If you read up on Pope Leo’s life, you see that he most definitely was not in it for luxuries and power.

I am no fan of the church as an institution, particularly for what it’s done in the past both on grand scales of violence as well as institutional coverups of abuse, but I know that a massive segment of our world does still look to the church for moral guidance and does not feel aligned with the abuses of the past. I know a lot of people don’t relate to that but it’s kind of wired into our human condition at this point to seek out higher power to align with, so we can’t just dismiss everyone who looks to the church as idiots, nor those running the church as scammers or grifters.

I don’t know if in his heart of heart someone like Pope Leo really believes the literal truth behind what he’s taught and upheld in poverty stricken regions and while trying to bring communities together, it’s probably more nuanced than that, but I don’t think you sacrifice so much in your life unless you think there’s SOME level of higher-calling or greater reward for preserving some kind of faith. I can’t really relate, I have no faith, but I don’t look down on those who do have faith. I mean, the universe is absurd, I can’t judge one kind of absurdity over another, I just don’t have use for emotional appeasement about fear of death.

When you resent a segment of a population for not living up to your standards, you’re not being a better person, you’re being that which you hate. Black-and-white thinking, xenophobia, hate.

Meanwhile, if you recognize the failings of populations over individuals, you will form far more useful and nuanced analysis of situations. An individual person has great capacity and infinite capability for change, for learning, for adapting and understanding. But when you are talking populations, they take on every worst property you can attribute and become inflexible, disappointing mobs of stupidity.

If you can’t hold both of these ideas in your head at once to both empathize and sympathize with those you don’t understand, while remaining true to your own values and understanding of the world, again you’re just MAGA with an accent.

enjoy your new authoritarian government and lawless system.

It’s there too, wherever you are and however much better you think your tribe is, you are the same fucking species with the same fucking vulnerabilities, and the harder you stamp your feet and shake your fist that you’re “better” the more vulnerable you are to having your agency taken away without you even caring or realizing it.

I don’t really want to continue to try to teach “being a mature adult” to someone just looking for validation for their own self-importance, so I’ll leave it at that and just hope you grow up one day. I won’t be there to see it, or anything else you have to say.

Americans looking over there like:

ADHD refers to a spectrum of symptoms, it’s not necessarily a disease in itself. This is a very misunderstood concept, and I’m sure I will get pushback here on it, but I’ve been through the system so many times and talked to a lot of doctors. The DSM5 is always in a state of flux and is used as a guide for identifying symptom clusters and forming plans to ease harmful effects of those clusters.

What’s all this have to do with your trouble focusing? That there is likely an underlying issue causing your ADHD symptoms, and this could be anything from an actual innate disorder like autism spectrum disorder, or it could be an effect of life experiences like PTSD from stress or abuse, or it could be something else entirely.

This is why the boring answer, which is most often the correct answer, is to consult an actual professional, not rely on asocial, sheltered, internet strangers because you will unconsciously seek out what you want to hear, not what you need to do to address the problem, which may in fact be something you really don’t want to hear.

a plurality did vote for this after he was convicted of crimes and they saw what he did in the first go around.

A lot of the exit polling suggested that most Trump voters who switched from supporting Obama and Sanders, really had no idea what was going on with Trump, his family, their legal accusations and literally everything else we all know.

They did not actually remember anything about the first round, because so very much of the USA is vast, vast swaths of millions of people working 7 days a week to afford having children in a suburban people-hatchery, and we have a capital system that has been given full, unrestricted access to our brains, eroding our attention-spans and desire to feel engaged with anything for more than 20 seconds.

This is what we’re fighting, not just an angry mass of armed racist goblins, but a vast pandemic of apathy and boredom with literally everything. A banal army of shrugging masses who do not make critical judgements, because what has critical thought done for us? What does anything matter? Just look at what’s in front of you and cast your vote based on how you feel at the moment. This is the prevailing attitude, whether explicit or buried under layers of rationalization.

Nothing, and nothing will change. That’s what it means.

For the frothing Crockett stans rushing in to defend the candidate that the GOP and establishment Dems are obviously not scared of, Colbert has had Crockett on at least three times. You can watch the interviews on Youtube.

From here you can contort and backflip if it “counts” but then you’re just going to bat for Trump’s cronies. This “rule” has never been enforced on or upheld by late-night talk shows who are not journalists and can do whatever they want.

I have nothing against Crockett, but between her zionist tendencies and lack of much substance past being sassy, I believe Talarico can do the most harm to the Trump administration. We don’t win with sass, we win with convincing a lot of back-country hicks that they can have safe, comforting, Christian democratic leadership without fearing being placed in reeducation camps. Despite most of them needing reeducation camps.

This is why everyone is scared of Talarico, he can do a lot to flip Texans and maybe the state broadly.

Do you really think you’re going to get an intern position working between Trump’s FCC chairman and Trump’s CBS owner? Because honestly you might.

I didn’t have “Lemmy .ml user goes to bat for zionist democrat candidate” on my bingo card for today, but here we are.

It’s really easy to move if you get a running start and really give it some muscle. If you have room in your cartoonishly large suitcase, you can bring your family, your home, your car, your career and your extended family and whatever support systems you have! Also, governments all over the world love when you just drop in unannounced, they set up trampolines and big piles of comfy pillows for you to jump onto safely and everything.

Kayfabeis real, people know it is, they engage with it anyway because they want to have fun in stories and narratives and we’ve all learned that we can make our own reality and get some level of social support for it.

Yah you’re right, hundreds of millions of people just aren’t as smart as you, it must be crushing to have so much clarity and insight that your entire species doesn’t share, the righteous loneliness must be palpable.

Translation: they’re going to make everything else more expensive, like they already do to offset hardware prices.

It’s fantastic and absolutely bonkers how many of the world’s problems will be solved once Trump finally returns to the Earth. How can one man, with so few working brain-cells, cause so much damage and death and chaos.

Yah you’re right, all these poor, hard-working Landlords who serve the people must be protected at all costs, they do so much for the average renter, we can’t dare touch their clockwork perfect system that SOOOO many people love.

Jesus christ, grow a clue.

New York has some of the highest wealth in the country, but woe and damnation if we suggest that maybe they should consider helping us out with shit like roads and garbage and sewers. Nah, let’s let the people working two jobs pay for all that.

“Why can’t we just continue as normal and keep passing the problems down the road?” - New York’s comfortable masses who are already older than dirt and have no stake in the future.

Since there is no such actual thing as “law” when it comes to power and wealth, the best we can do right now is keep the horrors fresh enough for long enough that hopefully the administration collapses (likely) or that we see the current legislative and judicial branch decide to take action (a snowball’s chance in hell) so no, no arrests will happen until the fascies are out of office. And even then, it will hinge on the political will for a new administration or new set of representatives to take on.

There is a very strong chance it will never go anywhere. There are a lot of Epsteins out there and they’re not going to face justice for the exact reason that nobody has wanted to release Epstein’s files, which is it’s tied to too many people and massively destabilizing to governments. We want that, they don’t.

So yes: anyone living there by choice today is a fucking moron.

Simple minds always see simple solutions for enormously complicated problems. Thus, how we got in this situation in America, people believing massive issues have simple causes and solutions. Great to see it’s fully contagious and/or baked into the human condition no matter where you go.