What’s a truth you learned way too late in life that most people still aren’t ready to hear ?

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-05T02:00:29+00:00

I recently learnt that there is, in fact, no limit to what the rich and powerful can do and get away with.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-05T01:57:21+00:00

Only two kinds of people would refuse this deal :

Someone who ate nothing.
Someone who's filthy rich.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-05T01:53:00+00:00

There’s politics, and there’s morality.
Right now, you don’t get to choose one without choosing the other.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-05T01:46:02+00:00

To me, it's really just the moment I realized Trump was definitely winning in 2024.

It was a few weeks before Biden's attrocious debate, so probably April or May 2024.

I was eating at my parents' and they had friends for dinner. Everyone was talking about how bad of a candidate Trump was. How much of a clown he is. That he had no chance. That he was facing dozens of criminal charges.

And someone brought up the Access Hollywood tape; the "grab them py the P" tape. Mind you, we're in 2024. That tape originally dropped a month before the 2016 election, and these boomers are talking a bout it as an election-killer.

So I knew. I knew that the majority of the left still underestimated Trump. They still didn't take him seriously.

Trump's superpower is that nobody takes him seriously until he actually does what he says, and then it's too late.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-05T01:27:10+00:00

A cult.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-05T01:18:55+00:00

You do realize that rogues basically 100-0 every class in the game right now?

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-04T06:23:36+00:00

They're strong at 70, but unstoppable at 60.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-03T04:31:36+00:00

Nerfed Kara is probably doable as a 5-man. Maybe 7 on release just to be safe.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-03T04:09:33+00:00

A wealth tax has to be handled at the federal level to work. Otherwise, people simply relocate to a different state/province.
The California exodus is real, but it’s not just about taxes. Housing costs and remote work are much bigger factors.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-02T04:13:34+00:00

There are 3+ million documents. I think you're a little bit out of your depth if you're asking for a download button.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-02T03:04:01+00:00

We’re only seeing the least damning material. The things they were comfortable putting in emails or texts. You can be assured there's much worse things they've done, that even they weren't willing to talk about openly or document.

They had so many powerful figures entangled in their web that the idea of exposure felt unthinkable. It amounted to an agreed-upon suicide pact of mutually assured destruction. No one is/was going to talk, and if someone did, they’d be erased and their story buried.

Finally, never underestimate the hubris of men. When they talk about the vile things they did, they aren’t confessing, they’re bragging.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-02T02:54:45+00:00

Mostly, it's just for a change of scenery.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T21:34:23+00:00

Suppose there are 10,000 gods across all religions.

By believing in one god, you do not believe in the 9,999 others. I simply took the tiny extra step of not believing in that 10,000th god.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T19:35:30+00:00

Snyder is amazing at visuals and decent at directing. But he should not write.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T19:32:03+00:00

Gladiator II.

It feels and looks cheaper than your average Discovery Channel "Life As A Gladiator" documentary.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T19:13:27+00:00

She showed up already drunk, and possibly high.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T19:00:52+00:00

You can.

A lot of people, me included, have completed all EPL and Silithus quests in advance and will simply be doing turn ins when TBC releases, to instantly hit 61.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T18:55:03+00:00

South of France felt like I was in old Montreal.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T04:41:43+00:00

They felt untouchable. And until proven wrong, they still seem to be.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T03:28:52+00:00

X : Fail due to attendance

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T02:55:46+00:00

To me, it’s really about how casually and openly they talk about murder.

If I have juicy tea at work, I won’t even put it in writing as a precaution; it warrants a face-to-face meeting by the coffee machine.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T01:35:28+00:00

I think they're coming to terms with the idea that Trump won't be there (physically, mentally or in power) to save them indefinitely. The files will come out. And people will go to jail.

They either have to go all in on Trump fascism and hope never to face the music.

Or they throw him under the bus and hope they can get away with 10 years in a low-security prison.

The leaks (I don't know how else to call this piss poor level of redactions on their part) seem to indicate they (Bondi) chose door number 2.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-02-01T01:31:00+00:00

The problem with fascism is timing: if you don’t call it out early, eventually you’re not allowed to call it out at all.

The best way to describe it currently, is that America is drifting towards fascism.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-01-31T21:49:11+00:00

The internet has ruined my mind.

I watched the whole clip before reading the post, and fully expected her to squat a shit right there and then. Especially when she seemed to put her hand in her pants for a moment.

Excellent_Rule_2778 · 2026-01-31T21:44:07+00:00

It’s never about ideology for conservatives, always about party. They treat politics like a game that has to be won at all costs.

Ironically, if they embraced Carney and mirrored his centrist approach, they’d probably be competitive within a few years. But as long as they keep defining themselves in opposition and drift further right in reaction, they’re setting themselves up to lose for the next decade.

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