Maeve
Shattering the mirror doesn’t change what is reflected.
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People that fund resistance, blockade and embargo people instituting it, in order to “prove” it doesn’t work, for example. People who tear down the few institutions and restraints in their own states to prove government doesn’t work, for example.
1·19 hours agoThere is a huge difference in proper shears and scissors.
$225?
Best advice I’ve ever been given: if you don’t know what you are doing, pay someone who does. You may have a barber college nearby.
182·21 hours agoAs I said in the original post thread:
So he only turned because he couldn’t get more money to remain neutral and named his kid after the uncle he “hated.” Scratch a liberal.
15·1 day agoLike Epstein suicide?
Vulture capitalist fund owner.
10·4 days ago“Yet it seems, at times, bizarrely unaware that many of those notions were meant to be dystopian or satirical – dismal visions of where our worst and dumbest habits could lead us.”
They are very aware. They’re just counting on the bulk of John Q. being unaware, because they’ve steadily been dismantling the already woefully inadequate public school system and replacing people reading books with short-attention span, dopamine hit inducing low-brow social media and television programming.
.ca gov is toeing the line so far.
51·6 days agoSome do. Most are still busy swallowing their own government propaganda. And it’s hard to spot when we’re bombarded from birth and (excuse the well-worn cliché) the memory hole has become an ever-expanding black hole.
Some Lemmy users got it covered.
2·6 days agoThe wheel in the sky keeps on turning. I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow…
It may not be justified but it’s basic neuropsychology. Address the causes, address the behavior, address psychology.
just as it is possible for someone to not be capable of understanding the feelings of another person.
And there are healthier ways to address that.
You aren’t wrong, and I will appreciate a society that moves from retribution to rehabilitation, in fact rather than rhetoric. As you can see from the comments, we have plenty of work to do, but it has to start with ourselves before the outer world can catch up.
Everyone can do their part by working on themselves, though.
Like Epstein