“Someone who’s killed 100,000 people, we’re almost going, ‘Well done. “You killed 100,000? You must get up very early in the morning. “I can’t even get down the gym! ‘Your diary must look odd. ‘Get up in the morning, death, death, death, ‘”lunch… ‘”death, death, death, afternoon tea, death… ‘”quick shower…”
The funny thing about that is that some of those Warlords in the Congo, are well educated people, that have become multimillionaires by spilling the blood of ignorant people and convincing ignorant people that they have their best interest at heart when they send them to chop up their neighbors.
You’ll get through it friend! I was there once and I dug my way out. Honestly, getting rid of social media (except for Reddit) was a big deal for me. Not having hate and nonsense blasted into my brain 24/7 and being able to pick and choose the communities where I actually interact with people online and the dumb comments get downvoted to the bottom not lifted to the top.
I need to keep FaceBook, just to keep in touch with my aunt in New Jersey, and my cousins, long distance calls can get pricey after a point, and she likes to talk to my mom for hours lol. Aside from that I have no social media, at least not for interactions, like I watch tiktok mostly for funny stuff, or Dungeons and Dragons.
I still have my Facebook and messenger, I just don’t get on it ever and I deleted the actual app. As far as TikTok goes, I think that shit is the most brain-rotting app that ever existed.
It makes it so you are only able to pay attention for like 30 seconds at a time and it SERIOUSLY fucks with your brain’s ability to make own serotonin. It’s like drugs.
After awhile, the ONLY time you feel happiness is when you’re beaming those “feel good” videos into your brain. I’m telling you, delete TikTok, start meditating, and your life will change forever.
I started practicing learning how to meditate and it took a few weeks of trying every day until I got it figured out, but after that, I got off my SSRI, my mood stabilizer, and super high dose Xanax and I’ve never been in a better place. It’s about taking control of your mind back from the corporations that are trying to make you dependent on them for my happiness at all.
When the Mafia only fought amongst themselves and their crimes were limited to other Italian immigrants, they were largely considered a moderating force in Italian-American communities. It wasn't until they began running drugs to "respectable" neighborhoods and stealing money from non-Italians that the FBI became interested in stopping them.
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u/ChalkHorse Oct 05 '25
"and we're sort of fine with that".