GONADS125 @ GONADS125 @lemmy.world

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trump wants to be hitler

This graphic is from this MeidasTouch Network video.

I thought it was pretty funny that the multiple hours long promotional 'documentary' they insisted be admissible evidence contained inaccuracies (perjury).

They just keep making the situation worse. It's like watching such a slow moving train wreck. Like the steamroller scene from Austin Powers, but drawn out longer.

Nah, definitely not the asshole. It's pretty clear that they are just upset by no longer having their laziness enabled.

One important component of assertiveness that I taught to my former clients was that everyone has an inherent right to refusal. You can say no, and you're not obligated to provide any justification.

Obviously you ought to provide context when appropriate and in work situations if you want to keep your job. But I was in similar situations where I would refuse leadership's direction on reasonable grounds/different department's duty. I would not let notorious department heads throw me under the bus, and I'd save emails to call them out on their bullshit in the email chain they lied/blamed me. I would refuse orders to over-bill and call out managers/leadership trying to push us grunts to commit medicaid fraud/waste, even in the middle of their meetings announcing the directives.

I wasn't liked by those toxic people in the organization, but they learned respect/fear me and a lot of my peers/my team would tell me they appreciated me speaking up when they were afraid to. My supervisor told me after I had her come into our boss' office with me to confront our boss over unwarranted criticism about me. Afterwards my supervisor told me: "I wish I could talk to leadership like that.. but I'm too afraid to lose my job."

I was never fired but I did leave the job when I got really sick with covid + RSV + pneumonia, a secondary bacterial infection in my lungs, pleurisy, and then long covid. The healthcare industry in my region was so strained, we had so many people quit due to toxic leadership/over-worked/burned out, and the policy was not hiring replacements and instead pushing the load on the remaining employees. I probably would've quit if I hadn't gotten sick.

But I'm proud that I always stood by my principles even when it meant disobeying/confronting superiors. My stubbornness and threshold for confrontation also made me a damn good client advocate. That was what I was most known for. I kept residential care and assisted living facilities in check, hotlining them and aiding state government investigations. It was usually stealing client funds or meds, but I also uncovered neglect and abuse.

I can be wrong and an ass at times, just like all of us. But if I feel strongly convicted about something, peer-pressure or fear of losing my job won't stop me from holding my ground.

I think you're doing the right thing standing your ground. I would appreciate you being the one to put yourself on the line for my benefit as well, if I worked in your department. That is a quality I would want in my manager. Rather than rolling over and accepting additional work/disruptions to your department's actual duties.

Of course this is total speculation, but releasing this and then trying to appeal his case because of it sounds exactly like something trump/his lawyers would do..

That's why they've been acting so belligerently in the civil case. They want the judge to fight them on their outrageous stunts, but he's not giving them any feasible reason to warrant an appeal.

I had a client who did 3 or 4 in solitary during his 24 year stretch for murder.

He said he told the prison doctor "Don't take me off my meds. If I'm off my meds, I become evil." He said they did it anyway due to budget cuts, and he really fucked up a couple guards when his psychotic symptoms came back full force from being taken off his meds cold turkey.

His sentence was originally 20 years, but they added 5 more for the attack on the guards. Most of that additional sentence was served in solitary confinement. He got let out on the 24th year for good behavior and that's when I got him on my caseload. One of our first treatment goals was "I want to have feelings again."

He did a great job turning his life around on the outside and went out of his way to help others. Still hustled a bit.. He has an alzheimer's diagnosis looming over his head, and wants to go out "Being a good person for once" in the maybe 5 year window before he loses himself to the disease.

The truth is, anyone could've ended up in his position with the circumstances that lead to the very heinous act he committed. I learned from that job that we all live in the grey, and black and white thinking is just a construct we lie to ourselves about. Anyone is capable of extreme actions when pushed beyond their threshold and/or influenced by a psychotic episode/drug-induced psychosis.

I think this needs to be shared around:

This graphic is from this MeidasTouch Network video.

Human zombies aren't real. But zombies are real within the animal kingdom (to some extent..).

I like how relevant their opener is to this question:

Zombie movies have got it all wrong. Zombifying viruses are unlikely to give dead people the brain-munchies — but real-life parasites have the power to take over brains and make real zombies.

Calling his opponents vermin is a classic dehumanizing technique. Viewing a group as sub-human makes it easier to justify cruelty, and is a component of most genocidal regimes.

And that's totally in line with trump's open love and praise of murderous, genocidal dictators across the globe. Like most everything trump does, it's sickening and blatantly obvious.

Edit: Thought this was a great graphic I just saw on MeidasTouch Network.

Wow.. way to extrapolate a great many assumptions from such little information. You really ought to be careful jumping to conclusions around all those slippery slopes.

And yes, I remembered your other comment. Have you ever heard of rhetorical questions? Do you understand how questions can be used to make points and further discussion?

It's always entertaining to me when someone attempts to paint someone as an idiot, and is too dense to realize they are making such ass of themselves.

Thanks for the amusement. I try not to feed trolls and toxic users, so this is it. Feel free to get the last word in to feel like you "won" an argument and pat yourself on the back.

Hopefully some day you can smell your own shit on your knees.

Reality isn't an episode of NCIS

Proceeds to sound like someone who's watching too much crime/action TV, and is jumping to conclusions about random internet strangers and secret service members...

And where are you getting this bomb threat and warning shot? The article repeatedly states they "opened fire" and there is absolutely no mention of a bomb or a warning shot.

Are you just assuming the shots fired were warning shots? Are you assuming they perceived this to be a bomb threat? It seems like you're constructing a straw man argument.

And 3 men attempting to break into a car is not something I think justifies jumping to the conclusion of explosives or use of lethal force.

Right!?..

I have joked for years that we are living in a simulation and in 2016, they cranked up the satire and absurdity levels. Then in 2020, they cranked up the suffering factor, but left satire and absurdity turned up.

It has seriously felt like living in The Onion universe these last few years.

Especially after trump's presidency and the actions of his corrupt secret service officers, I think they need both eyes staring; not just a side eye.

I just have different expectations of different law enforcement agencies. I guess the stakes are significantly higher in protecting VIPs as secret service, but I still don't believe that it warrants risking the lives of bystanders in this scenario.

I don't believe Biden's grand daughter's life is more valuable than a random passerby's. But obviously the secret service aren't going to view it that way. I can comprehend their duty, but I disagree with firing here.

Yeah, fuck me for expressing an opinion in relevant discussion that differs from yours.

I hoped toxic circle-jerking, downvoting every dissenting opinion, and upvoting memes and off-topic jokes over relevant discussion would stay on reddit, but here we are.

I understand that. What I meant was in comparison to local police and Sherrifs departments. I certainly don't view them the same, just as I have different expectations from FBI, DEA, etc. (None very positive, mind you..)

You're downvoted but that surprised me as well, being the Secret Service and not [local] police. The perpetrators fled in a vehicle. Doesn't sound like they were a threat; just car thieves trying to flee.

Important to note that only one Secret Service member opened fire. That makes me more suspicious that it was an unjustified use of force.

That's an irresponsible reason to discharge firearms in public. Not worth risking innocent bystanders' lives over petty car thieves.

Independent religious beliefs outside the confines of religious establishments tend to be healthier, and you're then free of the corruption and manipulation that inherently permeates all religions, due to our inherently flawed human nature.

Religious establishments are very much human inventions. Even if claims within religious canons are true, the religion and texts are all interpretations by deeply flawed human beings, and the rituals practiced were invented by them.

Religion can be used to manipulate and control, and there are individuals who will exploit it for their own self-interests within every religion.

Other than the supportive community that follows some religious institutions, I wholeheartedly believe that people are better off inwardly reflecting on their beliefs, rather than being told what to believe by deeply flawed and easily corruptible authority figures.

Their beliefs are no more demonstratably true than your personal spiritual beliefs.

I'm personally an atheist, but I'm not an anti-theist, and I am a huge advocate of specifically what you're asking about. People should reflect on and develop their own independent spiritual beliefs.

I've known this was coming for a few years after the CEO of my previous mental health employer told us he wanted to grow the company large enough to compete with Amazon who were going to be entering the primary care and mental healthcare field. He also warned of Walmart following suit.

It was a hard pill to swallow and I hoped he was wrong, but here we are... It's going to be a scary time if monopolies like Amazon and Walmart strangle out real providers and fuck up our healthcare industry even worse. We need these fuckers to have this fail spectacularly to preserve the industry.

GTA+ is already a thing..

Up/downvotes are not intended as dis/agreement buttons. You are supposed to upvote relevant content and downvote irrelevant content, spam, trolls, hate, and misinformation/propoganda.

Upvoting on the basis of liking something played a large part in reddit's decline, where every sub was inundated with off-topic shit-posts of r/funny and r/adviceanimals circle-jerking. They were upvoted for a cheap laugh, but should've been downvoted for being off-topic.

The best example I had on reddit illustrating the importance of maintaining the integrity of community topics was this:

Do you think it's okay for r/wtf material of animals to be posted in r/awww or r/EyeBleach? If r/TheOnion posts were posted in r/WorldNews?

Comments on subs like r/TIL and even r/science became nothing but irrelevant jokes and memes, which buried relevant discussion. This voting behavior is why subs like r/nonononoyes lost their purpose and were spammed with shitty r/funny cross-posts.

I strictly upvote on the basis of relevant content. My wife has thought I'm crazy when I show her something we both are entertained by, and then she sees me promptly downvote it. Even if I enjoy something, I will downvote it if it's an off-topic post.

Conversely, I upvote dissenting opinions I don't agree with, even if I'm debating someone, if it is promoting topic discussion. When people downvote out of disagreement, it suppresses dissenting opinions and healthy discourse.

Downvoting due to disagreement is what leads to toxic echo-chamers. (Again, there's a clear difference in downvoting content promoting hate/racism/bigotry.)

Upvoting on the basis of cheap entertainment promotes off-topic and low-quality discussion/posting behavior.

I couldn't stand being on an instance without downvotes, personally. They are abused, but they serve a valid purpose.

(I can see one person downvoted your comment btw.)