Today's Incoherent Nap Thought Is That The Serial Killer Is Really Some Type Of Lichen. Which Is To Say:

today's incoherent nap thought is that The Serial Killer is really some type of lichen. which is to say: it requires NOT ONLY a person who engages in the behavior of killing other people in a specific way. it crucially is an interaction between that person and social, cultural, etc concepts, media reactions, constructs about The Ultimate Criminal, & mental illness/trauma/cause & effect.

it's an actually one of the best examples of a construct that's SOOO specific to a certain time & place and yet we don't see it like that because it's OUR time and place (broadly). but it's so important to see that The Serial Killer is a lichen. because it exposes almost everything else that is that too. who among us has not had a conversation about prison abolition which drags out this concept as some kind of proof that Some People Ontologically Need To Be Removed From Society! who along us has not witnessed people try to come up with some concrete list of Red Flags that someone may at some point BECOME The Serial Killer despite the fact that someone fundamentally hasn't murdered someone until they engage in the behavior of murdering someone?

YOU KNOW?

it's a lichen. it's not one thing. it's not. ... you know. The Serial Killer is not a guy. it's a bunch of stuff in the shape of a guy.

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Here's somethign that might help you feel better. US Population is about 333 million. Around 258 million are adults. Let's say five percent of adults are regular posters. That's 12.9 million posters. Let's say 0.1 percent of posters post absolutely rancid takes. That's 12,900 people posting rancid takes. Assuming they post an average of 3 takes a day, that's 270,900 rancid takes per week. The absolute rate of people saying rancid takes can be very low and you still get a lot of rancid takes floating around. (And we're ignoring that hundreds of millions of non-US English-speakers, and non-native speakers who post in English because it's the biggest language.) So seeing a bad post is not, by itself, evidence of anything besides the fact that the world contains many people. The fact that the world contains many people should be celebrated (with caveats) because life is inherently precious and beautiful (with caveats.) Have a pleasant evening.

This is very wise counsel, thank you anon. Always something worth bearing in mind

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Cyberpunk heist movie where a trans woman's favorite hot swap genitals are stolen and being held hostage, so she has to get together a crew of trans human misfits to recover them. Meanwhile the thieves have locked out her pubic region with a hack through the genitals' wireless ability and are spending the whole time edging her to fuck with her ability to concentrate on retaliation.

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