It’s a dopamine hit from tangential confirmation that one’s opinions of a thing were correct. “I think that that thing is terrible, and they’re failing, so I must be in the right! Yay me!”
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“I’m being left out, excluded, and made to feel lesser, and unwelcome! That’s for me to do to other people, not for them to do to me!”
I mean, could one replace #metoo with the Civil Rights Movement, or BLM, or point to a similar situation where consensus agreed on caring about fatigue, and seeing the overall situation improve faster or slower? I think it takes time to bring out all the context, so that society can theoretically have an attempt at a…
Also, individual stories can provide perspective when the larger trend has already been established. That may have been an improper assumption on the part of the author, relative to audience.
Why won’t they delay?
Agreed, though it’s just as useful to have a single in-depth example to add context to a portion of the broader reports (yes, a few hundred reports doesn’t necessarily mean much, a starting point of 0.01% of the voter turnout). Articles like that need a broader context, that require more resources than may be…
... or could not vote.
Thanks for the reminder that Paula Marshall exists.
Yep.
Other way around, I think. The lack of empathy and imagination tends to push one towards conservatism. The feature itself is partly learned, and partly wired - it’s something one can learn to compensate for, but never quite turn off.
Worse, because at least that investigation didn’t sap another organizational body’s time and resources. This one will. Intimidation and harassment melded with judicial warrants to produce documentation, interviews and interrogations of key staff, etc...
Common refrain?
Definitely not a snape hunt...
Only if they’re also trying to pretend like they actually read the bill(s).
The soldier that defected related stories of how badly their military folks have fallen in terms of basics to keep them complacent. When you can’t even feed your military properly, things are going to get really rough for you, fast.
Is there any indication that there’s a different percentage of that money that goes elsewhere? Or is that one of the effects that have been set back again with the pushback against privatization of VA medical care?
Sort of... once upon a time... at least from a policy perspective.