Cheat code America and inverted hippies

I was playing a game for free but I’m pestered in many ways to pay extra to keep going, basically cheat. I’m playing a game for free, agree to the manipulation.

Capitalism is a cheat code. You have an advantage. I need to study cooperatives.

I play this game where you shoot a ball and the goal is to make it bounce around and get extra hits to the blocks that count down until they disappear. That's what capitalism is, you send money in and you hope it does more and comes back with more.

I feel like some of the more fuddy duddy square community looked at the 60's and said, what can we protest? We don't care about human rights, inclusion or justice. We want our own do nothing autocratic republican in office, so we protest. It's like some weird inverted hippy movement. We experience the people we can't understand as lying, or just wrong, so we're going to lie lie lie. Bowling Green Massacre? That's our feelings about liberals. Liberals don't listen to us and give us our way? So we make our way happen and trample on democracy. No democratic spirit. Sure, we'll impeach Biden when we win the midterms. We didn't think Trump's impeachment was fair, so we're going to impeach unfair. It's all political, there is no objective reality. This is my experience of Republican rationalizations.

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