protein cocoa
vitamin, 1 Tbsp olive oil, yogurt
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mahi filets w/lemon pepper and garlic-salt-buttered ciabatta

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A 2020 fb/FeministNews op-article crystallized something for me that I've been mulling over for a while now. Real Americans need to evolve our politicking to a "post-troll" basis. Not engaging with (and thereby encouraging) hand-wringy social media subchannels endlessly shitposting shocked-pikachu memes spotlighting the regime's bad faith. Firing newsmedia from our personal lives if they keep insisting on treating bad faith messaging as if each new troll dropping is worthy of analyis, or even worthy of relaying as news at all.

Without recapping the etymology and evolving implications of the phrases "right wing" vs. "left wing"... Suffice it to say, many if not most of the regime's supporters aren't ideologically "right wing". By that I mean, they don't have coherent opinions about real right/left conversations like the industrial-psychology case for progressive labor policies like remote work, flex time, shorter workweeks, etc. -Because, as the aforementioned article says ... psychology itself is ivory-tower egghead weakness. Ergo if, as a regime supporter, your employer isn't exploiting you to the maximum extent they can get away with? Then they're probably weak libtards and deserve bad faith. Labor relations in the troll-radicalized low-information citizen mind consists of "exploit or be exploited". Education is weakness, it's a weak libtard fake news that education can open doors to careers that aren't soul-crushingly empty and shitty.

So no wonder even organizations with relatively liberal leadership are reining in progressive labor-relations initiatives. We can't have nice things, because emotionally-stunted brainwash victims ruin it for the rest of us.

There's a pertinent grammar school memory that haunts me periodically. I was the target of random bullying countless times; pushing back blew up in my face enough times that that didn't feel like a worthwhile avenue either. So by some half-conscious process I arrived at - rolling that shit downhill, shoving or tripping up someone smaller than me. The problem was - it felt bad! It alienated someone whose intelligence I rather enjoyed and who I felt safe with! With only a grammar-schooler emotional IQ, my calculus wasn't verbally explicit but clearly I reached some solid conclusion nonetheless, because my "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" initiative didn't last more than a few fumbling tries.