You can turn of speech to text censorship. It made me a happier person. IIRC it's buried in the keyboard settings.
As for the threats of tariffing people? Pure nonsense. If he somehow finds a way, he probably opens himself up to litigation. I'd assume discrimination lawsuits or something like that, would ensue.
I'm teaching my kids as I learn for myself; it's critically important that you not dehumanize people and seek understanding and strive to be compassionate.
I've also known people that have voted for trump 1st term to be good people for long enough that I see it as valuable to deeply interrogate the process by which they came to be such as they are now. For me, at least, it feels lazy and dishonest to flatly dismiss them as bad. Even trump 2 voters, I can see that they, nearly all, were submerged in a propaganda machine designed to break people.
Are some of them sociopathic monsters? You bet! Society needs protected from them.
I see the groupthink on both sides as the most dangerous thing though. The manipulation (of all sides) as the enemy. The dismissal of human life as the root problem. Most especially when profit is placed over people, but also when it's done by either side.
My concern is that dehumanization plays into their hands and I see the dehumanization as a direct path to violent conflict. They want violence because it would free them to use the insurrection act as a means to their ends.
So, to bring it full circle, seeing them as bad and evil and unworthy of compassion or even dialogue plays directly into their hands.
Yeah that's why I mentioned it because not everybody is aware that that's exactly what they're trying to do. They're trying to start a war so that they can be seen by their supporters as being justified and using force against their enemies.
And to be clear what I mean by staying froggy, what I mean is to protest like the Portland frog does. Peacefully, cleverly, and without getting hurt or hurting someone else.
I feel ya with this, but to paint this as black and white is to miss important nuance.
They're deluded. As such, it's an error to see them as evil in the same way that it is to see a person that's high on meth and dangerous or schizophrenic and hostile as being evil.
They're no less dangerous, don't get me wrong, but to see them as bad is, I think, a critical misunderstanding of what's going on here that leads people to think like this.
I know, right? So I read this article on gooners the other day.. I don't know why. It was just as gutwrenching as I expected...