Voting/Electoral Fetishism replaces actual political action:
Issues, policies, and outcomes are all carefully manufactured and managed by a small number of power elites. The media, political parties, security forces (psych-ops), even the mafia and intellectual and artistic elites all work together to shape a political simulacrum within which our limited discourses and actions circulate. source
I thought the 4th was slender man, but I’m not sure now.
Yaqub is really smart tho
If Harris wins, she should put the tankies in camps, amirite? /s
Thanks for reminding me to read this book:
My point was that we need to go back to that if we have any hope of moving forward.
So, Make America Great Again
He’s becoming self aware
It certainly sounds like you made the right choice for you if there is a violent history. Hope for the best for you and your brother.
His green goblin popped up for me.
I don’t know your situation, but turning from family will only harden their resolve and make them more defensive. I went through this with my mom. She voted for Trump in 2020, after years of me telling her how bad he was. I was angry and didn’t talk to her for 2 months. During this time I heard a podcast with David McRaney, about how to talk to QAnon people. It helped me to understand how they got there, and how to help them out of it. It is a process. They operate on an emotional level, and you have to relate to them on emotional level. After that, you question how they arrived at their decisions. Like:
If I asked what your favorite movie is, could you explain why it’s your favorite movie?
Emotionally connecting with them and then thoughtfully questioning their beliefs, in a non-condescending way can be beneficial. It may take days or months, but once the seed of doubt is planted, it can start a dialogue. Remember, these are people we love ❤️, we owe it to ourselves to be compassionate in conversations.
When you’re government has done things like the Tuskegee experiments, poor, rural people are going to be cautious.
So, you’re not gonna tell us how to avoid packs of feral dogs?
Word on the street is he got it from this guy—
Aurelius would hate what stoicism has become
My whole life has been a lie.
Jay Shapiro explains this well in a video: