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Well she is a teenager .

This section of Actualized really needs more mods. So many stupid takes.

Every day has a night

I guess he means it's yellow because the guy suggests laughing/humor as a response to MAGA instead of hair pulling and screeching into the void. Not sure if i agree it's precisely yellow, but humor could seem like a better response than hair pulling and screeching. Could be high green, low yellow stuff.

Just accept that massive change is coming and live your life, everything has a swing and a counterswing.

Well I can recognize Trump's support in the broader populace and why it exists, but to be in a consciousness/actualization forum and see sympathetic posts to Trump is just honestly baffling. It feels hard to find community and alot of the posts feel alienating Also my reptile brain makes me think I'ma be in a concentration camp in 10 years. That said, I can agree to look inward and find some satisfactory path out of this.

Yeah he is and it's a good idea to organize politically now if you're in a minority group, like me.

Get involved in local politics, move to the Northeast or the west coast and pay attention to what happens in January because you can't really do much until then. Leave a red state if you live in one. Then coordinate with like-minded people in real life to communicate on some sort of encrypted platform as the need arises.

If this post is any indication at all it will only get worse for them, the societal changes will be interesting to experience. Even more polarization in American life. https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1gli4en/anyone_else_joining_the_4b_movement/

I am sort of the same way, I grew up in a Republican family in a rural area in Colorado. A lot of these rural people care about values like the cohesion of the family, independence from the government, self-reliance. They go to church and pay taxes and of course at first didn't seem nefarious or dangerous or whatever. A lot of people parrot political points but this is no different than in any other field. People parrot things in every field or area of life to form some sort of mental glue that helps people's minds get organized around all the chaos of life (not just political chaos, but actual chaos). It grants a sense of stability in a volatile and uncertain world Some of the differences are just largely genetic, like if you watch Elon's reaction to Trump's assassination -- someone higher on the neuroticism scale on the Big 5 personality traits might perceive Elon's reaction of subtle or masked joy that violence took place (and that Trump survived). Others will see it only as Elon being happy that Trump lived of Elon and not find anything weird about his reaction. Not sure if that's the best example. I think a big indicator of a person is to look at their personal detail THOROUGHLY. Too many people only get brief glimpses and vote based that. No, that doesn't make sense, you need to evaluate the whole person and look very carefuly. If a person has a trail of lawsuits, complaints, legal actions against him dating to the 1970's, even before he was in the political scene, a person, based partially on genetics can reasonably conclude that something is "wrong" with this person. That's the case of Trump, and it's only a short of bread crumb trails that most people in his orbit share similar values as him since that's true of most professional relationships, you might not be best friends with your coworkers but you both operate under the same assumptions of how to act when you're in your job. Similar to Trump being examined, if we go to Elon Musk, he bought twitter and allowed it to be a nest for far right people and changed the algorithm to promote his own tweets, I just can't see that as being wise..The left has mostly...journalists. Journalists look like they're spinning things to you for a variety of reasons, they may be covering things in a way that supports their own mental health; they may be paid to say such things ( I think that mainstream media is pretty flawed in this country), they may simply be trying to comprehensive to not bore listeners with the same topics over and over, it could be anything because *journalists are people too*. Too many people see journalists as like ...data bytes or machines sent out by the evil corporate machines of news anchors. No, they're just doing their job, the job they went to school for several years for... I don't really know what the MSM or Democrats are censoring other than the amount of people we helped kill in Israel. I don't know what you're referring to there.

We are pretty screwed. I don't want to do anything at the moment

Nah, for every 1 positive thing that companies do for the environment in a trump administration, they'll do 2-3+ things to screw it over w/ no regulations Some of those positive things will be emphasized in media conversations and all the corrupt negative stuff will be de emphasized

<-- Parents are voting for Trump because of what they hear about Kamala v. Trump's stances on abortion

I remember reading an ethical dilemma when I was maybe 8 or 9 and when I answered it, the teacher at my school pointed out something to me in the ethical problem that made me feel like Adolf Hitler for my response... Maybe this is just part of growing up, but I can't seem to find a similar, real-doozy of a moral question. Are there any books that people or resources that have the best sorts of ethical dilemmas, the ones that really split your brain open from thinking about them so much? When I read some of these moral ethical problems they don't seem to carry the same kick. Some of the standard ones I'm researching feel almost bland in comparison..

It's because we only have two political parties, that differ comparatively little on economic issues - therefore whatever social and economic differences between the two parties exist must be amplified and constantly mentioned. Also the population here is much larger than in any single European country. When you have large amounts of people it is a little harder to maintain a democracy.

yeah that was my point. 60% of his psyche thinks he's on an altruistic mission, 40% of his psyche knows he's just another billionaire.

Yes it did, but also largely speaking no it didn't

"I'm not ever going to mention the shooting again, it's too painful." - Trump at the RNC Trump yesterday - speaking about it gladly and eagerly.

I would give it a very loose and arbitrary split of 60, 40- altruism to selfishness split. That's just me.

Yeah when I was saving up money for my SRS surgery , my brother physically assaulted me and took my credit card (since he was poor at the time), claiming I didn't need the money for such a damaging procedure and that he's doing me a favor. I want equal rights and respect for this community and I want Trump to lose.

Most right-wingers will watch the video and expect or hope that the people being interviewed in that video will hang themselves in a week or a year due to gender confusion and/or brainwashing. And either grieve it, in a majority of cases, or be happy about it, in a loose minority of cases. Not everyone is as accepting as you, that's how it is. Pretty much everyone is uncomfortable with trans people on some level, most people just work past it enough to be respectful, polite and courteous. There's a few who genuinely don't care at all, then there's people who want you dead. Those are the facts.

"Annika: Yeah, we realized early on that if we fought or disagreed… there was no way to walk away! We’d just have to lay in bed mad at the other person. And the body would feel awful like it was being torn apart. After one bad fight early on where it felt like our blood and bones were freezing and frying at the same time we agreed to never fight like that again!! " That's from one of their Youtube comment replies. Sounds like a Dissociative Identity Disorder trauma response... Look, I didn't watch the whole video and I don't know what their experiences are, but anything that looks vaguely like trans stuff will be weaponized and used against trans people in some way. I can appreciate abstract supernatural discussions of gender, but only after the trans panic ends. Which is why I was defensive. I can investigate some of these abstract spiritual concepts any of the day of the week, but not when there's the 2024 election coming up.

Stop with this nonsense. 99.9% of people are not like these two people. It's not useful and it makes people view us strangely and negatively. You have to claim you're male or female in 99.99% of scenarios. And you can't confuse people with this in every day situations.

It makes you understand both genders more clearly, and when properly resolved can tell you a few things about the aspects of identity. But enlightenment, Truth with a big T, it doesn't really do anything. I still remember what having testosterone felt like, even though I didn't appreciate it, I automatically have more understanding and empathy of men because of it.

I don't talk much to my family, but even though they nominally are respectful to me, they're still Trump supporters. So it's kind of irrelevant. I went to a family dinner in what's been forever, and they complained about transgenders in the Olympics and called them men, maybe without realizing, I don't know. They say , "well you have a genetic disorder, you're different". Shouldn't have gone. The rest of the trans people though without a genetic hormone disorder, they're all the "real bad" trans people. The mental gymnastics these people pull, truly hopeless.