Culture Just today I read a H. G. Wells story

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The story is called "The Stolen Bacillus" and it'll take you 10 min to read it - not the worst way to spend time.

It's a really short story about potential implications of germ warfare: some people speculate typhus epidemics appearing here and there throughout Europe were artificial, and H. G. Wells is not helping - he's convincingly describing actual germ warfare taking place, by the way of poisoning water supply.

But that's not why I write this. The story features an "underdog" anarchist character that wants to go ER and stage a terror event, he steals bottled cholera and tries to infect the city of London.

This is his psychological portrait that stuck with me:
The world should hear of him at last. All those people who had sneered at him, neglected him, preferred other people to him, found his company undesirable, should consider him at last. Death, death, death! They had always treated him as a man of no importance. All the world had been in a conspiracy to keep him under. He would teach them yet what it is to isolate a man.

Ouch.

Sounds like you, ๐•ฟ๐–๐–Š ๐•ฏ๐–Š๐–›๐–Ž๐–‘ @๐•ฟ๐–๐–Š ๐•ฏ๐–Š๐–›๐–Ž๐–‘

It's amazing how certain users manage to misinterpret normal behavior as "mocking" them, and nearly get permabanned for this. Like, what if I wasn't mocking you (which I wasn't) and it's just your default perception of things?
 
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The story is called "The Stolen Bacillus" and it'll take you 10 min to read it - not the worst way to spend time.

It's a really short story about potential implications of germ warfare: some people speculate typhus epidemics appearing here and there throughout Europe were artificial, and H. G. Wells is not helping - he's convincingly describing actual germ warfare taking place, by the way of poisoning water supply.

But that's not why I write this. The story features an "underdog" anarchist character that wants to go ER and stage a terror event, he steals bottled cholera and tries to infect the city of London.

This is his psychological portrait that stuck with me:


Ouch.

Sounds like you, ๐•ฟ๐–๐–Š ๐•ฏ๐–Š๐–›๐–Ž๐–‘ @๐•ฟ๐–๐–Š ๐•ฏ๐–Š๐–›๐–Ž๐–‘

It's amazing how certain users manage to misinterpret normal behavior as "mocking" them, and nearly get permabanned for this. Like, what if I wasn't mocking you (which I wasn't) and it's just your default perception of things?
You're bitch ass can't stop talking shit. I'd love to tie your hand behind your back and chop your faggot throat with my machete. I'll get my gun rights back and I'll drive to your home and murder you
 
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Point it out, schizo

I gave you a "<3" reacts, you misinterreted it and wrote 10 messages about murdering me. You're not okay in the head.
I Don't give a fuck. I want to cut your throat and I'll drink your blood. I'll take a domestic flight to your house
 
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