(05-16-2025, 10:08 PM)username Wrote: The whole is the sum of the parts. I think the strategy (if there is one) is just to overwhelm us so we DON’T focus on any one particular atrocity/constitutional violation/law or norm breaking violation.

Sadly.

I make myself read about or listen to them. They are overwhelming but while I want to/I don’t want to bury my head in the sand over any.

(05-16-2025, 09:25 PM)MirahM Wrote: I saw a video of him talking to the Crown Prince.
I have never ever heard him praise someone more.

(05-16-2025, 11:02 PM)rothschild Wrote:

(05-16-2025, 10:08 PM)username Wrote: The whole is the sum of the parts. I think the strategy (if there is one) is just to overwhelm us so we DON’T focus on any one particular atrocity/constitutional violation/law or norm breaking violation.

Sadly.

I make myself read about or listen to them. They are overwhelming but while I want to/I don’t want to bury my head in the sand over any.

I think we need to try and mobilize people to stand up to the evil, which entails helping them to believe that it can be beaten, and helping them understand what will happen if it isn't beaten. There are orgs doing this, Jewish Voice for Peace is one. I'm not a group person but I don't think there's much of a choice at this point if we want to be successful.

(Yesterday, 07:37 AM)Duchess Wrote: I feel so strongly about a lot of this bullshit that if I saw anyone associated with maga in distress I would turn and go in the opposite direction. I wouldn't lift a finger to help. There was a time I wouldn't have dared give voice to that, but I no longer care. It's never been my nature to be so uncaring, until now, until trump and those who support & defend him. I felt terrible about feeling this way until a psychologist said it was a natural reaction to what we all were seeing & hearing and it would have been more abnormal to not give any of that another thought.

(Yesterday, 08:02 AM)BigMark Wrote: If a car crashed and had a Trump sticker you wouldn't try to save them or the kids?

(Yesterday, 11:45 AM)MirahM Wrote: These are hypothetical situations that haven't happened and are probably not going to happen anyway.

It feels pointless to me to discuss and judge someone on something that hasn't happened.

(Yesterday, 11:42 AM)sally Wrote:

(Yesterday, 08:02 AM)BigMark Wrote: If a car crashed and had a Trump sticker you wouldn't try to save them or the kids?

Trump is a fucking clown and Biden is a corrupt, old senile politician. I would try to help no matter which sticker was on the car because that's what any normal person would do. She's not normal.

You present that as if trump and those who support & defend him ARE normal, they aren't and I don't owe them any goddamn thing least of all a helping hand. Give me a fuckin break, trump supporter and defender. 

(Yesterday, 07:37 AM)Duchess Wrote: I feel so strongly about a lot of this bullshit that if I saw anyone associated with maga in distress I would turn and go in the opposite direction. I wouldn't lift a finger to help. There was a time I wouldn't have dared give voice to that, but I no longer care. It's never been my nature to be so uncaring, until now, until trump and those who support & defend him. I felt terrible about feeling this way until a psychologist said it was a natural reaction to what we all were seeing & hearing and it would have been more abnormal to not give any of that another thought.

(Yesterday, 11:48 AM)MirahM Wrote:

(Yesterday, 11:45 AM)MirahM Wrote: These are hypothetical situations that haven't happened and are probably not going to happen anyway.

It feels pointless to me to discuss and judge someone on something that hasn't happened.

Also, here is another side I find myself wastefuly thinking about.
I think that some of my neighbors would not hesitate to turn me in if it came down to turning in neighbors who don't support the President.
I think some of my neighbors wouldn't hesitate to turn me in if it came down to them thinking I was harboring an immigrant and the authorities were in town.