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Maybe tor browser. New account made on tor browser with different phone number. Also on new device. Different windows login. They track everything.

Liberals are by their definition against using force on others.

Democratic people are liberal. That’s actually the definition I have provided you. The one that is universal. You can make up your own definition. I can say dogs have wings. Doesn’t make it true.

So if I didn’t vote. That would absolve me ? This is like arguing with a brick wall. I’ll just call up trump right now and tell him to stop this awful war cause I definitely have that kind of power.

Sweden has socialized medicine and education. You contribute to capitalism as much as any other citizen. Do you buy things? Do you work for money? Your mental gymnastics to blame other citizens is ridiculous. There are actual people responsible. And they aren’t your fellow powerless neighbors. They are as guilty as you are.

What atrocities has your country done? If you voted you caused it. If you didn’t vote you let others cause it so you caused it by your inaction. That’s your logic. If I’m guilty than you are equally at fault friend. But you can sit here and point fingers at your fellow man instead of blaming the actual people responsible. You are just as bad as those blaming immigrants for all their problems.

I never voted for genocide. I only voted for Kamala to keep trump from getting elected. How are you blaming me for genocide. As if I had any power over that. Are you responsible for everything your government does?

I never disagreed with the capitalism problem. It’s at the root and until it’s addressed, it will inevitably lead to ruin. You won’t get any argument from me there on that one. But many still think socialism can exist in a regulated capitalist society. Neither of us thinks so, but I can understand why some do think that’s possible. And I’m not going to criticize them for all the problems that are caused by this when there are other groups at a much greater fault. Socialism in capitalism has semi worked (let me explain what I mean by “worked”,) at a surface level. And especially looks promising when being viewed remotely. For instance an American may look at Sweden and say "look how well socialism is working there ". And it looks like it is working. Free healthcare. Equality. Better educated. But you and I know it’s unsustainable and will always be in decline because that’s how capitalism works. It demands sacrifice after sacrifice. Profits must continue to increase. Finite resources must be used faster than they can regenerate. And this of course is not sustainable long term. But many people don’t see this aspect of things. They just see that things in Sweden look much better than they are here. And they see socialism working. Dare I say “perfected” from the perspective. Not everyone is capable of following cause and effect long term. Or tracing back problems to their sources. So. This is getting long but. I study psychology. My area is perception and cognition but I’ve also studied social. To make a short as point as possible. For a society to exist cohesively, most members need to be “sheep”. It’s the only way they will cooperate and collectively follow rules. But a society needs people who challenge things. Or progress never happens. If you have too many of those types, they all think they know best. And they all just fight constantly. The masses will follow whichever one appeals to their existing ideals the most. Existing ideals that are a product of the environment they grew up in. I do think there is a level of personal responsibility here that is real. But at the same time I acknowledge that most people are incapable of starting very far from the cultural ideas they were raised with. Liberals want a better world. They just can’t let go of capitalism because they were raised in capitalism and they can’t imagine it any other way. This doesn’t mean they deserve to be lumped in with the anti-social fascist on the right. They aren’t the same.

That doesn’t make it right wing. It makes it a failed left ideology.

Really. Cause that sounds like Republicans rhetoric.

So who are most of the people showing up to protests ? If not liberals than who ? I agree the so called liberal politicians are fake liberals and do little to help the people. But that’s not really the same thing as liberal people. Politicians are usually liars and change their stances easily to win votes. Many have no integrity. They don’t represent the liberal people.

This is your opinion. That’s not the definition in various online resources. You don’t get to make up definitions whenever you like to push your narrative.

What people call themselves and what they actually stand for are not necessary the same. Labor party in Britain is a good example. Often party names start from historic ideologies that change over time. Other times, a misleading word is used to intentionally obfuscate what their party /group / organization is going. It’s common in the U.S to give bills and laws that fuck the people over the most names like “citizens United”. Or “the save act”. When these both are destructive to the people.

Any supremacist is not, by it’s very definition of being discriminating, liberal. Liberal is against bigotry of any kind. That’s a core foundation. It supports equality. Why are you under the impression that only white racist are alt right and all other kinds are liberals? That’s not how that works. You can hate whites. Mexicans. Jews. Men, etc. Any support of group discrimination is right wing by its definition because liberals specifically is against bigotry.

No liberal supports that. Literally none. Give me a source that says they do.

That’s a moot point. I agree capitalism will stop progress. But if these individuals support social progress, even if they incorrectly believe it can be achieved within capitalism, this does not make them Republicans. The distinction between left and right in the U.S is democratic and Republic ideologies. Social progressives vs traditionalists. Support for capitalism is not the dividing line. It never has been. You can all pretend liberals are the cause of all your problems. The right wing is the actual cause of our slip into fascism. They worked to get their own people into every seat. Plenty of blue maga. These are not actual liberals. They only ran as Dems to get elected. The right wing conservatives are the ones stripping women of rights. Of trans peoples rights. It’s sure as fuck not the liberals. I’ve given multiple definitions of liberals from multiple sources and you all just pretend that’s not the definition. That your personal definition is the “real” one and call anyone who disagrees as uninformed. I can use Google. Apparently you cannot. You don’t get to just make up your own definition and push it and pretend that everyone else , all other sources are wrong. And besides. Instead of blaming liberal progressives who push for civil rights , environmental controls, and taxes on the rich, you should consider what it is that you have contributed to this country by pretending to be better than the people actually advocating for these progressive changes. What have you done to make this country better? You remind me of those Christian fundamentalist who think they are better than everyone else because they stick to rules they made up. Honestly it all feels like you all must either be grifters or infiltrators. No one believes this b.s that liberals are the problem right now. We all know it’s the conservatives. The Republicans. The right wing and especially the alt right.

Support of private property does not make someone right wing. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. And it’s not a criteria listed anywhere on any definition.

Not in the U.S they aren’t. Definition Noun a supporter of policies that are socially progressive and promote social welfare. “she dissented from the decision, joined by the court’s liberals” 2. a supporter of a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise

Lemmy right wing. Not liberals. Liberals are anti trump. Only right wing people support trump.

Sounds likely

Bet they will start encouraging rape of enemy civilians again. Cause that’s just the kind of show they are running now. No honor.

Yeah I suck at spelling and thought that was how it was spelled. 😅

Why you bring up my childhood trauma ?

That’s also true here. People knew trump raped girls. Years ago. Many years. But if you said anything you were seen as an alarmist. Or exaggerating. Even though legal documents and victim reports were out there and freely available. There are always a few people paying attention. But most aren’t. They only hear of things and only become concerned about things when someone of influence tells them it’s something they need to be worried about.

So back when Snowden told everyone that the u.s government had mass surveillance on the people there wasn’t very much outrage. And I remember a discussion on reddit I posted. I asked if because this idea of “the government is spying on me” has long been associated with cooky crazy paranoid people, that when we learned it actually was all true, that we still were reluctant to engage with it because of its ties to being a paranoid crazy person. A few people commented but not much could be determined because there is no research on this. But I speculated that people are apprehensive about engaging in proven conspiracy theories because of the association of other personality traits that are less socially acceptable. They will only engage with the topic once it has become socially acceptable to do so. What are your thoughts on this ?

Hell yes there is

So many nightly visitors. I’ve got 4 raccoons that come by. 1 with a messed up tail. One with a big fluffy tail. And a pair that are always together. One of those is super shy the other super bold. 1 black cat (rare visitor) 1 orange tabby (daily visitor) 2 medium gray tabby cats but one has brownish red tummy (1 is daily visitor, other is rare visitor) The rare one has actually came inside a few times. My cat was friendly with her. 1 light gray tabby with a bell (multiple times a day visitor). 2 gray squirrels sometimes bury things in the front porch flower beds. They come up on the porch sometimes. Never eat anything I leave out (,fruit or vegetables). There is a female possum that comes multiple times through the evening. I’m pretty sure it’s the same one but I thought that about the racoons until I paid more attention. If it’s multiple possums, they all appear to be females. The hanging pouch is visible from the backside. I’ll have to get a camera set up. Also I thought originally it was like 2 cats. Maybe they told all their friends. I had to make a limit with myself on how much food I put out cause I’m not rich. 5 scoops of cheap cat food. Plus any leftovers that are safe for them. (Leftover pasta ). Plus my dad says racoons love marshmallows. This appears to be true so I put some out. Here are a few pictures I’ve taken. I’ll have to get some of everyone. imgur.com/a/tSsZSh2

Aleve Company might be using a lot of fillers or adding something that changes how it’s absorbed by your body.

Everything meat now days is all hotdog meat. I bought some brauts the other day. I’ve bought that brand many times before. But now they have the texture of Vienna sausages. Pure mush. So nasty I couldn’t eat. My cat would eat. And I put outside for the feral animals and 2 racoons refused to eat it. Finally a possum stopped and ate a few chunks (I put it on my porch and can see from my couch if they stop by). I honestly was surprised that the racoons passed. But that should tell us something. It’s not human food. Not even close. Only a scavenger animal ate it.

Aleve is the good stuff. Price has super jacked up though.

Get ready to only own screens. And every thing is processed via the cloud on data centers destroying your community and livelihood. And of course you will be paying for every minute of it.

Why? For not doing it before the Republicans ?

Someone made this a skit www.instagram.com/reel/DPPJHcSgNdY/

Well the thing about careers in research is that pretty much all require at least a masters and most require a PhD. For example. I could teach at colleges with a master’s. But I’m not qualified to run experiments unless I have a PhD. Usually only community colleges and small religious colleges hire professors with only a master’s. Most other colleges or universities prefer or require a PhD. When I first started college, at age 24, I just wanted to get some education to get a better job. Psych was not even on my radar. I took a class because why not. Did well. Took a few more psych classes. Before I knew it, I had enough for it to qualify as my major. I talked to the chair professor and told him. I didn’t want to major in psych because 1. Everyone I knew who was a psych major never even finished their degree. 2. I didn’t want to go to school for another 10 years to be able to work in the field. I said I didn’t want to be 40 before I finished. He said. Dani. You are going to be 40 regardless. You want to have a degree and a career that suits you or not by the time you are 40?. So here I am. Turned 40 in May. 😅 I may need to explain why it took me so long. I did my associates and bachelor’s half time because I worked full time during those degrees. So they took me 8 years. Then half a year gap. Then 1 year masters. Then 1 gap year. Then started PhD. 6 year program. I have 2 masters now. In the same exact field. I was not competitive enough to get into a PhD program without research experience. That’s why I had to get a master’s first. Younger people with more free time often work as research assistants. I didn’t have that option as I had a full time job plus school.

Mostly writing for me right now. I finished up my doctorate research experiments in June and now I’m writing my dissertation. After I’m done I plan to teach and continue doing research. I exclusively do in-person research. Nothing online. This is a bit more challenging as I have to set up a room and schedule people. And they often don’t show. So it’s exhausting sometimes. My doctorate research is on depth perception based on motor feedback from the lens in your eye that focuses light. I might continue to do a little more research in this area but my next interest is in motion sickness from visual and vestibular cues in moving vehicles. As a general rule, I research multisensory systems. I have little interest in studying an isolated system. Boring. So motion sickness. It’s like getting car sick. Especially if reading. I have some theories on how to combat this and want to test my hypothesis. I get motion sick easy so this is also personal for me to find solutions. Graduate work is not too different from what I will be doing after I graduate. Teaching. doing experiments. And lots and lots of writing. I already did teaching and teaching assistant as a grad student. I quite liked it and received a graduate teaching assistant award. So I think I’m well suited to it. Teaching isn’t for everyone tho. But I don’t want to fully give up research to devote all my time to teaching, so I’m going to try to do both. Most professors do both.

So I am a perception researcher. There is research on a lot of tactics for advertising. There are laws now, shaped by that research, that prevent advertisers from using specific symbols used to mark materials and locations for safety. For instance. The symbol for radiation is not allowed on advertising. Do you know why? Maybe you have a pretty good idea. The symbol will lose not only its meaning when applied to non radiation areas. But it loses salience. Salience is how attention-grabbing something is. There are specific features of things in the world that our perpetual system was designed to notice more. Because these are important to us in some functional way. They help us navigate our environment. Bright colors. High contrast. Unusual Geometrics. And movement. Another important thing about the perception system is it’s adaptiveness. Highly adaptive. Even at older ages. But very very adaptive at young ages. An example. Kittens raised in spaces with only vertical black and white lines and never allowed to see any other orientation or color. (Blindfolded when fed and most of the time). When these cats were put in a room with horizontal lines. They could not “see” them. And ran into the walls. They never regained their ability to see horizontal lines nor any other orientation since this loss happened since birth. This is because specific neurons in your primary cortex respond to specific orientations. If they never fire from lack of stimuli. They die. Now that’s an extreme version. But what I trying to get at is this: The sensory system is highly adaptive to the environment. It provides what the person needs. When we are bombarded with adds that all use salient stimuli (bold colors, moving, high contrast), we start tunning these out. They become “low salient”. Why is this a problem. ? Because the brain processing at early sensory attention cannot “tell the difference” between a billboard advertising video playing in your periphery trying to grab your attention. And a small child running in the periphery that will end up in front of your car. We are “learning” to not see movement. Or at least not direct our attention to it to identify what it is. We are learning to not see bold colors and high contrast. Things that we actually do need to see most of time. People are still missing safety and warning signs all the time because advertisements try to grab our attention and we learned to ignore anything bold. This is not speculation. Lots of research on this. Being constantly surrounded by advertisement changes salience of important visual and audio cues. It also has cognitive effects like exhaustion. But I’m not as versed on those as the perception parts. That’s my area of expertise. I say, we as scientist must prove ads are harming us. Get legislation passed to protect people and kids. But there already is evidence. And nothing is done. No one cares. No one can fight lobbyists. And it’s hard to quantify the damage. Like specifically risk increases and the like. Very difficult to do. No control subjects. So the research is often dismissed as speculation on real world applied harm.

I have a neighbor who’s neurodivergent. He’s an older gentleman, retired. He does the lawn care and looked after the house I’m currently in, when it was empty. He knows the owner. Anywho. The owner told me of the guy before I moved in. The way she talked about him kinda clued me in, that he might be a little odd. Owner assured me tho that he was a good guy and very dependable. If you only met him once. Or… Maybe a handful of times, you might conclude he’s an asshole. He’s very to the point. And critical. Of everything and everyone. But. He’s actually incredibly kind and thoughtful. After living here for 6 months, he comes and mows the lawn. Also mulched the leaves and now has shoveled my walkway. Just does it. No pay. I don’t have to ask. And I told him multiple times, if you need any help, just knock on the door. Cause I don’t usually hear you out there and I definitely can do half the work. But he’s like nah I got it. Ive had a few minor issues with the house im staying at, and he’s always been available to help immediately. He will bitch about how so and so is responsible for the problems. Usually reasonable culprit (old house, owner hasn’t done maintenance, or wrong building supply used, etc). Nothing he complains about is a blame game. It’s all legit. But he sure does complain pretty much non stop. I mean non stop. As I said if you just met him or only interacted with him in some scenarios, you would 100% think the guy was an asshole. But he’s not. Not really. Just different.

The cheese one. I’m not sure… Can someone give me an example?

Most progressives are open to conversation and debate in good faith. However, we, like any human, have low tolerance for hate, unsubstantiated claims based on religion or personal feelings, (i.e it’s unnatural for trans people to exist). Also just because we will debate does not mean you will change our mind. We will continue to disagree if we see no merit in your argument. Here is the thing you might not know so I’ll let you in on this. Everyone within a specific group, especially a group as big as “progressives” or “Democrats” or even “gen Z” are all individual people with their own individual beliefs and ideas. Experiences and opinions about things. We are not that alike. We just share some basic features like believing bigotry is wrong, kids shouldn’t be murdered by our taxes, and everyone deserves human rights. I mean just real basic shit that honestly should be held by everyone. But we are different people. We are aware of this. None of us believe we are all alike. That’s something the conservatives believe about us. We know it’s not true. We are 100% okay with diversity in our group. We don’t demand everyone submit to specific doctrines or are shunned. Unlike maga and groypers.