>>73162482That depends on who you are, which is something you don't need to reveal here if you don't want to. Just be honest with yourself and to those around you, if nothing else.
>>73162843It is sad and a tragedy, and it is also overrated. For me mostly it's the ramifications of it that still stick, like the Patriot Act.
>>73162730I'm glad you appreciate it! So just a little more and I'll drop the topic because we've veered pretty far at this point, methinks.
Your parents were protective and that's not necessarily bad, depending on the environment or perhaps their own experiences, though sometimes perception is also skewed for them because they had their own form of media consumption telling them what to think in TV and radio, and sensationalism sells so it's easy for someone to get more paranoid if they hear negative news constantly about murders, etc. I was lucky enough to grow up somewhere very safe, you could pass out drunk and wake up the next morning without issue and probably still have your wallet, even today, but most places aren't that safe, unfortunately.
>I just feel like more and more, normalfags actually do care about petty grandstanding over random issues, which is annoying and I wish I knew how to stop it.Yeah this is an unfortunate reality because of the shift in politicization of everything. Entertainment is meant to be the escape from the hardships of the world even for a bit, but more and more people push to control media to control greater context. Bad, politically motivated actors infiltrating hobby spaces and changing them, and initiatives that incentivize it through funding from some private entities. On the other side of things, the tribal nature of political affiliation is used as a wedge to divide people further, while the vultures on both sides take the scraps from the people fighting, in a lot of cases because those vultures were working together to make the people fight in the first place. There's no real way of stopping it, just being the person in the room not afraid to stand up to them when the time comes and it matters to stand up to them vs just letting them blow their hot air at the void when it doesn't matter (most of the time).
>>73162866what
>>73163055said, plus it's easy to appear more gracious by doing so to a lot of people. But it's usually empty, because the people that care enough or can afford to care enough, will do something with actions, not words, about what they believe in. My dad has fundraised for causes he's believed in before, but I never heard about it from him, only from his ex girlfriend and other people he's met, all of them telling me he's a very good man. The causes he cares about he worked on with actions, and he was humble enough to never once brag about them, just put his time and effort into doing it. People that work as EMTs, Firefighters, surgeons, and people who do stuff like actually build villages, teach people how to farm, do volunteer work to help the needy, and those that actually go to places where disasters happen and help the people out. They are the the actually gracious people, not the people who talk about how they think things should be but never do anything about it.
P.S. Dolce is so cute and hot and has my favorite look after Rosemi-sama =w=