See, I’m generally against calling the correct public authorities for shit like that, because in this day and age it’ll probably end with the asshole getting deported or shot.

And as much as I hate people who park in dangerous spots, I don’t think that’s deserved.

There was this giant box truck that used to always park in a no-parking spot (on the shoulder of the street) right next to the exit from my kids daycare. As a result it was a leap of faith pulling out, every single day, because you couldn’t see shit around it.

This was right around the corner from the police station, so I must assume they’ve seen it and it’s probably one of theirs.

“United we stand” < has always been true.

They’ve done everything they can to divide us against eachother, on race, on what brands we wear, what teams we cheer for, what geopolitical land we happen to be on top of, the color of our skin, and the “class” of jobs we hold… To name a few.

The problem is that many people idolize the ultra wealthy, and nobody ever got wealthy by helping their neighbor. Those “celebrities” have long since stopped caring about who they stood on the backs of and exploited to gain their wealth. They don’t care about you. They won’t help you when you fall. They don’t want you to be supportive of your neighbor. They want you to be aggressively individualistic to the point of being “us vs them” where “us” is more of “me” and “them” is anyone who isn’t me.

It’s never that way. It should never be that way. United we stand.

One symptom of Autism is an “over developed” sense of justice. This can cause issues when we view a situation as “unfair”

The Boss gave John the day off, but not Dave even though they both finished the project early.

Neurotypical Dave, may grumble and complain to his friends. But he’s not going to tell the boss he quits because he needs his job.

Autistic Dave however, may have a meltdown and walk off the job. Autistic Dave knows he needs the job, but now since he’s having a meltdown due to the situation, he’s not as in control of his current emotions as Neurotypical Dave is.

Later on Autistic Dave will most likely calm down but the damage has already been done.

Because you matter too. Your feelings matter too. Your happiness matters. You should not “get over” injustice, but you should do whatever you need to do to be happier, even while all this is going on out of your control.

Because when the time comes, when the fire is hot and the iron is ready, I want you strong and healthy and clear about what we need to do.

Dissociation (numbness) is a trauma response.

In the context of feudalism, monarchy and the late “Middle Ages” in Europe, liberal democracy is one of the most revolutionary things ever to happen to Humans, and the US led the way in reducing that ideology to practice.

From there, the admirable stuff is largely the framework for self reflection the system creates, though the US has not always led the way in that sense compared to its peers. No society is perfect, and a major differentiator between empires is how the people handle reflection of past sins. This is why being a progressive in the US is so fucking tedious - because the legacy and the procedures for doing better are there. They are well known and they aren’t that complicated. But then there’s this whole contingent of reactionary assholes who are neither students of history or philosophy, resting on imagined laurels to constantly oppose and then undo what progress we are able to make.

Lemmings don’t do mass suicide, by the way, that is a complete fake by Disney that got widely repeated. The lemmings they show in those scenes aren’t even native to that region. Source, for example: https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56

More like being on a train headed for that cliff and the brake room is guarded by a squad of toughs, and everyone on the train has been socially conditioned to stigmatize any mention of braking or slowing down, and they will likely team up to try to stop you before you even get close enough to the brake room for the toughs to even threaten you (but if you do get that far, they’ll kick the shit out of you all the same).

It’s like it’s taboo to even mention hitting the brakes, and people will treat you like a social contagion and a danger to society if you bring it up

Absolutely! It’s the daily struggle of seeing people not only hurt others but also themselves for no reason but stupidity at all! And those who do so for supposed short term gain which is none at all on closer inspection.

Humanity does not have any swarm intelligence like at all. It’s so depressing.

Actually I was going on and writing more on the state of the world regarding this and how it’s self made and we could take it back but eh…

It sometimes feels like being in the middle of a horde of suicidal lemmings

Remember that the lemmings were pushed by the filmmaker. If you want to get out you have to stop the filmmaker, not the other lemmings.

It’s the mistakes they’re making that are the most frustrating. Just highlights how the world is in the hands of a bunch of morons.

You are completely right and I feel the exact same. However, one thing I am certain of now is that the majority is not fine with this. There’s many different ideas about how to do it, but a strong majority recognizes change is inevitable and necessary to prevent a further political slip.

Maybe I’m too positive but political theory and statistics has taught me time and time again how many quirks there are in different democracies that dilute the will of the majority and push some very fringe opinions. And it’s just a matter of time until the democratic system realigns with the true will of the people. Unfortunately either by gradual actual change, or by complete destruction and rebuilding. But that’s usually how democracies evolve.

Fuck Rhode island in general, but the roads in particular.

I know plenty of people who use that logic to avoid feeling emotions about the state of the world, but then they never do anything to actually help the state of the world. Not saying this is you, it’s just a discouraging trend and I think that actually the people who get most upset about things they cannot change are often the only ones who end up making an effort to change them.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder, I think, is very different with Justice Sensitivity.

Still very often correlated with ADHD. So are a bunch of other neurodivergencies. Autism, a plethora of eating disorders, nymphomania/satyriasis (of course, anxiety and depression are also common, and SSRI’s take care of that…), and addiction probably the most common.

Oppositional Defiance Disorder?

I mean it mostly only occurs in children and it is a controversial diagnosis. Hard to separate poor parenting skills from it.

There’s a lot of hot takes on this forum that try to correlate neurodivergence with some kind of moral compass.

It neglects how ideas like justice are social constructs and cultural touchstones, not universal truths and absolutes.

What’s being described is a dissonance between espoused legal/moral standards and lived ones. But which is “correct”? ADHD doesn’t give you any clarity one way or another.

They want us to pretend like they are but how? How do you pretend everything is fine!?

Does this violence involve CEOs and/or ultra wealthy pyschopaths?

Let it out, let the hate flow through you.

Same.

America was built on 4 boxes.

I believe the last ones are relevant if we can’t use he first 2 to course correct in two years.