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I realized uncomfortably that Maya Angelou quote (I thought for the longest time it was Toni Morrison) about how people will forget what you said and what you did, but will remember how they made you feel?
Is LITERALLY how Republicans work.
Common cognitive distorts include; things used to be great and now it's nearly impossible to do anything, and there's no money for it; some outsiders with money run everything, other outsiders you're supposed to be tolerant of when you'd rather not be; researchers and academics of any sort are off spending money on unimportant bullshit; something you can't understand or accept is by its definition actually something incomprehensible and unacceptable.
You're about to notice *I* fall for similar...
Tell someone they're right to feel that way and you're doing big important sweeping shit to combat it, and they feel powerful, justified, and good about themselves.
They won't remember YOU caused the financial inequities, YOU are the outsiders with money running everything, YOU are the people spending money on unimportant bullshit, YOU are the people pushing an agenda which isn't rational, acceptable or sustainable -- and you're doing so in violation of checks, balances and laws put there to try and protect the populace from whatever whims their government chooses. Those are facts, and not feelings of being powerful, justified, and good about themselves.
oh MIGHTY WARRIOR of great FIGHTING STOCK
might I inquire to ask
nyeeh, what's up, Doc?
time to listen to my second favorite Cure song!
#drawing last night, trying to figure out more about the balance of roughing out figures, and listening to The Great Escape soundtrack.
definitely having the form of hypervigilence where enough has gone wrong I keep expecting more to go wrong. I can now see sort of the thought processes that earlier, would result in going right over into terrible self worth, simply because in childhood one of the next things to go wrong was usually a huge harangue about how bad I am (it doesn't hurt that being scolded is something I fear happening at my day job).
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.