AutistoMephisto @ AutistoMephisto @lemmy.world

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The logic there being that insurance companies have a profit incentive to not deny care.

If there is one thing I could bring back from that era, it would be the durability of their appliances and materials. Much better than this throwaway culture we have, where everything is made to last a couple years past warranty, then thrown out at the first sign of malfunction. Shit from the 1950's was built to endure decades of regular use, and repairs were simple and cheap.

Exactly. One Senator formally challenged a union president, who was there to testify, to a fist fight, and Bernie Sanders had to tell him to sit the fuck down. That guy even brought up the Caning of Charles Sumner, like he thought that made what he did okay.

Well, yeah. Because that would mean giving personhood to the group that was enslaved, and Republicans love to ask, "Well, can we really say that Group "x" are people?"

And watching what streaming is turning into, eventually these titans may come roaring back.

Exactly. The whole Conservative ethos is "government bad"(unless is our government). They want kids in programs that are almost all religious indoctrination programs.

They want someone who is going to be a dictator to the people they don't like. Ask the SA how they were rewarded for their service to the Fuhrer. Oh, you can't, because they died. Their reward was arrest and summary execution once their usefulness had ended.

Exactly. And they keep sowing this myth that the guns will be taken away at any point in time, but "you should keep them in case we become tyrannical!" And the definition of what is and isn't tyranny is always subject to change, but usually if it's tyranny against people the base doesn't like, then it's not tyranny.

I wonder what Hitler would have to say about Israel, if he could see it now? He'd probably tell them they're doing it wrong, as if there's a right way to genocide.

Anger is a catalyst for change. The problem is that, all too often the catalyst is used for destructive ends as opposed to constructive ends. And therapy can help to mitigate the chance that someone will use their anger to harm, but like the parable of the broken window, destruction can be creative.

Mainly because we don't really tend to solve problems by "considering more gratitude" or "trying yoga at sunrise maybe?"

I feel like at some point all the therapists, at least Western ones, got together and decided that instead of helping men with practical advice and solutions, they would offer help that while being far less practical, would, at least hopefully, in some small way, make them feel a smidge bit better about the problems.

Will yoga at sunrise fix the issues? No. Will it help you feel better about them? That's the hope. Because, unfortunately, a lot of issues are outside of our control, so the modern therapy approach seems to be centered on getting patients to focus more on the things within their control, like how the things outside of their control make them feel.

Sort of a "Leopards Ate My Face" moment. Basically a bunch of Texas Conservatives are realizing that everything everyone told them would happen if they supported an abortion ban is happening, and now they can't handle it.

Exactly. The US technically can end the Russo-Ukrainian War any time it wants. All they gotta do is go "boots on the ground", but that carries problems of its own. Mainly that Russia is a nuclear power and Putin himself has said he's not afraid to launch.

Yeah, until the ToS changes and the manufacturer bricks the heart because they missed a payment. Or said something online they don't agree with, or joined a group they don't like or any one of 100 other things.

I have a family member with an artificial heart and that is a worry of mine, that one day such implants will need you to agree to ToS in order to ensure continued operation.

Exactly. One side openly embraces fascism, while the other side actively fights progressive voices. If there's one thing I hate about voting Democrat, it's that every time progressives try to actually get power, and try to do something positive, for real people, the Establishment members of the party just drown them out with more money.

as demonstrated by Putin saying Ukraine is actually Russian because it's historically part of the Russian empire

Funny that he says "Russian Empire", because Russia hasn't been an Empire since Tsar Nicholas II. Is he trying to go back to those days, like try to install himself as Tsar?

but there are plenty of people who seem to have other definitions,

"The Protestant Reformation was a mistake. " -Martin Luther

Progressives need to get meaner. This is the point where they need to stage a coup within the Party and push out these neolib, pro-capitalist, anti-progress, establishment hacks.

No, he totally knows it's a turn-off, but uses that as fuel for his extremism, as proof that he's on the right path. He remembers that Chick Tract with that one panel, "They hated Jesus because He spoke the Truth." Like, that's how all zealots are. David Koresh straight up told his followers that law enforcement arriving at the compound in Waco was a sign that he was right. Can you imagine if the Waco standoff never happened? He'd be a Republican Senator.