I think that to a narcissist empathy is also chaos and terrifying - it drives ‘irrational’ behavior in others that is not intuitive for them and works against their goals. It has to be absolutely infuriating to them.

Getting average people to the point that they are ready to do something like a general strike is a process.

Most people don’t even want to have to go to a protest.

But going to a protests is like anteing up in poker – it is mentally anchoring people as in the game and publicly taking a side.

And yeah - the fucks in power are going to say “bet”.

So now millions of people who are not where we already are, who have not wrestles with this and avoided it as long as they can - they are starting to ask, “ok, what do we actually have to risk to change this? What am I willing to do?”

Will we get enough people actually engaged enough for a general strike? I have no idea.

But I know it won’t happen without giving people a ramp-up that includes things like the protest this weekend.

Ooohhh I see, I am judgemental because your circumstances and stated preferences represent everyone in a hard place.

If you both could have and would have done it, it is completely reasonable to make that an expectation on everyone who struggles.

Your struggle was definitely representative of the worst circumstances bc you had 1 job and were a single parent – even though I mentioned how plenty of parents (including single ones) balance a FT job and gigs or a managerie of gigs. Or a FT job, single parenthood, and a disability. Or…

If you can’t see past your own life and circumstance, but want to proscribe what other people ‘should’ do (or no longer deserve your empathy), you are the one who is judgemental.

This is what every narcissist does – if you paint him with a bad (and deserved) brush like making him a convicted felon – well, his vindictiveness has to now make his enemies into felons too, whatever it takes.

You see how hard the propaganda went after Biden? Trying to convince as many tubes as possible that Biden and his son were like Mafia guys…

Every accusation by Trump is another fucking confession.

Wait - do you think that people who need food banks have a ton of free time for cooking clubs? Do you think it’s because they don’t work enough instead of what everyone knows which is that most people on the edge can’t make rent if they only have one job?

The jars likely cost more than the volume of produce it could store.

Also - have to arrange logistics for labor, supplies, and a kitchen to do the boiling in. Now that you are making a cooked food product, your kitchen also likely needs a license.

And insurance in case your rushed pickling operation creates any jars that go foul and anyone gets sick.

Also – ew. Not even the destitute want pickled cauliflower.

I’m guessing your Mom is now on ‘team Bear’.

I would consider that your Mom is the problem here except that the dudes lumped you in with being burned alive, and that suggests they are the PoS.

I feel like food that takes multiple days to prepare needs a cost of labor included in the estimated price per person

Unfortunately, I feel like these times call for explicit clarification in what should be obvious.

“…when Jews can live anywhere in the world without fear of persecution… for being Jewish” (but like everyone else can be held accountable as individuals for crimes including war crimes; that being Jewish doesn’t turn prosecution into persecution)

Cops do not like confronting actual criminals - criminals are dangerous. But they love to intimidate and force total acquiescence from regular people and excuse it by saying ‘its what we have to do ‘in case’ they are a criminal’.

Once criminals figure out that cops don’t want to confront them, those criminals learn to accommodate that. So they get worse. They figure out who they can rob and intimidate with impunity - and it’s mostly the poor. But also, they can break into middle class people’s cars, porch pirate, even B&E into homes, and cops don’t want to deal with that. So many people post on reddit bc cops won’t do a thing if, for example, a disabled person has their motorized wheelchair stollen, so people try to play detective on their own. Have a stalker or an ex who has credibly threatened your life? That might only help them catch that person if you are actually murdered.

Cops deter crime in wealthy areas, but the rest of us are on our own.

Fear of being caught might deter the naive from testing if they can get away with shit, but in reality, there is essentially a truce between cops and criminals, and if you know how to be too much work and risk to bother catching, a lot of what we consider ‘criminals’ don’t have a lot to worry about.

I have no idea but whether they did or not is irrelevant.

Protesting is constitutionally protected speech even for lawmakers, and has no bearing on their rights as elected officials to tour those facilities.

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That is how many cis men think, and we are talking about her risk going into a space where there frequently won’t be any other witnesses.

It is not a weird thing to say, it is a relevant point.

Even if you trade in, you aren’t leaving with a different car without a higher monthly payment unless you take a major downgrade in automobile. A lot of people can’t afford a higher payment right now.

Not who you asked, but I would happily give anyone the benefit of the doubt about having any sense of who Musk really is who bought their car before Musk bought twitter in 2023.

I know several people who are struggling who bought used Teslas so they could use them for Uber gigs.

You can argue that was not a smart idea and I’d agree. But vulnerable people are just people, and people are not always effective strategists.

I’m not up for punishing individuals, especially those who may have bought their cars well before Musk even bought twitter.

Well. Cybertrucks have only been out since his mask was off. I’m less concerned about vandalizing those.

To all those saying, “but why shouldn’t men want to be cared for?”

This meme plays into a narrative the makes women subservient.

It suggests that only men “battle”, and that being a man and “battling” entities them to care by women.

No where in this is acknowledgement that women have burdens too, and that all people benefit from care.

No where in this is any hint of reciprocity. If anything, it implies that the “joy” of taking care of “her man” should be enough.

No. Walk the fuck on. Having a penis doesn’t entitle you to one-sided care.

The other thing implied by this - that women should ‘naturally’ be able to fix ‘her man’. But if a woman in broken? Oof - ‘she has Daddy issues’ and better fix herself, right?

And what if a woman tries to fix ‘her man’ and fails? Oh look - isnt that convenient - society just took all his faults and made them her failures. Wow! Who wouldn’t want to sign up for that??

And just look at that success rate. You can count up the number of women killed by intimate partners and see how great this plan is.

Society really needs to get past this childish narrative that tells men they should expect to find a manic pixie dream girl who lives only to make him happy. Men make fun of girls for believing in Prince Charming, but this is truly the more destructive fairy tale.

Unfortunately, research on prisoners and concentration camp victims did produce new valuable medical information.

Most of the field of gynecology is based on experiments done on women slaves, where the “doctors” decided their victims conveniently didn’t have nerve endings.

Ethics throttles research.

But I am aghast at the thought that we should permit unethical research in the pursuit of, at the end of the day, greed.

And I say this as a professional scientist.

I can’t believe this conversation is even necessary.

“Why do Unions have to be considered Left?”

Tell me you have no idea about the history of labor rights without telling me…