I can't say I haven't seen the level of Karl's "Why do I fucking bother?!" lately, but I've been hit by a similar bug... Just not to the same degree. It seems utterly hopeless at times, and I've even considered promoting do the opposite of what Karl's doing now - trying to convince EVERYONE to become the biggest .gov leeches possible. Take EVERY handout you can, get EVERY available "aid" paid in from tax dollars, etc. The point here would be to bring on the collapse FASTER, no longer attempting to STOP it.

Friends, there is NO way to stop it now. I think any more trying at this point is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. I think it just might be time to finally join a club that actually allows me to practice using my evil black beauty rather than just playing with it on occasion.

Karl pal, I hope I get to meet you again (and get a pic this time, dammit!), and I'd love to go plink a few hundred rounds with you sometime. Take a break, focus on whatever is needed, and watch that six. You know you've got someone here that would help do so whenever needed.

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We're fucked. There will be no happy ending here; there is no going back to 'normal.'. There are only bad outcomes and worse outcomes. And we don't get to choose those, either.