What do ND folk feel about Trump's conquest of a sovereign nation, & executing its leaders?
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What do ND folk feel about Trump's conquest of a sovereign nation, & executing its leaders? The same as all decent people, or do we have an ND perspective of our own?
I suspect we're with "all decent people", but interested to hear other comments?
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What do ND folk feel about Trump's conquest of a sovereign nation, & executing its leaders? The same as all decent people, or do we have an ND perspective of our own?
I suspect we're with "all decent people", but interested to hear other comments?
@PatternChaser I'm not great at staying informed, so only just trying to catch up and understand what's been happening in Iran that might have made Trump (and Keir Starmer here in the UK) think it was in any way justifiable. Overwhelmed by it and struggling to process.
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What do ND folk feel about Trump's conquest of a sovereign nation, & executing its leaders? The same as all decent people, or do we have an ND perspective of our own?
I suspect we're with "all decent people", but interested to hear other comments?
@PatternChaser I’m AuDHD but have the bonus element of having a history degree with my focus being social history in Europe through the first half of the 20th century. My pattern recognition skills make it so I’ve been identifying things that will become bigger problems months or even years before others catch up, and it’s been a lot like being Cassandra in Greek mythology. It’s been pretty bad for my mental health in obvious and not obvious ways. As far back as summer 2024, I was saying that the best case scenario globally would be if Trump were assassinated and it triggered a civil war because the war would remain an internal one. So I’ve been living with that level of fear and anxiety for years. But then there is the mental exhaustion of talking to people who should be trusted and being told I’m overthinking and overreacting, and I eventually started to censor myself heavily. I don’t talk to people about my thoughts nearly as much as I used to, and it sucks.
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@PatternChaser I’m AuDHD but have the bonus element of having a history degree with my focus being social history in Europe through the first half of the 20th century. My pattern recognition skills make it so I’ve been identifying things that will become bigger problems months or even years before others catch up, and it’s been a lot like being Cassandra in Greek mythology. It’s been pretty bad for my mental health in obvious and not obvious ways. As far back as summer 2024, I was saying that the best case scenario globally would be if Trump were assassinated and it triggered a civil war because the war would remain an internal one. So I’ve been living with that level of fear and anxiety for years. But then there is the mental exhaustion of talking to people who should be trusted and being told I’m overthinking and overreacting, and I eventually started to censor myself heavily. I don’t talk to people about my thoughts nearly as much as I used to, and it sucks.
@RebeccaBredin Yes, Trump is a monster, but this isn't his fault. (
) Instead of being given the care and treatment he needs/needed, 100,000,000s of Americans voted to place him in a position of great power, where he could do great harm. Other lunatics, in other countries, also have great power, placed there by their voters.
The problem is a *WISH* to move away from caring, decent, politics toward ... something more violent. This is seemingly what we all want.
[ #AuDHD too.]
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@RebeccaBredin Yes, Trump is a monster, but this isn't his fault. (
) Instead of being given the care and treatment he needs/needed, 100,000,000s of Americans voted to place him in a position of great power, where he could do great harm. Other lunatics, in other countries, also have great power, placed there by their voters.
The problem is a *WISH* to move away from caring, decent, politics toward ... something more violent. This is seemingly what we all want.
[ #AuDHD too.]
@PatternChaser yeah, and Trump isn’t the cause, he’s the result of decades of people feeling left behind, whether it is true or just a racism/sexism knee jerk response. They’ve been told they’re the victim or some big conspiracy because it’s easier than actually evolving with the times. It will take so much more than an election to fix things. Even 10 years ago I was saying the best response is to build a Hunger Games dome over the US to protect other people from the chaos that was starting to be a lot more out in the open compared to decades before.
Unfortunately, the time to make changes that avoided violence ended about 25 years ago. The reason Trump has spoken so directly to a massive part of the population is because he said their inside thoughts out loud and gave them permission to do the same.
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