ah see, thanks. i need to catch up then. i was hoping to be wrong about the direction of their reactions but you are pointing out my worries coming true. “idk i’m seeing some vicious anger that appears to imply their focus on pedophilia overrides their allegiance to Trump,” i thought. lol. welp. i guess we’ll see but now i’m back to where i was.

check the edit in my comment. i don’t know about a documented uprising or anything but people are vocally expressing disapproval and some are rather upset. trump almost got assassinated by a disillusioned conservative. these people are dangerous and unhinged even against themselves.

…no, i said real world examples lol. like a town hall meeting where people loudly booed Trump and it was a meeting specifically for his crowd.

edit: this here - i can’t find a good clip that is just the event itself, sorry. searching nowadays is garbage but it is out there. this will give you an idea of what i’m talking about. there are more examples.

“your honor… yes, i killed two people, but they combine into one person who doesn’t matter. i killed my ex who deserved to die and my wife who didn’t. they cancel each other out. am i free to go?”

Other media’s lapping it up to tell readers want they want to hear: MAGA is infighting, when in reality they are not.

can you show me some examples of this not being the case? i am wondering where to look for an actual analysis on how MAGA is handling this letter, because i have seen several real world responses from his supporters that are extremely upset and feel betrayed. you’re saying this isn’t a sizeable group within his base? interesting.

How many fascists have you killed?

lone wolves are useless and a detriment to any serious cause. i haven’t killed any fascists because i cannot, i will be jailed.

A Ted Kaczynski would say a person who really cares about these issues would already be sending mail bombs.

see above. i disagree with his assessment that one-offs are useful. he is proof it accomplishes nothing.

but could you not bring your partner along?

he is more of a homebody than me, lol.

Just because you have the luxury of time and space to be involved in politics and spend a lot of emotional energy in that area doesn’t mean that everyone else has that luxury.

i’d argue it isn’t a luxury it is a responsibility and i do not have the time or space, actually. i do it at the sacrifice of my mental health as i’ve made clear.

frankly, i’m not interested in this conversation because you are not the first, second, third, or 100th person to say the same thing and my response is never agreed with and it just becomes a back and forth until we either agree to disagree or tell each other off.

also no, i have not stopped short of actively killing fascists. murder it would not be, it is self-defense. ultimately, i am morally superior and am confident in that fact. it’s not something i expect people to understand. i am lucky that my partner feels the same as me and we can share in this worldview. what makes me more correct than others? the fact that i am and they aren’t. i have the outlook that results in the least amount of human death and suffering.

i know it seems that way but it’s only because you are not accurately viewing the world, in my opinion. it isn’t that there are dicks, it’s that there are uneducated, ignorant, self-serving people who are just trying to get by. they don’t usually act maliciously but their unintentional ignorance and poor judgment causes worldwide death and suffering.

i cannot stand the average person any longer. truly, i have struggled my entire life. but the PTA mom who votes Dem without giving much thought? she is just as responsible for fascism as her Republican counterparts. it doesn’t matter if she isn’t doing it intentionally or maliciously—the end result is the same. if you are effectively contributing to the destruction of humanity i want nothing to do with you on a personal level.

just because someone is “worse” than you doesn’t mean they don’t have value

very true. however, it does make me less willing to be friends with them. we can be mutually kind and supportive, but i don’t want to know them on a personal level. also, it’s all a spectrum anyway. there are greys between each side, so it’s not like i’m looking for carbon copies of myself. but the radius of my tolerance is low, lol.

i try to lean forward, i do. i am, to my own chagrin, romantically optimistic about humanity. but it isn’t unrealistic. i ground myself by keeping up on sociological and political trends. shit is bad. shit is worse than bad. shit is worse than worse than bad. it’s all impacted how i see others and their role in the world.

It is possible to improve and for things to get better.

oh sure, i don’t deny that. i have experienced a lot of positive growth over the years and hope it continues. but i am not financially stable enough to pursue psychiatric and psychological treatment, so… just kinda dealing with it the ways i can.

Does that mean you can’t value someone with different beliefs than you?

not necessarily. our differences cannot be significant. it does mean i am far more intolerant than most, though, but on a personal level… not as an outward participant in society. i am pleasant to everyone i meet, but developing a friendship comes with baggage for me. i am less willing to talk to people with the goal of friendship in mind because i largely encounter folks who, frankly, i am better than. and that’s pretty sad because i suck.

What group, if you saw it was starting up in your area, would motivate you to go out and meet people?

it is unlikely i would go because i am unable to attend events solo due to anxiety. if i don’t know anyone i have no security blanket. i am not in the right headspace to tackle this issue at the moment.

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I have tons of friends with mental health struggles of all kinds.

yes, but we are all unique, unfortunately. none of them are me with my specific problems. a big part of my struggle is socializing in general.

But you say that you don’t value the same people I do, but what makes you think so?

because i know the reception of the beliefs i hold and they are universally condemned

What makes you think finding a group you would vibe with is particularly hard?

there aren’t any groups that interest me in my area. i have looked on all the usual places.

oh we know why, it’s not a mystery to anyone who talks to the average american worker. we are criminally underpaid for our labor and it gets worse the younger the generation is. millennials are more poor than their parents’ generation, and gen z will likely end up poorer than millennials.

just go to things

look lol, i know. it seems that simple. i have significant mental health issues that complicate things. i wish i could just go. i also don’t value the same people you may do, so finding people i truly get along with is not easy for me.

oh, uh, sure? that’s an odd thing to reply with when i never implied only having friends on Lemmy or online was healthy… so… alright. i do have friends in person, if we’re going to talk about it. i just still find it rather difficult to make new connections.

…huh? i don’t know what that means.

oh okay, now they won’t. a judge said so, you guys.

yeah but making friends IRL as a mid 30s millennial feels impossible.

they never will lol. everyone is afraid of the legalities involved and aren’t willing to risk lawsuits for your correct call for violent action. nobody is willing to support a movement of revolutionaries because it is bad optics. violence is unpopular even though it gets results.

stockholm syndrome is a fake condition rooted in misogyny, has literally no diagnostic criteria, and is not a term used by psychologists or psychiatrists. the dude inspired a false narrative. as a criminal, that’s pretty fitting.