GOP is intent on bringing back the ‘good old days’ when the South was run by a very rich oligarchy...

I don’t think most of the country, one either side realizes how close the GOP is returning us to that era - and if you recall, only landowning white men were allowed to vote... those pesky amendments allowing those…

No, I am not incorrect. All I heard and saw was “poor Johnny” and “she’s a fraud” - about 90% of the posts /articles/new stories were “pro Johnny” ....

But it doesn’t take much to see they are both garbage people, he’s just more well known. 

They likely couldn’t amount to a high school graduate if you put them altogether. (And that’s not a high bar).

Having been the target of a person with narcissistic traits (and emotionally abusive) - it’s amazing to find out that people will totally blame and judge you when they only hear “one side” of the story (in this case, Johnny’s PR machine was better than Ambers).

Call me cynical, call me tin foil hatted, but I thought this was all part of a larger performance. Staged? for ratings? For social awareness.

Look, my entire Facebook feed has been dominated by this Oscar talk and multiple “what is alopecia?” articles. You better believe people will tune in next year, Jada doesn’t need…

all of those people who unfollowed her? They’d be lucky to have 1/10th the talent that Meg Thee Stallion has in her pinky.

I was always in the “if I might the right guy” camp - but really, I was a mess in my 20's and 30's and knew that I had no business having a kid - even with a supportive loving partner - because I wasn’t even really able to have a mature, intimate relationship with someone. I’d rather drink heavily than be an adult.

What age where you when you realized how damaged you were?

Last week I asked about PTSD therapy - but in the end, after doing some research, I’ve determined another course may fit me better.

Any body out there have therapy for an ‘fearful-avoidant’ attachment style? I’m finding a lot on line but looking for suggestions.

I don’t know enough about the machinations of the federal government or even state to speak to that - but I do know that my state legislature passed a measure to stay on one time. And it’s been stuck at the federal level for several years now. 

I have heard about this but only from a clinical perspective!

I’m so sorry about what happened to you - this situation I was in was no where near as bad - but I was definitely I felt trapped and I had no voice (no one cared what I thought or denied the validity of my thoughts and feelings), and was a target of…

rehashing things that I thought I was “over” but appearantly not - rehashing entire evenings of what people said and how they looked or didn’t look etc

The problem is - the Federal Government needs to approve that change. State by state.
Washington State approve three or four years ago?

However, thanks to the assholery of McConnell et all, a lot of legislation that should just be rubber stamped in a cooperative government is lingering somewhere.

PTSD therapy recommendations?
Tl:dr - recently socialized with a couple who were involved in a romantic struggle in my life that they were directly involved in ... and a guy who was a mutual friend...it’s complicated.

Sounds like things are going well !
I have a friend from Costa Rica who commented once that getting used to living in North America was the varying length of days.

yes indeed!

It’s been decades since I read Dune (and the subsequent novels) but as I recall, those actors are age wise appropriately cast.

What I struggled with is that the Paul character looks completely genetically unrelated to either parent.

(I know I know, genes are a wily thing but... it’s the movies, could you at least try ?)

Right! I have had enough toxicity in my own personal relationships (which pandemic isolation helped me ease out of ) that I don’t want read about it anymore. 

I guess it was only me that started to read the story but found it so cringey that I just stopped?

Supposedly Melinda started proceedings in 2019... so this was already in the works.