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weewooweewoo  ·  2939 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: President Donald Trump.

I can't wait for tits and beer leftism to come back to the internet. A united community where high schoolers can hate Republicans because they're old, stupid, and too religious. One where Klienbl00 hits r/bestof every single week on reddit and identity politics step aside for the working man! M'ladies and gentlemen, we're entering a new golden age.

I don't know man, I feel like a lot of my identity has been shattered. Filipino / American, debate geek, psychology and political science graduate because I wanted to know why and do all I could do to get people to understand each other and interact, a la if you can't dream for each other, you're dreaming against each other fucking naive little shit I am. Fucking Duerte / Trump / Brexit / the fact that our lives are 10,000 more complex than our parents because of globalization. Fucking trying to juggle all of the microcosms I inhabit because I naively believe in some moral good in being able to handle the cognitive dissonance in communicating all across a spectrum of ideas. Fucking wanting to understand how other people understand each other - the marketplace of ideas will eventually solve... / I can demonstrate that we're all more similar than we think / a house divided will not stand.

My education is like that SMBC comic where the physicist is falling off a cliff and solves when she's going to die.

I just feel like tomorrow I'll have to start again, anew. My ideas about people are too kumbaya, I need to grow up.