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Ultimately I agree with you because ultimately you have to suck it up and overcome whatever life throws in front of you, but what about the world right now makes you think that anything that anybody did would change the system? (Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your post)

And ultimately any protest that these people did would be for MORE STUFF. I don't think that's the answer?

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We are on the same page.

I really feel for this young generation, I have nieces and cousins in their teens, a son who is ten, and am trying very hard to understand what they are going through, what messaging they have been exposed to, and for those in their 20s and early 30s, they were really the test group, and I feel for them too, its awful what they have absorbed.

I grew up on a farm working my butt off. If you tried to make an excuse on that property, things would get ugly fast.

So, there is a canyon there between my experience and the experience of this young adult crowd.

I do not think the system is changeable outside of a mass awareness which I think is chemically blocked from ever happening, but you can live outside the system, not entirely, but with the right group of people, it is possible.

All I am saying is this young adult generation, rather than improve or remove themselves from society, basically just sits on it and enjoys what they enjoy about it and effs the rest.

And I think that was goal, to be honest. Call me crazy, but too many variables fell right into place to make this happen for me to believe it is random.

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Whenever I consider that it ISN'T random I think about how incompetent governments and government agencies have always been. I think much of what is happening is a consequence of eusocial indoctrination....that is, convincing red-blooded boys to be passive and to shy away from their natural aggression and lust because they are told that it is "toxic masculinity".

As a 12 year old kid I was subjected to bullying but I think it ultimately made me a stronger person. I don't think bullying is in any way a good thing but I think it is also wrong to deny that there will be physical conflict between young men and part of growing up is dealing with people who pose a physical threat to you. You have to use your wits and your fists sometimes when things go very wrong. And in life things occasionally go very wrong. Insulating young people from this and pretending it doesn't exist and that it won't ever happen to them opens the door for psychopaths who will take advantage of the passive new world. There are plenty of people who still really don't give a damn who they hurt and they will prey upon the sheep.

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My husband raised in an Italian area of Chicago. Blonde blue eyed kid. Same for him. Beaten on a regular basis til accepted. He grew up tough.

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It's no joke being messed with when you're 12. I wouldn't wish it on anybody. I'm glad they've clamped down on bullying.

I learned to be fairly tough I guess but I didn't like it. Some guys I knew were beaten really badly. One kid lost an eye. That's just psychopaths getting away with criminal behaviour.

I found out that one of my abusers became a bouncer on the West Coast and some dude sliced his belly open with a knife.

Karma you bastard.

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Often boys with that kind of anger have been abused at home. They continue into adulthood. Very sad. Yes Karma!

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It's not random.

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Well I was picking up my friends 12 year old from school. Jack declared upon entering my car that the world would end in his lifetime. Volcano,.huge things hurling against the earth,.etc. etc. Why scare our kids.

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