.
If we honestly care
about making change, we 
need
to commit to learn what can 
be
done, how, and do the work at 
the
level available.
Having tantrums is not 
meaningfully
making a difference.
.
Have you considered that the 
person
you oppose may be perceiving 
from
a different point of view, 
which,
without scientific exploration of 
outcomes
based on each, may potentially be 
as
valid as yours -- or maybe the 
truth
is between, or somewhere 
else.
.
When conservatives 
(so-called)
have power, they don't offer 
unity.
They punish those with whom 
they
disagree or project as "not 
us"
and therefore Enemy.
Punishment is all they 
understand.
No questioning the costs of 
war,
large or small -- military 
weapons 
their proof of 
strength.
.
You say children (strangers about 
whom
you have no real knowledge) need 
saving
from traffickers.  How many 
actual children
have you saved or helped in any 
way?
Traffickers mostly target 
children who have
no one to protect them -- 
runaways,
throwaways, alone and desperate.  
These
kids are on the streets of most 
cities.
How are you helping them to get 
safe
places to go, people who 
care?
What are you doing that you, 
personally,
can do for them or children in 
your town
who are in need?
Or do you only like the idea of 
saving
children because it gives you 
friends,
a social bubble to protect you 
from
loneliness or powerlessness, to 
give
you a mythology to 
believe?
.
conspiracy theories as such are 
no more 
dangerous than any fantasy -- and 
like any 
fantasy they become a source of 
danger 
when their fans so break from 
reality 
that they are unconcerned with 
actual 
social codes that seek to control 
violence
.
I have quite recently been 
starting to look into 
the vagus nerve as an emotion 
moderator and 
possible treatments for 
autoimmune 
inflammatory disorders.  
I have been experimenting with 
those long, deep 
breaths and a "become calm" 
mantra, and 
becoming calmer, more focused and 
I guess saner.
.
a village raising a child, 
planning for agriculture, 
sharing information and 
education, 
dealing with disagreements and 
fights, 
these are all 
governance
Government is not any particular 
model but 
the ways we develop to live 
civilly in society.
.
obviously these people have no 
idea how 
this country is organized to be 
run, and don't 
care because they don't want an 
organized 
social responsibility but only 
attention and  
capitulation paid to their ad hoc 
tantrums
.
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