Oh so we know punishment focused response doesn’t increase rehabilitation so the idea is punishment in a dystopian sci fi way?

We could like, try listening to the experts instead

A former senator and secretary of state counts as extremely qualified by most standards

I get how this happens. Everyone is all on board when it’s all talk or they’re Monday morning quarterbacking, but when they’re involved and they’re acting then it’s real to them. What had been hyperbolic spiraling and chaos from a distance with plausiblity of intents is now watching a man actively break the law as they assist.

That’s not to excuse it. They did and do harm. But this is the second time he’s been president and this keeps happening and he churns through people like this.

Maybe he just misses Nixon

The problem of evil is that many of the worst things in history were done by people who believed they were acting morally. The witch hunts, the crusades, the inquisition, and large portions of the genocide of the Americas were done in part with a belief that it was moral. Part of a good understanding of morality is self reflection to understand that one can twist themselves into evil. It’s why I think your calls for compassion here are valuable.

I’m angry at Fetterman, and I’d be fucking pissed if he was my senator. I don’t know if I think he’s outright evil. But I do know that to label a human as good or evil is valuable but risky. It helps us form accountability and to rally each other, but it also leads us to assign people as wholly good or wholly bad when all people have immense complexity to our motivations, beliefs, and actions.

It could also be someone who believed it was bad until seeing it from the inside

Hell, by the time you’re a bishop the catholic church will put you in any allied country they feel like and if there’s nowhere else to go the Vatican can house you for life. The pope is basically a citizen of catholicism.

It was Peter theil who got Vance his seat, not Ohio catholics. Ohio isn’t a swing state anymore

And it should be noted that behind the confessional seal a respected figure, speaking with the authority of religion tells these people to stop. Catholics don’t throw forgiveness around willy nilly, it’s called penance for a reason, they demand change. Does it happen? Usually not. But there is social value in confession of faults and sins and being told that one can and is expected to do better

They don’t, but the neofascist movement loves the aesthetic of catholicism. Its why Vance converted. In fact I’d say that pointing to Vance and Biden as the two sides of modern American catholicism is a reasonable framing (we’re gonna ignore the catholic workers because though their deeds are great, their numbers are few).

I’m not catholic anymore but I’m getting real sick of people who converted because they like the vibes the religion had in the fucking 1500s.

Those who don’t desire to think will attend university to not think. Those who desire to think will put off studying to discuss ideas with friends, but like they’ll keep doing that shit for life.

I have a dogshit memory and paper exams were largely me extrapolating from fundamentals in the sciences or having to present clear lines of thinking and reasonable interpretations in the humanities

I think you should look at what the luddites actually were and not just how they were portrayed by capital

That’s not new, that’s how most communes work. Check out examples like Twin oaks

I’ve seen 5’4" middle aged women and I’m not surprised one was the most vicious soldier you’ve met. 40 years of demanding to be taken seriously make one tough

I agree completely and I’d like to add, when we call Trump a narcissist we should remember that what you described there is what narcissism is. It’s self hate manifesting as self aggrandizement.

Nah, he looks like he wishes he had the courage to do that.

Oh in that case…

No, when someone robbed me and sexually assaulted my wife racial slurs are among the few insults I didn’t use because that’s not what my problem was with that asshole.

Those articles hit close to home as someone hard of hearing. So much of disability activism is trying to get able people to respect what is comfortable for us to do rather than what is comfortable for able bystanders to see us do.

Like assistive devices are awesome, but they exist for the people they are used by. We consistently want comfortable independent function without being othered for it. Some will prefer subtle devices, others will ask for a fully controllable rgb option on devices that could be hidden easily.