I wish it worked that way, but that's just not how the human organism is. Mostly we don't accept information coming from outside our identity group, especially when it undermines our worldview. Almost everyone is like that.
Showing people that they could be accepted by a different identity group is a vital precursor to them changing how they see themselves. Shedding the old identity is necessary before a change of beliefs and ideas about the world.
If you show people they have no chance for community outside of trump supporters, they'll continue to support fascism. Show them there is an out, and our numbers will swell as the reality of fascism undermines the lies their community believes.
A certain % of people are vulnerable to the grift of fascism. Scorning them is like laughing at someone who lost their retirement funds to a crypto-scam. Those of us lucky enough to be able to see it for what it is should welcome all the victims of fascism.
Trump-voting victims of trump and their stories are powerful weapons we can use against this regime and its wealthy collaborators.
"How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I'd been sexually assaulted?" Lucy reportedly asked. Kris allegedly answered that he would not be that upset because he had two other daughters living with him. Lucy reportedly left the room "quite upset."
Later that same day, Kris allegedly took Lucy by the hand while she was in the kitchen and took him [her, presumably] to his bedroom. Lucy's boyfriend said that after about 15 seconds he heard a loud bang and Kris screaming for his wife.
One of the last things you tell your daughter is I don't care if you get raped, i got two more of you, then you drag her to your room and "accidentally" shoot her.
For me kittens are like passing through the other side of cuteness. Cats are very cute, kittens are just too much.
You know in futurama when bender orders a statue of "ridiculous proportions" built, then when it's done he's like, "no, that's too big, try again and this time don't embarrass yourselves.'
That's how i feel about kittens. No, that's too cute. Try again and this time don't embarrass yourself.
Taxing almost all sugary drinks including artificial sweetners but not 100% juice is not "missing the goal entirely". That's still hitting the unhealthiest and most marketed beverages.
I have done both and while the former was very stressful, it was still better than the latter.
Dating someone you're not super into who really likes you felt like having a chainsaw hand. It sounds cool as long as you don't think about any of the details, but in practice you just spend the entire time worrying how to avoid causing any harm.
My nokia windows phone was the best. Stylish, great battery, great camera.
Windows phone with the tiles remains the best phone interface by far. Since then i've had to make my own custom interface because i can't go back to ugly ass icons.
Loud talking during performances. When — and why — did we start acting like undersocialized animals
Loud talking?? At a concert?! Animals! 🙄
I'm not surprised that with absurd monopoly-driven ticket prices, some people will decide that an hour long bathroom wait is not what they paid for.
We don't need to be pearl clutching about pandemic related difficulties with socialisation to explain what's going on at concerts. Firstly, the windows for learning soft skills are in childhood and the pandemic was only 5 years ago. The affected cohort would be like 9-13ish.
So if the concert-pooping is all those 10y/o kids at coachella, maybe that's the cause. But otherwise i think we can all safely ignore what an "ettiquette expert" has to say.
Zhuangzi, easily one of the top 5 authors anywhere, ever.
The Taiping civil war ended a bit before the US civil war, lasted 3x as long and almost ended with china unified under a homegrown christian theocracy.
I'm honestly surprised - i would think that a social media platform designed to attract the rubiest marks to have ever been grifted would be an incredibly viable product.
Of course he's exasperated - he has dementia. He lacks the cognition to be anything but exasperated. No way he has the capacity to understand the situation.
I'm pretty sure the ship's planks had to be replaced because it was on display as a heritage item for generations afterwards - not during his lifetime. Are you really viewing theseus' ship if everything you're looking at post-dates his death, was the issue, iirc.
It's not. Even he doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's just a senile old man giving voice to passing thoughts.