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Punishing Russia With Sanctions

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Saturday, December 17, 2022 7:37 PM

THG


Bad News, Putin: Russia Will Get Slapped with New Sanctions

U.S. and E.U. Announce New Sanctions On Russia – The United States continues to levy economic sanctions against Russia and Russian oligarchs, this week announcing a series of new sanctions against a Russian oligarch, the board of directors of a major Russian railway network, and more.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bad-news-putin-russia-will-get-sl
apped-with-new-sanctions/ar-AA15p2pc?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=981ff74835894d52a7494c15d214c81c




Jerk this too comrade.

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Saturday, December 17, 2022 8:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Biden* is punishing you with sanctions, tool.

How those heat bills treating you, Ted?

You voted for them. Twice.



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Saturday, December 17, 2022 8:41 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


March 1st, 2022:

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Biden and our allies are doing this in record speed.



Current day, December 17th, 2022:

Yeah. The same record speed at which the never-ending tick tock threads to Trump's never-gonna-happen demise.



Get fucked, Ted. You're an idiot.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2022 12:29 PM

THG


Until Russia changes its politics i.e. becomes democratic, it will remain doomed on the world market. We're talking about a major depression. A generational depression.

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RUSSIAN Oil & Gas Disaster as Sanctions Destroy Demand & Production is CUT & Ruble Also Crashes






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Tuesday, December 27, 2022 12:34 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Fuck Ukraine.

#Rootin4Putin

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Saturday, December 31, 2022 8:16 PM

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Saturday, December 31, 2022 9:00 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

THUGR: Until Russia changes its politics i.e. becomes democratic, it will remain doomed on the world western market. We're talking about a major depression. A generational depression.

Nah.
First if all, your "facts" are 100% wrong.

And it's the EU and UK suffering, not Russia. Russia's fine.



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Sunday, January 15, 2023 7:45 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:


THUGR: Until Russia changes its politics i.e. becomes democratic, it will remain doomed on the world western market. We're talking about a major depression. A generational depression.


Nah.

First if all, your "facts" are 100% wrong.

And it's the EU and UK suffering, not Russia. Russia's fine.




Can_you_see_me_laughing?

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RUSSIAN OILMAGEDDON 2023 | Falling Oil Prices Are Crashing Russian Economy



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Sunday, January 15, 2023 8:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:


THUGR: Until Russia changes its politics i.e. becomes democratic, it will remain doomed on the world western market. We're talking about a major depression. A generational depression.


Nah.

First if all, your "facts" are 100% wrong.

And it's the EU and UK suffering, not Russia. Russia's fine.




Can_you_see_me_laughing?

T


RUSSIAN OILMAGEDDON 2023 | Falling Oil Prices Are Crashing Russian Economy




As told by The Russian Vausch.

LOL



Nobody gives a shit, Ted. If you haven't noticed that prices are up on everything now, you should really start taking a look before you go broke.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023 3:53 PM

THG


Told you so comrade signym, told you so.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023 4:17 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Democrats already wasted over $100 Billion on Ukraine, so Russia is still up.


The only winner here is Ukraine, getting all that free money. Democrats and NeoCon shitstains keep giving our money away while Americans are starving.

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Saturday, January 21, 2023 6:25 PM

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Saturday, January 21, 2023 6:29 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nobody cares.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 9:30 AM

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Monday, January 30, 2023 10:34 AM

THG


Comrade signym, can you hear me yelling, I told you so?

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Friday, February 10, 2023 7:34 PM

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023 3:22 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:

SECIND: I noticed that you didn't address this.

*****





Yeah SECOND, address this.

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PLANNED ECONOMY COMING BACK TO RUSSIA | How They Are Resurrecting The USSR



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Tuesday, February 21, 2023 3:32 PM

THG


Russian Media Hack Hits During Putin Speech

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-media-hack-hits-during-pu
tin-speech/ar-AA17Kfxk?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ccfb009575d14e87ac3ff7f77f51a475




Is it wrong for me to be laughing about this comrade signym? Oh well...

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023 3:36 PM

THG


Comrade signym, is it wrong for me to be laughing at this as I post here, I told you so?

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Thursday, February 23, 2023 11:20 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Clown woman Yellen warns India, Africa, Latin America, Arabia and her boss in Switzerland of ‘serious consequences’ if it helps Russia evade US sanctions?

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3870782-yellen-warns-china-of
-serious-consequences-if-it-helps-russia-evade-us-sanctions
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Thursday, February 23, 2023 2:13 PM

THG


Comrade signym, Putin needs a check. Stop talking shit and send the moron some money.

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Friday, February 24, 2023 6:25 PM

THG


U.S. prosecutors seize properties, charge Russian on Ukraine invasion anniversary

NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Friday said they were seeking to forfeit six properties in New York and Florida allegedly belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch, and separately charged a Russian national with illegally exporting counterintelligence equipment

The announcements came on the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a "special military operation." The Department of Justice has sought to use asset seizures and criminal charges to squeeze business executives aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin to press him to stop the war.

"For as long as it takes, the Department of Justice will continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our Ukrainian and international partners in defense of justice and the rule of law," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-prosecutors-seize-properties-cha
rge-russian-on-ukraine-invasion-anniversary/ar-AA17TlXS?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=7191551afb3d42468264aafffcc2dbaa&ei=56




Too funny

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Monday, February 27, 2023 9:34 PM

THG


Poor Putin

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Monday, February 27, 2023 11:41 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Poor Putin

T

If you are impatient with the video, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Yale school of management also wrote it down a week ago:

A Year after the Invasion, the Russian Economy Is Self-Immolating

Economic pressure and a talent drain are driving Russia into permanent irrelevance, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian.

Russia is well on its way toward its long-held worst fear: becoming a weak economic dependent of China – its source of cheap raw materials.

More at https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/year-after-the-invasion-the-rus
sian-economy-is-self-immolating


Here is his prediction: "Tightening these screws will help improve the chances that before this time next year, Russia will realize it does not need Putin, just as the world has already realized it does not need Russia. Only then will the Russian economy and people stand a chance of returning to prosperity."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, March 2, 2023 11:02 AM

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Monday, March 6, 2023 7:00 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Punishing Russia with




Do you know what your problem is signym as you try to shill for Russia? Facts comrade facts. I've said this many times in the past. You and others think you are arguing points with me. You are not. You are arguing against, facts. This is why you come across as a dishonest moron.

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Monday, March 6, 2023 7:09 PM

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MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA




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Friday, March 17, 2023 6:02 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

The world has had enough.

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Friday, March 17, 2023 6:13 PM

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There's nothing worse in the country than warmongering, Neo-Lib meat-popsicles.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023 3:48 PM

THG


A close Russian ally is messing with the legendary spaceport it leases to the Kremlin, seizing assets over an unpaid debt

Kazakhstan impounded Russian equipment at the Baikonur space base over a feud with the Kremlin.

Kazakh authorities say Russia companies never paid huge fines, leading it to impound equipment there.

Baikonur is a source of pride for Moscow, from which the Soviet Union sent the first man to space.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-close-russian-ally-is-messing-w
ith-the-legendary-spaceport-it-leases-to-the-kremlin-seizing-assets-over-an-unpaid-debt/ar-AA18TKfl?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=08676cc3d7cb44d5a35340bddbba62cd&ei=415




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Saturday, April 1, 2023 11:18 AM

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 9:44 AM

THG


Russia is undergoing 'reverse industrialization' as limited resources force a retreat from high tech industries, Finland's central bank says

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-is-undergoing-reverse-i
ndustrialization-as-limited-resources-force-a-retreat-from-high-tech-industries-finland-s-central-bank-says/ar-AA19njL5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=de7e1ed2758043f9a78e13c5d5d47411&ei=32




Poor comrade signym. She is stuck saying everyone but Russia is lying. Stuck between a rock and a hard place she is. How she gets by is that lying comes naturally to her.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 9:48 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


So much fake news pouring out of Ted's ears from his empty little brain cavity.



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Monday, April 17, 2023 3:58 PM

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RUSSIAN Arms Crisis as BILLIONS Lost in Arms Sales After Disastrous Ukraine Campaign






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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 1:06 PM

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RUSSIA - Devastating Loss of Technology as USA Ramps up Sanctions Against CHINA to Stop IP Leakage






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Sunday, April 23, 2023 6:49 PM

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Sunday, April 23, 2023 9:15 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Don't talk about a real estate bubble, Ted.

Way to close to home.

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Thursday, May 11, 2023 7:41 PM

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HOW MUCH DOES THE WAR COST TO RUSSIA?

INSIDE RUSSIA







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Thursday, May 11, 2023 10:23 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


You post so much about Russia, one might think that you live there.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023 7:27 PM

THG


Russia's isolation from the global economy causes poor turnout at Putin's economic forum

Russia's isolation from the global economy caused poor turnout at Putin's economic forum in St. Petersburg.

The event previously drew big names from the West, but was mostly populated by lower-level politicians this time.

Experts have sounded the alarm on Russia's economy amid Ukraine war sanctions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-isolation-from-the-globa
l-economy-causes-poor-turnout-at-putin-s-economic-forum/ar-AA1cycWd?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=d155cd89b9234b4e9328f52eee585847&ei=128




Such a shame aye comrade signym.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023 10:21 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Fuck Ukraine.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023 10:35 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Frantic Putin desperately looking for allies as he calls on old friend Cuba

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1790239/putin-russia-cuba-oil-exp
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Friday, August 4, 2023 10:03 AM

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Saturday, August 12, 2023 6:30 AM

THG


Russia is broke.

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Monday, August 14, 2023 10:36 AM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

So, thE EU and the 5 eyes are shooting themsleves in the foot by sanctioning vital world commodities and all you can do is come up with an ignorant cartoon..

Got it!




Russia's currency hits the lowest level since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine

LONDON (AP) — The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its energy exports.

On Monday, the Russian currency passed 101 rubles to the dollar, continuing a more than 25% decline in its value since the beginning of the year and hitting the lowest level in almost 17 months.

President Vladimir Putin’s economic adviser, Maksim Oreshkin, on Monday blamed the weak ruble on “loose monetary policy” in an op-ed for state news agency Tass. He said a strong ruble is in the interest of the Russian economy and that a weak currency “complicates economic restructuring and negatively affects people’s real incomes.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-s-currency-hits-the-low
est-level-since-beginning-of-the-war-in-ukraine/ar-AA1ffz61?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=1b38b5f83eab468495f10c435a2309d4&ei=59



So sad...

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Monday, August 14, 2023 10:38 AM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

Putin can no longer compete with China on any level so he will be treated by China like he treats other lesser countries. Man has Russia fallen into despair and dysfunction. And man is it going to suck for Putin being told instead of doing the telling. China is telling Putin to come to us my pretty and he is, he is crawling to them.

Too funny…

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Monday, August 14, 2023 10:41 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:

Who saw this coming? Germans when they realize they can march trough Poland again to fight Russians but this time they are good guys.






I see you going back and forth with Jack throughout these threads. The ignorant fool doesn’t realize he is an anarchist. He doesn’t believe in anything that would help a society to develop and thrive. It is left to others to do so despite him.

He believes, or thinks he believes in the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation. A society without political institutions or hierarchical government. He is clueless to what keeps our society running to the extent it does. It is the institutions he criticizes that allow for his very existence.

There are many places on the planet where he could live out his beliefs. Places where governments cannot easily reach him but he is a coward so he’d never go. What that means is he will never live according to his delusional anti-social convictions. He will continue living in a box void of the skills needed to thrive himself in a society that works for a better good.



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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 2:03 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

THUGR believes the M$M bc it tells him what he wants to hear. "Critical thinking" is a foreign concept.




Russia's central bank makes huge interest rate hike to try to prop up falling ruble

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia’s central bank made a big interest rate hike Tuesday, an emergency move designed to fight inflation and strengthen the ruble after the country's currency reached its lowest value since early in the war with Ukraine.

The ruble has lost more than a third of its value since the beginning of the year as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its income from energy shipments. The flagging currency does not mean the Russian economy is in freefall — though it is facing challenges, including rising prices for households and businesses, according to analysts who study Russia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-s-central-bank-makes-hu
ge-interest-rate-hike-to-try-to-prop-up-falling-ruble/ar-AA1fhU40?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=24370e4a3ba84cdf8a6cca5c4cd39858&ei=21






Because you denied and continue to deny what is really going on, I'd say it's you who lack critical thinking skills. I said this was going to happen since the war started. You fought me on that comrade. I wonder why?

tick tock

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 2:23 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:

Since you can't blame Russia for what it's done, or what it's doing right now, you stoop to blaming Russia for what you're convinced ... convinced, I tell you!... what Russian soldiers "will do" in the future.

Yanno, bc they have access to Russian TV on the battlefield, and have nothing to do but watch it, and take their orders from it.


/snark






tick tock

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 6:11 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:

Who saw this coming? Germans when they realize they can march trough Poland again to fight Russians but this time they are good guys.






I see you going back and forth with Jack throughout these threads. The ignorant fool doesn’t realize he is an anarchist. He doesn’t believe in anything that would help a society to develop and thrive. It is left to others to do so despite him.

He believes, or thinks he believes in the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation. A society without political institutions or hierarchical government. He is clueless to what keeps our society running to the extent it does. It is the institutions he criticizes that allow for his very existence.

There are many places on the planet where he could live out his beliefs. Places where governments cannot easily reach him but he is a coward so he’d never go. What that means is he will never live according to his delusional anti-social convictions. He will continue living in a box void of the skills needed to thrive himself in a society that works for a better good.



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My parents' religion has an explanation for what has gone wrong with people like 6ix, Signym, Trump, and Putin. I'm not a member of that religion, but I can still see that the explanation usefully describes the world of such sinful people as 6ix. Here it is in purified abstract form without a religious paint job or coating:

How America Got Mean, August 14, 2023, 6 AM ET, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-
education-formation/674765
/

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

The Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith and a team of researchers asked young adults across the country in 2008 about their moral lives. One of their findings was that the interviewees had not given the subject of morality much thought. “I’ve never had to make a decision about what’s right and what’s wrong,” one young adult told the researchers. “My teachers avoid controversies like that like the plague,” many teenagers said.

The moral instincts that Smith observed in his sample fell into the pattern that the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre called “emotivism”: Whatever feels good to me is moral. “I would probably do what would make me happy” in any given situation, one of the interviewees declared. “Because it’s me in the long run.” As another put it, “If you’re okay with it morally, as long as you’re not getting caught, then it’s not really against your morals, is it?” Smith and his colleagues emphasized that the interviewees were not bad people but, because they were living “in morally very thin or spotty worlds,” they had never been given a moral vocabulary or learned moral skills.

Most of us who noticed the process of de-moralization as it was occurring thought a bland moral relativism and empty consumerism would be the result: You do you and I’ll do me. That’s not what happened.

“Moral communities are fragile things, hard to build and easy to destroy,” the psychologist Jonathan Haidt writes in The Righteous Mind. When you are raised in a culture without ethical structure, you become internally fragile. You have no moral compass to give you direction, no permanent ideals to which you can swear ultimate allegiance. “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” the psychiatrist (and Holocaust survivor) Viktor Frankl wrote, interpreting a famous Nietzsche saying. Those without a why fall apart when the storms hit. They begin to suffer from that feeling of moral emptiness that Émile Durkheim called “anomie.”

Expecting people to build a satisfying moral and spiritual life on their own by looking within themselves is asking too much. A culture that leaves people morally naked and alone leaves them without the skills to be decent to one another. Social trust falls partly because more people are untrustworthy. That creates crowds of what psychologists call “vulnerable narcissists.” We all know grandiose narcissists—people who revere themselves as the center of the universe. Vulnerable narcissists are the more common figures in our day—people who are also addicted to thinking about themselves, but who often feel anxious, insecure, avoidant. Intensely sensitive to rejection, they scan for hints of disrespect. Their self-esteem is wildly in flux. Their uncertainty about their inner worth triggers cycles of distrust, shame, and hostility.

“The breakdown of an enduring moral framework will always produce disconnection, alienation, and an estrangement from those around you,” Luke Bretherton, a theologian at Duke Divinity School, told me. The result is the kind of sadness I see in the people around me. Young adults I know are spiraling, leaving school, moving from one mental-health facility to another. After a talk I gave in Oklahoma, a woman asked me, “What do you do when you no longer want to be alive?” The very next night I had dinner with a woman who told me that her brother had died by suicide three months before. I mentioned these events to a group of friends on a Zoom call, and nearly half of them said they’d had a brush with suicide in their family. Statistics paint the broader picture: Suicide rates have increased by more than 30 percent since 2000, according to the CDC.

Sadness, loneliness, and self-harm turn into bitterness. Social pain is ultimately a response to a sense of rejection—of being invisible, unheard, disrespected, victimized. When people feel that their identity is unrecognized, the experience registers as an injustice—because it is. People who have been treated unjustly often lash out and seek ways to humiliate those who they believe have humiliated them.

Lonely eras are not just sad eras; they are violent ones. In 19th-century America, when a lot of lonely young men were crossing the western frontier, one of the things they tended to do was shoot one another. As the saying goes, pain that is not transformed gets transmitted. People grow more callous, defensive, distrustful, and hostile. The pandemic made it worse, but antisocial behavior is still high even though the lockdowns are over. And now we are caught in a cycle, ill treatment leading to humiliation and humiliation leading to more meanness. Social life becomes more barbaric, online and off.

If you put people in a moral vacuum, they will seek to fill it with the closest thing at hand. Over the past several years, people have sought to fill the moral vacuum with politics and tribalism. American society has become hyper-politicized.

According to research by Ryan Streeter, the director of domestic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, lonely young people are seven times more likely to say they are active in politics than young people who aren’t lonely. For people who feel disrespected, unseen, and alone, politics is a seductive form of social therapy. It offers them a comprehensible moral landscape: The line between good and evil runs not down the middle of every human heart, but between groups. Life is a struggle between us, the forces of good, and them, the forces of evil.

The Manichaean tribalism of politics appears to give people a sense of belonging. For many years, America seemed to be awash in a culture of hyper-individualism. But these days, people are quick to identify themselves by their group: Republican, Democrat, evangelical, person of color, LGBTQ, southerner, patriot, progressive, conservative. People who feel isolated and under threat flee to totalizing identities.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230814230413/https://www.theatlantic.com
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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