{"id":4621,"date":"2026-11-09T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2026-11-09T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:10:11","slug":"victories-that-set-up-defeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/4621\/","title":{"rendered":"Victories that set up defeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t mind me (?). This is my pessimist, cynical self.<\/p>\n<p>After the elections the world outside feels like it&#8217;s a better place. As if the battle is won. But is it? Or is it just a set up for a following defeat, once again?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s when you win that you are blind and most vulnerable. It&#8217;s after you win that destiny is in your hands, and you&#8217;ll fuck it up, consistently, every single time.<\/p>\n<p>Do we look at the stock market like an oracle? Turns good, yay?<\/p>\n<p>What are we talking about?<br \/>\n48-hours long partial victories that turn into defeats?<\/p>\n<p>Are we just happy for the momentary lull of illusions?<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating victories so you can lose the day after.<br \/>\nWinning so you become weak and set up once again for defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Is America healing, or preparing its next defeat?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cesspit.net\/misc\/stock1.png\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cesspit.net\/misc\/stock2.png\"><\/img><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t mind me (?). This is my pessimist, cynical self. After the elections the world outside feels like it&#8217;s a better place. As if the battle is won. But is it? Or is it just a set up for a following defeat, once again? It&#8217;s when you win that you are blind and most vulnerable. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}