Vreyan31

Most people that oppose Trump also follow an ethical code that abohrs violence.

The talking points among people I know here include constantly referencing a study that indicates non-violent opposition is more frequently effective than violent opposition. I suspect that study is a little simplistic, but may have its point.

The problem is, a lot of liberals think that showing up for a 14 June style protest (with permits and police escort) is the full extent of 'non-violent' resistance.

It's taking them a minute to catch on that more, much more, will be needed.

The next step has to be introducing other non-violent tactics - ones that are far less pleasant than bringing a sign to a giant street party on a Saturday afternoon.

Tactics that might involve being arrested (despite not attacking anyone), losing income or your job (work strike), or ending up in a detention facility.

No one wants to do this. This is like getting a cancer diagnosis and not wanting chemo, not wanting to count your expected remaining life in months instead of decades.

Most people will do what most people do - 'see how it goes'. Until they can't anymore.

This is the denial and bargaining stage of a fascism diagnosis.

This matches every account I've heard from friends in Seattle that have worked for the HQ.

I think we may be (re)-discovering the appeal of monotheistic religions, and why they hew patriarchal.

On average, men desperately need more mental health resources. But, on average, they are not comfortable building that with other men, and it often isn't appropriate or effective to lean on their female significant other (if a straight man).

So - enter the primary description of 'God'. Can listen any time but will always forgive, is super masculine but won't emasculate you, and has never told another soul what you are thinking.

AI is always available and is unlikely to emasculate anyone, but that third item... Well, we'll see where this goes.

I think that to a narcissist empathy is also chaos and terrifying - it drives 'irrational' behavior in others that is not intuitive for them and works against their goals. It has to be absolutely infuriating to them.

I haven't read a lot of Sanderson, but I've read enough to sense that this difference is in true personal disposition.

Sanderson's drive seems to be more of wonder, curiosity and adventure, and the stories delve into morality and justice as a source of plot tension.

In contrast, I think OSC has always been more of a black-and-white thinker. I think his best stories have been ones where he is exploring a moral struggle or thought experiment. But at the end of the story, you can pull out what OSC has concluded morally about those characters - who is good, who is bad (and always has been), and maybe who is a necessary evil.

All of OSC's stories are about categorizing people, behaviors and decisions into 'should/should not' buckets. And I've just never gotten that sense from Sanderson's books.

At 13, I read Ender's Game and was absolutely obsessed. Read a ton of other OSC books at that age and it took me decades to rid myself of all the veiled mormon morality in his books.

As an adult, I never had one hesitation about disavowing him. I re-read the Ender saga a few years back to see how it held up (it didn't hold a candle to my teen-self's impression), but I had no problem not paying for new copies of anything that would pay OSC.

Getting average people to the point that they are ready to do something like a general strike is a process.

Most people don't even want to have to go to a protest.

But going to a protests is like anteing up in poker -- it is mentally anchoring people as in the game and publicly taking a side.

And yeah - the fucks in power are going to say "bet".

So now millions of people who are not where we already are, who have not wrestles with this and avoided it as long as they can - they are starting to ask, "ok, what do we actually have to risk to change this? What am I willing to do?"

Will we get enough people actually engaged enough for a general strike? I have no idea.

But I know it won't happen without giving people a ramp-up that includes things like the protest this weekend.

Ooohhh I see, I am judgemental because your circumstances and stated preferences represent everyone in a hard place.

If you both could have and would have done it, it is completely reasonable to make that an expectation on everyone who struggles.

Your struggle was definitely representative of the worst circumstances bc you had 1 job and were a single parent -- even though I mentioned how plenty of parents (including single ones) balance a FT job and gigs or a managerie of gigs. Or a FT job, single parenthood, and a disability. Or....

If you can't see past your own life and circumstance, but want to proscribe what other people 'should' do (or no longer deserve your empathy), you are the one who is judgemental.

This is what every narcissist does -- if you paint him with a bad (and deserved) brush like making him a convicted felon -- well, his vindictiveness has to now make his enemies into felons too, whatever it takes.

You see how hard the propaganda went after Biden? Trying to convince as many tubes as possible that Biden and his son were like Mafia guys...

Every accusation by Trump is another fucking confession.

Wait - do you think that people who need food banks have a ton of free time for cooking clubs? Do you think it's because they don't work enough instead of what everyone knows which is that most people on the edge can't make rent if they only have one job?

The jars likely cost more than the volume of produce it could store.

Also - have to arrange logistics for labor, supplies, and a kitchen to do the boiling in. Now that you are making a cooked food product, your kitchen also likely needs a license.

And insurance in case your rushed pickling operation creates any jars that go foul and anyone gets sick.

Also -- ew. Not even the destitute want pickled cauliflower.

I'm guessing your Mom is now on 'team Bear'.

I would consider that your Mom is the problem here except that the dudes lumped you in with being burned alive, and that suggests they are the PoS.