justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
Once upon a time I was a Republican and then I went to college and turned into the leftist liberal progressive Democrat that hides under your bed and no I am not a man and yes I’m addicted to downvotes, every time I get one it’s like a bump of that sweet smoking gun. Also I do 99% of this on mobile in my bathtub, so if I don’t respond to you it’s because my screen was too tiny to read everything before I got out of the bath.
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justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
The 25 year old who admitted he was racist against Indians is being reinstated by the guy who has an Indian wife and half-Indian kids. Methinks it's eating itself in its confusion.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
No, I don’t think liberalism is dying. I think the reverse is true; the population of conservatives is ever-shrinking like that meme of two ants in the middle of water.
I can’t pull up my non-anecdotal evidence at the moment, but I can use my own anecdote in my family. My entire family, from my parents to the great grandparents, is blood-red socially-conservative MAGA Republican, and I am the only progressive blue blood Democrat (the story of how that happened is tragically boring). My entire family is also stupid. I can not think of a single person that has demonstrated emotional intelligence more developed than a fifth-grader (and therefore virtually every member is suffering from depression) and I can think of the numerous amount of objectively stupid decisions (money purchases, medical needs, personal safety) that make me marvel at how having a lot of money can insulate a man from his own misery.
Anyway, my Republican family members around my age have 1-2 children, but they’re close to poverty due to having a one-income household since the mothers have no careers and are supported by their wealthy parents. Additionally, it is seriously possible their children will have early deaths due to medical negligence (it already happened to one, actually, so it’s natural to assume it will happen again). While I might not have as many children now, I believe the odds of them being intelligent enough to participate in the local, national and global scale are far higher than my familial counterparts if nothing more than I am less likely to leave my children unattended in dangerous situations because I will be smart enough to recognize them. A smart alive Democrat is worth a dozen stupid dead Republicans as I say with cheek.
My family is convicted that I did not come to my beliefs on my own and so are desperate to find the culprit and stop them so that I’ll metaphorically “come back home”. The Republican party gives them an answer; the gays, the trans, the liberals, the colleges, the porn, the atheists and the scientists all duped me into it, and when Trump comes and undoes it all everything will go back to normal and I’ll want to spend holidays with them. I believe it will be a genuine tragedy when Trump’s presidency is over and my family is faced with the terror that is my absence.
Therefore I believe, with my anecdotal evidence, that the same situation is being replayed all across the country in families just like mine. I believe the illusion of dying liberalism is actually the slow death rattle of conservatism. The wheel of progress is slow but ever-grinding, as they-who-is-I say.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
I agree with your opinion that Europe needs to gain further independence from North America, if only to aid in reducing its hostility. It’s dismal how many short-sighted people are able to effect America’s future at the moment.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
Why do you think being hostile to our allies that are dependent on us with no regard for their reaction will not result in them gaining independence, not so very much unlike the origins of North America?
I don’t think there is an interpretation that isn’t the “maximumally cynical one”. He said multiple times he was not involved with Project 2025, and then signed bills directly from the authors of it. I struggle to imaginr a reasonable interpretation isn’t that he’s a populist who will say anything in the moment to make you like him. I believe when you stop looking at the motivation involving actually being beneficial to America and instead being beneficial to billionaires and foreign agents (China, Russia) the answer to "why do these policy decisions" becomes pretty obvious.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
So, just so we are talking about the same thing, you're saying you believe the Republican party is more likely to decrease the cost of housing, improve the public schools, decrease the cost of common goods, encourage community enrichment through programs, promote sexual education, promote livable wages and decrease the cost of healthcare than the Democrats?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
I have a question: of the two political parties in the USA, which one do you think is more likely to try and enact such policies as you have described?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
He is already trying this tactic with our allies, which is making them upset, and he doesn't care. Why should our allies care about what we want when we demonstrate such hostility?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
A majority of the global population suffers from emotional neglect.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
In the tedious but ongoing marathon that is the road to curing my dysthymia, I’m coming to the end of my menstrual cycle, which will make it fourth months in a row. I’m already in record territory when the third one happened, but this fourth one is, quite frankly, amazing. The status quo has been one-to-two cycles a year ever since I began puberty and I’d like to think I’m prepared for an infertility diagnosis in the future, but I’m a little more optimistic I’ll dodge that RNG bullet with these developments, and if I don’t have to hear such dismal news from a doctor somewhere down the line, I’ll take those silver linings.
In relation to my dysthymia, I can only assume a correlation between my treatment and one of the side effects which is supposed to be decreased stress. It feels like a two-sided blade; if decreasing my stress is a side effect of curing my mood disorder and also happens returns a natural menstrual cycle, the gulf of change implies an equally deep breadth of stress. It’s been a-given (for everyone else, lol) that stress will shorten or interrupt cycles; what are the implications if mine have been virtually eliminated most of my life? Hilariously stressful, that’s what they are. The universe has a wonderful sense of humor, but sometimes it’s confusing figuring out what the joke is. Alexa, play “Charlie’s Inferno” on repeat.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
4mo ago
I believe the likelihood is quite high. In my opinion, the second election of Trump is a cultural-because-of-generational backlash by "the Boomers" and "Gen X" against changes in the culture brought about by "the Millennials", who I believe have a radical split from previous generations inspired by changing perceptions of childhood emotional neglect. I suspect in the next decade in the "after that", then "then what" will be that American culture will take a hard and final turn against social conservatism. I like to say the wheel of progress is dismally slow, but it is inspirationally grinding.
I form this opinion off of my own anecdotal experiences in observing the microcosm of my family. My socially conservative members grow less and less able to relate to my non-socially conservative members and, as a result, the beliefs "dry out", so to say. I've observed that although the socially conservative do have more children, the families tend to splinter and fall into poverty and miss the window to be relevant to the culture, so the ecosystem of beliefs is constrained to niche branches of the family.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
I truly believe the book is useful for all parenting backgrounds. It’s an excellent warning about the insidious dangers of emotional neglect.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
The MOST useful thing was reading “Running on Empty” and “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents”. I wish I could make the both books required reading in school lol, but Running on Empty really did change my life. By using example after example to validate my experiences, I was able to start putting names to feelings I’d felt for a long time but had ignored, which led to a proper diagnosis from my doctors that had a road to recovery. Those books, in my opinion, are cheats to life hahaha.
In second place would be the three-month outpatient program for drug addiction that broke down what’s running under the hood when it comes to addiction and learning the H.A.L.T method. H.A.L.T rocks.
Third would be the two short stories “A Short Stay In Hell” and “The Divine Farce”. They were incredibly inspirational to me as stories about the tenacity of the human spirit. Even if I were locked in a small tube with pear juice and shit dripping all over me, I’d still be okay. Helps keep the motivation up when I feel like I’m not making the progress I want to make.
Third would be smoothies. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of smoothies, with two scoops of Benefiber. Cold, light foods are a-must when your stomach is a pit of sinking feelings and smoothies can bypass that, at least for me.
Fourth is sobriety of all caffeine, nicotine, marijuana and alcohol. It sucks boo-hoo but it kept my mind clear so I could focus on the problem and more importantly when it was showing it’s ugly head so I could use H.A.L.T. It’s hard to tell if I’m angry or hungry when I’m buzzed.
Fifth is ruthlessly ending friendships and relationships with people I did not feel I could be authentic with. The criteria was, “If I feel like I can’t express my authentic reaction to this person, then I can’t be around them.” Cry about it really bad, then do it. It really, truly is better to be alone than to have bad friends, if nothing else than the boredom of forcing yourself to feel your loneliness will inspire you to move towards making new ones.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
My long, long road to curing my dysthymia may be coming to an end this year. Me and my doctor increased my dose of Wellbutrin to 300mg while keeping my sertraline at 100mg. The hope is that together they will carry the last of the chemical leg over the finish line, and that combined with the non-medicinal treatments might finally cure me of this stupid disorder that's been an absolute monkey on my back.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
Yes, I'd like a list of names of people you believe are enforcing wokeness.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
The very beginning of the article define "The Cathedral" as "journalism plus academia". That's pretty specific to me. In fact I scrolled further and found even more specifically "Harvard, Yale, the Times and the Post". In your own example, you listed a line of bureaucracy from lawyers to lawfare to companies.
However I am going to assume you are also implying that even if the article is not being specific, your definition of the Cathedral still holds. Your second claim that "everyone knows that "they" will get you" is consensus building. Who is "everyone"? Does that include me?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
I’m not confused lol, I very much think you are wrong, but in the spirit of debate, I’d like to discuss specifics. Specifically, who is “they” that have dominated “western politics”? Is it the president? The Supreme Court? The circuit courts? The governors? The school boards? The voters? The entire Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of government?
I’ll illustrate an example; when I say “the people who think our main problems are caused by Oppressors organizing society to keep the oppressed under their heel from a movement that has dominated western politics for a decade”, those people in particular would be Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Ron Desantis, Majorie Taylor Greene, Mike Johnson and Donald Trump, to name a few.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
Do you believe people who enter a building that the police tell them not to enter are not breaking the law?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
I looked up "soothing, nurturing euphemisms" and got "rest your mind," "take a moment," "breathe easy," "unwind," "decompress," "let go," "find your center," "peaceful pause," "quiet time," "soothe your soul," "gentle transition," "calm your nerves," "ease into relaxation," "soft landing," and "tranquil space." If the claim is that men don't use these phrases, I find that dubious.
Additionally, I don't consider definitions of environments, moves and policies to be a part of defining language.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
"Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand, you don't get to insist that no one talks about your political project and it's weak and pathetic that you think you do"? Or is it "the basic stance of the social justice set, for a long time now, has been that they are 100% exempt from ordinary politics." Who is "they"?
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
Well, if you are succumbing to labeling anything you consider bad as woke and everything else as something else...I don't know how to argue on that except...don't?
If the question is "wokeness is receding", and you define wokeness as "all discrepancies of outcome are due to pervasive, systemic biases rooted in unchanging, historically-defined oppressor/oppressed dynamics, and such dynamics outweigh most or all other concerns", I struggle to see where claims that a discrepancy is due to biased dyanmics and not merit are, in general, going down. Mark Zuckerburg just claimed that the bias he struggles with in his business is because of the overabundance of "feminine energy"; I hardly see that as symptoms of a decline.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
I don't think I can successfully steelman an argument if I don't know the OP's argument, but I will try. It'll just be a lot of assumptions, which I'm not a fan of.
The position is that there are two binary expressions of gender, which masculine and feminine, and therefore there are two categories of language corresponding. Additionally, the correct expression of this binary is the Western definition of masculinity and femininity.
This is natural; two completely different species attempting to communicate with eachother naturally will have separate languages, complete with their own vocabulary, grammar, connotations and implications. Since virtually all first world countries are Western, it shows that the Western definition of masculinity and femininity is the most successful, and therefore accurate, definition.
If we follow the examples of the Western definition of masculinity and femininity, then, we can assume what OP means by feminine language is language that is "collective, random, accommodating, passive, vulnerable, emotional, fragile, small, dependent, intuitive, submissive" and "tactful", among others.
Now, seeing as I have seen a fair share of men identifying with the Western definition of masculine and use language that is random, passive, emotional, fragile and tactful, then that language can't be exclusively feminine then. And if there is no exclusivity to the language and both elements can be included with one another, then the definitions of "feminine language" have become so vague as to render the whole notion non-existent.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
Gag? I'm not going to continue conversation with someone who can't restrain themselves from insulting me.
justawoman
I’m Bernie Sanders’ personal gimp
5mo ago
What is "feminine language"?
Someone who is racist already has demonstrated a poor judgement of reality.
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