Yeah because the fascists want an army comprised only of soldiers and sailors who agree with fascists.

And they wonder why people keep shooting at Republican politicians?

I say this as someone who has long had the same problem as you: Perhaps it is because those topics of yours have very high stakes for you personally? There is little chance of things being solved today, right? Longer term, sure. Of course. The bastards always run out of people to turn on before their numbers collapse.

Lower the stakes where you can by helping your mind escape from “focused on the real world” to “focused on anything else, or nothing at all.”

Could get into a tv show or movie series, if you’re spending time indoors a lot. Or read a book, listen to a podcast, and so on. Put the phone on charge in another room, put on your entertainment, maybe a little popcorn? You’ll forget about the bullshit for a few hours. It helps.

Also? Create stuff! Write, draw, paint, sculpt, even poorly! I am dealing with the stress of everything by teaching myself to write movies. That’s a couple hours at a time where I get lost in a world I created, playing around with characters I invented. It might never be good or it might, but for now, it’s almost a form of therapy.

Even doing something like joining a recreational club, like a trivia league or a bowling league, might give you a few hours a week that aren’t a constant reminder of the fucked up parts of the world.

Try to think of things that might be zen time for you. Meditation. Yoga. Religion, if that’s your thing. Buddhism, if you’re looking to borrow some practices without joining a religion.

Exercise can get you out of the real world and into zen mode, too. As a younger man, I played baseball and football/soccer, so I ran a lot between seasons to stay in shape. Between practice time, game/match time, and running time, I was constantly in zen space. You could use any competitive endeavor and get the same kind of benefits. You don’t even have to be good at it or win. It’s weird. I would have guessed losing would take away from it, but it didn’t.

I wish you good luck and I promise, you won’t feel this way forever. It does get better! I am living proof, bro.

Sure there is. Libertarian-Right = Extreme Selfishness.

That’s why their top issues are shit like “you can’t make me…”

Why do so many right-wing Christians sound like the villain from a Criminal Minds episode?

Like…this MFer thinks he has a right to make other people not exist for his comfort. Fucking psycho when you dig into it.

To paraphrase the philosopher Carmela Soprano, “You know, Larryy, it’s a multiple-choice thing with you. ‘Cause I can’t tell if you’re old-fashioned, you’re paranoid, or just a fucking asshole.”

lol ok dude

“It’s ok if I do it” what an asshole

Does the Nazi culture deserve to exist?

You are spending a weird amount of time sticking up for people who rape and murder their own relatives.

Care to explain why it’s so important to you to stick up for people who rape and murder a teenage girl?

Dude you can’t just accuse people of supporting genocide and shit when they’ve not done anything of the sort.

It’s not unreasonable for people to look at a mass of other people who are cheering on the rape and murder of their own relative and think “yeah, the world doesn’t need that lot”

aww, you tried to be edgy.

It’s not that they don’t listen. It’s that their brains aren’t built to think critically about anything. They are built to obey, but they’re also narcissists.

That’s why conservatives go wild for Trump. From the conservative’s point of view, Trump lets them FEEL LIKE THEY ARE OBEYING by doing whatever they want.

He doesn’t just give them permission or cover to be awful; Trump makes these people feel like they’re helping him when they do shitty and selfish things.

(This is also why they love cops who hurt people and soldiers who commit war crimes. They get to vicariously OBEY while also BREAKING THE RULES TO FEEL GOOD. Best of both worlds to them, like taking an upper and a downer at the same time.)

I guess that makes conservatism a social speedball.

Gee, I wonder why no one wants to have a conversation with a gaslighting asshole?

Oh look, another Republican pretending to be a Democrat gets outed because he tried to make a joke and it flopped because no Republicans are funny.

Have you tried NOT pimping for child-murdering zionists?

Why do you think I care if you take me seriously?

You’re pimping for people who murder children. As far as I’m concerned, I hope you get what Trump deserves.

Blah blah blah

Fucking Mossad Propagandist.

Take your bullshit Mossad Propaganda somewhere else.

As far as I’m concerned, Israel is lucky they haven’t been carpet bombed back into the Biblical days they want to live in.

Why is it we can never have a conversation about Israel without you fucking people lying about everything? It has to be deliberate.

Cinco de Mayo celebrates a culture, not a country. St Patrick’s Day celebrates a culture, not a country.

What fucking culture are we celebrating with “Israel Day?”

Israel isn’t a culture. It’s a goddamn country currently led by a fascist, genocidial government.

These two things aren’t related. And if you’re not literally stupid, you KNOW that they’re not the same thing…and you still insist on making the argument? Go spread that Mossad Propaganda somewhere the fuck else.

I don’t know which would be sadder: That you actually believe what you wrote, or that you don’t.

All this because his dad never hugged him?