royable
royable's Journal"Sprang up" implies suddenness, and sounds too modern to me
Was it sudden? Did it grow or evolve from prior belief systems? Coalesced. Formed. Matured. Was born. Hatched. Came of age. Jelled. Evolved. Condensed. Materialized. Entered the scene. Germinated. And more possibilities, depending on the nature of its origins.
That is not unlike whether the whipped cream or strawberry sauce goes first on top of ...
...a strawberry shortcake biscuit.
They're just words to TFG. Their veracity means nothing to him.
Truth, lie, or anything in between, he doesn’t care. Words are just a tool for him to get what he wants.
I would argue that, by that statement, it does.
Sort of like....
Do not think of an elephant.
Well played.
Why does some people's discomfort outweigh others?
What if someone is uncomfortable not being taught the full spectrum of history but only a biased whitewashed slice?
What if someone is uncomfortable learning about white male racist property-holders' manifest destiny?
What if someone is uncomfortable learning about the Repub party of the past 50 years?
We could entirely do away with this mess if we had unisex restrooms like parts of Europe have,
and so I suspect this is done in other regions as well. The area for sinks and driers/towels is communal. There are genderless stalls that have toilets in them, with partitions and doors that run from floor to ceiling for privacy. There are also private stalls with baby changing tables. Off to the side of the communal area through swinging doors or a bend in a hallway is a separate room with urinals, that can't be seen from the communal area. Women and men (and anyone in-between or other) interact in the communal area with no fuss, because it's all perfectly normal to them to have that communal area. What could be simpler?
I'm sorry, Mr. Deplorable Mouth-Breathing MAGAT Racist Anti-Vaxxer, I can't treat you because...
...my religious convictions prevent me from treating gay people, and I and my conscience know that you're really gay, as much as you may vehemently deny it. As the state decrees, I MUST follow my conscience!
Next patient!
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A possible line of defense?
I just wish he'd stop with the innuendo and tell us what he really thinks.
I remember the years of mendacity, corruption, nepotism, incompetence, gaslighting, cronyism, dissembling, destruction, retribution, projection, waking up every morning wondering “what fresh hell” would strike that day. CNN should be harshly penalized for their normalization of this great danger to the world. If I were King of the Forrrrrrest.
I think it's just an intrinsic personality trait.
Also, simply hardly watching any TV and not listening to AM radio talk shows or most anything else on radio except for NPR helped.
In my family and extended family, of those who turned far right, there were people with drive and people with no drive, there were people deeply religiously indoctrinated and people eschewing religion, there were poor people and slightly less poor people. But there was a commonality that they didn't want someone else to get something that they didn't think they deserved. There wasn't a sense of shared sacrifice, but rather an everyone-for-themselves mentality. And I think that at the root of it was fear.
Both my parents became indoctrinated by the fundamentalist xtians in their later years, turning from what I'd thought were strong independent thinkers who'd taught me to be a strong independent thinker myself, into angry, paranoid, and brainwashed sheep. It was very, very sad, how miserable they were in their later years. Nothing could bring them joy, except, perhaps on brief occasions, an experience of being out in the pureness of nature, away from people.
A good question. It made me think, and I"ll keep thinking about it.
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