[Humanity] Remember your Losses, Savor your Victories (Let's restore some Faith in Humanity)

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Smithnikov said:
Humanity can fuck off, quite honestly. If it considers me an enemy, I'm free to consider it one right back.
And what if I don't?

We have disagreed on many things in the past, but I never considered you a worse person for it, I'd welcome the chance to call you a friend.
 

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Proof that Keanu Reeves is the nicest guy in Hollywood: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-IRX-Xaa3g

Wow... just... Wow. God bless Keanu Reeves.
 

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Combustion Kevin said:
Smithnikov said:
Humanity can fuck off, quite honestly. If it considers me an enemy, I'm free to consider it one right back.
And what if I don't?

We have disagreed on many things in the past, but I never considered you a worse person for it, I'd welcome the chance to call you a friend.
Trust me, if you knew me, you wouldn't. For example, do you realize I was fighting an effort to deport me? A native born citizen, all the papers to prove it, but some online patriots (not from this site) decided to dox and report me as an illegal, and I had to actually prove my own right to stay in this country because I had the wrong opinions. What the fuck worth is someone that the nation is willing to chuck out the door with little vetting?
 
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Smithnikov said:
Trust me, if you knew me, you wouldn't. For example, do you realize I was fighting an effort to deport me? A native born citizen, all the papers to prove it, but some online patriots (not from this site) decided to dox and report me as an illegal, and I had to actually prove my own right to stay in this country because I had the wrong opinions. What the fuck worth is someone that the nation is willing to chuck out the door with little vetting?
Quite a bit. People do wrong things all the time. Crimes against individuals and humanity. That doesn't mean people deserve this treatment.

I know it doesn't make it better, but still.

We are a community. Again, fractured as it is. We got ears. Bend them a little. They won't break.
 

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ObsidianJones said:
Quite a bit. People do wrong things all the time. Crimes against individuals and humanity. That doesn't mean people deserve this treatment.
Doesn't mean they don't either. I earned every bit of it with my antifa free speech silencing shit.

We are a community. Again, fractured as it is. We got ears. Bend them a little. They won't break.
My type doesn't have a community anymore. Again, my own country doesn't want me here and didn't need much convincing to try and expel me, and the only advocate I had was one I had to pay money for.
 
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Smithnikov said:
ObsidianJones said:
Quite a bit. People do wrong things all the time. Crimes against individuals and humanity. That doesn't mean people deserve this treatment.
Doesn't mean they don't either. I earned every bit of it with my antifa free speech silencing shit.

We are a community. Again, fractured as it is. We got ears. Bend them a little. They won't break.
My type doesn't have a community anymore. Again, my own country doesn't want me here and didn't need much convincing to try and expel me, and the only advocate I had was one I had to pay money for.
It's a really fucked up situation you're in, I won't lie. It's not one I want for any person. This is the life you know. You've done nothing wrong. And it's ridiculous that this even occurred. I feel silly saying something so blatantly obvious, but this is the world we live in.

I don't think it would make it feel better, but the bubble that we live in doesn't represent the world. Me, living in Liberal New York, thought there was no chance that Trump could have any traction. But he found his grip with enough counties (not individuals because Hillary won the popular vote) that here we are.

I know you walk out and see this... filth around you. And I'm truly, truly sorry for that. And it's a hell of a thing to say being in a different place in the US once this all gets cleared up might be the better for you.. but I would be remiss if I didn't say it. My best friend would be alive today if she lived in a place where they valued science and caring for the individual instead of outdated beliefs of 'what a woman should do in life'.

Fuck those people who don't appreciate you. They do not represent the entire human race, even if it feels like it now. I know you belong here. There are millions of us who are fighting against this wave of stupidity that now governs us. There is a place for you. Sadly, I have to say it's around more intelligent people.

But they are out there. And they want to see you succeed as much as you and I do. I'm sorry to say you gotta find them, they should just be on every street corner... but like I said, you are probably in the wrong area to see them.
 

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/5th-graders-play-hoops-with-student-in-wheelchair-in-sweet-video/ar-AAHBsDS

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/kind-cop-offers-helping-hand-to-homeless-man-shaving-outside/ar-AAHxZ89

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/bullied-11-year-old-writes-book-about-autism-to-teach-others/vi-AAHxEUK

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-has-thousands-of-hour-long-conversations-with-strangers/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/pay-it-forward-group-spends-thousands-on-kind-acts-honoring-dayton-shooting-victims/ar-AAHMSJC

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/inside-the-priceless-interaction-between-police-a-young-mom-and-her-twins/ar-AAHJrng

but something to shut up the idiots who started the whole Alita vs. Captain Marvel debacle

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ObsidianJones said:
Smithnikov said:
ObsidianJones said:
Quite a bit. People do wrong things all the time. Crimes against individuals and humanity. That doesn't mean people deserve this treatment.
Doesn't mean they don't either. I earned every bit of it with my antifa free speech silencing shit.

We are a community. Again, fractured as it is. We got ears. Bend them a little. They won't break.
My type doesn't have a community anymore. Again, my own country doesn't want me here and didn't need much convincing to try and expel me, and the only advocate I had was one I had to pay money for.
It's a really fucked up situation you're in, I won't lie. It's not one I want for any person. This is the life you know. You've done nothing wrong. And it's ridiculous that this even occurred. I feel silly saying something so blatantly obvious, but this is the world we live in.

I don't think it would make it feel better, but the bubble that we live in doesn't represent the world. Me, living in Liberal New York, thought there was no chance that Trump could have any traction. But he found his grip with enough counties (not individuals because Hillary won the popular vote) that here we are.

I know you walk out and see this... filth around you. And I'm truly, truly sorry for that. And it's a hell of a thing to say being in a different place in the US once this all gets cleared up might be the better for you.. but I would be remiss if I didn't say it. My best friend would be alive today if she lived in a place where they valued science and caring for the individual instead of outdated beliefs of 'what a woman should do in life'.

Fuck those people who don't appreciate you. They do not represent the entire human race, even if it feels like it now. I know you belong here. There are millions of us who are fighting against this wave of stupidity that now governs us. There is a place for you. Sadly, I have to say it's around more intelligent people.

But they are out there. And they want to see you succeed as much as you and I do. I'm sorry to say you gotta find them, they should just be on every street corner... but like I said, you are probably in the wrong area to see them.
Yea, that may be it. I appreciate the sentiment, seriously, but I'm not sure I can shake this.
 

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Smithnikov said:
Yea, that may be it. I appreciate the sentiment, seriously, but I'm not sure I can shake this.
Shaking all that overnight is simply unrealistic, take it day by day.
This whole site was set up to celebrate our mutual enjoyment and interest of stories and media, the things that make us passionate and keep us sane, and it is these things that I wish for you, for anyone that wishes it, really.
 

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CoCage said:
but something to shut up the idiots who started the whole Alita vs. Captain Marvel debacle
...why is Dumbo on Shazam's head? 0_0
 
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Smithnikov said:
Yea, that may be it. I appreciate the sentiment, seriously, but I'm not sure I can shake this.
Hey, I'm going to sound really selfish now. I apologize, but that's just how I feel now.

I pray to anything that will listen that you don't give up. You deserve your life. I believe it. I know a ton of people here feel the same way. All we can do to help fight your struggles is vote intelligently from here on forward. We know the bulk of the battle is on your shoulders, and again I am very sorry for that. But if we can help fire some shots by getting the right people into office to change this... cesspool this country has become, I'm going to have my arrow nocked in and ready to let loose. And I know I'm not alone.

So neither are You.
 

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ObsidianJones said:
Smithnikov said:
Yea, that may be it. I appreciate the sentiment, seriously, but I'm not sure I can shake this.
Hey, I'm going to sound really selfish now. I apologize, but that's just how I feel now.

I pray to anything that will listen that you don't give up. You deserve your life. I believe it. I know a ton of people here feel the same way. All we can do to help fight your struggles is vote intelligently from here on forward. We know the bulk of the battle is on your shoulders, and again I am very sorry for that. But if we can help fire some shots by getting the right people into office to change this... cesspool this country has become, I'm going to have my arrow nocked in and ready to let loose. And I know I'm not alone.

So neither are You.
In this uncaring World, the more vulnerable you are, the harder you get hit. That's why one has to put an extra effort in making this shitty World a little less shitty (there is no lack of fuckers out there doing the exact opposite).
 

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Someone else needs to see this. I?d never heard of the Toolbox Fallacy [https://youtu.be/sz4YqwH_6D0], but after watching this and some introspection? yeah. Guilty. But acknowledging it, the video ends on a good, uplifting note. I don?t want to explain it too much as the video creator (you?ll learn why that?s significant if you watch; it?s only 7 minutes) tells a great story, and I don?t want to take that away from him.
 
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More than 100 people showed up to celebrate this crossing guard's birthday [https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/us/crossing-guard-birthday-surprise-trnd/index.html]

This legitimately made me tear up.

But more importantly...

Smithnikov said:
Yea, that may be it. I appreciate the sentiment, seriously, but I'm not sure I can shake this.
I hope you don't mind a follow up. How are you doing lately?
 

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Does anyone know if they fixed the embedding yet? I'm sick of having to just post links:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&t=29s
(Basically the greatest speech ever put to film made even better)

ObsidianJones said:
Smithnikov said:
Yea, that may be it. I appreciate the sentiment, seriously, but I'm not sure I can shake this.
I hope you don't mind a follow up. How are you doing lately?
Seconding that sentiment.