That’s a way to look at it. As a person with C-PTSD it’s not something easily dealt with or healed from because society isn’t that skilled at helping with it, and my brain was shaped by constant bullying and abuse for the first 12 years of my life. Saying I need to ‘heal’ is like telling someone with ADHD they need to ‘heal’. PTSD, for me, is a form of ND. I can learn better coping mechanisms and my symptoms can be more manageable, especially with better self awareness. But there was never a baseline of not having PTSD to heal back too.

In other words, hypervigilance around toxic masculinity is wired deep into my amygdala, and that’s very difficult to change in a society that doesn’t have adequate tools or resources to help even typical PTSD. Maybe when MDMA treatment becomes available and affordable. I don’t really know the outcomes with it for child abuse.

Anyway, bringing it up out of context when someone mentions having a good relationship with their (in my case) father, isn’t a trauma response. It would be petty jealousy. And while I have plenty of jealousy of NT people, I agree that bringing up jealousy when other people are having a good time, especially in such a petty unhealthy way, is a dick move.

If you’re high enough on K do you really need spacetime?

How do you figure the GOP is the party of small government? Tax breaks for the rich? Christian Fascism for the rest?

You’re talking about leftists. I was saying there maybe actual centrists. Who would vote democrat even if a real leftist was on the ticket and had a real chance of winning because they actually preferred the center over the left.

Exactly

Or enlightened democrats who understand there party is the actual center and that workers aren’t represented outside of Bernie and AOC

You mean the centrist media? Because there’s really no main stream left wing media, not enough money in it.

If they were really centrist they’d vote democrat anyway, as that’s the centrist party.

Many leftists also vote democrat. Lesser of two evils, a two party system, no ranked choice voting, etc. etc. etc. etc.

What I didn’t agree with about your post is that intolerance is an attitude. So it’s not something we need to tolerate.

We can tolerate our racist uncle but we shouldn’t tolerate the racism. Because the attitude is like cancer and if we don’t put it in check it will spread.

Tolerance for fascism is like trying to negotiate with cancer.

physical suffering can make the present hard to ignore and self compassion easy to find