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Imperial Olympic grandeur, but as vacant nostalgia. Israeli economy crashing. Trump backed in a corner. Sahel states uniting. Commercial real estate crisis reaching terminus. Ukraine about to cede. Polish EU infighting. Chinese Thorium reactor beginning construction. Record breaking global heat averages. Argentinian economy in free fall. Covid surging. Personal credit debt at record high. General strikes planned in various countries. Idk, a number of things. Just feels like there are a lot of fast moving trains at different angles that are crashing into one another, and those bundles are about to collectively crash into each other. Are we on the station, in the train, or at the cliff?

Looking for opinions on what I should do about this. So I have a sort of working relationship with my mom that we just don’t talk about political things. She’ll try to but I’ll just shut her down. I have to, she got deep into Q and Great Reset stuff, very big on MAGA, space lasers and antifa creating forest fires, pizza gate, energy frequencies, etc, like all the insane conspiracy grifts from the last 8 years she’s gone into.

This past year she’s gotten very involved in South Carolina politics, and now she’s apparently going to be a delegate for her district or whatever at the RNC this July in Milwaukee.

On the one hand, her being a delegate doesn’t change anything, and like at the end of the day it doesn’t seem to really matter. But on the other hand, she is going beyond just having far right opinions about things and is actively participating in an evil political process to do evil things.

Should I just brush this off? Does this even matter? Or should I tell her this is a shitty thing to do? There isn’t a single thing I could say that would make an impact on her. Her far right Christian Nationalist identity is seared so deeply into her bones and baked with layers of unresolved trauma that she is literally too far gone, and confronting her would be a huge argument like always. But keeping the status quo with her and just pretending she isn’t going to do this at the RNC feels like I’m rolling over on my values. Idk what to do

My partner and I have about 60k in student loans and haven’t been paying even though they started back in October. I’m waiting to see if maybe we just shouldn’t. I remember there being chatter about how Nelnet and other loan holders had like laid off a bunch of people during the pause and hadn’t hired them back, and the system is overloaded and fucked, and how are people suddenly going to pay a big monthly expense anyway, etc etc. But if people were to not pay them, I feel like the media would not want to perpetuate that narrative and build it into something real by spreading the word so to speak. So I don’t know if there’s a way to gauge is people are actually paying them? Does anyone know?

I’m sorry, PALESTINIAN INTRUDERS? INTRUDING INTO WHAT

1. Gloria Steinem
2. A Man
3. Some Other Woman

He’s literally fighting to stay alive and the nurse, who was not even wearing an N95 just a regular mask, told my mother-in-law in the ICU room to keep a few feet away because she has Covid. She said she had to work because of staffing issues and the hospital’s strict attendance policy. Later we called the nurse supervisor who said “well there aren’t any positive tests so it’s fine” even though the nurse point blank told us she had Covid. Supervisor said she could “try to get her reassigned if it would make us feel better.” Just please burn this country down to the ground. Please