I can’t even look at the news today but this is about where I’m at.
Artist credit: Liberal Jane
Artist credit: Liberal Jane
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Such a snowflake
It can more quickly be destroyed than grown, though.
My welfare depends on your welfare. By looking after your welfare I look after my own welfare.
Or as the Scottish proverb puts it
"He that pities another minds himsel'"
Tribalism will mess a person up bad.
You can see it in common comments similar to "I love to see the Dems tears". Anything is fair game as long as it's *personally* painful to someone else.
It is said that the US would have universal healthcare & social welfare if not for conservatives clutching their pearls at the thought of black & brown people benefitting as well.
I can honestly see it. So much of US politics are about segregation.
Racism is just plain idiotic.
If right-wingers were just motivated by rational self-interest they would be for such things. But no; denying it to "those people" comes first, every damn time!
Cooperative coexistence is the logical choice, but racism isn't logical.
It's so hard to wrestle with. I just want people to love one another.
It's important to remember that just as I don't support the most extreme liberal policies, many Repub voters do not support the worst of Trump's actions.
We must stand up to active malice / racism in our presence - object when ppl say or act badly.
The humble, but unafraid attitude of Bishop Budde was an example ...
Do we fight? Or resist or strongly engage OR do we withdraw and shun?
Do we continue to live by our principles and wait for it to blow over? How have people handled these things historically?
A gentle reminder to everyone—step away from the news when you need a break. Self-care!
I don't know you or your kid.
I don't even have kids.
Why do you hate us???
I am chilled to my bones whenever I think of how much worse a person I would have been, if I hadn't been an impoverished trans woman facing institutional disenfranchisement.
It is part of why Bezos, Musk and the others are so fucking evil. Their wealth dehumanizes them.
Historically, when such people are in positions of power and authority, there's only one way that it ends, and it's usually extremely bloody.
The dipshits are murdering themselves just as much as they are harming the people they hate, maybe even more so.
Any MAGA cunt has an enlightened self interest to kill Trump and his goons.
It put me to my knees when I discovered it.
I cried for all of those who had suffered before me.
I could see our predecessors on both ends of violent spears throughout the history of the world.
I was absolutely floored.
It took me decades to devise a narrative that conveys it.
The key 🔑 is to direct the student to their 6th dimension of existence .. by asking a simple question.
When they are about to give up .. I tell them it is in your mind .. that is you behind your eyeballs.
Some will drop their jaw .. others will wave it off and not get it.
But for those who do see the metaphysical side of their self it is as if they have become free and totally self aware.
I have seen catharsis and it's beautiful
They only seem to "care" when it affects them directly....everyone else not like them is expendable in their minds.
Don't waste your energy trying to change them,
focus on those who do care.
Obviously, it is an issue with struggling to empathize with strangers.
You’ll just exhaust yourself and they will laugh because they’ll find that funny too.
But the people here? You guys give me hope! 🤍
They get furious when you get them to think, they don't want to learn & develop as a person, as it would mean admitting their own flaws.
Fascists idealize action, and spurn thinking.
This replaces anger due to fright with familiarity and a positive emotional investment - sense of being part of their "tribe".
The absolute gall of these pos.
Don’t use words you don’t understand, bubbaleh x
The media needs money meaning most of it is right wing. THEY are the one telling people what “””the left””” says.
But this is not the message I tend to see on leftwing channels…
Which country are we talking about? The US? The UK? The "left" parties are corporate conservatives guarding the status quo.
Even in Sweden, the SocDems are filled with comfortable centrists.
Do you expect elderly white people on corporate payrolls to talk about police brutality, about capitalist exploitation, etc?
We can't expect people paid by the military industrial complex to quote Goldman, Guevara Kroptokin or Marx.
Also liberals when their guy isn’t president anymore:
I choose the hard path.