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In reply to the discussion: Karma is real: GOP Senator Who Walked Out To Stop Climate Vote Loses House To Wildfire [View all]intheflow
(28,462 posts)47. Trauma is personal and specific.
It's not a competition over who has the worst traumatic experience. Literally, the trauma you know is the trauma you know. That doesn't make it any less traumatic for that individual, nor does it lessen the trauma experienced by the lost lives.
As for me, I have a hard time understanding how a 69-year-old man still believed in "forever" things. What on Earth or the heavens lasts forever? That comment reflected his hubris and privilege, for sure. And it also illustrated how much faith he's put in magical thinking - a faith now shattered by reality. He's an asshole, and he's traumatized. I just hope this awakens him to the bigger climate change unfolding now. (Though not holding my breath for that.)
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Karma is real: GOP Senator Who Walked Out To Stop Climate Vote Loses House To Wildfire [View all]
StarfishSaver
Sep 2020
OP
Now what does the jerk have to say...........think its fake or a hoax just imagine
turbinetree
Sep 2020
#3
They know it is not fake. It is just that their oil company donors don't want any
Dustlawyer
Sep 2020
#16
Being civil is worthless when your dealing with evil people acting in bad faith
DSandra
Sep 2020
#29
Anyone who puts that much store in their material possessions hasn't evolved as an adult.
llmart
Sep 2020
#51