Dads and moms feel very pressured to vote for sexual predators sometimes.
'Trump Election Results: Rape Survivor Personal Essay"
Dads and moms feel very pressured to vote for sexual predators sometimes.
'Trump Election Results: Rape Survivor Personal Essay"
It could happen.
"The TOXIC Boy Moms of TikTok"
~FunkyFrogBait
"The TOXIC Boy Moms of TikTok'
~FunkyFrogBait
How could you have not targeted their demographic more thoroughly???
"The TOXIC Boy Moms of TikTok"
~ FunkyFrogBait
Clinical care that'd be boy-mom oriented and boy-mom run. You totally couldn't get in if you weren't able to eat a peanut butter sandwich with real gluten and nuts.
Wait, what kind of clinic did you need?
"Elon Musk's mother Maye on why she doesn’t keep chips or cookies at home"
No! This is my boy mom status! You can't have it! It's just me, and this good boy. Everyone else can just die! Especially the icky girls, with their bad, unpristine uteruses. Their uteruses probably can't make a nice boy like my uterus can make.
Ew, gross!
That's not what they told me!
Mom, I promise you, you really don't have to stack that many dead girls in your closet. You Bluebeardesque boy mom weirdo, cut it out.
Mom, stop stacking dead girls in the closet to build up my self-esteem. You're not Bluebeard. You're just a boy mom weirdo.
I don't know how many dead girls an average boy mom needs to stack in her closet. I don't know.
"Florida voters reject abortion rights amendment ballot measure"
Back in those days, the selfish myopic condition that the Scrooge grandma suffered from was not recognized as the dangerous health condition that it truly was. It was the dark ages for women's healthcare. Pronatalist did not mean pro-women! No, it most certainly did not. But we certainly have learned a lot since then.
Elon Musk did not pay anybody a million dollars to be nice to any of the "less fortunate" single mothers.
Babies weren't born to be bigots when they grow up. Some of them were just awfully encouraged to become that way as they got older, by others in their environment. Scrooge!
How much do you need to pay a privileged mom care about the other not-so-privileged moms? Or their poor children?
Who needs to think about human rights when you've got your money? And you're totally not a lesbian, but a big heteronormative fan of violent men? And especially, did you say, did you not take deliberate pains to point out, that you're a Boy Mom???
"As a matter of fact, the abusive old man kind of reminds us of a lot of others. Gee, that feels real comfortable. Makes us feel like we know we're where Melania is, sorta kind of."
"my husband hates who i voted for"
@DustinPoynterVideos
https://youtube.com/shorts/Kv7iLjfaqYI?si=QQ_y5ShcqFcE2r0J
"That Julia Roberts Fail:
Why 'You can vote in secret' didn’t work on conservative women"
https://slate.com/life/2024/11/election-2024-results-presidential-trump-harris-women.html
"How Uvalde’s Newspaper Kept Going..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/books/uvaldes-darkest-hour-craig-garnett.html
“'My life doesn’t look at all the same,' Kimberly Mata-Rubio said. 'This is one of the only places where I feel like they’re treating me like I’m normal..."
~ Elisabeth Egan
I think that some people who have been more rewarded for being willfully ignorant chose to be much smaller than they needed to be, but they could still change in this life, so they can start to look like they were much better to other kinds of human beings.
"How health care could change under the new Trump administration
President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at a campaign rally in October. Kennedy, who is skeptical of vaccines, is among Trump's advisors on health."
"He recalled his childhood as abusive, having received abuse from his father and from his nanny, but believed this experience gave him the strength to survive the Nazi death-camp.[3]
He and his first wife Chita had three boys and one girl.[10] Acevedo practiced the Roman Catholic faith.[6] His main interests included barbecuing, reading books about World War II, and spending time with his family.[3] He believed that the US Government intentionally covered up the abuse of Americans at Berga, and that this action significantly added to the affected soldiers' suffering.[5] When the government finally did give official recognition, Acevedo refused to attend as it was held in Orlando instead of Washington D.C.[5]
Although his treatment by the United States was often less than optimal, throughout his life he was highly patriotic towards the country he had served.[5] He identified with US conservative politics, but felt betrayed by later conservative stances on immigration, stating, 'They don't know shit from Shinola.'[5]
When one of his sons discovered his Armed Forces psychiatric evaluation a few months before his death, he also found out that his father had been raped by the Nazis.[5] Acevedo was glad about the discovery, saying, 'I'm glad you found it... I want you to tell everyone what I went through and how I struggled with the nightmares' so mankind could see 'this is how low man can get'.[5] In truth, this horrific event was disclosed years earlier to his eldest son Anthony F. Acevedo but did not reveal it to anyone until recently. The subject matter was too sensitive to discuss openly and preferred to keep it concealed. This included family members. Despite all, Acevedo advocated forgiveness, peace, and love towards humanity.[5]"
"Anthony Acevedo" - Wikipedia
I really hope your children don't have to sexually harass or racially discriminate against people. Even if you voted for a guy who seems to need that in order to feel good about himself. Actually, he doesn't ever seem to feel good about himself, to be honest. Be honest.
On the way to your "We're not Nazis, we are just good at irresponsibly enabling the real Nazis to be more comfortable with being real Nazis" meeting.
You could do $0 much better. So, can't we move beyond the "Racist parents rally for sexual predators" era a whole lot more quickly?
I think Trump should go pick some cabbages and potatoes for several days. Why not? It might do him some good. It might be healthier than sexual harassment and fomenting racist rallies.
"Central Valley growers and farmworkers fear mass deportations if Trump wins election"
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article294848924.html
All kinds of people cheering up this morning as they remember that a lot of other people who are currently getting killed with the help of their tax dollars are still a lot worse off than they are.
"Jon Stewart said Tony Hinchcliffe was 'just doing what he does'"
"Harris/Walz campaign staffers brutalized Diné at Navajo Nation Capital"
The Red Nation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LXW27SZieRk&si=zVdCo9hjt1nc8kFA
"United Auto Workers calls for a Palestinian speaker at DNC as thousands protest nearby"
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/22/g-s1-19169/palestinian-protests-dnc-united-autoworkers
I look forward to the next generations learning from all the unwell privileged people who abused their privileges in this era, and making way better choices than they made, and making much, much better use of their time.
There are lots of immigrants who are probably way better than he is to children, and they're probably up right now, picking food and feeding people like you.
"Trump Pledges To Use Obscure 18th-Century Law To Marry Daughter"
https://theonion.com/trump-pledges-to-use-obscure-18th-century-law-to-marry-daughter/
Your ability to obtain a nice house and special privileges is not an excuse for you to ABUSE your privileges or to be ABUSIVE to others including to some girls and women and children, just to make yourself feel a very shallow and truly fleeting sense of power, even if that is what makes you want to elect a bully who has encouraged all kinds of racism and sexism to become more tolerable and acceptable in your community.
Maybe you should actively find more really high quality, good men to look up to, the ones who don't just act like they have to be abusive bullies who degrade the humanity of lots of people, including children and girls and women, just to prop up their own sad, fragile, wounded egos.
"Beatrice Keul, a former pageant queen in New York, is now the twenty-eighth woman to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct."
~ Malcolm Ferguson
"Pageant Queen Shares Horrifying Details of Trump Sexual Assault"
https://newrepublic.com/post/187761/pageant-queen-beatrice-keul-trump-sexual-assault
"Donald Trump's unsettling record of comments about his daughter Ivanka
'If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her'"
"The history of Donald Trump’s sexual assault allegations"
https://19thnews.org/2023/10/donald-trump-associates-sexual-misconduct-allegations/
"Donald Trump Criticized After He Appears to Mock Reporter with Disability"
Trump is just like an f'ed up comedy show host who entertains distracted people who think they need him in order to divert themselves from their own mercilessly annoying aches and pains.
Girls deserve more parents on the planet who have healed their own pain enough to act like their lives and their basic human rights are actually valuable.
He's obviously gotten so addicted to pampering people who have been abusing their positions of privilege and they are still dehumanizing so many girls and all kinds of people. People deserve way better than what he's currently doing on the planet, and he still sucks up to all kinds of fucked-up people. And he's really, really, really bad for other people's children. Yes, he is. He is actually that unwell. And he has gotten himself sucked into a cycle of getting rewarded for being so grossly unwell...Yucky.
Imagine if the abusive paid sharky, oops, that would be the abusive patriarchy didn't brainwash some really unwell women into acting like the civil rights of not only you, but also other people's children, are so completely worthless to them, just so they feel they can survive another selfish day of propping up an awful, abusive, myopic, sexist, patriarchal jerk again.
Since they have gone out of their way to remind me of just how much some 'entertaining and show bizzy' types of people have in common with the desperate sexual predator Donald Trump, I suppose I can at least thank God that I was made aware that one of them had a father who was a way better person. But now, with all the energy of a vapid Fox News clip, the here's some shallow women amplifying some sad bros' myopic coping mechanisms again...
"The Talk | Everyone calls @zachbraff just to hear @morganfreeman"
https://www.instagram.com/zachbraff/
"Morgan Freeman suggests sexual assault claims the result of 'misplaced compliments or humour'
‘I am devastated that 80 years of my life is at risk of being undermined in the blink of an eye’
"🤠What did you expect? 🤷♂️"
~ Blazing Saddles
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - "What I Am"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA&si=gn4gStn5j6s0qpqK
Maybe this is just a message that came down to tell you that some people need to tell their feminine sides to be more shallow, so that they don't go too deep in an unfamiliar area, because that's still too scary.
Well, not all humans are so comfortable with "Still not ready to look at these things!"
"Nevaeh Crain died during a miscarriage after..."
WHAT?
"trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms"
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/01/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala/
"We love that abusive guy because he reminds us of our oppressed, sad dads."
But sometimes your behavior says a lot about how you feel the universe parented you. You know, not just the parents who fed you, but all those other people who helped raise you, and all the other factors that influenced you. What did you learn from them???
I think my cat deserves to meet people who are nice to her and not awful like some people who were trained to be so uncaring about healthcare for human beings because, I don't know, why did they feel they had to be that way, did their dads teach them they had to be that way, in order to get some acceptance from them, or something?
There's an adorable cat and you love how she knows she deserves a good life as you cough and wheeze and pray to calm your nervous system and hope to feel less suffering really soon. Beautiful.
It's too bad if the unwell patriarchy wants you to feel unsafe, and it's too bad if it wants other people to turn cold-hearted and mean and unwell and to feel like that's a legitimate survival response to their life situation, when much better is available and accessible to them.
Rejoice. There are better ways, and they're available for you to love, as soon as you can repair and start healing.
Even knowing a little bit of that truth can help your body calm down and start feeling a little bit better... Even if it's slow, and even if it takes time, it's still good.
That's the positive side of feeling bad. It shows you that you deserve better!
How to repair your nervous system and help yourself feel better and also be grateful you actually met a few nice people amongst the cruelty of the not very open ones who were trained to be willingly ignorant and terrible to someone like you, just to fit with whatever ideologies they're choosing to go along with for whatever reasons, which might just be them trying to repeat an old pattern for some temporary reassurance or a morsel of comfort for themselves, again.
"I love you even though you hurt me and yourself dot com."
I currently exist in the "Do we have a slice of bread left in the freezer that I could defrost in the toaster and apply peanut butter or will I have to come up with another idea for my breakfast" area of the diagram.
"But Stewart, like Trump, lives in the Venn diagram overlap between entertainment and politics. Some will take issue with that since 'The Daily Show' host grounds his satire in fact and, frankly, it's easier to be one of his fans.
In contrast, what Trump signals from that space isn’t simply disappointing. It’s dangerous. Trump fascinates comedians like Hinchcliffe and Joe Rogan, who downplays the threat he poses to democracy by likening his statements to performance."
~ Melanie McFarland
"Jon Stewart said Tony Hinchcliffe was 'just doing what he does'"
Where Jon Stewart bleeds into Joe Rogan who bleeds into Elon Musk who bleeds into the oppressors of other cultures and backgrounds...
"Jon Stewart said Tony Hinchcliffe was 'just doing what he does'"
"Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC were fired and stranded in Michigan after speaking out"
https://www.wired.com/story/canvassers-elon-musk-america-pac-fired-stranded-michigan-mistreatment/
"Harris/Walz campaign staffers brutalized Diné at Navajo Nation Capital"
The Red Nation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LXW27SZieRk&si=zVdCo9hjt1nc8kFA
At this point I think I would just have the kids stay home and write letters or something, and not attend any kinds of political functions or events for any party until they got much older.
Ah, I just remembered I saw this. It's good.
"I challenge you to explore your triggers and judgments..."
~ Divine Rebel Rising
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1938262216669836/?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=Mk4v2M
I'm going to get better at focusing on things to heal. That's my intention. That's my goal right now. And my body is helping me to know that I need to get focused on that tension (and that intention) and this can all be more just like a delightful experiment, and I can make it a more fun experience.
Remember the Healthcare Alamo. The physical and the mental. And the spiritual. And the uh, oh yeah, the emotional. That's one that we can get sucked into sometimes, isn't it?
Gosh, this life...some of these people turned out to be real trolls when they got older, didn't they?
Do they think they are the like the cute troll dolls?
They do. They think they're really cute.
They really do think that?
Yes. They do think so.
They do!
My goodness, are humans ever susceptible to a wide variety of conditions! I thought this one was pretty useful when going over the ballot this evening.
"2024 Ballot Prop 35 Explained"
~ ABC10
And I have to make my body feel better, cuz there's this weird pull on one side of me and that means I have to take care of my body. Isn't the body useful? It can be like your best friend, even when it's causing you to feel stressed out. Maybe it's just reminding you that it's time to tune them out, and get back in touch with yourself, and get a little bit more healed, and then you can come back online later.
Golly.
you don't even know who you're talking to sometimes and then you're like wait a second, was I talking to...
Anyways, have you considered inviting all of your most inflexible pals and taking trip to an orphanage where you get to know the children. And you really do it because you're curious and you want to get to know them. Not because you have to like, show it off, but you could show it off. It's not like it's terrible to show it off, but that's not your primary goal, right?
Your primary goal is to be inquisitive and to learn and to grow and to become a fuller human being and to connect with others in a way that makes you happy.
You never know. Sometimes when people ditch one side of themselves, they end up reconnecting with it later in life.
Still get a little shocked sometimes at how some people just seem to have chosen to present themselves as being set on a certain kind of survival mode, especially when they choose to behave in certain ways that I wouldn't have predicted in another era.
And I might wonder if they feel they must choose certain ways of surviving because they have experienced that human phenomenon of "hurt feelings," and they are just so determined to act impenetrable, but it just seems like a weird and inflexible way to be in the world, or at any rate, it's a path that probably would not be very good for me to follow.
It looks a wee bit too sociopathic or controlling, and I think there are some better avenues to explore.
Their survival strategy is their survival strategy for whatever reasons, but if it's that jarring to witness, then at least you know that everyone can be on a different path, and that whatever seems too inflexible to be inclusive of others is not the way for you to choose to be.
It's so strange when some people seem to be just repeating patterns or acting out old scripts that communicate what they were taught, which say 'This is the tradition of what or who you should not value" to future generations, but it's also like some of that stuff is just getting released now, and then it also feels like some are on the verge of changing their own values, or even rediscovering or getting reconnected back with some core pivotal values that they had when they were younger. It's almost as if some are on the verge of valuing a lot of what they were trained to unsee and they will get the opportunity to be able see more again. It could happen in the next life, or it could unfold in the future of this life, or could begin tomorrow, or could be even starting now.
"Tori Amos - Carefree Theatre =12=Assholes Are Cheap Today"
~ cletus5nove
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XRABshOnfCU&si=RrP7hqC20FwRGRZ8
"Say Goodnight Gracie - The Drug Store"
~ John Gregory Olson
I feel grateful that there's patriotic veterans who will never vote for him.
"Donald Trump’s Latest Violent Fantasy"
Time to take a break from people and the internet when it's giving more of those "apparently, if you'd been more fortunate in life, you'd be really mean to somebody like you" vibes again. Now, you know that doesn't have to be true. But let's also put the waste basket next to the bed before we have a nap as a personal act of self care.
"....but really like JD Vance."
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/never-trump-jd-vance-voters-rcna178205
I'm sorry, but it still doesn't make any sense that a bunch of parents seem to actually want a chauvinistic sexual predator who dehumanizes others on a routine basis to represent themselves and our country to the world.
There's real children in this country who are doing a lot of work raising themselves and looking out for their own health and safety as best as they can, and there's parents out there acting like children who need a lot of attention and affirmation.
May a good nap replenish an exhausted human being who has experienced a certain kind of life in a certain kind of body...may a nap replenish and repair health. May a beautiful healing nap help a human to feel better, and to feel really really well again.
"John Birch vs. the PTA" | Revisionist History
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/john-birch-vs-the-pta
The Book of Mormon - "Hello! [Official Lyric Video]"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PHsT6fh8kmc&si=6X_pv0MTIL1QFPf2
"the queen of TRAD WIVES - from ballerina dreams to ballerina farm"
~ Manifestelle
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1_n7dhYNXdI&si=y0QcxnnTZX56v86A
It's the one I worked on for the last election.
"the queen of TRAD WIVES - from ballerina dreams to ballerina farm"
~ Manifestelle
"Don’t feed my wife-"
~ FromScratchBakery
https://youtube.com/shorts/mQU8BbLEHA0?si=ewPhGBmzaaXhThc4
"This dad is about to teach his daughter an unforgettable lesson"
~ WTV Video
I honestly felt like Anne Frank was being a mischievous person creeping behind me this morning, and I was like, did you come back as Barbro Karlen, and she was like, maybe?
If someone you know comes back to live on Earth in a certain kind of body, are you going to treat them better or worse when they're in that body, as opposed to the other one?
Are you stuck with acting like certain kinds of bodies just don't deserve good things if they're not genetically more like yours for the rest of your life?
Does anyone in your family have to discriminate against other people in order to prop up your status and your ego? Or that of someone else? Is that the healthiest it could possibly be?
Was it your church? Was it your parents? Was it aunts or uncles or cousins or other relatives? Was it your job?
"Are Women Hiding Votes for Harris From Their Husbands? Gender Gap Hits Home"
https://www.newsweek.com/women-hiding-votes-harris-husbands-gender-gap-1978888
"Only the most genetically superior men, and a few women, according to Benevolent Patriarchal White Supremacy, deserve good health insurance and a healthy environment."
By the way, the "good" environment may not be as "good" for any of them as it used to seem to be.
"He just really needs me to be good about being discriminatory towards certain kinds of humans in certain kinds of bodies in order to coddle his fragility."
Like the man you're with would treat you worse if you started treating certain kinds of girls and women better?
Do people who pick flowers for you deserve a good life?
Let's say some people harvested your breakfast recently. What are they supposed to look like in order to deserve a good life? Where are they supposed to be from? What kind of body should they have?
Do you believe that people besides you get to have a nice life? How do you feel about this concept? How do you know? Did Jesus teach you that? Did your church enjoy the teachings of Jesus? Who does Jesus seem to love in your church?
People who were trained to sacrifice caring about other peoples' human rights, and their own maybe, and even, actually, yes, even their own children's human rights, in order to prop up the fragile, unwell sad patriarchy.
If the person you're with is so great, why do you feel the need to act more misogynistically to girls and women whenever you are around him?
"Video: Right-wing media hosts react to idea of women secretly voting for Harris"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/politics/video/women-secret-vote-harris-trump-digvid
Imagine a country where men hide their Trump vote! I just did.
Laurie Kilmartin on X: "I want to live in a country where men hide their Trump vote."
Enjoying the light and cool breezes.
Missed a pink and magical sky, and forgot about the clocks changing (since the phone clock resets automatically), but that will be for another day!
This musician reminds me of some young people, a guy and a girl who were giving out some food, or drinks actually, and they were talking about whether or not they could listen to country, and generally the guy didn't want to, but he could be okay with listening to some songs.
Luke Combs - "Fast Car (Official Live Video)"
Liars? Them?
"I'm bout to tell them..."
~ sloowmoee
https://www.facebook.com/reel/824123073205183?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=Mk4v2M
"I don't wanna be here..."
~ sloowmoee
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1076007273881267/?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=Mk4v2M
"Don't leave me alone..."
~ sloowmoee
https://www.facebook.com/reel/873807044422095?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=Mk4v2M
It creates more auspicious conditions so that a little underdog celebrity can grow up to autograph his thesis for his fans and even Elon Musk can turn into adult who can fly his own airplane.
"... Madrid..."
@teamcoco
https://www.instagram.com/p/DB4ip91zUPa/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Reductress » Male Loneliness Epidemic? Everyone Too Busy Cleaning Up After Dinner"
You know that guy.
"Reductress » Poor White Man’s Intersectionality Stops at Poor White Men"
https://reductress.com/post/poor-white-mans-intersectionality-stops-at-poor-white-men/
The one with the friends who are afraid of their daughters being called nepo-babies.
"Reductress » Rich Childhood Friend a DJ Now"
"A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
"It's ok not to be ok right now"
~ thefeministlawyer
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB1PW8apY6c/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Fine Young Cannibals - "Good Thing (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=We_9MthGzwk&si=FMcrpGE7vW3mdjgf
The campaign ads were more like good songs!
"A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
Is it really any religion's fault?
Boys are gonna start hanging out with boys who are way more feminist and have less internalized misogyny than...uh...some other types of people?
Girls who cannot wait for the girls of the future to feel way more permission from their cliquey little circles to care about the actual health and well-being of all kinds of girls.
"A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
"A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms
It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm 'fetal demise.' She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban."
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
What kind of toys are you going to give to the children who are going to grow up to have the kinds of conditions that the next society is also not going to care about? What is a better way of reframing of this question? I'm sure it's not framed perfectly. I'm sure it could be framed in a much better way. Which child is going to grow up to have the special conditions that permit...no no no, hold on, this thought process is getting interrupted... What is this for? Let's just stop for now, and we'll come back to it later.
So anyways, have you ever read something about women's rights and thought about how, in the 21st century, in the U.S., IVF is just accessible for the rich people?!
Caturday is the day to remember my first cat, and she was only with me for one year before she got hit by a car, and then I came up to a part of me I cannot believe still exists, but now it has come back to me. That time when I talked about her "too much" and some people got pretty mean about it to the point of being quite hurtful and drawing out tears.
Well! That's what happens sometimes when humans get the impulse to vent and gang up on others, huh?
You know it's pretty difficult to be a little kid and to have to move all the way across the country (this was before the Internet, remember those days?) And to change a whole lifestyle situation and new schools and all of that
If you get a nice little cat along the way , and if that's the happiest part of how that whole stressful process went, some people are not going to understand that, and they're going to be resentful that you have had different experiences, and that's when they can get mean.
I just got such a weird insight about how there is a thought process on Earth that goes:
"At least some people are completely blatantly open about their cruelty and don't hide it," And I kind of get it sometimes.
On the other hand, why should men be more rewarded for the blatant cruelty than women are?
So I kind of get it, sometimes, but I don't entirely buy it.
Prayers for all the people who are not gold cross star whatevers in this life. Sweet!
"Roman Recipes Ep. 1 #history #romanempire"
They ate snacks...fascinating."We sent those violent people (that you're so easily distracted by) your way so that you would get away, and so that you wouldn't get colonized by an institution."
I should have told you, and you, and YOU especially, that I really think you should have admitted a long time ago that you have so much in common with the average Trump voter.
Now you know.
Well come on over here, and let's find one of the ones you have so much in common with!
Okay, so my personal answer to this question is "It's because we still live in a very, very, very patriarchal society, and this is just how a lot of people were trained to deal with certain circumstances and repetitive challenges and social issues."
The question was...
If liberal people really are so much better at caring about human rights for girls and women than conservative people are, then why do so many liberal people still subscribe to the group think that makes them turn their backs on so many other kinds of women and girls when those types of women and girls are inconvenient for them to acknowledge or pay attention to?
The question probably comes courtesy of many traumatizing experiences within the world of academia. Seriously, God, why did you want to send the weirdly violent people my way? And I don't mean like they're always actually physically violent. I mean they're violent as in, they tolerate violence so well. They're so good at not caring about the violence that's happening to other people, even in some cases to the ones working right alongside them, that it's the stuff of nightmares.
Just processing a little trauma here. It's just a little bump, but we're still evolving. Everything is fleeting. The time is going by so fast...
"How Hitler Ruined the Reputation of the German Language"
~ Feli from Germany
"MIMSEY"
~ catluminati
https://youtube.com/shorts/D53PPYUZIuI?si=9MCHGhZ1WG2TLV0f
"4 BEANS"
~ catluminati
The writing prompt is "you should tell your mom that if she reads a novel about lesbians, it's not going to turn her into a lesbian, right? And then see what she says, or ask her, how does that make her feel?"
Why would this song ever be about a picker of a purple onion? Maybe it could be good to consider the possibilities?
Carly Simon - "You're So Vain"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j13oJajXx0M&si=61CabNRDG0wcXGHh
Interesting. There are some who have communicated that they can see others, and they also want to give to others and it is apparently actually a pretty meaningful experience for them to do so. Maybe when some other people start acting like they want to acknowledge other kinds of people, too, that will be a real boost to society, and there will be more folks who can feel able to help others and to give some consideration to the economics and health insurance situations and genetics, and all the other layers upon layers of learning experiences...I do feel a little bit of my tartness coming back...hangry...that could mean that now's a great time to make some food!
Sometimes, I actually do get reminded that I am, sometimes, also a positive person who enjoys being around happy people. Positive people who are enjoying their lives are doing good things in the world. They're raising the vibe.
"And I don't agree with your survival strategy at all. It's lame, and you're being a jerk. So there!"
"I can read, and I can still expect better! This is ridiculous! How did this happen?"
They'll be more fun when they stop reminding me of spoiled White Lotus characters, or else I'll be more fun because I'll become more enlightened, but I guess for now, I must just move on with my day.
"LAKE PARK, Ga. — For the past month, farmworker Albertin Melo, his wife, Angelica Garcia, and their three children have taken refuge under debris."
~ Nada Hassanein
"'Invisible’ migrant farmworkers cope with hurricanes aftermath"
Maybe...
"Because I study Nazi Germany and know that history can repeat itself."
~ Kip Wilson, author of White Rose.
This could also be why I don't believe some of the people who act like they only want to see the positive side are very good for society.
You get the impression they have chosen to have no feelings for the ones who are still laboring to make their lives more comfortable, and it's scary, like Nazi wives might have done that, like there's 'Zone of Interest" kind of dynamics happening. Did you even study the civil rights movement in school?
However...
I guess if they are doing it just to fit in and not be noticed by the "negative forces" and they feel they must do that in order to survive...I guess I could understand how that's a survival strategy for them, for a while.
Also, this driver probably noticed that Trump does make a lot of jokes...
Laurie Kilmartin on X: "My Lyft driver asked if I “one of those racist comedians” and I said, “I’m struggling to fill a 50 seat brewery so no.”
https://x.com/anylaurie16/status/1852451184654623049
One of those who just keeps making so many jokes and getting people go along with stuff, giving them permission to be smaller people...Creepy.
"The Foot Soldier of Birmingham"| Revisionist History
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-foot-soldier-of-birmingham
There's no way I'm going to start thinking some violent sexual predator that the top military brass and even Dick Cheney will not vote for is going to be good enough for my country and your children. So I hope the Republicans get a better candidate next time.
"Tim Walz Has Broken Tucker Carlson’s Brain" | The Nation
https://newrepublic.com/article/186054/tim-walz-tucker-carlson-homophobia-masculinity
"There is nothing more upsetting to a gender essentialist than entirely effortless and unpretentious masculinity. That is why Tim Walz has so thoroughly broken the brains of folks like Carlson, Sean Hannity, and their other hysterical cousins. These are men whose masculinity requires constant upkeep and near-pornographic levels of performance. Hannity styles himself as an MMA fighter; Tucker Carlson famously advocates sunning one’s balls and recently interpreted the entire election through the lens of a 'daddy' spanking a wayward daughter."
~ Ana Marie Cox
https://newrepublic.com/article/186054/tim-walz-tucker-carlson-homophobia-masculinity
Trump far too often gives the impression that he is enjoying roleplaying being violent against women. And, he actually has been. Latest example just reminds me of all the other times he's been that way.
"Liz Cheney Responds to Donald Trump Saying Guns Should Be Fired At Her"
https://www.newsweek.com/cheney-trump-guns-face-dictator-responds-1978492
"Cheney described Donald Trump as a 'cruel, unstable man' after the former president said that she should have 'guns trained on her face.'
"'This is how dictators destroy free nations,' yhe former Wyoming representative wrote on X, formerly Twitter. 'They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.'
During an event on Thursday, Trump labeled Cheney, a vocal critic of the former president, as a 'war hawk' and questioned her commitment to sending troops into combat.
Speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, the Republican presidential candidate said: 'She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.'"
~ Alia Shoaib
"Liz Cheney Responds to Donald Trump Saying Guns Should Be Fired At Her"
https://www.newsweek.com/cheney-trump-guns-face-dictator-responds-1978492
"Liz Cheney Responds to Donald Trump Saying Guns Should Be Fired At Her"
https://www.newsweek.com/cheney-trump-guns-face-dictator-responds-1978492
Lots of deportations happened. And then there was...
"The Jew who survived Auschwitz because a Nazi guard fell in love with her - Helena Citrónová"
~ World History
Them: "Oh come on. We're not that bad..." As they're downing shots of whatever they're addicted to drinking.
My body and I: 'Well the stuff you're drinking gives me anxiety and makes me sick, so my body says otherwise, but get back to me if you ever want to have a better and more nuanced discussion in this lifetime, I guess."
"The sickness of the 00s hasn’t dissipated entirely but it has mutated, as society has become more enlightened about mental health, drug and alcohol addiction. As a society, we are more progressive: two-thirds of young women identify as feminists; to say so when I was a teen would have been unthinkable. Although it does not feel like it – living as we do in a pandemic era, wracked by nostalgia and constantly throwing back images of pop culture moments, such as when Britney, Paris and Lindsay all piled into the same SUV – the 2000s were a very long time ago. That past was a different country. I hope that we never go back."
~ Sirin Kale
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/mar/06/why-the-00s-were-so-toxic-for-women
"I went to university in 2007. On my first day, every fresher had their photo taken; the pictures were pinned to a bulletin board in my halls. That evening, older male students scrawled on the photographs of the girls, rating our attractiveness. No one got in trouble. Later, the same men published a gossip magazine that Photoshopped images of female students on to porn stars, dissected our sex lives and made rape jokes. The magazine was printed using university funds. No one got kicked out. None of this seemed particularly objectionable to me, an 18-year-old girl. This was just the way things were. Internalised misogyny ran deep in the 2000s. Hell, I was just happy I got a high score on my photograph."
~ Sirin Kale
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/mar/06/why-the-00s-were-so-toxic-for-women
Part of the reason why your father is still way too irresponsible and stressful for me, is because needs the kind of people who are constantly making excuses for his behavior to prop him up at the expense of others. Not everybody gets to be as singularly focused on themselves and they are, and yet the nature of their self-focus is so damaged and superficial. Their culture gives me the worst feelings about people sacrificing the well-being of all kinds of girls and women just get exposure and fame and houses.
I understand that parts of your dad make him seem like nice guy, but he's untrustworthy because he's like a drug addict who is surrounded by other addicts who want other people to take what he's addicted to. That's part of the tragedy of how he is, to me. The universe will never let me go along with their cult just to have more laughs or get more money. Maybe one day they will be more free.
I think the acolytes of him and the persona he has chosen are not all that different than the acolytes of Trump, actually.
I got to try fresh wasabi on some sushi. It was a very green, and a little bit chunky, kind of like a salsa.
"Fresh wasabi is an absolute GAME CHANGER"
https://www.reddit.com/r/sushi/s/yJl8U6razw
Well apparently it's technically not the freshest of fresh, but it was tasty, and I will have it again if offered.
"Retired Adm. William McRaven, the former commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, sees Trump as 'a disturbed 15-year-old boy.'”
"He concluded that he couldn’t vote for Trump."
~ Steve Benen
"Navy admiral from bin Laden raid..."
"Trump statues appear in D.C., Philadelphia and Portland"
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/31/nx-s1-5173569/trump-statues-portland-philadelphia-sexual-assault
For some reason, now I feel really positive and good!
"Toxic positivity that ignores the humanity of fellow human beings is not truly positive.
Especially in regards to human rights being threatened for children, and women, and also for men."
Like a cool and cleansing breath of fresh air that I need to breathe in!
I bought some nice things for myself tonight, but it's kind of a sad holiday, anyway. One girl came by to trick or treat. We had no visitors last year. This complex doesn't seem to appeal to trick-or-treaters, or maybe nowadays people do more trunk or treating. No one wanted any of the candy I bought last year so we didn't buy any this year. But I saw a child and a mom, who was dressed as a black cat, and when I came home, I heard they had come by, but we didn't have anything to give her. And we felt regret about that. And another thing...there was a dead black and white kitten on the side of the road, and I hope they don't see that tonight. So it's kind of a sad holiday! I'll just have to be extra nice to my mostly black but also a little bit white cat tonight. And try not to think gloomy thoughts about inequity with regards to society, it's tolerance for violence, the state of health care in this country, and etc. I have nice food, and a new special cream lotion product for my skin, and can cheer myself up, right?
"Donald Trump ventured to Fayetteville, North Carolina, earlier this month — a Democratic city in a swing state with a large veteran population, a powerful cross-section of defense contractors, and, right down the road, Fort Liberty, one of the largest military bases in the world.
Before an audience dressed almost entirely in red, white, and blue, Trump pledged to revert Fort Liberty back to its original name, Fort Bragg, which honored a slave-owning Confederate general. He also vowed to increase defense spending and scrub the Pentagon of 'woke generals.' Then he turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs."
~ Jasper Craven
"Trump’s Cronies Threw the VA Into Chaos. Millions of Veterans’ Lives Are on the Line Again.
Former VA officials warn that another Trump term could irreparably damage the health care system for millions of veterans."
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/28/trump-veterans-va-darin-selnick-peter-orourke/
If you like the violent, dishonest guys better than you like anyone else, that's your decision, and you can feel all the love, but that doesn't mean the one who should run the country is the one who will make violence and racism and sexism and other dehumanizing impulses more acceptable to act upon in society.
There are loads of veterans will not vote for a violent, disrespectful, racist, misogynistic sexual predator in this election, but they might vote for a real Republican candidate in a future one.
~~~~~~
"Mr. Trump has publicly stated he would like to see our Constitution 'terminated.'
Mr. Trump has railed against what he calls :the enemy within' and has stated that he would employ the National Guard and the active-duty military against them.
Mr. Trump, according to the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff he himself appointed, Gen. Mark Milley, asked if he could activate from the retired list Gen. William McRaven, who planned and led the effort that found and killed Osama bin Laden, and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a key figure in the recent armed conflicts in the Middle East, so that he could have them court-martialed. Seems they had somehow offended him.
Mr. Trump disparaged the late Sen. John McCain and sought to diminish his long–term imprisonment as a POW during the Vietnam War, stating that he 'liked people who did not get captured.' That from a man who avoided the draft during that period, possibly by having his daddy get him a letter from a doctor who apparently owed them a favor.
As quoted in the new book by Bob Woodward, 'War,' Gen. Milley said 'Trump is fascist to the core.' Nearly all top–ranking people who worked for Trump in the national security area, including as National Security Advisor, Secretary of Defense, head of Homeland Security, Chief of Staff retired General John Kelly, retired Gen. Jim Mattis, and others have refused to endorse Mr. Trump for another term."
~ John Watson
"Opinion: I'm a veteran. Why I won't be voting for Donald Trump"
"Elon Musk and his super PAC share violent and vulgar videos about Kamala Harris
One video shared by Musk and America PAC was created by a user who had previously shared what appeared to be neo-Nazi imagery."
If you're with a guy who thinks he needs a misogynistic mom to raise his children, maybe he needs to go to therapy and work on his own mommy issues?
Let's talk about how your daughters and sons can be way more healthy and way less misogynistic than what was expected of you!
Just think of all the people they can be nicer to, even if you were trained by an unwell Patriarchal Society to dehumanize them.
And in the future, you can enjoy role modeling better values and not dehumanizing other people so much.
Wouldn't that be nice for them, and for you?
After all your houses don't dehumanize other humans. Humans do that.
But humans still have the human capacity to feel and evolve and grow. And they have the potential to heal, and to be so much better to their fellow human beings in the future, and to get better NOW.
Your children and grandchildren deserve and expect better than what your low self-esteem has gotten accustomed to settling for.
Elon Musk was nice to Obama. Elon Musk was nice to people on SNL. Musk was even nice to me. And now look at him.
"Elon Musk and his super PAC share violent and vulgar videos about Kamala Harris
One video shared by Musk and America PAC was created by a user who had previously shared what appeared to be neo-Nazi imagery.'
I'm not voting for Mr. Violent Sexual Predator just to appease a bunch of violent dads who try shame their own sons into being just as violent as they are.
Sad old dudes who still expect boys to be so violent and then shame them for not being what they expect!!!!
Crime With Bobby on X: "**WARNING - EXPLICIT LANGUAGE..."
https://x.com/CrimeWithBobby/status/1851750874365702410
"Montgomery County to pay $9.7M to Damascus High School Sex Assault Victims"
"Abuse in Britain's boarding schools: why I decided to confront my demons
For generations of boys, sexual abuse was part of the everyday cruelty of boarding school. In this painfully honest report, writer Alex Renton confronts the demons of his past at Ashdown House, where some of Britain's most powerful men were also educated – and reveals the scale of the outrage about to engulf the private education system"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/04/abuse-britain-private-schools-personal-memoir
If you want to see a lot of dads degrading one their own sons, the amount of furious men in the comments and what they say they find "normal" is sociopathic and pathetic.
Crime With Bobby on X: "**WARNING - EXPLICIT LANGUAGE..."
https://x.com/CrimeWithBobby/status/1851750874365702410
These are people want their own boys to be just as violent are they are.
And like it or not, society is changing.
No, he didn't even hit one of them. And also, his speech reminded me of a horrible story...
"Updated: Lawsuit says culture of weekly sexual assaults allowed at Damascus for years: MCPS is defendant in complaint alleging sodomy tradition dating to 2016"
Moreover, I heard about horrible stories like that happening when I was younger. Like when I was a kid, I heard about horrible stuff like that happening in boys' locker rooms.
But when I was a kid, most people acted like they knew that kind of thing was horrible, actually, when it happened to boys. How can we go backwards?
If you killed some of your childhood drama.
Oops, no, not that!
That's if you HEALED some of your childhood TRAUMA.
Sorry.
Some people think MAGA is a cult and real Republicans are voting blue in this election until they can get a better Republican candidate in the future.
Just another day of learning how to be even more amazing to people with PTSD and the kinds of health issues that "regulated" society didn't want to talk about in that certain era.
I know, like some toro tuna melt in your mouth pieces of nigiri sushi, and a fried spicy roll topped with veggies and ginger.
"You should learn how to be more of a 'pick me,' and then you'll feel SO much better!"
What kind of yoga stretch? The kind that makes me feel free of how that dream bothered me so much, so I can get on with my day! Eh?
"I just want love. What kind of love? The love that makes me feel powerful and awesome enough to not care about anybody else's feelings." What childhood stage of life are you in?
I hear a pack of coyotes howling...I don't normally hear them at this hour. Well, maybe it's herd and pack mentality thing. It feels normal to some packs of people to exclude others, and so what feels like a not-so-evolved way of life to me is just what feels like a normal and perfectly fine survival strategy for them. Just still recovering from that really unsettling dream, I guess.
I wonder why some people just settle. They don't want to evolve. They just want to feed themselves. Of course, that's natural. You want to feed yourself. You want nice things for yourself. I just don't understand why some people want to have that at the expense of others, and why being so disconnected from other kinds of people, and from nature, is what feels safest to them.
I had such a weird dream about being in beautiful place and wanting to walk in the nice foamy ocean waves and sing as I saw someone else doing...
But I was waiting for some people to be as nice to be around as when they were younger. And...nope. They were not.
Being self-absorbed is a specific survival strategy.
Who needs a beautiful beach or house or dress if that's what the vibes are gonna be like?
Still, maybe it could be fun to walk in the ocean singing, someday...
This has been a great time for name-calling on the internet. This is the era of people getting in touch with their inner terrible twos, and being emotionally x years old while verbally using an "adult" vocabulary. It's been a bit of a weird time, really!
Charlie Kirk on X: "Joe Biden is using dehumanizing language..."