"The patriarchal people really love it when people with my kinds of genetics are self-absorbed and act like they are more important than everyone else."
Saturday, March 08, 2025
That's a depressing thought.
If your favorite white person got reborn into another body, has he been deported yet? Or maybe he's stuck in a kind of limbo, in a detention facility? Who thinks? Who thinks, and thinks that that's a great idea?
That's mighty white of them.
"Well, I just want you to know that my children are way too self-assured to be bothered by any old ICE raids happening to other people's children. And they know that our version of Jesus definitely loves them the best."
Jesus!
"The best way to not get persecuted by ICE is ..."
A) Be Born To The Genetically Superior Parents. You Absolute Idiots.
No, say it isn't true!
Jesus loves the shallowest and most privileged people more. That's why rich white people always get more than everyone else. If you just align yourselves with them, you might get better things too. Even if you're not a rich white person, just act like the rich white people are the most important. That's the survival strategy you need.
Maybe you got the wrong Jesus.
"My version of Jesus is like a rich dad who rewards you as long as you do exactly what he wants."
She's so fond of treats. She doesn't care which kind of person gives them to her.
My black cat probably loves children more than a Patriarchal White Supremacist cat lady hating dad does.
Which church did they go to???
"Privileged parents explain which types of children their version of Jesus taught them to be the most prejudiced against."
Oh, that is not true. Jesus might even love a poor cat lady!
"Jesus loves all the rich little children so much more, just like the all the most successful rich dads do."
How hard is it to remember how to get better?
Well, when the universe made me leave a truly psychologically toxic environment, for part of that time I was reading a lot about what it was like to survive (or not survive) the Nazi occupation in Europe, and for other parts of the time, I was trying to learn more about which healing modalities are available in the present.
Patriarchal White Supremacy, that's who.
Who wants the privileged parents to act like bigots who don't care if other people's children get persecuted anyway?
How kind the church people were when they were singing!
"Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world."
It's even starting to get kind of stressful for some of the more privileged people, too.
'Trump’s ICE Plan Sows ‘Chaos and Fear’ in Schools"
https://www.the74million.org/article/trumps-ice-plan-sows-chaos-and-fear-in-schools/
People can change! It's happened throughout history.
What if it's time to unlearn some old ways that are no longer working, and to begin to learn some new and better ways of being?
And how is that even good for them?
People who lack compassion for what others are experiencing must have gotten some very peculiar messages about who and what is more valuable and why they are entitled to act that way, and in a time of trauma they will shut down and let you know that they will become even more mean if you act like anyone who is not exactly like them matters, and they will blatantly show that you really cannot rely on them for anything.
That sounds like an interesting topic to explore further.
"Why devaluing certain kinds of human beings was a great survival strategy for me that definitely will not work out nearly as well for you."
What do the fortunate ones do with their more money and extra resources?
How to have compassion for the uncaring people who act like you're worth less than the rich property-owning white people?
Or maybe they do sometimes value some of the people who aren't as white or rich, just as long as those people know it's very important to also act like certain people are worth more to their society than others.
Who voted to make adults act like Nazis again?
"ICE raids at schools: Federal Judge gives green light"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-raids-schools-federal-judge-gives-green-light
It's "Jesus loves the little children."
Not "Jesus persecuted the poor children that the rich people didn't care about."
Why did you squander it? Is that for forever? Surely not.
You had all this capacity to be so much deeper and more trustworthy and less shallow.
Can it ever be surpassed?
Ah, the brittle joy of parents determined to not care if other people's children are being persecuted by the very people who prop them up for some really superficial reasons.
It almost sounds like the beginning of a harsh joke.
"Why is a parent better than an orphan?"
A curious voice asked.
"Inquisitive minds just want to know," it added.
Children and adults do get hurt by narcissistic behavior patterns.
Being a parent is not a great excuse for going along with a lot of the self-absorbed genetic superiority programming the Patriarchal Cult wanted to instill in parents.
Sometimes I wonder if the Patriarchy wants people to get high off of insensitivity?
Celebratory bullying is like when some people decide to push away or dehumanize the experiences of others by acting like their highest form of joy is based on a kind of narcissistic addiction to controlling whatever is going on in their environment.
This might be helpful for getting through tough times, but if it's based so much on excluding and dehumanizing others, then it's an exploitation of certain circumstances, and that's a more fragile and brittle form of joy, and many other people will not be able to participate in it, so they will need to find other paths to pursue.
Perceptive or preoccupied?
If you're a parent and you can't seem to express that you know that your descendants might face a very different world than what you experienced because they have different genetics, and will deal with different problems, why do you think that doesn't matter?
And I already met some "nice white guys" who know better and don't believe in those old ways, too.
You are not going to be able to continue acting like the ones who benefited the most from going along with an imbalanced system, the ones with the most money and property, are automatically more important or valuable than everyone else. They already know.
They are acting out and following an old pattern. It is a temporary state of consciousness that they are choosing.
There are some people with money who are especially good at acting like money and things and property and certain types of people are more valuable than others.
Even if that's not all of the people I meet, the fact that it's any of the people that I meet is worth noting.
I have already met some people who are better at seeing that others are just as acceptable and important to a higher power, which is one that values all kinds of human beings, including the poor and the, quote, "undocumented."
Certain things cannot continue on in same way even if they've been accepted by some people in the past.
Maybe you were rewarded for being materialistic and for choosing to unsee others, but I can tell that way of life is not going to be able to continue, and it will not be sustainable.
Some seemingly have been convinced that it is necessary to choose not to see that others are actual real human beings who are just as worthy in the eyes of a higher power of being able to have a good life.
I just don't feel like that delusional way of looking at others in society is going to be able to continue, or that being or acting like that is what's normal and acceptable could go on that way forever, for anybody.
It was nice of the universe to do that, and I suppose it happened for a reason.
The universe has already sent some people my way who know how to act like others are real human beings.
Maybe the universe will help.
Maybe they will meet the right kinds of people who will help them to see that it's okay to act like other people are worthy of basic levels of consideration and respect.
Even if you get rewarded for acting that way, I just don't understand why you choose to do it.
When you act that way, I feel like I genuinely would not choose to treat you the way it feels like you are choosing to treat me and other human beings. I don't understand your way of seeing the world, and why you seem to think you must act that way in order to have a good life for yourself. Humans who have been led to act like other kinds of humans are not valuable enough for them to treat them with a very basic level of respect can be very fragile people.
Of course, not everyone's going to be in the same cult, doing the same things forever.
People who were raised to act like only certain types of human beings are superior to others are just not very good at being helpful or empathetic, but whenever you feel like they have the potential of being able to see more people, and to be better at communicating that they are seeing them, you think, "Of course, this can't last forever."
A great sadness.
Seeing how dreadfully selfish and self-absorbed some people are has been a very painful aspect of being alive at this time.
It's weird that when you point out human suffering and you think somebody else will say, yes, I can see how that's wrong and that shouldn't be happening to those people, instead they get defensive or shut down.
It's almost like they don't want to admit that other people who are different from them are actual human beings and that they should have just a basic level of human compassion for them.
It can be hard to understand why they're acting that way, although I suppose it's out of some desire to protect themselves, but I just don't think it's going to actually protect them to pretend that other human beings are not worth considering.
Friday, March 07, 2025
Maybe some people will get much smarter sometime soon.
"'The impact has been real': ICE raid fears keep students out of classrooms"
I think I'll go take a shower because that sounds like fun.
I kind of think it's messed up that now that the outside world has gotten worse about persecuting people, in a way, I'm doing better and functioning better. Even though I am depressed and angry a lot. Whereas before, I was always feeling like I couldn't function so well, and there were panic attacks that I can't even describe. It's as if I have gotten amnesia about what the pain of childbirth was like, or something like that, but anyways. Coping with things. Taking a shower sounds like a good thing to do. I like water that's hot.
People really need to take care of their health.
This has been a very weird time on Earth. Lots of struggle. Lots of trauma.
So whenever you feel good, you just need to remember to enjoy that.
Especially when it's the kind of feeling good that's actually good for you.
Oh God! I can't believe that I just typed that.
Maybe I would give certain showbiz disappointments another chance if the ghost of David Lynch helped me.
RIP, "Mulholland Drive" filmmaker.
"Celebrating David Lynch: Reflecting on First Times with his Films"
https://cornellsun.com/2025/03/07/celebrating-david-lynch-reflecting-on-first-times-with-his-films/
"Tribute to David Lynch..."
https://www.joblo.com/the-david-lynch-tribute-at-the-oscars-you-may-have-missed/
It happened almost two months ago, and I am suddenly sad that David Lynch died!
Woke up with worse pain; time to listen to "Lovely Day?''
Is this how an empire dies? "Start the day here."
Eliminating the Department of Education, spaceship explodes, WWII bomb halts train travel, and, of course, because we have such a long history of conflict, the Canadians are upset about The Felon's terrible math and worse manners.
"How Canadians are fighting back against Trump’s tariffs"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/us/canada-trump-tariffs-reactions-intl-hnk/index.html
Bill Withers - "Lovely Day (Official Audio)"
Thursday, March 06, 2025
Helpful or not helpful to know?
"The San Bernardino supermarket chain’s chief executive blamed inflation and tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump for cutting 63 'courtesy clerks' at several Southern California stores."
~ Pat Maio
"Stater Bros. lays off store clerks, a first for the 89-year-old chain"
Literally, different bodies are different experiences to live in on Earth.
That's why not everyone can be on the same drugs or be stuck in the exact same shallow self-absorbed cult mentality.
It's so depressing having someone so untrustworthy be in charge of things.
I'm more depressed that they're deporting the mom of a girl who's the age of a college student and is battling bone cancer, but this is upsetting, too.
"Trump insults the American people by saying, 'let's bring back law and order.' Among his first acts as president? Pardoning 1500 violent felons involved in the January 6 attacks on our U.S. Capitol and democracy."
~ Judy Chu
'Height of hypocrisy': Backlash erupts over Trump's vow to protect police.
"We're going to make it less dangerous," Trump said of policing."
Why do some Christan white evangelicals now think that empathy is "toxic?"
Scary!
"Why don't Christians like empathy anymore?"
Ouch.
"'The anger is not with the American people. The anger is with Donald Trump,' Hundt said. 'And the feeling is that if he is going to go to war with Canada — something we never asked for, an economic war — then why on Earth would they spend a nickel in the United States when they don't have to?'"
~ Joe Hernandez
"As Canadians cancel trips due to Trump, the U.S. tourism industry could lose billions"
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5316354/trump-tariffs-canadian-tourists
Now I have been affilicted by a painful back spasm which is not good, so it's time to take care of that.
Is your way of life sustainable for younger people?
Do they benefit from repeating the same patterns, or are they going to have to find new ways that embrace more of humanity?
Be less selfish and less mean. What are some better ways to be?
"4 Ways White Supremacy Harms Humanity"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2022/05/21/4-ways-white-supremacy-harms-humanity/
- Discourages imagination
- Centers itself
- Encourages perfectionism
- Scarcity mindset
The universe wants to encourage you to be less prejudiced.
"US Realtor Fired After Leaving Racist Note For Waiter: 'Hope Trump Deports You'"
Today's painful circumstances include...
Feeling deeply shocked and disappointed at how much discriminating against others has become normalized for some people.
Comforting, in a way?
You know that you definitely will not be repeating certain kinds of old patterns.
Will time please help humanity get better.
I remember when I used to have a lot of panic attacks, really bad ones. But recently, it's like I don't have those as much anymore. Instead of panic attacks, I just feel sick and disgusted at the cruelty and selfishness of some very self-absorbed, shallow, materialistic people. I suppose when I evolve more, I will not feel like their behavior is quite so sickening?
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
How will this look to the Future? Fortunate ones?
Something to wonder.
"ICE violates rights and detains mother of daughter battling cancer"
~ flowerinspanish
Who will plant and prep for the next season?
If this continues...
"This was the day I realized many farm workers aren't going to work..."
flowerinspanish
The olden days were not so great.
"political culture in the Gilded Age reflected a near obsession with reclaiming white male authority"
~ Joshua Zeitz
"The Gilded Age Is Back — And That Should Worry Conservatives"
There's also a dramatic TV show called "The Gilded Age" that's coming back.
"Then as now, growing income and wealth inequality opened a rift in American society, with a small group of elites amassing substantial power and influence. In the Gilded Age, industrial magnates like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie dominated public life, while today, tech CEOs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos hold sway. Political corruption and patronage were rampant then, presaging concerns over corporate influence in politics now. Both periods witnessed intense political polarization and social upheaval, reflecting deep divisions within American society."
~ Joshua Zeitz
"The Gilded Age Is Back — And That Should Worry Conservatives"
"Carrie Coon On 'The Gilded Age' Scoring Season 3"
You are better than that.
He's a self-absorbed person who doesn't think of others and aligns himself with violence and patriarchal white supremacy.
"America’s Friends Are Not Amused by Trump’s Bravado"
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/05/trump-speech-us-allies-00213040
Oddly, this seems to be not a lie.
It's the 21st century. All of your favorite well-off people who passed on could have been reincarnated as the people who pick your food or might be more threatened by the deportations by now.
Why do certain people have to feel more threatened by racism than others?
"A community organizer and former farmworker talks about the unique pressures on Indigenous migrant farmworkers from Mexico, particularly in California, where they represent a quarter of the agricultural workforce."
~ Maye Primera
"Migrant Indigenous Farmworkers Feel Deportation Threat"
I suppose these things happen for a reason.
While some people have taught me that having extra stuff has done almost nothing to actually make them feel safer or more empathetic towards the rest of humanity, there's nothing that says that they can't change for the better before the end of this lifetime.
Will it get better in this lifetime or in the next one?
Values! People have them sometimes, don't they?
I think the people who decided to discriminate against others in this lifetime just because that's what made them feel temporarily safer or more secure or whatever have actually done themselves a real disservice.
Values! Why do you have them? What are they actually for?
Gratitude for the good things. 🍓🫐🌐🏡💰
"Every day, many people in the U.S. eat fruit grown in Mexico, use phones made in China and live in homes built from lumber from Canada."
~ Laurel Wamsley
"How Trump’s tariffs could impact you..."
Time to go eat some breakfast and appreciate it 🙏🏼🥣.
"We were in an office actually doing the work that secures and protects this nation's borders, which supposedly is a big priority," says Copeland. "It's all bull****."
~ Derek Copeland, according to Andrea Hsu
"A military vet and a scientist were securing America's food system. Trump fired them"
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5301150/trump-federal-employees-fired-veteran-food-agriculture
So funny; forgot to laugh.
"Nearly 6,000 USDA workers fired by Trump ordered back to work for now"
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318687/usda-fired-federal-employees-probationary-osc-mspb
More sound advice from a completely trustworthy dude, right?
"Trump says we should 'worry less about Putin and more about rape gangs' days after Tate bros arrive
Trump's strange post on his Truth Social account seems to be a weak attempt to divert attention from his growing friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and seeks to shift the focus of the American public"
~ Nina Joudeh
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-says-should-worry-less-34781914
We live in a very mentally ill culture.
"Rape is the only thing that’s both a weapon of war and offered up for a sure-fire laugh at a comedy club. When rape is framed by accused perpetrators as either a 'misunderstanding' or an 'outright lie,' their assertions are often enough for most people to nod their heads in agreement. As such, rape and sexual abuse are not taken seriously by many of our most important institutions. It is not by chance that the victims of this violent felony are mostly women, children and individuals from marginalized populations."
~ Michelle Bowdler
"How do we make sense of a world that disregards sexual violence?"
Not a good deal! For real.
"Greenland’s prime minister says island isn’t for sale as Trump seeks control ‘one way or the other’"
https://apnews.com/article/greenland-trump-denmark-58b285e03856f660f5e976565a05d681
Really Gross Rape Rhetoric.
"President Trump Says He Will Take Greenland 'One Way or the Other'"
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5155802/president-trump-greenland-one-other
Why do some people join cults?
"Knitting Cult Lady"
(Daniella Mestyanek Young)
https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Tuesday, March 04, 2025
I get some songs in my head sometimes.
This has been a pretty painful life, but at the same time, I'm glad that I came here to experience it.
Hello, beautiful old songs.
"In Spite of All The Danger" - The Quarrymen
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RuuOAA9ekbg&si=-vhWFF3aQrSD-JfU
Led Zeppelin - "The Battle of Evermore"
I don't seem to know why he's in charge of anything.
"Trump doesn't seem to know why he launched a giant trade war"
https://www.vox.com/politics/402530/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-explanation
Who will feed the rich people?
"Trump’s immigration 'gold card' would redefine what it means to be American"
But is there still time for him to become a cornflake guy?
“J. D. Vance Stopped Talking About Eggs" - The Atlantic
'My kids eat a lotta eggs!' he said in Traverse City, Michigan. And in Monroeville, Pennsylvania: 'A lotta eggs in my family!' Although other elements of the speech changed here and there, eggs—and their rising price—were always front and center. 'The 7-year-old, he’s got his mama’s personality, very practical, worried about whether we have enough eggs,' Vance told a crowd in Charlotte, North Carolina. 'And right now all across our country, we’ve got a lot of families that are cutting back because of Kamala Harris’s war on affordability in this country.'”
~ Elaine Godfrey
It's just another breakfast association.
Tori Amos – "Cornflake Girl Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics
Oh weird, now this just came up.
"Green Day Alter 'Jesus of Suburbia' Lyrics to Blast JD Vance"
They should have had much higher leadership expectations.
"Republicans shouldn't be surprised Trump blames Ukraine — his sexual assault views predicted this
Trump's claim that Zelenskyy 'started it' echoes his long history of excusing violence against women'"
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/21/shouldnt-be-surprised-ukraine--his-views-predicted-this/
"Putin started this war. Putin committed war crimes. Putin is the dictator who murdered his opponents," Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., posted on X, clearly rattled in the way liberals have been for nearly a decade under the onslaught of Trump's endless gaslighting.
"Russia’s the aggressor here, there’s no question about that," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters, while trying to pretend Trump didn't mean to say the vile thing he said. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also pitifully tried to inject some reality into the discourse without explicitly criticizing Trump, feebly insisting, "I blame [Russian President Vladimir] Putin above all others."
Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio is an especially sad sack. After being trotted out to brag about "the incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians," he rushed to tell European allies that the U.S. is not switching from the white hats to black hats. They would be foolish to accept his reassurances.
In Trump's view, the larger and more violent party is fully entitled to take what they want from someone smaller and less powerful."
~ Amanda Marcotte
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/21/shouldnt-be-surprised-ukraine--his-views-predicted-this/
I wonder what work by Sinclair Lewis the child of a Holocaust survivor was referring to.
"My Student Gifted Me His First Guitar Before Being Deported..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/s/ZazNAdy1Ew
"At least my mom doesn't have to see it."
~ dagaboy
Maybe it was this one?
"It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11371.It_Can_t_Happen_Here
Monday, March 03, 2025
Dearly beloved familiar folks...
"57 percent think grocery prices will increase over the next six months.
17 percent think grocery prices will decrease.
37 percent support Trump’s reported plans to get rid of the Department of Education.
63 percent disapprove of eliminating the Education Department.
Trump’s suggestion that the United States will take control of Gaza is supported by 28 percent of Americans, and opposed by 71 percent."
~ Matt Loffman
"How Americans feel about Trump after his first month back in office"
Some parents can be so selfish.
Stop discriminating against the others and their out-of-wedlock, lower-income, freckled blessings.
Think of the children! What if they learn to love freckles?
Who knew that freckles would be too "DEI?"
"Moore said, 'I am particularly stunned because I am a proud graduate of Frankfurt American High School a #DOD school that once operated in Frankfurt, Germany.' She added that her father was a Vietnam War veteran."
"Julianne Moore says Trump administration banned her children's book in schools"
Who makes such decisions?
"Lofving said the episode is particularly absurd because Brösche’s original return flight to Berlin was on Feb. 15 — nearly two weeks ago.
'Why are American taxpayers spending thousands of dollars detaining tourists who are perfectly willing to leave,' she said."
~ Gustavo Solis
"German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility"
And the largest category of people who pick my food is...
"32 percent of crop farmworkers were U.S. born, 7 percent were immigrants who had obtained U.S. citizenship, 19 percent were other authorized immigrants (primarily permanent residents or green-card holders), and the remaining 42 percent held no work authorization."
"Legal status of hired crop farmworkers"
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=63466
Ever meet someone with another story?
The student who immigrated here who is also a step mom to her husband's children and never had her own biological children because her body only gave her miscarriages and health problems and she cried about how she felt about her body to me.
Saturday, March 01, 2025
Good one.
~ earthly education
https://www.instagram.com/share/p/BA6Zwud_w7
No, but some people sure do seem to be more tolerant of it these days.
"Have We All Just Agreed to Live With Soul-Crushing Racism?"
Perhaps you're on a path to enlightenment anyways.
Maybe your grandchildren will want to dissect all of your unacknowledged traumas to make some kind of sense of your choices.
How sad.
"ICE Raids Negatively Impact American Indians" | Opinion
https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/ice-raids-negatively-impact-american-indians
Is this like the opposite of what a lot of Native Americans feel?
"I am a white man...I will be fine."
"Trump crackdown worries white immigrants less"
Look at your behavior.
Are you trying to tell the young ones that they should grow up to become racist, sexist, immoral untrustworthy bullies in order to survive?
Specialness. There's something about "white Afrikaners from South Africa."
"President Donald Trump closed America’s doors to refugees worldwide through an executive order on the first day of his second term on Jan. 20. But then he issued a new order just 18 days later to make one exception: for white Afrikaners from South Africa."
~ Bill Frelick
https://www.justsecurity.org/108412/trumps-refugee-admissions-orders/
Not everyone prefers to side with an immature, untrustworthy bully.
"European allies rally around Ukraine after explosive Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/european-allies-rally-around-ukraine-trump-zelenskyy-vance-meeting/
I almost wonder if some Americans had a secret wish for humility that they could not consciously admit to?
"Trump Thinks He Humiliated Zelensky. He Really Humiliated the United States"
That immature definition of manliness makes it look like he does not actually feel good at all, to me.
"Manliness seems to be all that Trump aspires to: and he defines it almost exclusively as cruelty. Both on the international stage and on the domestic one, Trump and the crowd of racist, misogynist and endlessly immature idiots who surround him will stop at nothing to prove what men they are – no matter how much America suffers, or how many people die, in the process. At the meeting, when Zelenskky tried to persuade Trump to feel differently about the prospect of Russian expansion, Trump cut him off. 'Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel,' he said. 'We’re going to feel very good. We’re going to feel very good and very strong.' Maybe he does."
~ Moira Donegan
All kinds of people need to know that they deserve better than a felon and a bully who is a sexual predator.
"She told me we have acclimated to the violence women face. She said a system of power is so normal that even those who are subject to it are internalizing and reproducing it. Remember that in 2016 nearly half of white women voted for Trump. Never forget that less than 1 percent of Black women did. In 2024, white women helped deliver Trump another win."
~ Alia Dastagir
"'No, Women Can’t Just Ignore Online Harassment'- Electric Literature
An excerpt from Alia Dastagir’s 'To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person'”
https://electricliterature.com/no-women-cant-just-ignore-online-harassment-alia-dastagir/
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