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Margaret Park's avatar

I am 89. My grandmother lacked 8 days of being 18 when she married. The next morning she rose and fixed breakfast for the farm hands. She lived in a house with no running water or electricity. She gave birth to 8 children. Her first baby died at 6 months of diphtheria. Her oldest son died of the flu in 1918. She worshipped FDR for bringing electricity to the countryside. Her husband died when I was a baby and she lived with her adult children for the rest of her life. My own mother lived with her children in widowhood as Social Security hadn't been around long. The hard right want to go back to those days except they probably prefer modern plumbing and electricity.

Ma's avatar

I’m pretty sure there are more than 43 million men abusing women.

Ma's avatar

Make up the bed, take out the garbage, water the trees, fetch the mail, do the laundry (although I kind of like doing that), hit the grocery store, wash my face at night, brush my teeth, etc. Great show.

Ma's avatar

AI can have that fucking job.

Ma's avatar

I want something that dusts. How hard is that?

Ma's avatar

So funny. My mother’s family was Greek (father) and Arizonan mother born in the territory. Ended up in South GA. With the orange mussolini’s bent, I doubt either of them would be considered citizens, including my mother. It is a thin line we walk and heavy baggage we carry for any of us to be considered citizens. Send Alito back to Italy, put uncle Thomas on a slave plantation, send that asshole kavanaugh back to the potatoe farms in Ireland, where the hell do you send Amy in a coma barrette - white trash from the farm fields of indiana, and don’t get me started on that pussy raised by a whore of a governmental worker Neil gorsuch and put him back in England where they enforce perjury laws when one breaks them. Pathetic. Sorry, I can’t take it tonight.

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Saw a protest sign. Impricts no peaches.

Nansu19's avatar

Such a great conversation today and thanks for it! I appreciate you both sharing.

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What can be done to redirect the frustration and rage exhibited by so called Incels?

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I love the idea of positive reinforcement reading required for young men and boys getting what they want.

Deborah Gardner's avatar

it's all about power and control

Keith Sewell's avatar

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Cheeto: Narcissistic Ego And Contrarianism

Cheeto carries the unofficial personality disorder diagnosis of malignant narcissism(MNPD) which is made worse by frontotemporal dementia of which he has shown signs with growing concerns

The personality traits of MNPD are sadism where there is blatant disregard for humanity such as when the USAID agency was totally dismantled affecting the lives of millions of people and children(done by DOGE led by Musk another MNPD) Loyalty particularly of the media is necessary due to the paranoia exhibited by the impaired And aggression as seen in his fatal decision to attack Iran

But one of the more pernicious characteristics of MNPD particularly for a leader of a country is antisocial behavior demonstrated by Cheeto’s blatant disregard for rules, the rights of others, and societal norms which leads to irrational contrarian decision making(https://bit.ly/4dG68bq) Blowing up the JCPOA(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) which had taken 18mo of diplomatic work by the Obama administration, Cheeto showed everyone his contrarian pathology and now is trying to resurrect the agreement on his own which is now costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars a day The exhibited corruption on full display is characteristic of antisocial behavior

The risks of such contrarian attitudes with aggressive tendencies in a man with the nuclear codes should be concerning for all of Americans and the world The unpredictable nature of his actions make him a dangerous threat to not only the country’s national security but country’s of the world

Unfortunately the country is under the control of a psychopath which affects us and as WE have seen the entire geopolitical order WE the People are living in perilous times and neither WE nor the Nazi Republicans should normalize this pathological behavior and insist that the media including substack channels start calling this crazy loon who is atop our government for what he is….a crazed demented man with MNPD