so like in wars n shit why dont the other side just kill the leaders of their enemies with missiles or assassinations.

>>64086154 (OP)
Fuck ya
mudda

because history is a conspiracy against the common man, dude, the elite don't turn on each other. have you ever seen Zeitgeist?

You're absolutely right why has no one thought of that or even tried it before

>>64086154 (OP)
hey im gonna hijack this dogshit thread for a sec. everyone doin alright? feeling kinda sad sometimes? me too man.

>>64086328
Man I'm looking back at the last twenty years and it seems like all I have are regrets. Why didn't I try harder, why wasn't I braver, why did I care about so much dumb shit, why did I try so hard to fit in. Turning 40 in a couple weeks and it just feels like it's too late to change myself.

>>64086461
yeah, mid thirties, feels like the wind just left my sails today. i look around at my office and it all just seems pointless. it would be an invonvenience to replace me, but that would be about it, and then some other sucker would also have a steadily depreciating quality of work life and a mess to sort out.

>>64086154 (OP)
What the hell is wrong with his chest.

>>64086154 (OP)
I dunno, ask Putin, he's been trying.

>>64086328
Chronically ill, can't hold a job and had to drop out of college. Supposed to go away with age but im 25 now and im starting to accept its just gonna get worse and not better. Video games and models aren't fun for me anymore so i think im gonna try and focus on writing to distract myself now.

>>64086154 (OP)
They've done that since before the Battle of Gaugamela

>>64086328
Mid 30s, single and starting over completely
Fuck

>>64086518
What are you writing about?

>>64086524
>starting over completely
Good luck man, it's a hard world out there but hopefully you can find a bright spot to cling to.

>>64086525
Short fiction stories, mostly inspired by the weird fiction writers of the early 1900s like Robert E Howard and HP Lovecraft. I'd share the overall concepts with you but I genuinely think they're good and original enough to worry about people stealing them.

>>64086638
>I'd share the overall concepts with you but I genuinely think they're good and original enough to worry about people stealing them.
That's fine. That was one of the things that I left the sciences over. Never could talk about what I was working on or a peer with more secure funding would snipe it. Good luck man, I hope it works out for you and makes you happy.

>>64086328
I feel down about every day, I mean we're speed running a police state and a fully captured internet for fucks sake, I refuse to live in a police state for billionaire pederasts maybe I'm looking at the news too often
Also, it sucks we lost Lemmy and now Ozzy is gone, these collective 5 years have consecutively been the worst in my existence

>>64086534
Thank you

>>64086699
>these collective 5 years have consecutively been the worst in my existence
I'm gonna duck the politics of it all not because I don't think it's a valid concern but because I'd rather not give some shill or troll ammo here. I do agree that these 5 years have been rough. I feel like my hope of buyimg a home and having children evaporated sometime in 21 and just never came back. I gotta ask who Lemmy is though, I'm not big on popular culture.

>>64086328
I'm actually ballin' pretty hard. I have a good job and a nice living situation, now I just need to save up to put a down payment on some land and bag me a mid tier foid.

>>64086328
I pretty much completely wasted my 20s and now im back in community college
could be a lot worse though

>>64086738
Of course

>>64086751
Find you a lady that builds with you and you with her and you'll have solved more problems than most ever will. I'm glad life is smiling upon you.

>>64086760
Hell yeah man, community colleges are fantastic places to turn things around and use the experience gained to better yourself. Keep at her.

>>64086744
Lemmy kilmister of Motorhead, the op picture,
Ngl what gets me through seems to be just daydreaming for the time being, like what could I do if I won the lottery, (cope I know) how could I actively fuck with the people that have been running things into the ground. Spitballing here but I'd heavily root my wealth in my family, find a non evil business to generate more, recruit more downtrodden people and help them gain a better living, and collectively troll the elites in this world

>>64086328
been better, been worse. taking care of a crippled friend. they're not coping well with it, that helplessness ain't something people are built to live with.

>>64086876
Good luck in your dream. The lottery is 100% cope, but what you're really paying for with the $3 powerball ticket is the license to fantasize. My favorite is getting an expidition yacht and taking my wife to see some penquins the slow way. But you should know, richer men have tried to liberate the system and become a part of the machine that opresses, just a fresh face.

>>64086880
I'm sorry to hear that anon. Is it something they'll need to live with the rest of their lives or is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Regardless, you're a good friend. Most people don't even do that for family, as sad as that is.

>>64086915
autoimmune, supposed to be decently optimistic on the prognosis but they're already in a state that their nerves and bones are too fucked for doing something like opening a can of soda. they lost something like 50 pounds this year, and it's not just the PT they're doing. though apparently survival rates are good for 10 years after diagnosis. hilariously my work life's been fucking great by comparison.

>>64087057
Hell, I imagine most work that isn't actively destroying you feels like a fucking break. I don't know how well I'd do in that kind of hell, both caring for and having the disease. Take care of yourself, give yourself what you need so you don't build resentment man; that slope gets real fucking slippery.

>>64086154 (OP)
RIP Lemmy, we lost a good one that day