This is my fall back. 👇

Glad somebody is saying this. People think it’s the end times. Bro it’s always been the end times.

Wow. I needed this.

A healthy message for all. I do what I can and say what I can even in the face of insurmountable odds and opposition. Even if everyone thinks I'm wrong. Even if clowns celebrate madness. I know what's right and decent. Nothing but decency and truth will change my mind.

In other words…when you get thrown from the raft into the rapids, go feet first and hold on to your nuts🤘🏻

@rebeccabardess Humans are not wired to think about every tragedy within the world, people will literally go crazy if they focus on horrible news all the time. Focus on making a difference in your own community, to start with. Also stay away from social media, where bad news and anger magnifies

Nailed it. Gonna go watch Star Trek now.

War & loss were the common themes in those uncertain times. 😕Living under a regime is a frightening place to be. French Resistance took the risks required to topple a vast NAZI network & knew it was what they had to do to live - or die trying.

Super easy for the straight white male to say. "When you are faced with a tyrant, you just gotta, you know, like, ignore it and focus on yourself, ya know?" This dude is glowing in the fucking dark.

He’s not wrong people survived Pol Pot and Mussolini we will make it through this

Honestly, I dont think anyone genuinely thinks this. I think everyone is incredibly depressed that they happened to be born during an extreme low point in history, not that they dont think its ever happened before. Its sad to have your one life be spent on a time like this.

We can't let this evil change who we are! Then they win!

You are doing "decent human being" wrong.

Who are you? These crazy times are the context. They let you define who you really are by your words & actions. When the s hits the f, will you live up to your highest & best ideals? Sometimes. Hopefully, most of the time. Check the mirror daily, that's what you're here for

Well said

I love white people. Socrates?! My parents lived in America in the 1960’s. That was hell on earth. Major people with positive voices were shot in the head. You don’t have to go back hundreds of years to find pain . . . Unless you’re white.

Exactly. When the going gets tough, the best of us emerge and keep us all going.

true, but times change and people in power have more tools to enact their sick fantasies and conquests over other people unlike Nero. That man only burned down Rome, but if he had access to nukes in his state of mind? I hope you get the idea. Turmoil =/= turmoil

Pity your fallback doesn't include evolving from a gun culture in US. Just be stoic peeps, while your children are murdered daily.

Don’t listen to this dumbass we gotta do something and not just with what’s in our control. The Bolsheviks are at the gate.

All good. Very bookmarkable. Shareable. What is @RyanHoliday doing to stop the Gaza genocide? He sure has the influence and power. How he is using it, will reveal a lot about him and the stoicism he preaches. I need to know exactly what he wants us to do about it. Not in vague philosophy. Ryan Holiday, with over 1 million followers and bestselling books like "The Obstacle Is the Way," has not publicly addressed Gaza or the Israel-Palestine crisis on X or his blog as of October 2025, underscoring the post's point about influential figures' selective engagement.

Nero’s world wasn’t as connected as fast as it is today. Nero & tyrants like him never had ICBMs. Nero didn’t have AI drones.

Jesus Christ. Do you have AIDS or something?

Vietnamese lives through a superpower bombing them to hell. They are actually now in the best time ever. Same for lots of countries.

That’s a great Paul Harvey line. “In times like these it’s good to remember there have always been times like these.” That was a long time ago and still true. Owning firearms should require regular renewals of licenses and registration. Just like cars, trucks, and boats. The Constitutional Right to a well-organized militia does not mean anyone can have as many firearms as they can afford with no supervision. In reality only bears have the “right” to bear arms.

I’m buying Steve Madden shoes. I don’t care if it’s related. Salute to you.

you have to stand against evil, not become evil stand against genocide not become genocidal stand against zionism not become a zionist

My thoughts exactly. A big part of the problem with perspective is that most people really have no knowledge of history. Not even their own country's history. Read Howard Zinn's, "A People's History of the United States" and see how bad it has been.

Not everyone "got through it." Just sayin'

I am not the first person for anything you moron. What's your point?

You are shitty to people hourly. The hypocrisy is stunning!

Democrat Machine fallback #2...

Bill who’s paying you to keep the sheeple inline, to close a blind eye and think positive thoughts doesn’t fix problems, addressing them and figure out what’s causing the problem solves the issue, proof in the pudding goes a long way, don’t just read the narrative. Due diligence.

Didn’t Seneca become corrupted under Nero…. Guess the real story here is when you need them most, they will disappear and cave to the lifestyle a tyrant creates for them. But eventually a tyrant will be done.