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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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America has the problem all conqueror cultures have - they exist only as long as there are things to conquer.
The history of itself that America tells itself is a long series of self-serving revisionist narratives about how we're justified in our unjustifiable actions. White Americans tell themselves its totally okay to appropriate from other cultures what is lacking in their own. Whiteness is not a cultural identity and that inherent hollowness produces what we see around us. There is no community of whites like there is community within the cultures the white identity seeks to oppress (while admiring and stealing from). If left unchecked, white supremacist identity seeks to stamp out the oppressed they've exploited (then tell themselves all of that stolen culture was rightfully theirs all along).
The whole "bootstraps" culture is a community-destroying myth that Americans have perpetrated upon themselves solely to keep rich pedophiles in power.