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What does having success in business and being able to lift heavy at the gym have in common? Both cause envious people to be upset that they are not currently doing as well as the person who built themselves up over a long period of time.

Those same envious people are unable to grasp the concept that the business owner and the swole guy took years of dedication and struggle before they got to the level they did. Rather, they just say that their success is unfair.

Having not been in school for long enough, I am not sure if the DARE program is still going on or how long it has not been in place. Regardless, the DARE program is the perfect example of how "education" does not solve major problems. It is not that people lack information about drugs being bad, we already know that. The people that use drugs got all that info, they just don't care.

This same principle can be applied in many other areas. So don't let libshits tell you education is the solution.

I would say "hero," but he was not simply doing this out of the goodness of his heart, but for profit. Still, might have saved some people from "dying suddenly" or "long covid."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pharmacist-convicted-of-stealing-selling-covid-vaccination-cards-online_5357476.html

Horrifying possibility: Multiple timelines are not a work of fiction, but reality. And our timeline is the best one there is.

Anyone can say they do not like the current US healthcare system and say it should be improved. But when discussing solutions, if you have one person saying we should go full free market and the other saying we should have it fully socialized, then you are not going to find any agreement beyond "the current system sucks."

And besides, we see currently that both proponents think the presence of elements of each other's system is the problem while their own is the solution.

If someone I am conversing with says they also do not like what is going on with token gay characters in movies, it might seem like we agree when I say I do not like it either. But when I find out the reason they do not like it is because they think there is not enough emphasis on the homosexual character and that they should have more than a few seconds of onscreen homosexuality, then it is most certainly not the same thing as me not wanting it to be present at all.

I always cringe at the mention of "we want the same things"/"we agree on more than we disagree" when it is someone who has politics that are diametrically opposed to my own. When you want to go the exact opposite direction that I do, we are nowhere near "wanting the same things."

Having some vague "same" end goal is not the same thing as a fully implemented set of policies seen to their conclusion. Because of this, common ground is most often not found.

We will most likely see a much different world in the coming years with the decline of the United States. Many people are not ready for that.

We are not so special that we will be immune to the pattern of history where a once powerful empire falls. We too will follow suit.

So many people are not ready for the "bad guys" to win. They do not realize that it is a very real possibility. Nor can they contemplate that Russia is not being uniquely evil for "invading a sovereign country." Territorial shifting is something that has happened many, many times. It is just not something that they ever thought would happen now. Not with the post WWII and post Cold War world.

And this is where the prolonged period of relative peace has heavily skewed the perspective of those in the west. War is just something you see on a screen; either on the news or in a movie. And every time they see it, the US wins, because we are the best! And we are fighting for what is right (except when the media tells you otherwise).

But what if we are not as strong as we thought. Then what?

This is regardless of who is right or wrong in this conflict. Russia (or at least Putin) sees taking regions like the Donbass as a part of its interests. Most likely, Russia will keep this territory.

However, the counter offensive narrative wants to suggest otherwise. Because the "good guys" are supposed to win, just like all the WWII movies and history lessons have told us. But what happens when we lose? This does not even cross the mind of those with a Ukraine flag in their profile.

These same people also do not understand the history of borders. Countries all got their territory from conquest and violence. Where many of the current borders exist are a result of some violence at some point, even if it is not in living memory.

So when Russia has been claiming more territory for themselves, this may be shocking to those who never thought about the history of every other border in the world. Borders also change, and often as a result of violence/war.

The normie masses cannot properly assess world events such as Russia invading Ukraine. Their perspective has been heavily warped by modern sensibilities and separation from any genuine conflict or strife that they do not understand what war means or why it happens.

Thinking in terms of "bad guys" and "good guys" in this war means you do not understand the nature of conflict. Everyone is acting in what they perceive to be their self interest. Nothing more.