Man… why did you have to remind me of that horrid episode…

‘Invasion’.

I think this is an important word to allow for other acts.

Fraud. It is fraud. We can say it. It is statistically impossible, so that is the only option left.

Man-o’s-war

It never goes away, only gets better. Good luck.

I am trying desperately to help my 13 year old understand the importance of how to recognize their worth, to only change for self betterment ( not for others), and that being in a relationship is not required, especially if they don’t actually want to be in one.

Parenting is quite difficult, y’all.

No. I’m pissed. These articles won’t help who it needs to. We can’t convince people who don’t care to care with articles. Shit has to happen to them.

I’m sorry if it came off demeaning or whatever. I’m just angry and frustrated with where we are headed.

The people that care already care. The people that don’t won’t read this.

Is he controlling you?

Criticism. Well, that opens a can of worms. This’ll be a foundational policy to oppress anyone they don’t like.

Well done! I’ve been waiting to see it!

Again…

To add to this, be sure to wait for the immediate pushback. Stay calm, and understand that this will be a slow burner. Kindness and repeated contacts to the change minds more than one off aggressive arguments.

People have a difficult time changing their points of view, and some people can feel lots of psychological pain during that process.

That is a particular subset. There are people who see nothing g bad happening to themselves, but do have their eyes open and see the bad things happening around them. But, again, they are ready and primed.

It is much the same as addiction counseling: until people are primed to change, there is little to do but leave your hand out stretched, not pushing any further than that.

The bare minimum is tolerance.

Yah. Oh boy. I don’t have any contacts there anymore: they moved further west.

Where are you, generally?

Not with authoritarians coming to power. That is a bad idea.

Whatcha gonna do without any funding?

The rates of the side effects listed are highly blown out of proportion. Humans are inherently pretty terrible at assessing risk on such scales.