It’s a game, you’ve been played
It’s the fox, you’re the sheep
It’s a pied piper song
That has lulled you to sleep

It’s a lie and you fell for it
Hook, line, and sinker
A hand that you shook
That then gave you the Finger

A fraud and a fake
A cowardly king
A LIE to your FACE
But you STILL KISS THE RING

This is the Breakdown!
ThIS is ThE BREAkDOWn!!
tHIS iS the bREAKDOWWWWN!!!

GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS ON ENERGY

You’ll be UNCOMFORTABLY ENERGETIC

Could the letter have been written by a thirsty adult?

rising up against all of this

Does Rise Against count?

I am not a good gatekeeper of “mainstream” or “sellout” etc but this feels like a hostile thread so I guess criticism is incoming.

I feel like the entirety of RA’s discography fits this theme perfectly. The songwriting is part of why I can’t get enough.

(I can’t speak for their recent Ricochet album - the sound quality is poor and lots of fans hate it; we hope we get a rerecording some day. Set aside Ricochet and I feel like you can’t go wrong with anything else of theirs.)

Trying to list deeper cuts that might be good hooks:

Album / Song:

The Black Market / Bridges
The Black Market / People Live Here
Endgame / Disparity by Design
Endgame / Midnight Hands
Endgame / A Gentleman’s Coup
Nowhere Generation / The Numbers
Nowhere Generation / Sudden Urge
EP Nowhere Generation II / Holding Patterns
Wolves / Welcome to the Breakdown
Appeal to Reason / Entertainment
EP / Megaphone

And you can’t go wrong with the back to back tracks “Prayer of the Refugee” followed by “Drones” from the album The Sufferer and the Witness.

Even older albums have good stuff but I didn’t list them since idk if you’d call them “modern”. Tip the Scales + Give It All are good tracks.

I’m still seduced from before.

What the French, toast?!

It gets easier and easier to envision the “Peewee German” moniker sticking forever.

Seconded on that Wheeling video

Maybe Garfield can be our Winnie the Pooh

I love these. I’d make songs like this all the time, though never made one for this game.

Nah man, they’re all going to heaven.

The reason I ask is, if their video recording depends on that object on his chest getting returned to HQ, then that object seems like an awfully vulnerable place to store the pieces of video evidence that ICE would want to keep, especially for a lone officer whose backup was apparently 67 seconds away.

Moot point if a secondary wired/wireless brick of some kind is storing the video. But I know nothing about bodycams so I can’t say.

How does that body camera work? Is it grabbable? Is it saving video to a separate brick in his ass pocket or is it all saved on that one grabbable piece of equipment?

FWIW I took it to be a response to OP rather than you. Perhaps they felt their comment was a continuation of yours so they replied to yours. Idk

They got back to me. Paraphrasing below:

They’re experienced with guiding people through transitions/HRT so I defer to their expertise.

They tell me that it’s unfortunately common for there to be “doomers” online who gain a small sense of relief via feeling like they can control their situation by describing it as futile. They say “those people need to help themselves first; there’s no way our resources would help until a foundation of commitment to self betterment is present.”

They said one could be guided to resources online without that self help commitment, but their tone sounded like they thought a random internet commentor is unlikely to get much value out of said resources.

I’d guess reflecting on your situation (independent of the comments we see here) might help you estimate your own readiness to pursue help.

A first or preliminary step may be to begin talk therapy with a professional. That may be a good way to get pointed to the right resources for any next steps.

It didn’t occur to me earlier, but your location would affect what specific options are available to you. My contact works in the Ohio River Valley area of the US but I didn’t consider that you might be outside of the US or in some place where resources just don’t exist.

Idk if any of this helps. I probably committed some SJW trope and ignorantly thought the answers were gonna be more black and white.

Regardless of whether you find the kind of happiness OP did, you deserve that happiness just as much as anyone.

I love hot dogs’ place in our culture.

I can “hear” that buckle