It looks like this post of mine got popular. No, I did not tweet it by accident. I am sitting right here and reading what I write before I hit "post." The replies to it are landing in 3 main camps: 1. "What a loser!" These people are retarded psychopaths. They are using the "Just World fallacy" (attached) to suggest that what happens to people is 100% their own fault, but only if you don't like them. The people they do like are, of course, constant victims who need more of my tax money. What happens to people isn't real if they make you cwanky! 2. "You can do it!" I mean, maybe. Not right now I can't. I'm very, very tired. Compared to before, my life the last 5 years feels like dragging a 40lb boulder around everywhere. As the post says, I can barely manage any additional responsibility beyond my job, which keeps me chained to my desk 90 hours a week. My stuff is still on the floor from when I moved in in NOVEMBER. I did try to start a lasting relationship last year, and it failed for several reasons, most of which is that I am tired. Some of these people are suggesting that I'm "not trying hard enough." I have tried the first 25 things you can think of twice, and I didn't stop there. The only things that consistently help are time and caffeine. Let me be tired. 3. "This hits too close to home." These are the important replies. The reason that I say these things publicly is because they're true, and not just for me. These people have had similar misfortunes, and they have been similarly burdened by them. They have also encountered more than enough "it's your fault" people and "you just aren't trying the right things" people. If you are a retarded psychopath, you should be swept off the Earth. You're not doing any good for anyone. If you're a "you can do it" type, your sentiment is appreciated, but it's misguided. Most of you aren't taking the time to understand what our social and policy changes have actually done to people. Do you remember when they shut down half the small businesses in the country, but left Wal-Mart open? Millions of people lost everything they ever built. They locked everyone in their apartments and shut down the public parks. Everyone turned into hall monitors and assaulted people for going about their lives. People became openly abusive in every corner of society with the backing of the state. Cities burned. People who told obvious truths were silenced and punished. They lost their jobs and their right to speak. Relationships ended. Suicide and alcoholism spiked. They sent the FBI to profile people who went to Traditional Latin Mass. When it was all over, they quadrupled down on "don't hire white men." All the jobs are going to people who got here yesterday while people like me had to sit at home. It's weird for you to think all of that was nothing. Maybe you lived out in the suburbs and you got to have a nice nap while the world burned, but a lot of people got wrecked. It's detached from reality to act like that's a mosquito bite. That's like finding someone with a broken leg and saying "you can walk just fine! MY leg isn't broken!" If you're a "me too" person, say it more.