In my 20s I spent my weekends at the local gay bar. Drag shows. Better music. Better people.

I’m asexual so I was just there to dance and get tipsy.

There was always a hot drunk gal and her pervy bf trying to pick up women. I was pretty sure most of the time the chick wasn’t bi or even into it but was doing it to appeal to the guy.

Bro. You already have a hot gf. Stop being greedy. Go home.

They would try to grind up on you and if you said no thanks. They’d just wait a bit and try again. Try to buy you drinks.

Man. These people were the worst. I wasn’t the only person who encountered them regularly.

My friends all had stories.

The woman would first get your guard down. Right. You think you are just dancing with another friendly woman. Having a good time. She starts to get a little physical but it’s still in the range of acceptable for women. Because women are more comfortable around other women and we don’t assume it’s pervy. At first.

Then she starts trying to grind or something or kiss you and you gotta be like. Hey. No. Let’s just do the other dancing we were doing. Then a flipping dude will pop up out of nowhere. They try to sandwich you.

These people were just the worst. They got known pretty fast though and then everyone shunned them.

They always went after the younger patrons too.

I had a friend where the dude straight up came behind her and grabbed her chest.

And she told me he 100% had an erection. We actually got the bouncer to kick that couple out.

No shame. No understanding boundaries.

They could ruin your evening if they targeted you.

Yep. That’s what I was referring to. I also didn’t know they were semi legit. Lol. That’s kinda ridiculous.

No I never paid or even considered paying. I just got some fix from somewhere to get rid of it.

The movie Monster was about this theme. Really good movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(2003_film)

Has Charlize Theron in it.

Nope. Just the ones with actual police investigations.

I was vaccinated and still got it as a kid. I was hospitalized for it.

I was young so I can’t recall much except I kept accidentally ripping out the iv and eventually they put my arm in a wood box thing to keep me from moving it.

My mom says though that I almost died.

And I was vaccinated. A few people are still vulnerable even with it. It’s why everyone needs to be vaccinated for it to work.

I’m lucky. I didn’t have any long term cognitive or hearing damage. But a lot of kids do.

Remember those viruses that were around a few years back. They would lock your computer unless you paid like $100. I believe most said something like . This isn’t a legit copy of windows. Pay now or you can’t login.

And if you paid. It was of course just stealing your credit card. But a lot of stupid people did it.

I remember I got the virus once and I had to use another computer to get rid of it by making a boot flash stick. … I can’t recall the details but there wasn’t any way to fix it on the computer because it locked you out of everything.

Maybe around during windows 7 of 8?

Anyway. I bet that’s where they got the idea.

So the survivors were kidnapped and tortured.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/rare-survivors-of-pacific-boat-strikes

Here are a few excerpts. The article is pretty long with a lot of detailed information.

Now, 36 survivors of two Pacific attacks fitting a similar profile alleged that they were abducted and tortured by American forces and taken by boat all the way to El Salvador before being returned to Ecuador. Drop Site spoke to multiple survivors and attorneys from both boats.

“They treated us like animals,” said Sebastián Palacios of the Don Maca vessel, his thousand-yard stare welling with tears as he embraced his family at the Manta airport upon finally returning to Ecuador weeks later.

Several workers of both the Don Maca and La Negra Francisca remain hospitalized; many are receiving psychiatric care, as well.

Extreme greed is just something I can’t understand at all. Maybe it’s because I grew up with little so to me, just being comfortable without worrying about bills, food, housing, or medical care and maybe a little extra to travel , sounds ideal.

Why would I need more than that? What would I even do with it other than charity or buying random crap?

I can’t fathom the desire to hoard money.

To want it all so that others don’t have it.

And it’s not just like it’s hoarding some material object. But it’s hoarding medical care. Housing. Food. Education. Equality. Safety.

Like wtf. Why? Why would you do that ? Why take from people who need it way more than you do ?

Why take when you already have so much more than everyone else?

I guess it’s to commit crimes and not be punished. Because that seems like the only benefit of being billionaire-rich.

So wealth disparity exists just so some guy can rape children . Murder. Do more theft. ?

But their media illiteracy makes them think being the villain is the win.

Rotate wrist watch ?

No. Too complicated.

To be fair. The conquering of fire is considered top human achievement in some mythos.

We may not agree on the top human achievement. But at least we both agree the iPhone wasn’t it. Not even close.

Thanks 👍

I think it can be both. But mostly, yes. The worst humans are attracted to positions of power. It’s why so many pastors are sex predators. They were predators before becoming pastors.

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I mean yeah. Sewage removal is definitely a big one. Indoor plumbing.

Definitely on a top 10 list.

I was watching a review of the old THX 1138 film last night.

And it reminded me of other reviews of horror from different generations.

Many people say that horror in media often reflects what the people fear the most at a given time in history.

In the 50s we had space invasions. Aliens invading and killing everyone. Or the body snatchers. Manchurian candidate. War of the worlds. People’s fear of society spies and brain washing. Nuclear weapons.

Later 50s we started getting creature features. Unknown monsters lurking in the shadows.

In the 60s we moved to psychological horror and fear of terrible people living next door. Neighbors and community members who hid who they really were. Hidden rot. Rosemary’s baby. Psycho. People were really paranoid about satanism and spies.

70s and early 80s. Vietnam war. Slashers. Being chased by an unstoppable enemy. An enemy with an unknowable persistent motivation.

Mid to late 80s also saw a boom in dark scifi. Showcasing a common belief/fear that China and Japan would dominate the world. Alien. Blade runner. Both of these styles relied heavily on the idea of Asian culture becoming dominant and even modern cyberpunk continues this trend.

Alien and blade runner, are set in the same universe and start to tackle issues of how capitalism devalues human life.

This may have been one of the first films to really make that a big part of the plot.

But aside from these two, the 90s bright back slashers. 2000s had more supernatural horror. But now we have came back to the 80s fear of capitalism.

People are realizing again that the direction things are going is not only a dystopian one, but one that is closer than ever before.

They realize we are so close to losing to corrupt billionaires.

Even the new alien earth showcases the world being owned by a few companies.

We see every aspect of human life be comodofied. Sold. Bought. With the expectation that you should want to sell whatever you have.

Media in games like fallout and the actual cyberpunk 2077 games shows how much people fear these outcomes.

Where you can only get medical care if you pay for expensive subscription.

Where you can be auto evicted by a computer.

The whole idea of fallout is companies manufactured nuclear Armageddon to take more control from the people. And when the people tried to rebuild. They bombed them again. All while the rich lived in life extension tanks. Or had their brains put in robots.

The zero dawn horizon is a pretty depressing game about how a robotics company made murder bots. That were fueled by organic matter. Made a back door for government to access. And then they were coded wrong and literally ate everything on the planet.

This shit is real though. That’s why these games and shows hit so hard.

We know these delusional billionaires really are planning on doing shit like that.

I just see the fear we all have being more prominent in gritty media. And the fact that it’s there says a lot about the state we are in.

iPhone. ? Really. Not antibiotics? Vaccines? modern medicine ?

The fucking iPhone?

Shows how small minded these losers are.

They think they are so smart because they have no ethics.

“Look at me, I figured out how to exploit people and do extortion and lie, I’m a fucking genius and basically a god”.

Sociopaths. All of them.

Hope the slaves are getting out. https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/modern-day-slavery-in-the-united-arab-emirates

Trump says “I don’t even know anyone named Izrali” .