Tessa Fights Robots

Tessa Fights Robots

Why People Act Cruel

Why does the great reset exist? Indifference to the suffering of other people, methinks

Tessa Lena
Dec 20, 2023
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Something that happened many years ago percolated up in my head. I remembered the moment when I was sitting in a car, handcuffed to two terrified, desperately screaming Chinese girls, while the officers up front were laughing at our suffering and “roughing” us by driving in such a way that our helpless, restricted bodies were hitting the walls of the car.

I was playing it tough out of the last remaining drops of my habitual Russian strong person  pride. I was playing it tough but I was also terrified. And hurting. And terrified. And hurting. And terrified. And the bastards, the grown men taking sick sadistic pleasure in the suffering of three scared, hurting young girls, were laughing and saying various slurs.

What exactly was under the skulls of those men? Probably goo of some sort because it’s impossible to have anything but goo under one’s skull and do something like that.

I suppose it was another day in the office for the officers. I suppose they…

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