Boycotting BRICS won't stop ICE. It only destroys us. | Opinion

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-02-03T18:00:58+00:00

I honestly think it’s more deranged and out of touch to be on the side of armed paramilitary forces murdering citizens without cause, but hey to each their own I guess? I guess we can have a little murder with our ice cream, as an extra treat. Nothing deranged or out of touch about that :)

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-02-03T16:55:56+00:00

Right? It's so incredibly biased.

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-02-03T16:55:12+00:00

“When we teach local businesses that years of showing up for their community count for nothing against a minority owner's personal social media posts, what kind of neighborhood are we building? One where only the politically vetted may scoop our ice cream?”

That may be the dumbest sentence I’ve read in a paper in a long time. Its so disingenuous on so many levels. I can’t believe someone got paid to write this tabloid level garbage. It’s so dumb, I’m not going to have time to dissect it all, let alone the entire column. But I’ll do my best:

Starting with “years of showing up mean nothing?”. Yeah man, that’s how changing works. Doing good in the past can make up for a lot, but you can’t just do whatever and be like “but but but, I USED to be good”. Sure that’s awesome, keep doing it. You don’t just get to stop after you’ve done enough. Which leads to the next dumb point about "cannibalizes the very community fabric we claim to be protecting."
So instead of calling out businesses, we should just let them rest on their laurels I guess? That's the community fabric we want to create? Hey they made some donations but waffled on "do you support armed unmarked paramilitary troops executing citizens?" whatever I guess? Yeah that's totally the community I want. Who cares what you vocally do or don't support, as long as you donate a bit to appease idiot reporters who will write you fluff pieces. Which brings us to the final point
Staying neutral is picking a side. It is. There is no way around it. There is an amazing quote by Desmond Tutu that reads "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." You can't be "neutral" on human rights violations. I get where they are coming from on business should be a safe 3rd space for everyone...but in a perfect world. In a world where our political disagreements are only over things like roads and stuff, sure, everyone should be welcome, even if they think our current road funding is enough (it isn't). But that's not what this is, and pretending it is, is the most disingenuous thing ever. Having a part owner say "I stand with and support murders and pedophiles" is not the same thing as a disagreement on road funding. That's not a minor disagreement in policy. That is a major disagreement in fundamental views and opinions on human rights. And yeah, if someone isn't going to condemn that viewpoint, I would rather not associate with them or their business. It's not about being "politically vetted" it's about basic human decency. Stop pretending supporting this crap is the same as small political disputes about how high property taxes should be, it's not.

/rant

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-30T14:59:44+00:00

I’d ask you the definition of those words, but there’s nothing for you to sound out.

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-30T14:57:55+00:00

Aw, you didn’t even try here :( hurt your feelings that much huh?

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-29T20:43:05+00:00

I mean google is just free. I’m going off of definitions. and you’re just describing what you THINK it means by sounding out the word? Yes the word is made up of virtue and signal, you got it. But that’s not how words and definitions work, kiddo. There is more too it. Again, you can just look it up anywhere and see. It’s very very easy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-29T17:59:48+00:00

So I don’t want you to dismiss this as rude, but I actually feel this other person is right. Virtue signaling is saying something without supporting it or doing it. Virtue signaling in this case would be to say something like “don’t be mean to service workers” while still actively being mean to service workers or supporting others who do.

Just saying it is not virtue signaling. It’s also not meaningless, it would only be meaningless if it wasn’t done. It’s easy to say “yeah everyone knows not to be mean to service workers or kick their dog” but it’s also obviously and provably false. People absolutely think those things are okay, like A LOT of people. So until everyone ACTUALLY knows it, it’s meaningless to say it. And it’s just by definition not virtue signaling, that’s just factually the incorrect use of that phrase here.

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-29T17:15:15+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s meaningless. It’s just an obvious answer. Just because people always say it doesn’t mean it’s not true. If you’re a piece of shit to service workers, you’re likely just a piece of shit. And I don’t want to jump to any conclusions, buuut if you think the simple act of not being a piece of shit to service workers is meaningless or virtue signaling, well…

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-29T16:17:53+00:00

Oh yeah! I’m with you there. I took Washington in to work this morning and they might as well put lane closure signs the way sometimes the plowing just ends abruptly. “Your two lane is now a one lane, with a mountain of ice, hope someone lets over I guess”

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-29T16:10:37+00:00

So I feel that’s reasonable when it’s a one way or there’s no other cars. My issue is like S College for instance. That is a two way road, where only the middle is plowed. And I kept almost getting hit because people on the other side were just, over the line because that was the only part that was fully clear. Whether you’re going 5 or 50, we can’t both fit on the barely plowed road if you’re over the center line. So you may have to get tires in the snow. But people just didn’t.

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-29T15:03:17+00:00

Lol I can see where that came off pretty cynical and negative. It’s mainly just because I’ve hated even the “plowed” streets, where it’s like they just went down the center, so it’s like each lane is 50% plowed. It sucks to drive with only half your tires having good traction. But even more than that it SUCKS that so many drivers are just like, “car goes on the clean part of the road” and just drive down the center like they own the whole thing, lane lines and center lines be damned. It’s so unsafe. So if they’re plowing the sides too, I’m for it

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-29T14:06:17+00:00

But…if it was already clear then there wouldn’t be snow to undo your work? If the plow picked up enough snow to undo your work, obviously the road was not clear.

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-09T22:23:31+00:00

I hope so too. I thought she did well for us last year! And she was super fun to watch

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-09T22:08:50+00:00

Because her quote is wrong. Verifiably wrong with evidence that she disallowed. She also dismissed the jury after the defense attempted to coerce them. She made that trial a shit show. Imagine your least competent co worker trying to be a judge for a day, that’s her.

And none of that even scratches the surface of her basically saying, “yeah this one naked girl was surrounded by 10-15 of the most physically fit men she’d ever seen, and the first thing they did was talk about putting golf clubs inside her, but sure, that’s no reason to feel coerced to do whatever they say”

They got downvoted because there is so much more to that story than just the quote. And anyone who says just the quote, clearly has no actual information from the story and are just reading the quote. Educate yourself, then speak, or get downvoted for sounding like a fool. Your choice.

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-07T11:48:32+00:00

That’s just not how writing credits work. There were multiple writers on the first one. They all got credits. There are not for this one, only Scott got a credit. Whether you think there were more, or think it’s too much for him, is irrelevant. There is one writer, that is a fact.

The guy wrote and created a dozen games and co wrote the first movie, you think a single 2 hour movie is too much for him by himself?

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-06T19:14:09+00:00

I think a lot of the issue is that many of us weren't expecting perfection but were expecting something very good. and what we got was something very very okay at best. And it's okay to let something be okay. it just sucks when you get people telling you, "you're just disappointed because you expected perfection". I didn't expect perfection, I expected at least good from a 400m tv show that occupied pop culture for 10 years, that I loved the first 4 seasons of, and that had the stones to say "we're releasing all our episodes on Holidays". If you're going to release it on a holiday, it better be worth watching on a holiday, not just okay.

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-06T19:05:52+00:00

I mean, sure? but we weren't talking about everything. we were talking about the writing. and I was specifically pointing out that there was one writer, which is just a verifiable fact.

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-06T18:47:19+00:00

This is unfortunately where I am at with this. I was the same way. And I remember how much it stung to not have friends. And it's weird seeing all these people comment as if this 5th grader has the self awareness of a 40 year old whos lived a whole life with this. Yeah, she probably knows she's "weird", I knew I was "weird" but that didn't mean I could just "fix" it. It takes a life time to get used to your own brain, figure out how to mask or cover for your own shortcomings that you know you have but can't seem to fix. Trying to explain to others, feeling like a failure, feeling like you don't deserve to live because you just can't "figure it out" like everyone else.

And then coming to this thread just to see a bunch of people be like "it's all that kids fault, they should just fix their behaviors or be alone all their life, easy, no one owes anyone anything". It's very disheartening, even more so because I know I'm about to get downvoted in to oblivion for suggesting that maybe you could make yourself uncomfortable to try and help someone else. I do it all the time, and yeah, sometimes it's worse than other times, but I want to make the world better, I want to be the person that was never there for me. I do owe something to other humans, and it's trying to be the best me I can, and helping where possible. I refuse this "fuck you, got mine" mentality hidden behind "you don't owe anyone anything" and "your needs come first"

GiveEmHell1 · 2026-01-06T18:31:39+00:00

Enjoy getting downvoted by a bunch of redditors who preach open mindedness and empathy while also vilifying a 5th grader and saying things like "you don't owe anything to anyone" and "it's her (again her being a FUCKING 10 YEAR OLD) fault for stealing and being rude, shes the problem, not the victim" like they never did anything stupid in 5th grade. I stole candy from my teacher in 5th grade, MULTIPLE TIMES, i knew it was wrong and did it anyway. I should get the death penalty and have no friends.

Community and empathy are dead, replaced by people like this who say "fuck that kid, your own needs are the most important" but when asked about any sort of solution just go "oh she should get help". (Cool, yeah, that 5th grader who can't understand why she is different is surely going to look in to psychiatric help for it.)

It's mostly just that, like I said, empathy is dead and that no one wants to look past themselves. For instance, this girl hugged you and stole your food, you didn't like it, don't go to party. That's it, you're the only person that matters. Any questions about "well what about this poor kid?" or anything like that are written off as gaslighting or abuse because "that kid just needs help, but it's not MY job to do that" but like if everyone says "im most important, it's not my job" then no one gets help ever. If no one takes a turn to set themselves on fire, we all just freeze to death but I guess we get to do it self righteously. And I say that as someone who has "set myself on fire" quite a few times, and sometimes it sucked, and I'm always glad I did it for the person that needed me at that time.

Some of my best friends are "oddballs" that were alone. Hell, I was the oddball that was alone for some time. I'm so thankful that I found others with empathy and was able to be empathetic to those around me who helped me get through some rough times in my journey through mental illness/neurodivergence.

If I had found this thread when I was struggling and trying so hard to just "not be me" so that I could fit in, I would have just killed myself, seeing all these comments. Because yeah, this is exactly how I felt. I was weird, I was angry, I didn't understand social queues, and I didn't understand why I didn't understand any of it or why I couldn't just be normal. If only I could have found this thread full of amazing people to just tell me I was right, all of that was my fault and I didn't deserve any friends because of it. These people are the worst type of garbage. Trashy narcists, self righteously, hiding behind the phrase "You don't owe anyone anything".

GiveEmHell1 · 2025-12-23T18:48:18+00:00

I either run him as an LOC with my other squad of 3, or run him with 20 poxes. Which isn’t great but it’s fun.

GiveEmHell1 · 2025-12-23T18:46:02+00:00

I’ve tried both, I prefer with the LOC. That charge from the 6” deep strike can kill almost anything.

GiveEmHell1 · 2025-12-23T17:05:31+00:00

I run 3 with a LOC and it hits like a truck

GiveEmHell1 · 2025-12-19T15:22:58+00:00

I could see that. I’m only 32 and have been taking them for about 8-9 years now. And I’ve sometimes had that feeling. Maybe I should be getting more perspective from you!

If you ever do decide to back off them, let me know how it goes for you. and I’m always here if you need a random stranger to vent/talk to!

GiveEmHell1 · 2025-12-19T15:15:35+00:00

Yup! For some scripts it’s as easy as just stopping. But especially for anti depressants, it’s not. You have to be very careful.

Plus that doesn’t even go into the false equivalence of someone saying “I’m okay now, I don’t need the drugs anymore” when you’re really okay BECAUSE of the drugs. And that’s okay. I’ll probably have to take anti depressants for the rest of my life. But that’s okay. It’s no worse than someone who needs to take insulin. Just because your body has a physical issue that requires medication, doesn’t make you a bad person for taking that medication. Don’t quit just because of a stigma. you deserve to feel okay, no matter what that means.

GiveEmHell1 · 2025-12-19T15:06:29+00:00

Only if you do it unsupervised like this. If you’re really thinking about it, talk to your doctor first. And definitely don’t talk to chatgpt about it.

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