This was a great read. These dynamics are so prevalent.

Definitely for me the specific choice they made here does make me see in in a cynical light. I don’t know these people and mayybe there could have been some nuanced or respectful ways to keep the band going in some sense, I really don’t know, but this sure as shit doesn’t seem like that. Like damn, this really is how every single group of people acts when someone is a survivor, or when someone else is a rapist, huh? Just wow. Every single group of people, complete self interest and disregard. I can’t think about it in any other light. Similar kinds of situations have played out over and over again lately and I am so disheartened. I’m bracing myself for some awful comment to come out next. The whole thing is just queasy the more i learn about it.

This sucks.

Uhhhhhhhh yikes.

Wow. That sucks. I feel like so much of what her office has been doing is just designed to create the appearance of solving problems and governing while…not actually doing much about anything real.

Fuck, really? Where can i learn more about that

It isn’t.

Breitbart? No, thank you.

I get this, some people are just the worst and hard to be around for whatever reason, and some of them can stop their behavior easily and others need support to do that- but i do object to categorizing and labelling and medicating and policing these people. Some people just fucking suck. But they have the right to suck and deserve neither to be relegated to a label in an oppressive way OR as in a way they can use as an excuse to avoid accountability for being shitty to others. Medicalizing weird or rude behavior has lots of effects that harm everyone, asshole and non asshole. The categories are socially determined, so assholes with power do not get categorized like that anyway. It’s mostly marginalized people who end up with those labels following them around and affecting how they are treated by others.

Fuck stephen miller though, for sure. Confirmed bigoted asshole.

Yeah. I am trying to find ways to disengage from the nonsense without disengaging from my like, actual responsibilities to my society. But the jury is extremely out on how I do that right now. Having my emotions (and everyone else’s)manipulated for the gain of others no longer feels useful or like staying informed.

These people need to redirect their followers’ attention and anger onto literally anything but real circumstances. I’m so tired, it keeps working.

Yes!!

It’s just fundamentally not a disorder to dislike authority. It’s not a disorder to be upset about things that have happened to you, or to react strongly or emotionally to oppression. I find it so exhausting that in order to receive support and needed accommodations people are forced to basically label parts of their experiences as diseased or extraordinary and accept forever-stigmatization of them. It makes me fucking ill.

Yep, I use it. I like it.

In a decade or two, when i organize my thoughts on this, maybe i will.

Yeah! Ty

This is a great suggestion. I haven’t read it cover to cover but no text is better at indicting exactly what i’m thinking of. I didn’t realize the fifth one was only in 2013. I have a great therapist now, but the people who were working in the places I encountered around 2012-2015 repeated and believed the most harmful unscientific nonsense it was wild. No critical thinking at all. It has always seemed so wild to me that certain people are allowed to use that goddamn disaster book to make such consequential decisions about the lives of vulnerable people that have just met. Thanks for reminding me of this.

Hell yeah this is exactly what i was looking for. Thanks

Thanks for posting this context. I’ve been wondering about this aspect of this event

79% score? Maybe I slept on that show