Rowan Thorpe

The other option is to channel that hate into action.

This. The Dalai Lama is very quotable on this subject. One of my favourites is:

To be angry on behalf of those who are treated unjustly means that we have compassionate anger. This type of anger leads to right action, and leads to social change.

To be angry toward the people in power does not create change. It creates more anger, more resentment, more fighting.

There’s more here:

https://www.alwayswellwithin.com/blog/dalai-lama-quotes-compassionate-anger

I’m waiting to see the headline: “Fired NNSA employees can’t be found for reemployment because they moved to off-grid locations outside the blast-radius of all major centres”

Kanye -> Hitler -> Shopify -> Spotify -> Arrested Development -> …

Anyone else experiencing whiplash, or is it just me? I think I need to lie down for a bit.

Although I think Patriot is such a loaded, dangerous word and would usually doubt there is ever an appropriate time for actual grown-ups to use it, I think I have found one use-case: it would be interesting to form a pan-European collective of actually sane, grown-up, people-before-money leaning Europeans (i.e. not the emotionally stunted, tribalism-fuelled morons obsessed with the accumulation of trinkets and perpetuation of endless persecution sprees in service of their hate/anger/stress-based adrenaline & cortisol addictions), and call that new collective “Actual Patriots for Actual Europe”. Then just sit back with popcorn and watch the pompous outrage chain-reaction from the PfE kiddies unfold in realtime.

And Brexit as wordplay was just a rehash of the prior Grexit moment Greece had…