What once protected the child becomes exhaustion in the adult. Anxiety is not a brokenness. It is adaptation. It is the nervous system saying, I learned this to keep you safe. Healing does not come from fighting the system, but from slowly teaching it that survival is no longer required. This is why the 30-day healing journey exists, not to fix you, but to gently guide the body out of constant alertness, one day at a time.

I mean, aside from the “30-day healing journey” this sounds pretty genuine. Although, I think it is probably slop-ified from Thich Nhat Hanh.

Generally true, but also, this was testimony from 7 years ago.

It seems a little bit unlikely that Russia would be in favor of this Venezuela thing (simply because they like Maduro), and also, Putin was making performative gestures of support for Maduro up until the invasion (not that it did either of them any good).

Also:

Trump’s actions in Venezuela make it harder for Kyiv’s allies to condemn Russia’s designs on Ukraine as “illegitimate” because “we’ve just had a situation where the U.S. has taken over — or at least decapitated the government of another country — using fiction,” Hill told AP.

I honestly don’t think there is any danger that this will set a precedent of any kind of legitimacy. I think it’s more likely to galvanize opposition to this kind of land-grab than it is to get people to regard it as normal.

There is a crack

In everything

That’s how the light gets in.

-LC

I don’t think the dog bit the cop because the cop was being the aggressor. Dogs are fine with being aggressors or “their people” being aggressors, it’s the whole job of police dogs and they love the fuck out of it. I think probably the cop was being an asshole and the other guy was not, and also, it’s a dog, and so doesn’t completely know what’s going on but knows that its job is to bite people. And so, here’s an asshole! I’ll bite him, that’s my job.

(K9 handlers are supposed to prevent this type of thing, but the world is not a perfect place in execution)

You just gotta scroll up a bit. Nicaragua and Guatemala were in the 80s, absolutely the stuff of nightmares ten times worse than what Trump is doing. We almost certainly sponsored an attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in the early 2000s, and a successful one in Honduras under Obama.

You’re not wrong that Trump is a horrifying new chapter. It is testament to the semblance of humanity that the US State Department slowly developed post-2000 that, yes, Trump is a return to a much more barbaric and brazen time of US foreign policy, with worse surely on the horizon. But we never really stopped being the bad guys, we just got a little more subtle and less overtly violent about it, until now.

I am curious who are the people upvoting this

I suspect that this is such a cavalcade of bullshit of different types that he’s deliberately baiting people to become unable to even begin to come to grips with everything that is wrong with it. And thus, in internet-troll-logic, it means he wins.

Yeah, true that.

On the other hand, the AI tool is presumably pulling from the exact same primary sources which may or may not show a full picture of what happened…

Like?

Resisting arrest, I think. “You’re under arrest, come out of the house” “No” is literally what it means to resist arrest (without violence). Coming out later doesn’t absolve you of it any more than slowing down absolves you for speeding earlier.

And how does this support your argument? She was talked out of the protection of her home.

Have you been checked for short term memory loss? It’s like you forgot the first part of my sentence by the time you got to the second part. Staying in the protection of her home would have just gotten her home busted up once they secured the warrant.

IDK, dude. I was just trying to send you a video to help you understand, but you’re clearly not into it. I remember now why I stopped talking to you back before when we talked about this.

Honestly, the right answer at this point in technology is just to let the bodycam be the police report.

We used to need police reports so there was a solid written record of what (supposedly) happened. It was a pain in the ass writing them, but it had to happen. But now, what’s the point? Surely, the answer is to let cops write a three-sentence report about the broadest possible strokes of who was involved and what was the final outcome, and then “* see bodycam” for the details. Then, if it comes to some sort of proceeding where people have to dig into the nitty gritty details of what happened, they just pull the video, and see for themselves.

Everyone wins. Right?

There are a couple more I happened to run across, this one just seemed really on the nose about what generally will happen if you try to hide in your house. It reminded me of our conversation.

In another of them, the girl had a warrant and tried to refuse to come out of her house so she wouldn’t have to stay in jail for the weekend. Long story short, she got arrested and more charges. That one, they didn’t have the ability to enter the house without a warrant, they just had the arrest warrant for her specifically, so they were waiting for a judge to sign off on a warrant but were able to talk her into coming out before the warrant came through.

There was another where the guy was hiding in a closet inside the house. They didn’t have a warrant, but they did have probable cause to enter the place, so long story short he got arrested even with the hiding in the closet part.

Your summary of how it works, way way above, was actually pretty accurate (warrant or emergency being the two main exceptions to the general rule that they can’t come in your house). The thing is that about 90% of the situations where they’re coming to the door and are planning to arrest you will fall into one or the other of those categories. You gain nothing in the “they just want to talk” situation, and you gain nothing in the “they want to arrest you” situation. These are just some examples of people who tried to solve the problem by not interacting physically with the cops, and then it not working to accomplish anything positive.

(Again, this is only for local law enforcement, and only if they are generally aboveboard. For ICE or federal law enforcement, or if you’re not sure, I think not answering the door is probably smarter at this point.)

I happened to run across a video which is highly pertinent to this situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC2h2bSZJao

That’s pretty much what you can expect if you try the “I’m inside I’m not opening the door” strategy. Like you can see from the end of the video, the cops didn’t really have any ability to charge them with anything as long as they exercised their shut the fuck up skills (which, to their credit, they did a great job with). But all it accomplished refusing to open the door was to make the situation a lot more violent before the conversation with the cops happened where they refused to say anything.

I think, probably, the homeowners were correct that the situation wasn’t that big a deal in the first place. But, they made a pretty serious mistake by listening to your brand of TikTok law and getting their door destroyed and getting arrested as a result, instead of just walking outside and having the conversation pre-handcuffs.

The mild headline is really underselling how perfect this video is

Almost anyone in that “Twitch Streamer” form factor is going to be absolute trash as far as learning about the world and politics / history, for the simple reason that if they actually did effectively advocate for how to see things and what to do about it, they would get removed (as Jon Stewart did from Apple TV for example).

Hasan in particular has a habit of starting with the conclusion or the “correct” ideology, and then bending the facts to fit that narrative he preemptively adopted. He also viciously attacks anyone who ever disagrees with him even very mildly, which isn’t a real good thought pattern for him to model for his viewers.

I have some recommendations for alternatives (Al Jazeera being first on the list) as far as news sources to consume if you actually do want to be kept up to date on what’s going on and relevant left-leaning reactions to the world, but I’m not sure about quoting the list because IDK how likely my comment is to be removed if it has some wrongthink in it. Let me know if you want a DM of the list or anything.

All of that, I agree with. It’s fine. In the same way, I certainly believe that maga.place should be permitted to exist.

My point was that implicitly asking people to give “consideration” in the way that you did, is asking that some level of respect be granted to people who are giving none in return. It’s the paradox of tolerance. It’s okay to shun people who are making excuses and apologetics for literal mass murder, even to laugh at them for balling up their fists and shutting their eyes tight, and insisting that you are the one who is jingoistic, hostile, counterfactual, unreasonable, and all that, if you aren’t fans of the same mass murderers they are.

“Don’t you dare disagree with me, or I’ll get really hostile and ban you” doesn’t demand consideration or respect.

I won’t claim to know objectively, although I roughly agree with a lot of the theories people are offering in other comments. One thing to add: The lack of critical thinking ability, I think, is crucial in letting this stuff develop. I think a lot of what’s going on there is just conversations between people who just all make decisions based on emotion (how well what’s being said “resonates” with them, how confidently it’s presented, how it lets them be part of an “in-group” which then gives them a feeling of belonging, etc) instead of because they have the tools to be able to evaluate the arguments and have decided they believe in them. That’s why it is entirely unconvincing to put arguments in front of them. They simply don’t care to evaluate them and they don’t have the tools if they did want to. It’s just not how they operate.

I saw an extremely revelatory post on lemmy.ml on some kind of math principle with an objectively accurate answer (with a pretty straightforward proof of that answer included), and the comments were full of people presenting the wrong answer and arguing why, using exactly the same super-confident presentation and style of “resonant but empty” argumentation that they use when they talk about politics.

And I thought, oh. Makes sense. They just like sounding like they know what they’re talking about, and everyone else is the stupids. That’s how they interact. It’s not really new, there have always been political theories that don’t make a ton of sense with wide communities of people who fall in love with them anyway. It’s just on the internet now, and so it’s easier for them to find each other and self-select themselves into little communities where critical analysis on the topic is actively attacked if it ever rears its head.

“Communities”

Top community: 15 subscribers, 5 users/month

I rest my case

This goes for almost any obnoxious behavior on the internet. It’s about 5-10% of people who are just assholes (of whatever description), and everyone else is fine. It only seems like the whole place is jerks because of how noisy the jerks are, and how skilled they are at amping up the normal people into noisy arguments that go nowhere.

Any time you’re in one of those comments sections, take a step back and look at the number of people who are actually initiating the dickishness and you’ll see that it’s a tiny tiny minority.

Alan Moore said that Rorschach came about because of trying to imagine to himself what type of mental disorders someone would have to have in order to become a “masked superhero” along the lines of Batman, what their home life would be like, that sort of thing.

See also the movie “Super,” which is criminally under-awarenessed-of.