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I would have rather we stayed with Eastern Standard Time and etc. if you want to do something early,change your schedule, not the clock.I think it was stupid to ever go with daylight savings time in the first place.
You guys should be happy about this! Aren't your type the ones who want to finally get rid of petroleum? Well, here’s your chance! C’mon! Let’s hear some cheering!
Electric and fuel economical cars are more popular again, because of Trump, but cars are only a small percentage of the global problem. It takes decades of directed investments into alternative energy, while simultaneously ramping down fossil fuel subsidies/profits, making alternative energy compete with the short term profits of killing humanity.
Trump is doing the exact opposite of that. He is prioritizing more expensive fossil fuel energy, making energy more expensive for American citizens, and polluting their air and water, and accelerating climate change for everyone on the planet.
I would wish that there was ANYTHING that I could cheer for Trump over.
I could forgive him his toxic character, if he had some general positive effect on the world.
A silver lining like promoting those cars cannot compensate for his onslaught of
stupidity, cruelty, divisiveness, authoritarianism, corruption, chaos, existential threat,
and utter incompetence, in which only the last of his malignancies provides some relief.
If he was competent, his harmful effect would probably have been irreversible already.
Tecsan, Dgraff, Phart, and all the others who said The Clown would be better than Biden or Harris? How about now. Is the highest inflation in years, the highest prices of gas in years, over 3% jump in the price of groceries in the last month is better?
You fools, you got snookered and the rest of us are paying the price. Thanks.
so you would rather Iran have a nuke for some terrorist to get ahold of and kill us?
I am not happy about 142 dollars to fill up my truck either but i also would not be happy glowing in the dark with my skin falling off after some asshole terrorist got ahold of irans nukes and launched them hollaring alley ackbar
We attacked a sovereign nation without provocation. They have the right to develop whatever they want to develop until they should the intention to attack us. We don’t belong there. Europe and the rest of the Middle East, especially Israel, are the ones who have to confront Iran. The Clown went in for only one reason, Epstein, and he didn’t count on Iran having the cojones to fight back. In the meantime, we, the citizens of this country (and many others around the world) are the ones that suffer. All because a Clown, an a..whole who can’t wipe his ass, let alone be a President, is trying to play with the big boys.
HE SHOULD BE REMOVED AND REPLACED.
You forgot to tell us WHY all that happened or is happening. The hostage crisis was a direct result of the CIA helping to bring to power the Sha of Iran. One of the most corrupt and bloodthirsty governor of Iran. That’s why during the revolution to topple him the Iranians went after Americans. And why they still hate us.
There’s never a good reason to go to war with a country without provocation. You, Phart, can try to make excuses, but, the truth is the truth.
Your a foolish old woman you need to pick another color to dye your hair because blonde is making you stupid if you dumb ass Democrats would stop trying to block us the war would be over
There country would be a big pile of rubble and wreckage there oil fields would be burning 🔥 there people would be dead in the streets our ground crews would be covering there dead with American flags and our national anthem would be ringing in the air --------------------------------------- added after 3 minutes
Remember the night dessert storm touched off keep that picture in your head
But, why are we at war? What did they do to us? You talk all tough but a huge majority, from both parties, think this war is unlawful and unnecessary.
But, let’s say we go on with the war. The next step is boots on the ground. Are you enlisting or are you going to hide behind some poor 20 something? Someone who doesn’t want to be there nor knows why we’re there.
Go on, Dgraff, call me a dumb blond, but, from where I stand, you are a lot dumber than me or a whole bunch of people.
It’s simple the whole rest of the world doesn’t trust Iran with nuclear weapons they would certainly abuse that kind of power the whole rest of the world don’t care what the democrats want --------------------------------------- added after 7 minutes
What would have Biden and Harris of done send them pallets of billions of dollars to quiet them down for a while that only worked a short time listen president TRUMP is not the kind of man to roll over and pretend he don’t see what they are doing
What the rest of the world thinks is not our problem. Under your way of thinking then, if the neighbors around you think that the guy on the mountain is dangerous, then they should lynch him.
Look at what this illegal war has caused (and you know what I mean) and tell me why it’s wrong for Democrats to oppose it.
Biden and Harris are knowledgeable and honorable people that would have not gone to war on a wim. This Clown has a problem keeping his diaper clean let alone governing the country.
Nonsense. They knew that slavery was a problem but at the time there was little they could do about it as it was. The issue was an extremely difficult one to rectify: to change the entire economy into one based on for-profit labor without destroying the entire nation. Not all the colonies permitted slavery, but the ones in the majority, the larger and more populous ones at the time, did.
Contrary to what many have asserted in recent years, the establishment of slavery preceded the establishment of the United States by many years, and not by Americans. A large part of economy had become dependent on it long before America existed. England itself didn’t ban slavery in the British Isles until 1833. It certainly did little to discourage it in the Americas prior to 1776, so long as money was being made there.
Interestingly, the Dutch were the ones to first establish permanent European-based slavery in the Americas in the 1600s, buying African captives from the native African slave catchers and then shipping them to the Americas. I say European-based slavery because the Dutch were not the first to practice slavery on this continent. It existed for generations prior to even the Vikings’ first forays to America, along with genocide, human sacrifice, conquest for land and resources, and cannibalism, among many other examples of the darker side of human behavior.
Another interesting fact is that records show one of the first registered slave owners for legal purposes in America was himself a black man named Anthony Johnson. An indentured servant in the early 1600s who gained his independence after fulfilling his contractual obligation, he went on to become a wealthy tobacco plantation owner in Virginia with numerous slaves of his own.
One of his slaves took him to court in 1655 to sue him for his release, and it is recorded that Johnson won the case, thus establishing officially recognized legal slavery in the colonies.
Slavery remained an economic and political problem that kept getting kicked down the road until 1860, when Abraham Lincoln (R) was elected. The Democrats, fearing that he had the power to ban slavery (he didn’t, that is, until they handed it to him three years later when Lincoln was able to convince Congress to ban slavery in all the states that were in rebellion), they revolted and we ended up with a civil war that caused 600,000 casualties, severely limited the South’s ability to make money, destroyed several cities, and ultimately established a more powerful centralized federal government.
It also established the de-establishment of that peculiar institution called Slavery.
The ones who kept forcing the issue to be kicked down the road time after time were the loudest proponents for "states’ rights": the Democrat party, especially those in the slave states. Rather than compromise with the North to finally rid America of its “peculiar institution,” they doubled down on it and demanded equal representation for slave states whenever a new state was established. This became known as the Missouri Compromise.
This forced the Congress to make one slave state for each free state accepted into the Union. Bloody Kansas comes to mind here, as slave staters regularly raided Kansas and massacred free staters living there prior to its acceptance into the Union, attempting to keep Kansas from becoming a “free state” and giving the North more representation in Congress.
As for firearms, how many kings have we had in the United States since its establishment in 1776? How many Stalins or Mussolinis?
I don’t mind that there is the private ownership of firearms in the hands of American citizens, until they use them criminally. Other than that, this is a manufactured hot issue, because if the estimated 390 million guns in the country were an actual threat to the nation and society as a whole, especially to the government, the issue would have been settled years ago by the very owners of those estimated 390 million privately owned firearms.
And, you also would not have been able to make that remark above. Like Ernesto “Che" Guevara in Cuba, summary executions for divergence of ideology would be the order of the day, but only IF gun owners were half as dangerous as some like to claim.
But, no. A vast majority of gun owners are law abiding citizens who like to mind their own business and would like others to, please, stay out of theirs, as long as they’re not hurting anyone else.
Then there is this one often overlooked fact that gun violence is NOT caused by guns. On the contrary. They are just one of the many tools used by violent persons to harm others. People cause gun violence, not the other way around. Even before the invention of the firearm, people hurt other people. Swords, knives, rocks, even pointed sticks, have been employed to massacre hundreds, even thousands, at a time.
When you choose ignore that inconvenient truth, you choose to deny the existence of a long history of violent behavior that has stained humanity since we first left the trees and started walking upright. The violence is nothing new. It is the tool that is.
A police state? When the police has business with you, you have to be
extremely careful what you say or do, because they are looking for a reason
to arrest or shoot you. Our police is patient and restrained as kindergarten teachers.
We have much more freedom than you do.
Owning a gun isn't freedom, having no reason to own a gun is freedom.
If you are in danger of people robbing your house, you value the right to own
a fucking mean guard dog. However, it requires food, attention and vet bills,
and one day the fucker will bite you. That's why you're more free if you don't
need a guard dog for your house to be safe.
1 thing you have never answered is the biggest question. How do you rid the world of the evil that contributes to our need to protect ourselves and our property? or our country?
HOW do you rid the human mind of the desire to steal, harm, hate? Answer that question with a viable and affordable and successful solution or several, and then you will be laying a corner stone to a solution. --------------------------------------- added after 12 minutes
Edit, here is a google ai search that might help you answer the question but it doesn't cover who pays the cost of it or how successful it is.
Yes, the desire to hate, harm, or kill can be reversed and managed, though it requires conscious effort, often with professional help, to dismantle toxic emotions and rebuild empathy. Healing involves addressing underlying trauma, shifting from victimhood to accountability, and actively replacing violent impulses with constructive coping mechanisms.Here are key strategies for reversing these urges based on psychological insights:Seek Professional Therapy: Intensive therapy, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), is crucial for managing violent ideation.Uncover Underlying Fear: Hatred often masks deep-seated fear, powerlessness, or trauma. Identifying the source of this fear can begin the healing process.Practice Forgiveness (for Yourself): Forgiveness is not about condoning actions, but letting go of the toxic burden of rage for your own wellbeing.Differentiate Feeling from Acting: It is possible to acknowledge feelings of hatred without acting on them. Cultivating a "pause" to examine the feeling prevents impulsive, destructive behavior.Distraction and Grounding Techniques: When harmful urges arise, utilizing coping skills like deep breathing, physical exercise, or journaling can help manage the immediate intensity.Rebuild Empathy and Social Connection: Actively combatting the isolation that feeds hate by connecting with supportive individuals or groups is essential for long-term recovery.If you or someone you know is experiencing thoughts of harm, seeking help from a mental health professional is a crucial first step.
You don’t rid the world of the evil that threatens our life, limb, or property unless it comes at you. We have a military that can defend us without us having to bring down our long guns down from the top of our closets. That is not a reason to bear arms. It’s a made up excuse to own those weapons.
you are so naive, your way of thinking is why the world is the way it is, you don't think you can rid the world of evil.
You damn sure can't with your attitude.
I’m naive? When was the last time in the last 10,000 yrs that the world got rid of evil? I know there are bad actors in the world but it’s not my country’s job to police the world. You are too focused on “The United States”, but, Europe has as much to fear from Iran as us. The same the other Arabian countries. And don’t get me started on Israel. So, why are we the ones that cross an ocean and half a sea to invade a sovereign nation because they are doing exactly what we do?
You never asked this question or in this way, but it isn't applicable.
There will ALWAYS be some evil in the world. The CHOICE is how you handle it; do you choose to minimize the damage of it or do you make choices in which the cure is worse than the disease.
You can turn your country into a police state, in which crime is minimized, by punishing every little offense severely and having cops everywhere controlling every move you make. Maybe that prevents you being robbed that one time in your life, or your bike doesn't get stolen, but the cops will treat you like a suspect and bother you everywhere you go.
Both crime and law enforcement are a risk to your livelihood. You can get mugged on the street or you can get hit my a stray bullet from police officers "handling" criminals. In your country, many people become victims of the police, while doing absolutely nothing illegal. You have justified that by blaming the victim for doing something wrong, but they were NOT breaking the law, before the cop decided to act against them, in most cases.
I am just trying to find an equilibrium between the risk that I'm suffering from evil or crazy people and the risk that I'm suffering from the protective measures. Your priority lies almost completely with suppression of crime, while you accept all the downsides that come from it.
"HOW do you rid the human mind of the desire to steal, harm, hate?"
That's a different question than how you protect yourself from it. Creating a police state will NOT rid the human mind of the DESIRE to steal, harm, hate. It might make rational people think twice about doing it, but criminals are NOT rational people.
The desire to steal, harm or hate are not rational to begin with. In the world we live in, it is rational to build yourself a future by education, self improvement and effectively turning your time and skills into a solid income. Stealing is always a risk, because you are dependent on a criminal economy that pays you money for stolen goods. Dealing with criminals is a risky business; you are always fighting against being ripped of or getting hurt. Harming and hating people is on the same page. That is mostly created by society; there is a culture where harming people for profit is completely acceptable, if you have the power to do so legally or even illegally.
This is propagated by mostly right-wingers, but it is also accepted by corporate liberals. It's only leftists and socialists, who want to reduce that. Hate is also mostly created by the media, that pit people against each other. If you are afraid and angry towards other people without any power, you are distracted from the powerful people harming you.
I'm surprised to see you talk about empathy, because you have always before dismissed it as weak or stupid. Empathy starts with the idea that all people are
the same and have human rights. You are always arguing against that.
Forgiveness? I am not arguing against you, I think. I think you copy/pasted this from somewhere, without reading it. Will you forgive people who entered your country illegally, when they were fleeing violence and chaos, but then did everything they could to follow the law and become a productive member of society?
What do you know about freedom? You square heads gave up your liberties years ago for security, including cradle to grave state-sponsored welfare, and you are now beginning to lose even that!
If not for American foreign and military aid over the past 80+ years, you’d be speaking either German or Russian right now! And, you would most certainly not smugly bragging about your “superior” healthcare system, one that has been funded by the American tax payer since the end of World War II, a war your underwater nation could not prevent or even fight once your German neighbors came in uninvited.
You people couldn’t fight your way out of a wet paper bag! You NEED the U.S. just to exist.
Better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees. As a wise man once said, we have a moral obligation to ignore immoral laws.
You’re already willing to be enslaved. Attitudes like yours is why there is evil in the world. You’re willing to accept it, so long as it leaves you alone, if just for a little while.
When the boot is on your throat, it doesn’t matter if it is a Right one or a Left one.
Well, I like giving BJs, but, at 74, I doubt I would be very effective in a fight. But that’s not the point. The point is, “Who is threatening me to be enslaved?”. Perhaps, if you can answer that question with POSITIVE PROOF THAT THEY ARE COMING FOR ME, then, I might change my mind.
As I see it, it would take a major catastrophe that destroys the complete infrastructure of this country and the world, before I would need to bear arms.
wear a oversize sweater and you won't have to bare arms.
You anti gun people are so dumb there is no hope. as for coming for you, what's the use? you are already so far out of it and old, what good would it be to terrorize you?
The young people and working people are the 1's that terrorizing would bring the most reward to the terrorist.
maiming and killing the people that make the country move would be a more effective way to harming the US as a whole that a bunch of old coots and karens in florida. How many people your age were in the Twin Towers on 9-11?
Besides ,you should want to have a gun Moreso than me, you can't run from danger, you are to old, a gun would be a way for you to protect yourself from something you can't run from.
If I lived in the US, I would probably hoard guns and ammo, like I was preparing for war and build my house like a fucking fortress. That's on your society turning crazy.
I don't have to do that now, because I (still) live in a mostly sane country.
I am a pragmatic person; I fight for ideals, but I adjust to the status quo.
Bullshit, the world is what you make of it. If you support selfish cruel people in their act of selfishness and cruelty, the world becomes worse. If you support decent people,
who are trying to make the world better, while following principles of democracy and human rights, it will have a strong positive effect.
The wise man was correct, but you have a very skewed idea of what is moral.
How your government behaves, that boot is much more applicable on yours than on mine. Both your parties SUCK BALLS and never do what they promise. Those parties are not representing you, you represent them, out of some stupid loyalty. When they brake every promise, YOU change your tune to justify their actions. That's because your politics is pushed on you from birth. You only follow the media that tells you what you want to hear and you are friends with people who agree with you. Whole states are divide up to the politics that dominate it. People are proudly proclaiming that they have independent thought, because they only agree with 99% of what Trump is doing.
Or they say "I don't have a choice, because the other side is so fucking stupid!".
If a society is so extremely split into two sides, that means you have a problem.
There are two lists, one for Republicans and one for Democrats. The lists are almost opposites of each other, but they are written in their own terminology. Either side will support their points for at least 90%, often 99% or 100%. THAT IS NOT HEALTHY!!!
The difference in my country is huge. Every person has their OWN ideas. Even if they vote for the same party or are a member (and we have 15 parties in the House of Representatives) people still might only agree 70%-80% with each other. Then we have DISCUSSIONS, in which we actually try to convince the other, instead of score points.
We have a functioning democracy that listens to its people, because our vote still matters. We have more than two pathetic choices. If one party fucks us over, we don't have just one other choice. We can even easily create a new party and vote it into significant power. If they don't do as they promised, the next election they are gone or decimated.
Almost all Americans hate politics and hate their government. Why do you think that is?
Eh, they get really really wealthy?
And then they start buying everything.
And then everything you need and do enriches them further.
The time of the middle class is ending, and we are going back
to a system of the poor working for the wealthy elites.
Peasants once fought for their freedom and a decent quality of life
but now they give it back to the wealthy elites.
well, how would you stay wealthy if you gave it all away?
If you won the lottery tomorrow Ananas, what would you do with the money? Give it all away and continue to work like a slave to your employer? Give it all to Uncle Jetten?
Like any of them ever would, or your government wound ever start taxing them for real.
You don't understand the difference between rich and wealthy, if you think winning the lottery is applicable.
In my country, the biggest lottery price is about 20 million or something. That's rich.
For wealthy people, that's pocket change. They can spend that every day and still
stay wealthy. You are clearly not understanding the scale of their wealth.
The problem with wealthy people is that they are disruptive to society, because they have too much power. Everyone is much poorer and has to work much harder,
because we are all supporting that bunch of leeches.
Don't think about what you or I would do, if we would have that money, because we never will. Look out for everyone else, instead of that tiny group. Modern civilization invented DEMOCRACY to protect the interests of everyone, instead of a tiny group
of people who are sick from greed. Democracy is wasted on people like you.
Trump is doing the opposite of the French revolution and throwing the commoners back into feudalism. And you're one of the rubes who support it. If I was the king of France, would I want to stay that wealthy and powerful? Yes, probably I would, but I AM NOT, so I think about the other 99.99% who I belong with. Why don't you?
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Trump is doing the exact opposite of that. He is prioritizing more expensive fossil fuel energy, making energy more expensive for American citizens, and polluting their air and water, and accelerating climate change for everyone on the planet.
I would wish that there was ANYTHING that I could cheer for Trump over.
I could forgive him his toxic character, if he had some general positive effect on the world.
A silver lining like promoting those cars cannot compensate for his onslaught of
stupidity, cruelty, divisiveness, authoritarianism, corruption, chaos, existential threat,
and utter incompetence, in which only the last of his malignancies provides some relief.
If he was competent, his harmful effect would probably have been irreversible already.
You fools, you got snookered and the rest of us are paying the price. Thanks.
I am not happy about 142 dollars to fill up my truck either but i also would not be happy glowing in the dark with my skin falling off after some asshole terrorist got ahold of irans nukes and launched them hollaring alley ackbar
HE SHOULD BE REMOVED AND REPLACED.
How much more provocation do we need.1979 hostages , backing terror attacks on allies and us.
There’s never a good reason to go to war with a country without provocation. You, Phart, can try to make excuses, but, the truth is the truth.
There country would be a big pile of rubble and wreckage there oil fields would be burning 🔥 there people would be dead in the streets our ground crews would be covering there dead with American flags and our national anthem would be ringing in the air
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Remember the night dessert storm touched off keep that picture in your head
But, let’s say we go on with the war. The next step is boots on the ground. Are you enlisting or are you going to hide behind some poor 20 something? Someone who doesn’t want to be there nor knows why we’re there.
Go on, Dgraff, call me a dumb blond, but, from where I stand, you are a lot dumber than me or a whole bunch of people.
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What would have Biden and Harris of done send them pallets of billions of dollars to quiet them down for a while that only worked a short time listen president TRUMP is not the kind of man to roll over and pretend he don’t see what they are doing
Look at what this illegal war has caused (and you know what I mean) and tell me why it’s wrong for Democrats to oppose it.
Biden and Harris are knowledgeable and honorable people that would have not gone to war on a wim. This Clown has a problem keeping his diaper clean let alone governing the country.
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Contrary to what many have asserted in recent years, the establishment of slavery preceded the establishment of the United States by many years, and not by Americans. A large part of economy had become dependent on it long before America existed. England itself didn’t ban slavery in the British Isles until 1833. It certainly did little to discourage it in the Americas prior to 1776, so long as money was being made there.
Interestingly, the Dutch were the ones to first establish permanent European-based slavery in the Americas in the 1600s, buying African captives from the native African slave catchers and then shipping them to the Americas. I say European-based slavery because the Dutch were not the first to practice slavery on this continent. It existed for generations prior to even the Vikings’ first forays to America, along with genocide, human sacrifice, conquest for land and resources, and cannibalism, among many other examples of the darker side of human behavior.
Another interesting fact is that records show one of the first registered slave owners for legal purposes in America was himself a black man named Anthony Johnson. An indentured servant in the early 1600s who gained his independence after fulfilling his contractual obligation, he went on to become a wealthy tobacco plantation owner in Virginia with numerous slaves of his own.
One of his slaves took him to court in 1655 to sue him for his release, and it is recorded that Johnson won the case, thus establishing officially recognized legal slavery in the colonies.
Slavery remained an economic and political problem that kept getting kicked down the road until 1860, when Abraham Lincoln (R) was elected. The Democrats, fearing that he had the power to ban slavery (he didn’t, that is, until they handed it to him three years later when Lincoln was able to convince Congress to ban slavery in all the states that were in rebellion), they revolted and we ended up with a civil war that caused 600,000 casualties, severely limited the South’s ability to make money, destroyed several cities, and ultimately established a more powerful centralized federal government.
It also established the de-establishment of that peculiar institution called Slavery.
The ones who kept forcing the issue to be kicked down the road time after time were the loudest proponents for "states’ rights": the Democrat party, especially those in the slave states. Rather than compromise with the North to finally rid America of its “peculiar institution,” they doubled down on it and demanded equal representation for slave states whenever a new state was established. This became known as the Missouri Compromise.
This forced the Congress to make one slave state for each free state accepted into the Union. Bloody Kansas comes to mind here, as slave staters regularly raided Kansas and massacred free staters living there prior to its acceptance into the Union, attempting to keep Kansas from becoming a “free state” and giving the North more representation in Congress.
As for firearms, how many kings have we had in the United States since its establishment in 1776? How many Stalins or Mussolinis?
I don’t mind that there is the private ownership of firearms in the hands of American citizens, until they use them criminally. Other than that, this is a manufactured hot issue, because if the estimated 390 million guns in the country were an actual threat to the nation and society as a whole, especially to the government, the issue would have been settled years ago by the very owners of those estimated 390 million privately owned firearms.
And, you also would not have been able to make that remark above. Like Ernesto “Che" Guevara in Cuba, summary executions for divergence of ideology would be the order of the day, but only IF gun owners were half as dangerous as some like to claim.
But, no. A vast majority of gun owners are law abiding citizens who like to mind their own business and would like others to, please, stay out of theirs, as long as they’re not hurting anyone else.
Then there is this one often overlooked fact that gun violence is NOT caused by guns. On the contrary. They are just one of the many tools used by violent persons to harm others. People cause gun violence, not the other way around. Even before the invention of the firearm, people hurt other people. Swords, knives, rocks, even pointed sticks, have been employed to massacre hundreds, even thousands, at a time.
When you choose ignore that inconvenient truth, you choose to deny the existence of a long history of violent behavior that has stained humanity since we first left the trees and started walking upright. The violence is nothing new. It is the tool that is.
Getting rid of a tool will not change that.
AND, you have no way to protect yourself from it! That is the irony of you smug attitude.
extremely careful what you say or do, because they are looking for a reason
to arrest or shoot you. Our police is patient and restrained as kindergarten teachers.
We have much more freedom than you do.
If you are in danger of people robbing your house, you value the right to own
a fucking mean guard dog. However, it requires food, attention and vet bills,
and one day the fucker will bite you. That's why you're more free if you don't
need a guard dog for your house to be safe.
HOW do you rid the human mind of the desire to steal, harm, hate? Answer that question with a viable and affordable and successful solution or several, and then you will be laying a corner stone to a solution.
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Edit, here is a google ai search that might help you answer the question but it doesn't cover who pays the cost of it or how successful it is.
Yes, the desire to hate, harm, or kill can be reversed and managed, though it requires conscious effort, often with professional help, to dismantle toxic emotions and rebuild empathy. Healing involves addressing underlying trauma, shifting from victimhood to accountability, and actively replacing violent impulses with constructive coping mechanisms.Here are key strategies for reversing these urges based on psychological insights:Seek Professional Therapy: Intensive therapy, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), is crucial for managing violent ideation.Uncover Underlying Fear: Hatred often masks deep-seated fear, powerlessness, or trauma. Identifying the source of this fear can begin the healing process.Practice Forgiveness (for Yourself): Forgiveness is not about condoning actions, but letting go of the toxic burden of rage for your own wellbeing.Differentiate Feeling from Acting: It is possible to acknowledge feelings of hatred without acting on them. Cultivating a "pause" to examine the feeling prevents impulsive, destructive behavior.Distraction and Grounding Techniques: When harmful urges arise, utilizing coping skills like deep breathing, physical exercise, or journaling can help manage the immediate intensity.Rebuild Empathy and Social Connection: Actively combatting the isolation that feeds hate by connecting with supportive individuals or groups is essential for long-term recovery.If you or someone you know is experiencing thoughts of harm, seeking help from a mental health professional is a crucial first step.
You damn sure can't with your attitude.
There will ALWAYS be some evil in the world. The CHOICE is how you handle it; do you choose to minimize the damage of it or do you make choices in which the cure is worse than the disease.
You can turn your country into a police state, in which crime is minimized, by punishing every little offense severely and having cops everywhere controlling every move you make. Maybe that prevents you being robbed that one time in your life, or your bike doesn't get stolen, but the cops will treat you like a suspect and bother you everywhere you go.
Both crime and law enforcement are a risk to your livelihood. You can get mugged on the street or you can get hit my a stray bullet from police officers "handling" criminals. In your country, many people become victims of the police, while doing absolutely nothing illegal. You have justified that by blaming the victim for doing something wrong, but they were NOT breaking the law, before the cop decided to act against them, in most cases.
I am just trying to find an equilibrium between the risk that I'm suffering from evil or crazy people and the risk that I'm suffering from the protective measures. Your priority lies almost completely with suppression of crime, while you accept all the downsides that come from it.
"HOW do you rid the human mind of the desire to steal, harm, hate?"
That's a different question than how you protect yourself from it. Creating a police state will NOT rid the human mind of the DESIRE to steal, harm, hate. It might make rational people think twice about doing it, but criminals are NOT rational people.
The desire to steal, harm or hate are not rational to begin with. In the world we live in, it is rational to build yourself a future by education, self improvement and effectively turning your time and skills into a solid income. Stealing is always a risk, because you are dependent on a criminal economy that pays you money for stolen goods. Dealing with criminals is a risky business; you are always fighting against being ripped of or getting hurt. Harming and hating people is on the same page. That is mostly created by society; there is a culture where harming people for profit is completely acceptable, if you have the power to do so legally or even illegally.
This is propagated by mostly right-wingers, but it is also accepted by corporate liberals. It's only leftists and socialists, who want to reduce that. Hate is also mostly created by the media, that pit people against each other. If you are afraid and angry towards other people without any power, you are distracted from the powerful people harming you.
I'm surprised to see you talk about empathy, because you have always before dismissed it as weak or stupid. Empathy starts with the idea that all people are
the same and have human rights. You are always arguing against that.
Forgiveness? I am not arguing against you, I think. I think you copy/pasted this from somewhere, without reading it. Will you forgive people who entered your country illegally, when they were fleeing violence and chaos, but then did everything they could to follow the law and become a productive member of society?
If not for American foreign and military aid over the past 80+ years, you’d be speaking either German or Russian right now! And, you would most certainly not smugly bragging about your “superior” healthcare system, one that has been funded by the American tax payer since the end of World War II, a war your underwater nation could not prevent or even fight once your German neighbors came in uninvited.
You people couldn’t fight your way out of a wet paper bag! You NEED the U.S. just to exist.
You’re already willing to be enslaved. Attitudes like yours is why there is evil in the world. You’re willing to accept it, so long as it leaves you alone, if just for a little while.
When the boot is on your throat, it doesn’t matter if it is a Right one or a Left one.
As I see it, it would take a major catastrophe that destroys the complete infrastructure of this country and the world, before I would need to bear arms.
The young people and working people are the 1's that terrorizing would bring the most reward to the terrorist.
maiming and killing the people that make the country move would be a more effective way to harming the US as a whole that a bunch of old coots and karens in florida. How many people your age were in the Twin Towers on 9-11?
Besides ,you should want to have a gun Moreso than me, you can't run from danger, you are to old, a gun would be a way for you to protect yourself from something you can't run from.
I don't have to do that now, because I (still) live in a mostly sane country.
I am a pragmatic person; I fight for ideals, but I adjust to the status quo.
who are trying to make the world better, while following principles of democracy and human rights, it will have a strong positive effect.
The wise man was correct, but you have a very skewed idea of what is moral.
How your government behaves, that boot is much more applicable on yours than on mine. Both your parties SUCK BALLS and never do what they promise. Those parties are not representing you, you represent them, out of some stupid loyalty. When they brake every promise, YOU change your tune to justify their actions. That's because your politics is pushed on you from birth. You only follow the media that tells you what you want to hear and you are friends with people who agree with you. Whole states are divide up to the politics that dominate it. People are proudly proclaiming that they have independent thought, because they only agree with 99% of what Trump is doing.
Or they say "I don't have a choice, because the other side is so fucking stupid!".
If a society is so extremely split into two sides, that means you have a problem.
There are two lists, one for Republicans and one for Democrats. The lists are almost opposites of each other, but they are written in their own terminology. Either side will support their points for at least 90%, often 99% or 100%. THAT IS NOT HEALTHY!!!
The difference in my country is huge. Every person has their OWN ideas. Even if they vote for the same party or are a member (and we have 15 parties in the House of Representatives) people still might only agree 70%-80% with each other. Then we have DISCUSSIONS, in which we actually try to convince the other, instead of score points.
We have a functioning democracy that listens to its people, because our vote still matters. We have more than two pathetic choices. If one party fucks us over, we don't have just one other choice. We can even easily create a new party and vote it into significant power. If they don't do as they promised, the next election they are gone or decimated.
Almost all Americans hate politics and hate their government. Why do you think that is?
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I don’t remember President Biden having this problem.
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Hey buddy, can you spare a dime?
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And then they start buying everything.
And then everything you need and do enriches them further.
The time of the middle class is ending, and we are going back
to a system of the poor working for the wealthy elites.
Peasants once fought for their freedom and a decent quality of life
but now they give it back to the wealthy elites.
If you won the lottery tomorrow Ananas, what would you do with the money? Give it all away and continue to work like a slave to your employer? Give it all to Uncle Jetten?
You don't understand the difference between rich and wealthy, if you think winning the lottery is applicable.
In my country, the biggest lottery price is about 20 million or something. That's rich.
For wealthy people, that's pocket change. They can spend that every day and still
stay wealthy. You are clearly not understanding the scale of their wealth.
The problem with wealthy people is that they are disruptive to society, because they have too much power. Everyone is much poorer and has to work much harder,
because we are all supporting that bunch of leeches.
Don't think about what you or I would do, if we would have that money, because we never will. Look out for everyone else, instead of that tiny group. Modern civilization invented DEMOCRACY to protect the interests of everyone, instead of a tiny group
of people who are sick from greed. Democracy is wasted on people like you.
Trump is doing the opposite of the French revolution and throwing the commoners back into feudalism. And you're one of the rubes who support it. If I was the king of France, would I want to stay that wealthy and powerful? Yes, probably I would, but I AM NOT, so I think about the other 99.99% who I belong with. Why don't you?
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