u/Husbandaru

I've been working with FEMA for the last 6 months and the like the amount of poverty and destitution I see there. Is something, I have only seen in the poor countries I have traveled too.

Where do I even begin?

I watched the argument Phoebe and Paulsego got into, about how the South would implement tax policies to court wealthy corporations and use them to build a tax base, that they would then use to build up a massive army to invade the West and East Coast? Or something like that?

Phoebe my home girl, that is about as likely as pigs sprouting wings and flying. The South would be lucky to survive a year without the amount of funding it gets from the Federal Government. There are entire counties that are still recovering from the Winter Storm last December. People living in their cars, whole communities of people live in cars, because they have yet to receive any assistance from the State or Federal Government.

To Paul wondering where most of the Federal funding went? Brother you got me. I have seen people have their homes obliterated, their personal possessions gone and the most I've seen people get is like 6-8k. Barely enough to put the tin roof back over the house. But it's all the more insidious when you realize that the Federal Government handed the state of Mississippi 22 million big ones for disaster relief.

Never mind that we haven't talked about the military headache it would be to get a modernized army to the West Coast from the South without the U.S. Government.

Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Nevada; these places are not Belgium or the Netherlands. You could fit both of those countries in those 5 states like 20 times and still have land to spare. The Southwest is gigantic and the terrains vary from harsh deserts to high altitude mountains.

Factor in that farming has gotten way more difficult in the South due to climate change; good luck keeping those troops supplied with basic necessities as they try to make their way through those 5 states.

No, dude. The South has it bad; I actually think that states in the Midwest would fare better than the South as their own countries.

For the next defending awful things segment.

Paulsego needs to defend an incel video about NEETs

The Neet conversation is one of those topics that his highly contentious among people in this community. I think it's important to discuss it in a way that is not just people flinging the accusation at one another.

Now, I think the reason why it's often met with so much backlash is because it's very reminiscent of the way Conservatives talk about black and brown people. People on this community are reflexively hostile to an argument that even slightly sounds Conservative.

In some ways it does sound Conservative, because it lacks empathy and removes all of the nuance from the conversation to create a caricature that can very easily be attacked and picked apart.

Honestly having been working since, since college. I can completely empathize with anyone who doesn't want to do the 9-5 grind. People call that paradigm dehumanizing for a reason and it's been called that for a very long time.

Even the DFF guys have called it that, if you have Patreon watch their episode on Japan. A huge portion of the episode is spent talking about how shitty and oppressive Japan's work culture is. Then they adopt this 'get to work' mentality when it's some asshole sitting in his house playing Xbox all day or whatever?

The contradictions get weirder, when they talk about the economy. Because the economy will be terrible in one sentence. Then perfectly livable and manageable in the next when they talk about Neets.

Just because you can tough it out and live with roommates and have your own space away from your family does not mean that it is manageable or that it's a life other people want to have. This also fails to take into account that job security has completely eroded as a concept. The chances of being unemployed are way too high for a lot of people.

So, the thing that is being flimsily advocated here; is for people to get into the world that has no job security, virtually unattainable housing and a shitty work culture?

I wonder why the community is hostile towards the idea of shitting on people who don't want to do that.

“There will be no "collapse" the way some of these people think of it. It's not going to be like the movie "Dawn of the Dead" or whatever where one day suddenly shit hits the fan and prices skyrocket, and everyone begins to riot and the SS comes marching down the street to kill everyone. There will be no "happening." It's far more insidious than that."

This is just the opening prompt. If it catches your eye feel free to message me. I only roleplay on Discord. 18+ only. No minors for the love of god. My time zone is MST but I work late nights and have a lot of down time.

“Drop the body. Drop the body.”

The man repeated himself as the woman dragged the corpse by its legs. With an annoyed sigh, she released them.

The body hit the snowy pavement with a wet thud.

“Let me get the trunk.”

The man reached into his pocket for the keys, visibly frustrated.

“What the fuck was that?”

The woman rolled her eyes.

“Ah kill heem. Like we ahssigned to do.”

Her accent was thick, her grammar slightly broken, and her tone completely matter-of-fact.

“We could've done it clean,” the man said. “Just push him off the building. We didn't have to make all that noise.”

The woman maintained her composure.

“Don’t theenk too mahsh about eet. Ah sure didn’t.”

The man sighed and shook his head.

“Yeah. Obviously.”

He unlocked the trunk and walked around to the corpse.

“Don’t get so angry. You worry too mahsh.”

“Alright. Let's bag this asshole. I know a place.”

The woman didn't move toward the body.

Instead, she made a proposition.

“Ah buy you Shake Shack, and we can do it een back seat? Yeah? Then we drop off body.”

The man stared at her in disbelief.

“What?”

“Dude. We gotta get the fuck out of town before we're compromised. I'm not sleeping with you with a body in the trunk.”

The woman's expression suddenly went cold.

Then she spoke in perfect English.

No accent whatsoever.

“Wait. Seriously? You're not going to sleep with me?”

“No. We gotta get the fuck out of here.”

A moment of silence.

Then came the screaming.

A violent shriek erupted through the cold parking lot of the housing complex.

The woman suddenly punched him directly in the throat.

He instinctively clutched his neck, stumbled backward, and collapsed onto the pavement. The car keys slipped from his hand.

The woman grabbed them.

She walked over to the corpse of the six-foot-two-inch man, lifted him with surprising ease, and shoved him into the trunk.

SLAM!

She got into the driver's seat.

The engine roared to life.

The tires spun against the snowy pavement before the car peeled out of the driveway like a bat out of hell.

 

“And that's the last time I saw her.”

The man sat across from two agents inside an interrogation room.

Neither agent spoke for several seconds.

They exchanged a glance.

“That does sound like her,” one finally said. “We're going to assign you another partner.”

The other agent leaned forward.

“Xenomere is quite useful to us. And while I'd love for someone to dispose of her, we need to find her.”

“She was working on a very important task involving some top-level Chinese officials. You and your new partner are going to find her and get her back on the assignment.”

The man shook his head.

“You—you’re joking, right? She could be anywhere.”

The first agent calmly opened a folder.

“Xenomere uses a KelTec CP33.”

The man stared at him.

“Of course she uses a fucking KelTec. She’s a psychopath.”

The agent ignored the comment.

“We recently found some shell casings at a Taco Bell a few miles from the apartment where you last saw her.”

The man’s expression changed.

“A Taco Bell?”

The agent nodded.

“A Taco Bell.”

The other agent slowly pushed a photograph across the table.

“This is what we have.”
The man looked down at the photograph.
A spent .22 casing sat beside a half-eaten Crunchwrap.

He stared at it.

Then looked back at the agents.

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.”

“You think I brought you in here. Just joke around? The employee reported a mugging there. The victim was armed. We were able to suppress this from the media and it’s the best lead we have.”

“Well, let me out of here. We gotta go find this lady.”

Xenomere, a highly skilled but notoriously unpredictable operative who has seemingly gone rogue after an assassination mission. An Asian infiltrator working for an American intelligence agency, Xenomere's origins remain unknown, with conflicting possibilities about whether she is Japanese, Korean, Chinese, or from another East Asian background. Known for her bizarre behavior and unconventional methods, she leaves behind a trail of confusion as the agents retrace her movements. However, they soon discover that the assassination was not what it appeared to be: the target was connected to a brutal organ trafficking network operating in the Midwest, one that preyed primarily on orphaned children.

What initially appears to be a rogue operation reveals itself to be a personal pursuit against a criminal network protected by powerful figures. Following her trail through abandoned locations, surveillance footage, and hidden contacts, the agents slowly uncover the truth behind her actions and the reasons she disappeared. The hunt for Xenomere becomes less about capturing a rogue operative and more about understanding one of their agency’s most dangerous agents.

Having lived in WA in my early 20s, it is an interesting state. Despite being surrounded by other people in my 20s there. Everyone seemed as if they were in their 30s and it was the only time in my 20s that I had chronic back pain. Being in my 30s now, I kind of wish I was back there as here in boring ass Arizona I feel so out place.

It's interesting to know that Paul went back there after he left back in late 2017 or whenever that was. Having lived there I did see a lot of age gap relationships. Having a relationship like that recently end for me; really reminded me of seeing that sort of relationship up there and it not being as stigmatized.

I honestly think the hostility towards age gap relationships is weirder than the relationship itself. Maybe there is something wrong with me? Cause like the way I see it is if it's two legally consenting adults and no one in the relationship is being forced to do anything against their will. I don't understand what the problem is?

The arguments I see are very strange, and they're commonly painting the man as a predator and the woman as a victim. One argument that I see that they will have nothing in common or people to connect? Like, who gets to decide what two people have in common or how they connect? I've been in 2 relationships with women my age where we didn't connect or have anything in common. Now that there's an age gap that's even worse?

It really infantilizes women, because it paints them as gullible morons who got duped by an older smarter man. Rather than painting them as people who like dudes who have a bit more experience in life.