yeah I was close to failing out of college, got on adderall and was getting straight As. I miss it a lot, but it's definitely not good to be running yourself on overdrive like that for more than a little while. I would never put my kids on it.
if we had a fair justice system, this would be normal procedure, since it doesn't risk biasing a jury before both sides have a chance to present the evidence in court. but we don't have a fair system, because they only grant this courtesy those the system favors, and they do the opposite to those they hate as a way to make sure they never have a chance at a fair trial.
how long was it supposed to take for the emergency thing to activate the nanobots in the vaccines and turn people into zombies? do I have time to make coffee before I have to start fighting off coworkers?
it reminds me of a super-lib coworker, he's constantly complaining about all these problems he's dealing with, and every single one of them is his own fault for making stupid choices. at some level, deep down, he knows his choices are bad, and he's doing it to himself, but the shitlib ideology has mountains of copes that he can use to convince himself that it's actually 'the system', or 'bigots', or 'Christians', or whatever that if it weren't for that, his bad choices would've been ok and none of this would be happening to him.
these people are literally insane, and good people continue to allow them to make decisions for the rest of us and then wonder why everything is so fucked up.
zerohedge.com/political/were-middle-revolution-victor-davis-hanson-warns-tucker-next-12-months-will-be-most
this is always what I remember learning in the beforetime about why fascism came to power in Europe: the communists weren't playing by the rules, so their opponents also had to stop playing by the rules. While simplistic, it's still true, and I don't think (((they))) want a whole country of white men thinking about this too much right now. They're going to realize that we don't just need to win elections in an "ugly" manner, we need to permanently remove every single one of these people from power before they kill us and our children and erase our existence from the pages of history.
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Somebody told me years ago that a good marriage is similar to a ship, with a captain and a first mate. Ultimate authority (and responsibility) rests on the captain, and the first mate has agency but still answers to the captain. The two need to work together and understand their role. A good captain values the input from his first mate, and disagreements can happen, but the final decision is always his.
I have no idea if this is actually in line with how ship's crews actually work but it sounds good.
I can tell you from the experience of being divorced, if you, the husband, are not the leader, your marriage is probably going to fail. I made this mistake when I was into libertarian nonsense, and it doesn't work.
Just imagine being at the head of 'the most powerful military in world history' and awkwardly begging your enemy (who you also claim isn't your enemy...but is...but not really) to stop using effective tactics because it's not fair.
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