And in your view the democrats are benign and misguided or something. Or do you think they are similarly corrupt. Just asking btw trying to understand your perspective.

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Why do we have so many hysterical people in society today?

If you look at old news footage even 20-30 years ago most of the time people are relatively chill.

If you go 100 years back people are reallyyyy chill, just like “then I was in the war and I killed 100 men, then I was shot through the left eye, then I came home and married my high school sweetheart but she died due to diphtheria. Then I got in a car crash and lost both my legs, but overall I can’t complain”

It’s actually pretty rare to see someone overwhelmed to the point of hysterical shrieking, yet on the internet it’s extremely common place.

I don’t think this is because life is harder now. If anything, it’s objectively easier, safer, and more comfortable than at almost any other point in history.

What has changed is how emotion is rewarded.

Today, emotional dysregulation gets attention, validation, amplification, and sometimes even status. Calm, restraint, and proportional reactions don’t go viral. Hysteria does. Outrage does. Collapse does.

We’ve also externalized resilience. Instead of learning how to regulate discomfort internally, people are taught that every emotional spike deserves immediate external response agreement, soothing, outrage on their behalf.

So you end up with a culture where being overwhelmed isn’t a temporary state to move through, it’s an identity to perform.

And once hysteria becomes a social currency, you start seeing a lot more of it.

What does that mean?

I watched the videos on X. Very two movies phenomenon. One angle makes the shooting look justified and one angle makes it look unjustified. Have you seen both angles? Or just the one that confirmed your bias? Honest question.

So boring that you’re constantly tempted to go and join the battle

Yes I can drink beer on the street with a gun on my waist. While talking shit about the government. Can you say the same?

Imagine two armies fighting for control of an area.

There’s an impenetrable fortress in the middle and where you can wait out the war.

It will keep you completely safe, but you don’t know how long you will have to wait inside.

This is hodling.

lol this doesn’t work on me. I live in a place where you can drink beer on the street.

Chicago is the best American city in my opinion

Shit dawg I already got a pod to do today