J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane
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They're talking about how religions like Christianity make sex a "shameful" act that should never be enjoyed outside of anything but institutional marriage, even though it's completely natural to desire consensual sex for myriad reasons.
The fact that humans can recognize the biological motivations of sexuality and its various purposes (pleasure, connection, procreation) doesn't make sex stupid, silly, or somehow undignified. Religious institutions try hard to make anything sexual a sin in order to shame adherents into not having sex because "only God can grant you that joy and only within marriage, anything else sends you straight to hell."
I wonder if the effect would be akin to mixing every paint color and getting "super dark greyish black-brown" as a result.
My guess would be "super icy horrifying franken-fruit."
It is just laziness and they have a blanket scapegoat to use to get out of doing their job if you walk in and are overweight.
(Please take the following as pondering general discussions of obesity between doctors/patients and not specifically directed at you.)
This was a really thought-provoking summary for me, your belief that doctors are telling people to lose weight out of "laziness." If a suggestion like this is lazy, are patients who don't listen to their doctor somehow not lazy?
The idea that doctors make weight a scapegoat seems prevalent in American healthcare (probably because we're generally obese). It feels a lot like projection of one's "laziness" (mentally it's much more complex than that) onto a doctor, even though that doctor has probably seen hundreds of cases with the same predictable outcomes and knows that appropriate weight management would head off more serious treatment.
Frankly, I think doctors are anything but lazy when they are "forced" to order and perform risky and invasive treatments on a patient who refused to meet them halfway before the treatment became necessary in the first place. I get it, nobody likes being told what to do, especially when it seems (and literally is) so personal. But doctors also don't like to be told what to do ("fix me!") when a patient deigns even the gentlest suggestion to take some control of their issues at hand.
I am now 30lbs below my highest weight. The severity of my issues (joint pain, lethargy, depression, etc.) has palpably lessened losing that 30lbs very inconsistently over the last four years. If anything, I think doctors need to better read the psychological resistance many people have with weight loss and then illustrate to, rather than tell, patients how to attain weight loss in ways that don't seem restrictive.
That 30lbs of mine, could I have done that in 30 weeks or fewer? Sure, but I didn't want to feel perpetually hungry. In fact, I never even set a goal weight. Instead of thinking "Idgaf about my weight" or "I must lose 20lbs by Christmas!!" I just made the tiniest changes, the biggest one being taking advantage of times I wasn't hungry by (gasp) not eating.
... Shit, I guess lazy weight loss works, too!
I think maybe it's both? Too harsh of sentences (in some cases or jurisdictions) might contribute to a general police mindset which "conflates" the legal repercussions of rape with murder. This leads to or reinforces victim-shaming questions like, "do you really want to ruin their life over this?"
The rule of law and law enforcement need to strike a better balance in both directions I think.
So I am still tapering off Zoloft since this "aha" realization only happened this week... Everyone please take my extra serotonin, please!!! (/s)
For real though, being depressed was its own terrifying animal and I hope anyone suspecting it gets the help they need. I'm glad I could work through it with meds and now therapy, but it's crazy how delicate the balance needs to be with brain chemicals!
I had definitely thought that as well! But then I googled it and found there can be "major interactions" between Adderall and Zoloft, and that Adderall can actually affect serotonin (not sure if it promotes more serotonin or inhibits reuptake). It must be some kind of compounding effect?
But great point on the Zoloft! It seems it was definitely an OD factor, especially if there is more serotonin floating up there "naturally" and the re-uptake inhibition becomes way more effective. 😬
(I'm still actually dealing with tapering off Zoloft, but oh my gods I am so much less physically anxious already.)
On the flip side, too much of that sweet, sweet serotonin will fuck you up. At the very least, it'll make you sweat like a stuck pig while you (unknowingly) begin tiptoeing toward the precipice of full-blown serotonin syndrome.
Source: Was on Adderall 30mg plus tiny 25mg Zoloft dose "for anxiety maintenance" for two years. Well, at some point this past fall and spring, I must have started making more serotonin naturally or magically idk, not a doctor or witch doctor. And I only recently reread the serotonin syndrome symptom shortlist and finally put two and two together. One's face should not literally drip sweat walking around a 74° house to grab laundry and one's heart rate should not be spiking to 160bpm merely attempting to put gotdamn makeup on that very same face, the face full of fuckin sweat fountains.
I wasn't just maintaining my anxiety, I physically manifested my anxiety in all the worst ways.
Noooo!! You've managed to both unlock a core memory about some unnameable PBS show featuring clock-loving clown ladies AND INSTANTLY RUIN IT!!!
wot in the nation of tarn
And not to mention tough for their UNDERAGE CHILDREN!!!
/s
Soooo, I kind of got déjà vu reading this article because ... Six days ago I "foresaw" the relevance of "weird." Comment thread here (I think) or just check out post my post history.
The author brings up a ton of specific points I called out, including using similar words like "flip" the script and referencing how "basket of deplorables" was too directed. Were we all thinking sbout "weird" in this context six days ago already? If not... I am weirded out, y'all.
I was sure that was a young Seinfeld until I zoomed in. Mixed feelings on this dude's sexy sharpness now.
... He'd probably say he's too young for me.
Your style of sarcasm is so well done, nobody realizes the /s is implied. A+++ seller, would buy vote AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!
I get where you're coming from, and you make a point with "deplorable" being meme-ified into some twisted identity thing. But I also think the collective "basket of deplorables" doesn't apply here. Harris isn't calling Trump supporters weird; she's calling just him weird.
This does a few things: it keeps the focus on Trump, allowing supporters to distance themselves from the statement. The lack of attachment to any particular action, statements, belief, etc. lets a person think about it "nakedly." Why is he weird?
Yes, we both know why, but this flips the script from the last 10 years from "here are various reasons why Trump is horrifying and could also be considered weird" to "Trump is weird, I'll let you chew on that."
It's all in the delivery. Stating what he is without explaining why.
I think it's worth returning a bit of agency to people in general to assess how they feel about that statement and come to their own conclusions. Edit: Especially because many of these people have attached themselves to Trump because they feel they have no agency otherwise. Could this be a means to cracking through the brainwashed masses? Something akin to, "wait, why am I idolizing this guy again?" Wishful thinking, yes, but being"plain weird" is such a broadly sweeping generalization that something should organically pop up in trump supporters' brains, without our prompting.
The following was initially part of a reply to another person:
Maybe the simple, gentle, "everyday" language here is truly the point? There are so many things to attack about Trump, so many legitimate concerns for his fascist, racist, sexist, ad nauseum behaviors. We've heard it all before. But simply calling him weird could spark a little reflection in his supporters and would-be voters while obviously delivering a shock to Trump's vanity.
It's not something you can easily deny as a conspiracy theory or fake news or any other excuse about his words and behavior. The man is weird. And psychologically, I think it's harder to defend a person described that way, or at least makes a defender get a little self-conscious. Trump being deemed weird is really indefensible, and I think it could work in deflating the cult of personality around him.
Not everyone can identify maniacal dictator rhetoric for what it is, and the power dynamic is clearly alluring to Trump supporters. However, knowing a weird person or even being called weird at some point is something almost everyone has experience with.
It's uncomfortable. It makes you ask yourself what it is about a person that makes them weird and how you should deal with it. It prickles something very basic in the human psyche. So I think they're on to something here. It might give supporters pause and will most definitely give Trump a complex.
Maybe your annoyance (understandable) is part of the point? There are so many things to attack, so many legitimate concerns, that simply calling him weird could spark a little reflection in his supporters and would-be voters, let alone the obvious shock to Trump's vanity.
It's not something you can easily deny as a conspiracy theory or fake news or any other excuse about his words and behavior. The man is weird. And psychologically, I think it's harder to defend a person described that way, or at least makes a defender get a little self-conscious. Trump being deemed weird is really indefensible, and I think it could work in deflating the cult of personality around him.
Not everyone can identify maniacal dictator rhetoric for what it is, and the power dynamic is clearly alluring to Trump supporters. However, knowing a weird person or even being called weird at some point is something almost everyone has experience with. It's uncomfortable. It makes you ask yourself what it is about a person that makes them weird. I think they're on to something here. It might give supporters pause and will most definitely give Trump a complex.
Am I the only one who didn't realize the film Hillbilly Elegy was based on this particular guy's memoir? No wonder it left me with a bad taste in my brain.
I remember deciding to watch it back when it was promoted on Netflix (in 2020-21?), going in completely blind to its background and bent, but wooed by the branding of it being "nominated for awards" and the imagery of a frazzled-looking Glenn Close.
I'll try to reflect on what I thought of it then without reference to what I know now: The whole movie was uncomfortable, felt weirdly holier-than-thou, and made me question what was supposed to be so good about how this guy was "overcoming" traumatic circumstances. I don't think I finished it in one go, only doing so because Glenn Close and Amy Adams brought talent to these painfully stereotypified roles. (I had just finished Sharp Objects, so you can imagine how disappointed I was that Amy had to work with so little substance, no pun intended, in this role's storyline.)
I remember thinking I really disliked the actor who played JD Vance for having such flat personality and boring acting skills. As it turns out, the actor did a helluva job! Bravo!
I hadn't seen this before, and it was generally really enlightening that these Trump supporters have genuine concerns for the working class, obvious as that should be by now. It just sucks that they've been hoodwinked into thinking that Trump is their savior from the corporate oligarchy that is clearly affecting us all. Misplaced reverence to a guy who is a mechanism in the same pro-corporate atmosphere. If only they realized that the Democrat party (flawed as it is) actually works toward their interests with policy (edit: toward improving wages, taxing the ultra rich more fairly, healthcare ideally for all, social programs, etc.), rather than attaching themselves to this "not-a-career-politician" who couldn't care less about them. Maybe not all hope is lost on trump supporters, but the cult of personality is much too strong and has been for a long time.
When you said "check for [spy] bugs," I first thought you meant literal insecty bugs, and that made plenty of rational sense to me, because who wouldn't come back with even more potent insecticide to douse those couches, maybe some Super-Potent Fabric-Penetrable Bug Annihilator, one formulated for Previously Penetrated Couches, in order to kill the very particular kinds of creepy crawly bugs that JD seems like he carries around on his creepy crawly body.
You know, I've been thinking ... There's gotta be another layer of complexity in all that projection vectored through his hating on "childless cat ladies" nonsense, other than the obvious "I'm scared of happily independent women" business.
Fleas. I'm thinking he has fleas. JD Vance has fleas. You know, because something, something, cats.
Bed bugs would also make sense. Him fucking furniture and all. Bed bugs are, after all, the herpes of the
craftcouch-coitus world.