actually goes further. Liberal is Left Wing, and Conservative is in the middle. On the very right, there are Reactionaries. These are people who wish to return the U.S. to how King George ruled it. You don't see those kinds of people around because that is just insanity.
What the friend said reminds me or Scrooge. But...WOW.
@IDaCashman "You don't see those kinds of people around"
Really? You don't have "republican" fascist cockroaches infesting where you live?
LUCKY! There' somewhere without avarice addicts?!
Where do you live? I want to move to such a Big Rock Candy Mountain!
Actually, I think that Dominionists & Mammonists in "conservative's" clothing, would like nothing better than to turn back the clock to the Code Of Hammurabi.
Ol' King George would be much too much of a "pinko commie fag" for their liking.
Unfortunately, many feel this way and can't seem to relate to another point of view- until it happens to them, personally. I hope that person still has his job and never is umemployed, without health care.
you really shouldn't let some misanthrope's ignorant opinion affect you so profoundly. he's a complete nonfactor in the grand scheme of life, i'm not sure why you allowed him to have such an impact on yours.
@lhsgrobar I sincerely hope that you are not under the impression that the avarice addict in question, is in any way unusual? The planet is infested with carriers of this mental disease. I could not walk down a city street, without exchanging molecules from hundreds, perhaps thousands of "humans" like that. These are not nonfactors, they are the dominant predator on the planet. And you would be sadly mistaken to believe that they are not engineering the herd.
I... don't really understand the point of this story. Really confuses me why this would not let you go to a place you enjoyed. I've meet many people in my life I've had a strong dislike for but I've never, ever let them by deed or virtue influence me in such a negative way that is for sure.
@HelloWalterSobchak Maybe this could be true but I can't see a real solid connection to prison violence and a war zone to that of a ass-hat in a comic store running his mouth. Could be I just have a different level of tolerance to people saying moronic crap. I would *never* lose contact with someone whose company I enjoyed because of someone else actions. That "bad vide" would begin and stop at that person where it started from. They can go to hell - not my friendship with my friend.
@MercKilsek There is a point in any person, (any primate really) where they suddenly realize that they are prey. Most often this is in recognition of a predator. In man at least, "fight or flight" means that if escape is not possible, self sacrifice for the tribe is the last option. This is when we BECOME predator, like a switch being flipped. If the predation is slow, patient & methodical, like a frog in a slowly heating pot, that realization & identification of self as prey, rarely happens.
@MercKilsek There are at least 2 distinct types of fear; rational, where the context is fully understood, & irrational, where the contexts are unknown. When faced with a predator, sometimes the choice between fight / flight, is guided by the type of fear, most available. Tetsubo faced a threat to humanity that day. If he had followed his basal primate instincts, he would have done whatever, to kill the man. Instead he had a dissonance as to lesser-evils & greater-harms, that has not faded.
@MercKilsek That day, he identified himself as "the frog in the heating pot" prey. A death to himself, and/or to a single predator, who is only a small part of a much larger threat, would have only made the overall threat stronger, and would have only confused the matter, for any without his awareness. I'm not surprised that he got lost, driving away. He must have been effectively drunk, with dissonance. I have been, when faced with this horrible sickness in humanity.
@MercKilsek This has been a projection of my own similar experiences, so I assume that Tetsubo has made another type of self sacrifice, as I have, to ring the warning bells, that we, our entire species, are under a subtle attack, that is no less deadly for its subtlety. I do not want to force myself to come face to face, with the lunatics who run this asylum, because I don't have to be the predator that they've become. Neither does Tetsubo. I won't blame him for his evasion, I understand it.
@DonQuixotedeKaw I don't care that he doesn't want to deal with the person that upset him; whatever. I don't care that he does not go back to the store; just a place. My point, to be quick and blunt unlike your reply, is he is willing and did abandon a friendship (the store-owner: which he states in his video he was) do to *one* event. Could be we have different understanding of what a friend is, I don't know for sure. I would steel myself before tossing a friendship aside so easily and quickly.
@MercKilsek By my stubbornly maintaining a loyal friendship with a person like Tetsubo's friend, I inadvertently caused other's suffering. From hindsight of my own errors, in deluding myself that my friend couldn't really be that bad of a person, I greatly admire Tetsubo's wisdom in quickly cutting his ties, with a snake in the grass. It took me 18 years, to accept that despite my tireless damage control, the harm my loyalty was causing, was not as honorable, as I had lead myself to believe.
@DonQuixotedeKaw That is your story about your ex-friend; which is not the topic of the video nor the subject of my comments. Nothing in his video suggests he had a issue with his friend the shop owner seeing he spend hours a week there visiting him and others at this place. Never once in the video does he say that the shop owner was the reason for this distress. So whatever point you are making it is not connecting very well.
Judging by your other rude comments to others, plz leave me alone.
@HelloWalterSobchak There's surely a massive difference in scale though between going back to a warzone where you fought, killed, and lost friends ... and going back to a comic book store (you previously liked) where you had a difference of opinion with another customer, who said something you didn't like?
@MercKilsek The point of the story was that it is a whole lot easier for me to make a video rather than type this all out as text. The store has spoiled for me.
"but in a mental hospital.... they have an excuse for saying such things, they are by definition not thinking straight"
Where do you draw the line? ps psychotic individuals can in fact be extremely coherent and no less rational (in the logical or Bayesian sense) than normal people.
"how would you decide who should have healthcare"
In fact, David Cross has said something at least as rotten. He once related an epiphany he had about Tea Partiers railing against public health care: he realized finally that it's OK, because he doesn't want them to have health care; he wants them to die.
I don't know whether he was serious. In any case there a definitely a lot of people I don't want to have health care.
Sadly, many Conservatives have the attitude of "I'm alright, Jack" and could not give a toss about the underdog.
One of the reasons why I would never want to work or live in the USA is the lack of proper healthcare provision, as wel as a time-limited unemployment benefit system. Healthcare should be for all and unemployment benefits should not have a time limit on them.
markanthonyquested 6 months ago
This came as a shock to you?
Having grown up knee deep in rural redneckistan, I've always known that conservatives have always espoused social darwinism. For years, I've laughed my ass off at the repubs lacking insurance & then those very same people railing against the one party that could provide them with the help they need.
Cognitive dissonance never fails to amuse me.
vynterbone 7 months ago
@vynterbone I expect trolls *here*. I had never encountered one in the flesh before. Apparently I failed by Fear save.
tetsubo57 7 months ago
I wish I were a martian...
alexandrite014 7 months ago
Lack of empathy i the root of all evil.
alokov 7 months ago
@alokov Yep.
tetsubo57 7 months ago
Tetsubo, my apologies for barking at your subs. This subject hits too close to home. Would you like me delete this stuff?
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@DonQuixotedeKaw You haven't threatened anyone. Nor made any personal attacks. And you appear sane. Do what you wish but I'm not taking the comments down.
tetsubo57 7 months ago
One day a paladin and a druid were talking in the scribe guild ... ah yeah ?
I mean not that your story is bad but in role playing didn't the mind exercise of contemplative perspectives jade you just a bit ?
There were times in game sessions I had to take breaks to seriously consiter the moralistic n ethical ramification and consequences of characters where magic, items and the political alliences of religious/spiritual relationships were based off of karma or alignment factors in a game.
Curas1 7 months ago
@Curas1 And you are still digesting the consequences of adopting amoral ideologies. And that's good. Some people protect that festering turd in their guts their whole life. But I think that one day, you'll give a shit. :-D
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@DonQuixotedeKaw
Ah damn idelogical touchy feelie bards, you're lucky you can sing mister!
:P -mumuhhhh 'heeh;'
Curas1 7 months ago
I know how you feel about abortion rights. But, believe it or not, there are people who actually cry over the idea of needless abortions every year too. Sometimes people share different parts of the same heart.
LeathermanFan2 7 months ago
@LeathermanFan2 This man wasn't sharing his heart. He was showing me he didn't have one. I try to be a compassionate person. To put myself into the other person's place. To empathize. I just don't think I can grasp that level of fear he must live with everyday.
tetsubo57 7 months ago
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LeathermanFan2 7 months ago
There's so post saying Tetsubo is overreacting, but keep in mind that you weren't there for the situation. I completely understand where Tetsubo is coming from. Sometimes an event happens that hits you so hard that it makes a last impression on not only the person who said it, but the location that it happened in. That location suddenly becomes correlated with the awful event and damages future enjoyment that could be had there.
willquestion 7 months ago
I can understand why you were so upset. I got into an argument recently with a staff member at my gaming store where I'm the D&D Coordinator and he believes things that are insanely self-centered and I told him so. I choose not to be friends with him and I won't be good friends with anyone with those opinions. I still do my thing at the store though because I want to make sure the players are able to have their fun, but as for that guy...I just deal with him because I have to.
willquestion 7 months ago
My response would have been something along the lines of "You should be in porn. I've never seen a dick that big before" Using my hand to gesture his approximate height.
What a miserable, tiny little homo sapien. And I mean that in only the most literal, biological sense. And you know, I still want him to have healthcare along with everyone else.
azirk83 7 months ago
@azirk83 word. Not an expression I employ often, but apt in this situation I think.
alokov 7 months ago
I know that feeling. It's quite disturbing when some irate people tell the whole room that they wish "all the turks to go a concentration" especially if that commet is aimed towards some 16 year oldish girls.
darkfiete 7 months ago
When I hear statesments like that, I make sure to call that person out, in public, and make them say it again. This is to 1) confirm what I heard and 2) point out the insanity and make that person realize what his stupid mouth just said. It's a crying shame that conservatives have wrapped themselves in Christianity when their actions are anything but Christ-like. There is madness and evil in this world; do not fool yourselves.
micahhenry 7 months ago
@micahhenry It is sad, that most Mammonist & Doninionists, don't even know that they are. All the while going along, claiming to be "Christians" etc, certain that they're not in any kind of a cult. And if they do figure out that they are treasonous, parasitic theocrats, the few seconds of deep shame they feel from the realization, gets buried deep in their psyche, & is denied. But it causes an addictive logic loop, so they expect better results, from the same ritual insanities over & over again.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
thats the governments objective.. too many americans are brainwashed and listen/watch the news . alot of people need to do research on their government.. start with the federal reserve...
youthgw 7 months ago
This is why I try not to talk about politics and religion with my gaming friends. Your talk about politics ruined your comic book shop for you, and keeps you from supporting a friend of yours that owns it... I have some radical leftist friends that have said similar things about my conservative views that affected me deeply too. I think I'm just too mellow of a person to not let those things go, ignore them, and then play some games. We just don't talk about those things anymore.
Samwise7RPG 7 months ago
What I learned from that story is evil people do exist. If he was in Nazi Germany he would fit right along. I don't know if my reaction would be to cry, but maybe get angry and leave. I don't know if World War 2 would have had the same outcome if Americans and allies all decided to start crying instead of get ting angry and start killing people who deserved to be killed.
LeathermanFan2 7 months ago
@LeathermanFan2 What?
You need to dig a little deeper into 1930s US common attitudes.
Most of our US ancestors did exactly that; cry, piss and moan, that we didn't want to get into another European war. At least those who weren't Father Coughlin followers, who wanted us to join the war, on Germany's side. If the US oil corporations had not declared economic war on Japan, inciting their reply to Pearl Harbor, the switch wouldn't have been flipped, & we'd be either speaking Deutsch or Nipponese.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
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LeathermanFan2 7 months ago
It seems to me you've cut your nose off to spite your face, as me ol' mum would say.
Frenchie66667 7 months ago
@Frenchie66667 My mental connection to the event and the place are linked. You don't have to understand it.
tetsubo57 7 months ago
I can understand and accept you taking a strong dislike to someone you disagree fundamentally with. That's fair enough and human nature. I can't understand why one guy's opinions on politics changed your view of the shop in question and everyone else who you were friends with there. It's not like you believe everyone else you socialised with there felt the same as the guy in question. Religion and politics are not totally relevant to gaming/comics anyway.
Frenchie66667 7 months ago
@Frenchie66667 Theocracies are currently, the deluded guiding hands of all human actions. There is nothing on this planet, that is not relevant to them.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@DonQuixotedeKaw - Gosh. Gaming night must be pretty tedious at your house then. ;-)
Frenchie66667 7 months ago
@Frenchie66667 LOL!
Yes. If dealing through live, willful, skeptical, independent, cantankerous, poorly informed, but not stupid, flesh and blood avatars, is tedious.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
I can understand much of what you mean by this video, I myself have been subjected to and seen a lot of people like this, and I do attribute it to where I live, the "buckle" of the bible belt.
Some people have no idea of the garbage that comes out of their mouths, and I have heard stuff like this, and much to my disdain, I have heard worse
eberik 7 months ago
A persons friends say much about who they are.
regemo 7 months ago
you shouldn't generalize conservatives that way, I'm a conservative and I don't believe in killing off people. Just like on the left, on the right there are extremes but there are also the more rational philosophies. Also you should really go back to that store, I mean that guy was just a customer, not even working there, if you enjoyed the company of the owner and enjoyed the vibe of the place, don't let one A-hole ruin it, anyways, great video!
wolfofmagdeburg 7 months ago
@wolfofmagdeburg "You shouldn't generalize conservatives that way"
Why not? There are a few "democrats" in office, with somewhat rational conservative philosophies & zero liberals. The rest are paid off fascists. You are a confused person, if you think for a moment that supporting the fascist machine, is not synonymous with killing worth while people off. Somehow, you are lying to yourself. If you make no effort to find and correct it, you are just as culpable, as the tyranny that you support.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@DonQuixotedeKaw I think you are confusing fascism with conservatism. Conservatism is a pretty broad political category that encompasses policies that are more traditional, in the U.S. that means promoting free market capitalism as opposed to a more socialist model, etc. Fascism on the other hand is a cult of personality where all power is vested in the state and war is inevitable as the state attempts to eliminate rivals and keeps its precarious economy and social order at home intact.
wolfofmagdeburg 7 months ago
@wolfofmagdeburg LOL!
You don't even hear yourself, do you.
I bet you could read over what you just wrote, a dozen times, and not see what's wrong about it.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@DonQuixotedeKaw I think I proved my original point quite well: You can't generalize conservatives. As far as fascists in our government, the Democratic and Republican parties don't even come close to the ideologies of say the fascist Nazi party or the fascist Iraqi Ba'ath party. We live in a democracy whether you like it or not.
wolfofmagdeburg 7 months ago
Damn... I've had issues with concervatives before but nothing that bad. I think I'd have a similar rection. Once a friends fried said to me "They should bomb all arabs of the world." And I said WHAT!? then he reframed "Well they should bomb atleast all muslims." WHAT!? "Well atleast all the radicals who fuck kids and bomb embassys." And I just said "Your really dumb, aren't you. You went from racial genoside to killing radical criminals. And I still don't agree,"
hammeredshitsteak 7 months ago
You have lived sheltered life.
MokomaSusi 7 months ago
@MokomaSusi No actually I haven't. And this was still the ugliest thing ever said to my face. Well, other than things my Father said.
tetsubo57 7 months ago
sadly..i expect his opinion from most people.
skuzzyknuckles 7 months ago
"As far right as you could get and still be on any political spectrum at all."
For the first time I believe I'm correct in the comments section here when I say WRONG. It actually goes further. Liberal is Left Wing, and Conservative is in the middle. On the very right, there are Reactionaries. These are people who wish to return the U.S. to how King George ruled it. You don't see those kinds of people around because that is just insanity.
What the friend said reminds me or Scrooge. But...WOW.
IDaCashman 7 months ago
@IDaCashman "You don't see those kinds of people around"
Really? You don't have "republican" fascist cockroaches infesting where you live?
LUCKY! There' somewhere without avarice addicts?!
Where do you live? I want to move to such a Big Rock Candy Mountain!
Actually, I think that Dominionists & Mammonists in "conservative's" clothing, would like nothing better than to turn back the clock to the Code Of Hammurabi.
Ol' King George would be much too much of a "pinko commie fag" for their liking.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
Unfortunately, many feel this way and can't seem to relate to another point of view- until it happens to them, personally. I hope that person still has his job and never is umemployed, without health care.
windmark8040 7 months ago 2
you really shouldn't let some misanthrope's ignorant opinion affect you so profoundly. he's a complete nonfactor in the grand scheme of life, i'm not sure why you allowed him to have such an impact on yours.
lhsgrobar 7 months ago
@lhsgrobar I sincerely hope that you are not under the impression that the avarice addict in question, is in any way unusual? The planet is infested with carriers of this mental disease. I could not walk down a city street, without exchanging molecules from hundreds, perhaps thousands of "humans" like that. These are not nonfactors, they are the dominant predator on the planet. And you would be sadly mistaken to believe that they are not engineering the herd.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
I... don't really understand the point of this story. Really confuses me why this would not let you go to a place you enjoyed. I've meet many people in my life I've had a strong dislike for but I've never, ever let them by deed or virtue influence me in such a negative way that is for sure.
MercKilsek 7 months ago
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HelloWalterSobchak 7 months ago
@HelloWalterSobchak Maybe this could be true but I can't see a real solid connection to prison violence and a war zone to that of a ass-hat in a comic store running his mouth. Could be I just have a different level of tolerance to people saying moronic crap. I would *never* lose contact with someone whose company I enjoyed because of someone else actions. That "bad vide" would begin and stop at that person where it started from. They can go to hell - not my friendship with my friend.
MercKilsek 7 months ago
@MercKilsek There is a point in any person, (any primate really) where they suddenly realize that they are prey. Most often this is in recognition of a predator. In man at least, "fight or flight" means that if escape is not possible, self sacrifice for the tribe is the last option. This is when we BECOME predator, like a switch being flipped. If the predation is slow, patient & methodical, like a frog in a slowly heating pot, that realization & identification of self as prey, rarely happens.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@MercKilsek There are at least 2 distinct types of fear; rational, where the context is fully understood, & irrational, where the contexts are unknown. When faced with a predator, sometimes the choice between fight / flight, is guided by the type of fear, most available. Tetsubo faced a threat to humanity that day. If he had followed his basal primate instincts, he would have done whatever, to kill the man. Instead he had a dissonance as to lesser-evils & greater-harms, that has not faded.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@MercKilsek That day, he identified himself as "the frog in the heating pot" prey. A death to himself, and/or to a single predator, who is only a small part of a much larger threat, would have only made the overall threat stronger, and would have only confused the matter, for any without his awareness. I'm not surprised that he got lost, driving away. He must have been effectively drunk, with dissonance. I have been, when faced with this horrible sickness in humanity.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@MercKilsek This has been a projection of my own similar experiences, so I assume that Tetsubo has made another type of self sacrifice, as I have, to ring the warning bells, that we, our entire species, are under a subtle attack, that is no less deadly for its subtlety. I do not want to force myself to come face to face, with the lunatics who run this asylum, because I don't have to be the predator that they've become. Neither does Tetsubo. I won't blame him for his evasion, I understand it.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@DonQuixotedeKaw I don't care that he doesn't want to deal with the person that upset him; whatever. I don't care that he does not go back to the store; just a place. My point, to be quick and blunt unlike your reply, is he is willing and did abandon a friendship (the store-owner: which he states in his video he was) do to *one* event. Could be we have different understanding of what a friend is, I don't know for sure. I would steel myself before tossing a friendship aside so easily and quickly.
MercKilsek 7 months ago
@MercKilsek By my stubbornly maintaining a loyal friendship with a person like Tetsubo's friend, I inadvertently caused other's suffering. From hindsight of my own errors, in deluding myself that my friend couldn't really be that bad of a person, I greatly admire Tetsubo's wisdom in quickly cutting his ties, with a snake in the grass. It took me 18 years, to accept that despite my tireless damage control, the harm my loyalty was causing, was not as honorable, as I had lead myself to believe.
DonQuixotedeKaw 7 months ago
@DonQuixotedeKaw That is your story about your ex-friend; which is not the topic of the video nor the subject of my comments. Nothing in his video suggests he had a issue with his friend the shop owner seeing he spend hours a week there visiting him and others at this place. Never once in the video does he say that the shop owner was the reason for this distress. So whatever point you are making it is not connecting very well.
Judging by your other rude comments to others, plz leave me alone.
MercKilsek 7 months ago
@HelloWalterSobchak There's surely a massive difference in scale though between going back to a warzone where you fought, killed, and lost friends ... and going back to a comic book store (you previously liked) where you had a difference of opinion with another customer, who said something you didn't like?
Frenchie66667 7 months ago
@MercKilsek The point of the story was that it is a whole lot easier for me to make a video rather than type this all out as text. The store has spoiled for me.
tetsubo57 7 months ago
I think healthcare should be a right not a privilege. It far cheaper for someone to have healthcare than to not or just relay on the emergency room.
wiccanmoonman 7 months ago
you are a better man then i am ...i would have broke his nose
tarboy69 7 months ago
@tarboy69 and hoped he did not have the health care to fix it, ironically
tobiosnmakky 7 months ago
@tobiosnmakky lol
tarboy69 7 months ago
ever been in a mental hospital bro
odenskrigare 7 months ago
@odenskrigare I've never had the need. But thank you for your concern.
tetsubo57 7 months ago
@tetsubo57
Well, I bring it up because you'd probably hear worse things inside the walls of one. I've definitely said worse things than the guy in your video.
odenskrigare 7 months ago
@odenskrigare but in a mental hospital.... they have an excuse for saying such things, they are by definition not thinking straight,
how would you decide who should have healthcare if you think there is a lot of people whom you definatly do not want to have health care
tobiosnmakky 7 months ago
@tobiosnmakky
"but in a mental hospital.... they have an excuse for saying such things, they are by definition not thinking straight"
Where do you draw the line? ps psychotic individuals can in fact be extremely coherent and no less rational (in the logical or Bayesian sense) than normal people.
"how would you decide who should have healthcare"
Don't know. It's merely an ideal for me.
odenskrigare 7 months ago
@tetsubo57
In fact, David Cross has said something at least as rotten. He once related an epiphany he had about Tea Partiers railing against public health care: he realized finally that it's OK, because he doesn't want them to have health care; he wants them to die.
I don't know whether he was serious. In any case there a definitely a lot of people I don't want to have health care.
odenskrigare 7 months ago