TearsInRain

Lots of parents will project their own shame on their kids. The kids will grow up being so ashamed of themselves without rly knowing why and being gaslit into thinking their parents are ‘above’ them. Then the kid who is subconsciously selected as the scapegoated child will be diagnosed with some mental disorder and the parents will act in the saviour role driving them to all the appointments to get them medicated and numb out their truth even more. Fr the emotional environment of many ‘normal’ households are like a horror movie

@Lux1090 What a shame that Reform offers no such thing.

Reading through Reddit threads in which leftists/progressives express their bewilderment/confusion/fury at working class English voters for casting their lot in with Reform, one of the things I'm starting to understand is this: They simply do not understand how a government could help working-class people in any other way besides giving them benefits, handouts, and other free things. Their entire mental architecture is premised upon the premises that 1. Working class people are poor 2. The only way for them to not be poor is for the state to give them free stuff 3. So left-wing parties need to promise them lots of free stuff Then, when these working-class voters instead vote for right-of-centre parties who instead promise an economy in which they can build a career, start their own business, make a financial success of themselves and start a family, they're confused. Because, again, in their mental architecture, what the working class are *supposed* to want is free benefits from the state. But what they *actually* want is a fair shake at making their own way in the world, making money, getting on in life. And the left simply doesn't understand that what these voters want from the state is an economy in which they can actually do this.

@PauliH1966 @ElectionMapsUK @BBCPolitics Nah, protest voters turn out more, Greens and Reform benefitting from that.

@Tears_In_Rain19 @ElectionMapsUK @BBCPolitics Younger voters turn out in much bigger numbers for the general election as opposed to locals.

🚨 | Projected National Share had there been elections everywhere, and those who didn’t have an election this time voted similarly to those who did ➡️ Reform 26% 🌍 Greens 18% 🌹 Labour 17% 🌳 Conservatives 17% 🔶 Lib Dems 16% ℹ️ Others 6% Via @BBCPolitics

@tnewtondunn They simply need to change leader and go hard on rejoining the EU, easily propelling them back up to 25% at least and ensuring largest party status after the next GE. I think the groundwork is already being laid for this.

There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK

@ElectionMapsUK Always has been full of thickos.

Reform gain Sunderland from Labour: ➡️ Reform: 58 (+58) - Majority of 20 🔶 Lib Dem: 12 (=) 🌹 Labour: 5 (-49) 🌳 Conservative: 0 (-9) Total Seats: 78

@BonesawMD Pro tip - move to Brazil. They have no problem enjoying life.

Once you reach adulthood you have to actively relearn how to have fun We don't think of it this way, but enjoying your life is a skill Society tries to dictate what's 'acceptable' to enjoy, so a degree of introspection, self respect, & civil disobedience is required to do this

@incentivising Yeah, called disagreeableness. I should be a lawyer, but I disagree with aspects of the justice system, such that I could never represent particular cases faithfully according to the principles governing the system.

Neuroscience reveals that the smarter a person is, the more likely they are to harshly scrutinize and come up with intricate counterarguments. The issue is that this occurs even when the argument they face is undoubtedly correct. Educated and analytical people are harder to persuade and more prone to certain biases. The better your brain is at logic, the better it is at lying to you.

@MehtaSleepy @bryan_johnson Craft, cook, play, fuck, dance.

@bryan_johnson we say these shibboleths all the time but why wouldn't our ancestors have sat for 10 hours a day...once you've killed a big bison and gathered some nuts what they hell else is there to do..let's stop implying we know how our ancients truly lived....even most sports didn't exist

Society was built to make money. Indifferent to your health and sanity. For example, we did not evolve to: + sit 10 hours a day + have our attention fractured 300 times daily + compare ourselves to millions of others + travel 9 time zones in 13 hours + tolerate sounds above 85 dB causing hearing loss + outsmart algorithms hijacking our reward system + breathe fine particulate air pollution + live under 16+ hrs of artificial light a day + have 3 courses of antibiotics before age 2 + eat ultra-processed foods for 60% of daily calories + consume 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day So if you're feeling down in the dumps, maybe fatigued, a little or a lot depressed, anxious, that's why.

@bryan_johnson Yeah, Bryan, I want to live with a remote Amazonian tribe. Know any that will take me in? I mean, I know the modern world encroaches even on them now, but sat least it's much closer to what we were made for.

@bhalligan Yeah, lying corrupts everything and is the source of all evil.

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

The hardest part about breaking generational cycles is that your family sees your healing as betrayal. You're not drinking like they do. Not yelling like they do. Not repeating patterns like they do. And instead of being proud, they're offended. Your growth simply exposed their stagnation.

@shipley_10 @NoahRyanCo Oh I know, I see how that kind of thinking is embedded cultural motifs like "stiff upper-lip", the damage it does. Perhaps a good contextual tool, but as an all-encompassing philosophy severely restrictive to the human experience and a leading cause of much apathy and avoidance.

@Tears_In_Rain19 @NoahRyanCo I originally meant Stoicism as in the philosophical school of Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, etc. but your point makes sense too

Firm believer that the entire mid 2010's personal development best-seller cohort was an op to inundate the Zeitgeist with some of the lamest, middle-of-bell-curve ideologies possible. A bunch of average dudes with mundane world views propped up to pump out books on finding purpose and agnostic faux wisdom. Still see them floating around on podcasts and social media

@shipley_10 @NoahRyanCo Stoicism, in British parlance "stiff upper-lip" presented as virtue, is the perfect slave ideology. One reason why the British public are so bovine, the class-system so calcifying and there is almost zero entrepreneurial spirit here. Ppl just take their lot and play their role.

@NoahRyanCo They started pushing stoicism (the philosophy that says humans can’t really control anything) at the same time they started destroying the western world

@martianwyrdlord Just move to Brazil if you want to freely dance.

He's right that people don't dance anymore. This isn't that recent. Like fifteen years ago I started noticing that millennials were especially stiff and awkward when they danced. They danced like someone was watching, because of course someone was. My gf at the time scoffed when I observed that her generation had internalized the police state, considering this an aspersion upon her cursed generation, but I think I've been vindicated. The fix is simple: prohibit phones in bars and nightclubs. Bouncers should confiscate them at the door, and anyone caught smuggling one in should be kicked out. Not only would this turn the club into an unsurveilled blank space, it would also force people to talk to one another. Clubs that do this will be very popular.

@dan_jr1987 @NUFC7890 Thiaw is a Lascelles regen, nobody is paying £80m for him.

@NUFC7890 Honestly, if the money is right I'd sell anyone this summer bar maybe 2-3, £80M for Gordon, £75M Tino, £90M Tonali, even £80M Thiaw, we could make serious money, find some overseas gems, couple of solid PL players, & we'd be good to go

Fire sale at the mags this summer, who’s falling after Gordon gets shifted

@NUFC Well done Eddie Howe and your MMA football style. Ruined a promising career. #HoweOut

Lewis Miley will miss the remaining three matches of the season after fracturing his fibula. The 20-year-old midfielder sustained the injury to his lower right leg during training on Tuesday. He will travel to a specialist consultant on Wednesday before continuing his rehabilitation with the club’s medical team, and is expected to return for the start of pre-season. Wishing you a speedy recovery, @LewisMiley1 🙏

@Chizitere_xyz Pwrhaps, but then you try the whole learn and process through experience, find spmevody and they gouge thw primaey wound again. Comfortably numb seems appealing after that.

You are not "healed" just because you cut everyone off, blocked your exes, and sit in your room alone making aesthetic videos about "protecting your peace." True healing is only tested in the presence of triggers, conflict, and intimacy. Being peaceful because you actively avoid all deep human interaction isn't emotional growth; it is just self-imposed quarantine. You are still broken; you just removed the audience

The personality type that showed up most frequently in our research on true outlier founders wasn’t “leader” or “visionary”. It was “difficult”. As children, we found most never did the group work activity in school. They were often the students who didn’t raise their hand in class but always had something smarter to say. When employed, they asked “why” too many times and frequently pissed off their boss. In the wrong environment, these people were marginalized or ignored entirely instead of being celebrated. When they started their company, suddenly questioning everything became a huge advantage, and refusal to settle pushed their product past "good enough". In a big company they were annoying, but in a zero-to-one environment they cut out months of wasted effort and got to something that actually worked. We spend too much time looking for founders with charisma and "leadership presence", and not enough time looking for the ones who were kicked out of every system they were part of. The next wave of iconic founders probably wouldn’t be the ones you’d pick in a boardroom; they are the ones who’d refuse to show up to the meeting at all.

@taobanker That's Brazilian culture in one. It's actually openly revered there, too.

Normie "social skills" are mostly just rebranded spinelessness and deceit. Normies think it is some great achievement to smile face-to-face with someone they hate then stab them in the back. This allows them to believe they are clever instead of just horrible people.