5/ American desserts are cloying and too sweet and there's far too much of them compared to savories and this sucks
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6/ My sixth grievance is that for many of my worst grievances, there is no specific group of people I can harbor the grievance AGAINST because they are the result of Molochian systems that are out to get me in particular
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7/ My seventh grievance is against IDEALISTS of all kinds, who sell you a PREMIUM MEDIOCRE vision of the human condition in a BENEVOLENT UNIVERSE that totally sets you up for LIFE SHOCK and then you have to work hard to reset expectations to MEDIOCRE in an APATHETIC UNIVERSE

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8/ My eighth grievance is against Americans and their goddamn YOUTH FETISH that treats aging as a disease, mortality with aggressively traumatizing denial, and serious illnesses as sports movies, to be beaten with a montage and chutzpah, thereby making hard things harder.
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9/ People who haven't yet learned the VAMPIRE SNEEZE 10 years after it was invented and still sneeze into their hands just before touching door handles and stuff. What's the deal with you? Are you stupid, or just actively malicious and trying to make the rest of us sick?pic.twitter.com/tSxQFfN2Ad
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10/ Grievance TEN is against the LEVEL-ONE BOSS. Hustle-porn peddlers. They are the absolute WORST. Generalized health-nut screaming void idealist mediocrities who think they are special and do existential equivalent of sneezing into hands and touching door handles. G.T.F.O.
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11/ My ELEVENTH grievance is that after all this airing, much of my grievance remains unprocessed as a vague sense of undirected resentment I can't even label let alone blame on the right people. So I'll stop here, having achieved only mild palliation of my grievances
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12/ ONE MORE. Aggressively self-satisfied and un-self-aware mediocrities who are 110% convinced everything that is wrong with their lives is the result of broken systems. They are the first of the Level 2 villains, and I'll pick up here in 2020.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1209218763989516288 …
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13/ Grievance 13, WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THERE WAS A HASHTAG
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TBH I thought last week's Airing of Opinions was an evolution of the Festivus ritual, given that opinions are basically grievances which have been to college
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Those were mostly positive and full of goodwill for the most part (mine being an exception)
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