Where nightmares are kinder than reality

[hiding my old man bite from the rest of the group] o-of course I'm fine! let's just keep going. the survivor's camp is right ahead and [spots someone I know] heh. I guess they let ANYONE in here!

I will accept that housecats ordinarily do not hunt cooperatively, but whenever a mouse gets into my house, my cats will literally coordinate with each other to flush it toward me so I can grab it with my special Mouse Catching Glove and chuck into the field out back, so clearly it's a skill they can learn.

My cat, meanwhile, carefully rotates so that she is facing directly away from the mouse at all times, because if she faced towards it, she might be obligated to do something about it.

how are westerners so thoroughly programmed that even when you see the violence of your empire, you parrot the same lies used to sell that violence. "bombing a school is wrong but the iranian people should be freed from the regime—" "abducting a president is wrong but the venezuelan people should be freed from the regime—" "starving people with sanctions is wrong but the cuban people should be freed from the regime —" the western people need to be freed from the regimes that brainwashed you, and I mean that

THEY KEEP ASKING ME IF I WOULD DIE FOR THEM AND I KEEP ASKING WHY THEY WANT ME DEAD

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reverse gaslighting where i pretend to know exactly what you are talking about