Maeve

No she’s really like that. A first gen double minority eta: American, former teacher, former Sikh Did nothing for women except mostly performative domestic violence law tweaks, nothing for schools or teachers, nothing for minorities or immigrants. Married decently, got hers, the rest of y’all need to bootstrap it. Oh we stole your boots? They’re really ours because we allow you to exist. Fealty, peasants!

ETA: oh, I was wrong. Michael married up https://sg.news.yahoo.com/know-nikki-haleys-parents-ajit-193904063.html

❤️

Thank you.

Lancing a boil is painful, but it’s the only way to start healing @

I know. It’s the maintaining that’s for reasons. I’m working on it, because every time that wound scabs over and they sense it and find an opportunity, ripping it off and rubbing dirt into it is a gleefully taken opportunity. They are unwell, probably clinical npd. They were extremely violated for about a decade, as a child and never sought help (sign of the times l suppose, insurance didn’t exist, psychological help was out of reach financially and well, the parents were the abusers), etc etc etc. at ~8 decades of life, it’s just not going to happen, unless some wild miracle happens, and I’m not counting on it. Whether I completely cut contact or not, there’s a he’ll of a mess I’ll be cleaning up, and I would suppose death after a cut may add another heaping pile of rot on top of it. But I’m currently doing all within my realistic ability to do that. Still stinks and is extremely painful, either way.

I realize I just trauma dumped a huge pile of emotional baggage on you. I almost want to delete this but want others who are in a position to cut contract to see it. Get out because it gets worse with age, not better. And layers of layers of scar tissue can become extremely painful, festering, leaking wounds.

ETA: Please accept my apologies, if this is too much.

Yeah. It’s sad. It breaks me, almost every time they are particularly vile. Maintaining minimal contact, for reasons.

I think that’s true for some. In this particular case, I think they are so invested in abhorrent policy and opinions, they absolutely know those policies and opinions are vile, but pretend to believe that nonsense just so they can pretend it’s ok when some portion of conscious manages a dying breath to whisper truth to them.

Iana psychological professional, so I could be very wrong. I hope I am, in this particular case.

Thank you for clarifying, and the link. I’ll check it out!

How you conflate those other things with Luddite is… fascinating.

I don’t think any of them believe any such thing. My xenophobic parent let it slip when they accused someone of lying with “your name must be D***** T**** 2.”

Lee Atwater wanted poor whites to vote.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

Next, libraries. Next, women reading. Next, anyone not in a specified socioeconomic class reading.

Lol! It’s ollllld but good. Even the sequels.

Yes it is. Dystopian society divided into classes, erudite, dauntless, abnegation, candor, amity.

Did you see the movie, Divergent?

Well, I did automatically assume it was probably in the same general bent of his ideology. I know better. I’ll check it out, thanks.

Kissenger?!

and the US is for the most part pretty careful about escalation management.

How’s that?

Increase in natural disaster due to global warning.

Don’t worry, the prolifers* only want post-partem abortion legal!

Autocorrect strikes again.

This harkens back to Bill Clinton’s ridiculous impeachment (looking at you, Bill Barr, Ken Starr, George Conway) and his ridiculous defense, “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is,” in which a very young and naïve woman was the sacrificial lamb.