https://x.com/Huanqiu_com/status/1990349440922579354/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1990349440922579354&currentTweetUser=Huanqiu_com. The video I clipped is of a smart bus stop in Suzhou with heated seats and a wireless phone charger. How many homeless ppl's eye contact am i going to have to break, how many pigeon shit crusted subway stations I walk past, how many more school shootings will I have to hear about and scroll past. I recite to myself America is a free country with same sex marriage. That has been the copium I've held onto for the past 4 years. It's starting to sound like a thought stopping cliché, that I am to close my eyes to the unhoused, the pigeon shit and the posts of school shootings and tell myself that my country is great and I breathe free. That the price of freedom includes: Mia Tretta a survivor of the 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, and Zoe Weissman survived the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. Now both who lived through the Brown University shooting. Im tired and cold, I recite to myself that this is all worth it and its starting to feel like an empty ritual without real convictions. That the price of freedom is to dehumanize the ppl who deleted themselves on subway stations that yay the trains moving again and you can get to work on time. To step pass pigeon shit or the same broken step thats been there since 2022. The price of freedom now includes the comeback of Measles. My marriage is still recognized. And I close my eyes to the issues around me and enjoy my Gay Canadian Hockey smut. The party didn't have to tell me to close my eyes and ears. I am doing so myself of my own free will.

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Every time I think that they reached the absolute bottom, they manage to surprise and amuse me yet again. I really do not know what else to add.