This is what 1984 got wrong. People don't fall into line when every scrap of hope is ripped away from them. People get angry. Especially people saturated with dopamine addiction. When you shut off that dopamine drip and cramp their freedom, your pain becomes their new addiction.
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The best part of this GME spectacle is seeing the hope in people again It's like our society came back to life, from the grave to the feast hall Everyone needed to feel like they can win That feeling has been missing for a long time
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Where the plagues of 2020 divided us The stock market war of 2021 has united us
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This right here is WHY it happened. People have been cold inside. They felt powerless. Weak dopamine trickles from porn and sugar were their only comforts. Then they found a way to strike back. The replies to this were people screaming “FOR HIS WIFE, WE HOLD”.pic.twitter.com/bdvOe9nctV
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Americans need a holy war so bad. Even our atheists. We need a war against evil so we feel alive. We are desperate not to feel impotent for even one moment.
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We are all prisoners of war in the culture war GME is the first of many prison riots
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People are so beaten down that they try to crush their own hope “They’re Just gonna change the rules, it’s gonna end” Yes, this one campaign. Do you imagine all this rage will go away? This is a rattling pressure cooker looking for any crack to release steam before it blows
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The prisoners having nothing left to do but examine the walls of their cell These are velociraptors testing the fences for weakness If you give them a universal income they will have no distractions left, not even their awful (vanishing) jobs Scratch. Scratch. Scratch.
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I have always wondered why more English people don't rebel like this. Maybe we just got it out of our systems in the past.
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The rebellious types were all sent to die in WW1 and the descendents of those that survived got wiped out in WW2.
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