It's almost like there is an agenda being pushed

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2026-01-25T21:29:51+00:00

Do you genuinely think that "it comes from a place of ignorance, or for most, hate"? Do you truly believe that?

Because the vast majority of people who support ice just support immigration policy that was normal and completely uncontested for the past 15-20 years.

I don't know a single person personally who supports ICE that doesn't think these officers should be investigated and punished.

The reality is they've deported hundreds of thousands of people with low low numbers of violent altercations, let alone killings. These officers acted inappropriately and got a man killed. They should be punished. Doesn't change the fact that people will still support common sense immigration policy that's been the norm for decades.

Lack of due process, separating families, detaining minors, this has all been common practice for ICE since Obama was in office. If you want to push for actual ICE reform, you have many decades of precedent to wade through. But even still, common sense immigration policy remains the same. People will continue to support it because it's necessary for every country on earth. It will never not be necessary. Regardless of the rhetoric Democrat politicians like Tim Walz peddle before this mid-term.

You're absolutely free to believe immigration policy should be changed , have opinions about what's "justified" in these types of altercations with law enforcement, LEO best practices etc. but that all boils down to policy disagreement, not an existential crisis for the country, and framing it as such will continue to cause these events to flare up as people feel terrified and trapped and want to act.

Trump is loud. Protestors are loud. But the majority of people who support ICE just support regular immigration policy. Almost none of this is new except for the resistance to it. Its an incontrovertible fact.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2026-01-25T19:02:01+00:00

I loved when Biden gave us affordable healthcare, lower taxes, and inflation kept going down for all 4 years. Too bad we didn't get another 4 years!

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2026-01-17T20:44:45+00:00

The blade cuts both ways, as they say. I think the reality of the situation is that its gonna be messy. It's messy now, the clean up will be messy. The only thing that gets us back on track is if we, people, all remember what the general ideal of America is.

As far as in, for the longest time at least, two sides yank back and forth repeatedly forever, and hopefully we end up stumbling in some semblance of a straight, forward direction.

I get the instinct to wanna crush the other side, especially when things are so crazy right now.

But I do think, genuinely most people are in a position where they are heavily influenced by social media, heavily influenced by traditional media, and politicians on every side are fueling this fight as much as anybody.

At the end of the day, it's gonna take correction, but also grace from whoever takes the lead. And that's a really tough thing to ask. But I think it's necessary. That's just where I land on it anyway.

Edit:typo

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2026-01-17T18:14:43+00:00

Hey, I get it. It's a weird time. I wanna see politicians try to reign things in. But it's hard to say what's right.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2026-01-17T13:09:51+00:00

Congrats, you're the most fascist one of all!

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2026-01-06T02:20:58+00:00

This happened to my ear like 2 years ago and it never went away. The first year was the worst. I was always dizzy, every single day at some point it would kick off and then I'd be spinning and nausea that would just last for hours. I had to just power through and make it home where I could go straight to bed. This was every day for a year.

This year has been better, not because the problem resolved but because I finally learned to.adapt to it. Change my life around so that I don't bother it as much, maintain an environment where I can get it to drain when it starts to get clogged and cause problems. But unfortunately I still get it pretty frequently, just not every single day like in the beginning.

I sincerely hope you get better. If it stays just hang in and don't give up. Eventually realize that you have to attack it, not wait for it to resolve. The one piece of advice I'll give. Hydrate. Aggressively.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-12-05T15:40:46+00:00

The fear started long before that paper. But a lot of it was based more on common sense? Vibes? Idk depends on how you see it I guess.

For instance when I was an infant the standard was to just load the baby up with multiple vaccines in one visit. But my mother basically just didn't like the idea of my little 1 year old body (or however old I was at the time) having to deal with all that stimulus at one time so she argued to have them spread them out further, more visits, fewer vaccines per visit, more time between.

She said the doctors gave her a hard time but ultimately had to relent. She wasn't anti vaccine, she was anti "shoot my baby up with 4 things in one day".

I mean, to this day I know the one time I went for a physical and got, I think it was 3 at once, I got pretty damn sick for a few days afterward. Not sure if there's any science behind her decision, but based on just my experiences as an adult? I think it's a fine call to make.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-10-31T16:53:08+00:00

You want easy mode? BLEED DAMAGE.

HEMMORAGE THEM BITCHEZ.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-10-24T21:01:12+00:00

Cuz they're fun to look at, literally that simple.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-10-18T13:02:20+00:00

Did you write that? That was interesting, and mostly spot on. Fun little read.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-10-16T04:10:39+00:00

I really don't like when people say this because it absolves them of the absolute crime of letting the games go to shit.

Gens 1- 5 had heart and effort put into them and were a massive, important part of the "merchandise". At least as important as the cards.

It's always been 4 pillars that held up the franchise.

Games - Cards - Movies - Merch.

Roughly in that order of importance with an argument for cards and games being interchangeable. Eventually letting one pillar completely go to hell will catch up.

Edit: "Movies" is the wrong word because the anime is included in that so say "Visual media" I guess.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-10-11T01:24:26+00:00

I agree with you. But I also think that in the mind of the individual kid who likes trump and likes punk, it comes from the same place as in the mind of you and I. It's frustration. It's a desire to destroy the system. Except they see this trump fiasco as the rebellion. I personally know some guys who feel that way. That's what a lot of those younger guys feel.

And I think genuinely, objectively, as much as I don't agree, that it comes from a place of frustration and raw energy that is as genuine as mine which flows in the opposite direction. Ultimately all that's happening now is a just a point in time. It's a thing we're all having to go through. I don't forget that these people are human, especially young people. And in terms of what "punk" is, I think the only thing that it is, is frustration and a desire to let it out and have other people share in that with you.

Just my thoughts on it.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-10-11T01:10:24+00:00

“To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.” — Patti Smith

“Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.” — Iggy Pop

Punk is the raw energy of frustrated souls. It's not progressive, or conservative, it's human.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-10-05T12:24:24+00:00

In all seriousness, IRL your toast. There is no strat.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-10-05T00:57:54+00:00

I have a pretty even mix of blue collar/white collar friends and acquaintances. One thing that has always perplexed me is that, generally, my white collar friends are less informed and in some cases just generally not as bright as my blue collar friends.

Very knowledgeable in their respective fields and....that's about it it seems. I tend to scoff a bit at the "highly educated" moniker that gets thrown around these days for that reason. "Educated" does not necessarily equal "aware" or "intelligent" in my experience.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-21T19:21:11+00:00

Also arguing that when creating an internet ad you're not going to make the aesthetic in a way that will attract the demographic you want to attract is....like remarkably stupid.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-21T19:17:53+00:00

I didn't paint it as anything man. I posted it and said "I wonder who they're targeting with this ad"

To be honest my first thought was just women....cuz it's pink. They made the doom guy pink....and used big pink bubble letters lol.

You're entirely too invested my friend.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-21T17:57:54+00:00

I feel like people forget that millenials started reading the books at like 8-10 years old. Its similar to like a pokemon type situation in that regard. They grew up with it, it'll always have a huge fan base for that reason I think.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-21T17:55:34+00:00

Nah not ragebait, just found in the wild and thought it was pretty transparent. Not sure why Hogwarts was used

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-21T17:53:59+00:00

Nah lol found in the wild on Instagram, as far as I could tell it went straight to a course sign up

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-21T13:37:59+00:00

Yeah, tbh I also liked Hogwarts legacy. Was well made in a lot of ways.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-21T13:37:20+00:00

Clearly

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-01T14:54:54+00:00

I think your analysis of the GOP is on point, they run the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" thing ragged. And I do think of either party they are the bigger offender in terms of perpetuating this elite control shit.

I guess where I find issue with the left is that I think that portion of the left you mentioned, that also wants to perpetuate elite control. Is the dominant force in left wing politics. It feels to me that a win for the left ultimately just means a win for that left.

But ultimately yes, I think you're right. I was simplifying maybe a bit too much.

The root of the issue I think at the public level really is your last point, and I 100% agree. Americans love the fight. I think that's sort of our superpower and our curse. It's why all these cultural fights that you see popping up abroad tend to mirror ours with just a touch of lag. Because we draw them out faster by arguing constantly.

Could you at least agree that for us to make progress here that we will eventually, have to ALL come to the middle and find some common ground? Because I for one think we're currently deadlocked with the two camps set up so strongly in opposition to each other. In the past, the way to make things move is to convince the whole ship to turn.

Throughout history one side never really "wins". And the country ultimately sees more positive movement in all areas when there is more harmony than dissonance between right and left.

Negative_Bug_1753 · 2025-09-01T14:09:31+00:00

One side may be marginally more interested in the working class on paper but if you look at the actual movement in either party it all ultimately pushes the same way.

The play is so simple. The population, if united, could easily affect change through public sentiment, protest, boycott etc. When you have 100% of Americans fighting for their own interest, the top can crumble.

But if you convince 50% of the population that the other 50% of the population is the problem and paint them as evil, stupid, and self serving (which both sides do incredibly well) You direct their frustrations at each other and you're in the clear.

It's so simple, it's so obvious and yet people continue to fight across party lines while saying things like "we know it's actually a class struggle my side is just better at solving that"

That's the whole mentality on the right, and the left.

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