And keep in mind, it's not like I want to say all this and not offer hope. There's incredible people working and risking their lives- but it's just how much those people are not supported / outright prevented from doing their work by the aforementioned hollowmen.
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I guess the thing I can most say - is that I understand what this rage really is. For a long time I had a lot of trouble connecting to anger. But this is common of half the kids who grew up around a lot of it (the other half learn to adopt it in turn). It was a feared expression.
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But one of the things therapy teaches (among many other things) is that anger is a natural and necessary emotion - that just so happens to have many of the most toxic forms of expression, especially with men. But...
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The core of anger is fighting for selfhood, the right to understand that you deserve to be alive, to exist, to preserve, to draw boundaries with all that is unhealthy, and to undo the instinct for all the toxic forms of expression.
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Because if you don't, if you embody the toxicity, and ultimately you doom yourself and everyone around you. Which, looking at all of this, is the catch 22 I cannot shake.
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BTW, in case it's not clear. He's going to be looking for excuses to use national emergency measures to cancel the election. This is not exaggeration. This is the next step.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
This is nonsense. Emergency declarations cannot cancel a presidential election. They are required by the constitution & would need an amendment to alter. We had an election during the Civil War, and we'll have another in November. There's cause for frustration, not paranoia.
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In more practical terms, it’d be a lot easier for someone to justify canceling an election during a heath crisis than even during a Civil War. (“whaddya mean I can’t vote? i live in *vermont*. what, like, the Battle of Shiloh’s gonna suddenly break out at my polling place?”)
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There was a Civil War battle fought in Vermont only a few weeks before the election of 1864.
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Ok, Bad example, but that’s not the point. “It’s not safe for anyone in the whole country to vote ‘cuz they might accidentally stumble into a major military conflict on their way to the high school gym” is absurd and no one would buy it. A viral outbreak on the other hand...
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I already blocked this person.
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