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    2 days ago

    Buying time for what? What can we make the Dems deliver on that will take us out of this state where we’re constantly having to vote to avoid fascism and nothing else?

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      Do you think happiness is reached and then let go? You have to clench it and never let go.

      Sadly life is not so simple, we like freedoms and so we must uphold them. They are a structure of ideas that you have to maintain. If you cannot even maintain the now, how can you make progress, how can you heal?

      You buy time for the hope you can savor life once more.

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        This is why it’s a waste of time working with Democrats because when you ask them for concrete goals all you get is philosophical sounding nonsense

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          23 hours ago

          No one genuinely asked me for concrete goals, he asked what am I buying time for. I buy time for myself, my loved ones, and those I wish to support.

          If you want concrete goals, it’s simple, but then again you think me a democrat. I do not have a voice in voting and you focus on political parties when I have named none.

          What do you do every day? I endure and travel, I walk and talk to those you overlook. I share my bounty with my neighbor and teach where I can. I endure pain so others don’t.

          You think Jesus a democrat? He was the first recorded instance of an antifascist. He literally calls the Roman Legionnaires pigs with the demon Legion. I wish to replace it all but I am not one with that power, I am just one who can endure suffering without being clouded by hate and only love.

          I am sorry for your suffering, but I have no power aside my voice and kindness. Yet, to you of hate it is no power.

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            13 hours ago

            No one genuinely asked me for concrete goals

            This was my original response to you:

            Buying time for what? What can we make the Dems deliver on that will take us out of this state where we’re constantly having to vote to avoid fascism and nothing else?

            You expect me to read the whole book you wrote but you can’t read past word 4 of my post?

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              12 hours ago

              Yes and I am not a democrat so I can only answer for what I think, and what I would do with such time. I have no concrete answers, I am but an aspirant of hope.

              You buy time that is all you can do. Avoiding fascism is a constant ideal to be upheld. Why do you buy time? No one can force you to do it, but when you appreciate some of the things you have, and that is all you can do. You submit to it.

              However, one cannot submit to this regime. The regime wants your will to be broken. It is not defeated through blind denouncing of one’s innate responsibility.

              I am personally just helping those I can because I have not much ability beyond that. You have a stronger capability, and that is why I do not want you to give up.

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                You JUST claimed that I didn’t ask for concrete goals then I showed you that I explicitly asked for concrete goals and you ignore that.

                do you have memory loss issues?

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                  Those are my concrete goals, they are small and simple because that is the life I lead. I apologize if you looked for goals that would preserve your position in life without sacrifice.

                  I do forget. I spend hours usually on one response because I need it to mimic my mind truly. While affording me reflection that these thoughts lead to. I can tell you concrete goals and they won’t be enough for you because you are illusioned by any possibility of freedom. While I believe we are born indebted, only to accrued more with each passing meal.

                  You take it as a basic right, but it can only be upheld through the means of many people. However, by dividing rather than at least accepting a halt - you are impeding the chance of reflection. A chance of meaningful change being done, because progress is slow while destruction is swift.

                  You are always one act away from throwing your life away, that is the ease of destruction.

                  However happiness is a construct maintained and worked for, not easily given. Suffering will persist, the hope is to divide it equally.

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                    Suffering will persist, the hope is to divide it equally.

                    Now there’s something I can get on board with comrade

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          Stop using the lives of the innocent to refuse your own responsibilities.

          They more than anyone would understand how precious those extra couple hours can be. How bountiful, and that you may find salvation long enough to afford another day.

          We all suffer our birth, but we cannot induce more suffering by dejecting ourselves from opportunity. We must embrace, for how vast the internet is and how little it has made the world, we block off more and more from our lives. Denouncing our part in making good and effective influence, by removing ourselves from the scenario altogether.

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            Stop using the lives of the innocent to refuse your own responsibilities.

            Stop projecting.

            They more than anyone would understand how precious those extra couple hours can be. How bountiful, and that you may find salvation long enough to afford another day.

            Yeah, because you’re denying them to them.

            We all suffer our birth, but we cannot induce more suffering by dejecting ourselves from opportunity. We must embrace, for how vast the internet is and how little it has made the world, we block off more and more from our lives. Denouncing our part in making good and effective influence, by removing ourselves from the scenario altogether.

            Maybe take your own advice

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              23 hours ago

              You brought them up, and call it projection. The lies you delude yourself with.

              I have caused harm to the Gazans? I am saying they more than anyone can understand the difference 2 hours can make in a life. You haven’t witnessed unrelenting death and cowarded from bullets and it shows.

              I do good daily, talking to you seems the only bad I have done. A waste of words amuck the deaf and angry - unconstructive.

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                  19 hours ago

                  Supporting it how?

                  I literally am a person on the internet saying appreciate what you do have and make the most of it.

                  I cannot vote and the only palestinian I have met became my brother, moreso when he met my mother. Then again, your signal grows weak as your virtue wanes. You talk of things unrelated to you in hope you will feel special and good.

                  I wish I had your fortunate life, you see others so little you communicate in gestures. You cannot fathom words as beautiful and sweet as mine, so you must mock.