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When I keep scrolling while things are loading into the timeline, the view eratically jumps up which is disorienting

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The definition of a planet was already made that it has to clear a majority of its orbit and if you're all in a belt with eachocher that's not cleared

• Kels

I disagree, it's not the guns it's the American attitude towards the guns.

Unfortunately SCOTUS has misinterpreted the 2nd amendment for decades by ignoring the first 13 words of it. A well Regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State...
And only read the last 14 words. ...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

The well regulated militia today is the National Guard

The math is simple...

Zero Guns = Zero Shootings.

@hexanol
they can fucking vote

but many find it more important to whine on social media about perfectionism

@A_Minion @hexanol
we take the vote

then if they do not respond we talk about the heavy shit

but if we don't vote first, establishing that is what the people want, there is no shared resolve, so we weaken the cause

we fucking vote

anyone arguing against that and saying go straight to guns is manipulation, because it's easy to manipulate violent morons into self-defeat. or they are the actual violent moron, and they are doomed

all heart, no brain, is just a path to defeat

@A_Minion @hexanol
they don't understand the voting system

to add to your point voting is handled by the states, not the feds

so certainly a red state can be manipulated by MAGA malice, but: it's already a red state

so all of these chicken littles whining about not voting because trump won't accept the vote are weak and stupid, ready to prematurely capitulate and accept fascism

that is all they represent

losers

not losers as in a lame insult, but literally people choosing to lose

@benroyce @A_Minion @hexanol
Please, all of you, read this.

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@Wyatt_H_Knott @A_Minion @hexanol
good read

but this emotional ineptitude is the part of the problem

it's okay to be overwhelmed with emotions at times in our lives

but if all-emotion-no-thought is our permanent state then we're just easily manipulated idiots

people have a lot of heart out there

i just wish some of them would invest some of that energy into thinking. planning. strategy. tactics

and if someone can't pull themselves out of the blubbering mess?

then they're doomed

@Wyatt_H_Knott @A_Minion @hexanol
that doesn't solve anything though

that some people are caught in emotional malaise might be true, but we still have to get in the fucking car and go to the destination

if their emotional malaise prevents them from doing that, then they're doomed. so my message is "snap the fuck out of it!"

which makes me a poor therapist. but sometimes people just need a kick in the ass

@Wyatt_H_Knott @A_Minion @hexanol
i feel you

we just don't have the fucking time to do group therapy for millions

so yes "snap out of it" is as useless as telling a depressed person "just be happy"

but i dispute the notion that the excellent essay you linked me looms as potent and petrifying serious psychological distress

not being able to get out bed in the morning is serious personal weight

not voting is a group weight, and not heavy

the severity isn't there

on a *group* level

@Wyatt_H_Knott @A_Minion @hexanol
oh yeah i loved that part. i was laughing

i genuinely thank you for linking me that essay. it was excellent

@benroyce @A_Minion @hexanol I agree we don't have the time or abilty to do therapy for 300 million people. On the other hand, I think it's valid to recognize that 300 million people need some kind of therapy. Any winning strategy is going to have to take that into account.

Please keep in mind that at no point am I advocating for not voting. Just trying to throw some more light on why some lefites might not vote, that is all.