shitposting rave 2, electric boogaloo

Well, the world will always consist of haves and have-nots, won't it? There's a line you can never cross, not if you work within the framework people set up. The have-nots won't become the haves, no matter how hard they work or how good they are, and the haves can't really help people, they can only be parasites.

If you work within the system.

 

I don't think anyone here wants to get into this. I know you're liking saying what you want without consequence, but-

 

But what? I'm allowed to speak my mind. You should try it sometime, little brother!

 

...think we're used to workin' within significantly different resource distributions, 'cause'at sounds like the biggest load'a scrap I've set audials on since Rustbucket lurched outta the swamp.

Yeah, sure, someone's always got somethin' ya want-- but on th'other side'a the fence, you've always got somethin' someone else wants. ...sometimes that 'somethin's 'not gettin' blown t'shrapnel,' if ya got good enough allies, but. 'S how trade works, least in my experience.

Eh, we had three pages'a 'face jokes, 's about time to cycle back 'round t'politics.

 

Ah, but you're from a lawless backwater! You see, where I'm from, we've got something called civilization, which means stepping on other people and taking advantage of their hard work, but it's polite and civilized. Remember that boss we had, the one that ran that restaurant, Stentato? He'd dock our pay for everything, we were taking home half the wage we should have. But we couldn't do anything about it, because it's legal to fire people without a reason, and at least he was paying us. Remember that? Remember when you got sick and-

 

Shut. UP.

 

...riiiight, this, uh. This sounds a little more like somethin' for you two t'sort out than somethin' you actually want input on, so I'm just gonna shut my yap. Nesh guide ya.

 

While I generally agree with the concept of tearing down the rich and destroying the system, in my experience total anarchy and the destruction of civilization leads to mass death of those already hurt by the system.

Personally, I would like to have my friends alive again.

 

...Yeah. Sorry. Whatever, I'll 'shut up'.

 

...is it inappropriate to ask after your well-being?

(For what it's worth, I do rather agree with your initial point. Much as I might wish otherwise.)

 

Augh, I've got such a headache.

...you don't have the right to use that stuff as a weapon against other people, 'Cuna. Specially when I didn't say you could talk about the details of stuff that happened to me with strangers.

 

We're fine. Guess I'm just a bad person who can't let go of anything!

 

...Personal opinion: being angry about something that hurt you, no matter how long ago, does not make you a bad person. We have long lives; it only makes sense that our memories-- and our grudges-- would run just as long. To forget a wrong done is... not quite to pretend it never happened, but it rather seems like opening yourself up for that wrong to be done again.

 

Pointing out the flaws in glorious revolution doesn't mean that I (or anyone else in this bizarre liminal space) thinks that you're a bad person.

Though I do think you and Stentato should talk to Aurora. Or Cloudcrusher. Together.

 

I don't want to.

 

I can't make you. But this is one of the reasons why it's a good idea.

 

...it's not like I want to talk about everything in front of Stentato.

 

Which is why you have separate sessions as well. But you need to have at least some sort of referee when you want to shout at each other. Preferably someone who knows how to handle conflict and underlying issues.

That's what the therapists on board are for.

 

You don't see a therapist.

 

Because I used to see one aboard my old ship. I might make a session with Cloudcrusher, given that he and I don't share a history.

My objections to Aurora had everything to do with issues regarding personal history and his inability to properly maintain objectivity because of it. Not his profession.