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cjpaloma

@cjpaloma@mas.to

New instance, same opinionated human

Pro democracy, pro compassion, pro peace, anti social hierarchies based in false assumptions

putting pressure on people to do the right things more than half a year before an election is not traitorous

Profile pic: photo of a bunch of different animal tracks in mud

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Emotional Understanding has always been what separates slave holders from abolitionists, misogynists from egalitarian oriented people, etc.

Emotional understandings DRIVE our abilities to understand right and wrong. (aka our ethical abilities)

And emotions as considerations have been very deliberately dismissed, downplayed, deemed unnecessary and even demonized for the past few centuries in Western Civ….by folks with (in retrospect) very stunted emotional lives...

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"Think about that: SB1249 would put a prescription pad in the hands of psychologists who have no formal science background, have never taken a science-based medical entrance exam like the MCAT, have never sat for the medical boards and have never done a residency or robust clinical training program treating patients that is equal to a physician, NP or PA. Full stop."

The end of expertise is a real thing.

https://azmirror.com/2024/02/06/psychologists-dont-have-the-medical-and-science-backgrounds-needed-to-prescribe-drugs/

cjpaloma,
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@StillIRise1963 I am not one, but I am in the MH field. A few states do allow psychologists to prescribe -very specific and limited psychotropics -with extra training.

I have no idea what is in the proposed law (bad proposals for good ideas are also a thing) but denying people meds- they've been on for years- because they can't access a provider happens.

4-6 month waits to see psychiatrists are not unusual.
AND MDs are often clueless about MH issues and can misdiagnose, so… it's complex

chargrille, to random
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If anyone needs his mental health evaluated, it's a) the cop who did nothing but point a gun at Aaron's head while he was in flames & b) the people making excuses for bombing over 10,000 children to pieces in Gaza.

The people who want to see Aaron's protest buried, & the slaughter of children in Gaza continue, will talk about only one person's mental health today.

People who protest in this way are not presumptively mentally ill.

cjpaloma,
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@chargrille @violetmadder @JoBlakely

gonna guess the guy who held a gun on him trained for a long time to suppress normal emotional responses…

Stunted emotional development is GREAT for winning wars, but tends to turn people into pretty effing terrible humans.

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@violetmadder @chargrille @JoBlakely

I don't know about the specifics of that particular gun holder.

But I do know that despite patriarchy/sick cultural norms trying to belittle and dismiss the importance of emotions, they ARE what makes us our best selves. So any institutions that have to train people to become less emotionally developed, less human, is…not going to do a good job of making a better world.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I question whether children have ever meant anything in American white culture since people enslaved their own.

cjpaloma,
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@StillIRise1963 brutally true observation.

And the sheer lack of emotional development involved at the cultural level that allowed this kind of thing to routinely happen... is astounding.

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There is this trope in fiction: A boy gets bullied on his way to school; his dad teaches him to fight. It always seemed so bizarre to me.

Somewhere in there is a less perplexing story about a young person learning to deal with conflict--

But, I spent a lot of my childhood waiting to be "jumped" on the way to school. Because, I was being bullied, just not physically.

I was looking forward to learning kungfu and taking them all out. LOL. 1/

cjpaloma,
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@futurebird @eyrea @llewelly

thank you for saying that: many social worker types -do- work long and hard to try to get overall environments to be less toxic. And ...some don't.

Regardless, it's almost always an incremental fight, -ego bound turf wars are still common, and social worker types don't always get friendly welcomes at schools.

so, yeah, I did spend time trying to teach kids with "the social skills of a cinderblock" how to navigate toxic environments...as harm reduction.

kravietz, to random
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Musk you caused another scandal on Twitter by posting a picture of Stalin.

Result? Thousands of angry shares calling him an “idiot”.

But Musk is just using the same media tactics as Trump:

  • making an incendiary or incredibly stupid statement
  • which are then shared by 1000 of supporters
  • but also shared by, most importantly, 10’000 of his opponents

In the times when media is all about “clicks”, “enagements”, “shares”, “brand recognition”, it’s not Musk who is an idiot here.

We somehow forgot about the most efficient social protest strategy - ostracism. Just block toxic people and never see them again.

cjpaloma,
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@kravietz

Agree to a point…

OTOH:

simply ignoring the idiocy/bigotry of people who have power and are making decisions (such as fuckheads who have -ahem- been awarded billions in "defense" contracts) also...isn't good…

And sometimes- it does still work to draw attention to jerks being jerks. Resignations and condemnations of some folks does still happen by calling them out...

But not when sociopathic folks have obviously learned to effectively weaponize outrage…

cjpaloma, to random
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Imagine that as a member of a large, already privileged group, MANY cultural forces -still- tell you 1) emotions are frivolous and not important and 2) you should simply deny/ignore your emotions.

Problem is: back in reality, ALL sound ethical reasoning is based on

-emotionally understanding-

how actions affect others.

Making gender norms healthier is important.

cjpaloma,
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it gets worse: empathy and compassion -are- more complex emotions than some others because they -need- the person to be willing to experience some vulnerability in order to truly experience (feel) them …unfortunately vulnerability gets really demonized by many of the same cultural forces-that try to dismiss the importance of emotions in general.

And...

cjpaloma, to random
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I can see how some liberals might not want to call these sociopathic, greed based obstructionists "fascists"

but really what -do- you call a small group of people who

  • are - FORCING their will onto others…

These plutocrats -are- exercising "extreme authoritarian and dictatorial control".

AND by shutting down free speech they are "forcefully suppressing opposition" in corporately owned media.

cjpaloma,
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Due to how vivid some uses of force are, it's easy to forget (or not understand) that

not all use of force results in -immediate- physical harm

but all coercion is based on the threat of violence of some sort, even if the violence is abstracted a bit (such as taking the form of poverty)

cjpaloma,
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@hosford42 Yeah, no firing squads for intellectuals for a couple more years, just a few book burnings as foreshadowing for now.

OTOH: supporting profits at the expense of people's lives during COVID is quite vivid enough for many of us. Forced birth is quite vivid enough for many of us…but because it's not a firing quad...other folks don't see it..

antlerboy, to random
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Why electric bikes actually give more exercise than pedal bikes https://electrek.co/2024/02/20/why-electric-bikes-give-more-exercise/

cjpaloma,
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@dragonfrog @IcooIey @ned @antlerboy

I have no problems with e bikes in town -I love to see them! I might get one.

BUT I DO have a problem with e bike riders smugly riding past me out in the middle of nowhere on a multi use path that clearly says "no motorized vehicles". (I've experienced this more than once) It does take away from enjoying the solitude of a road now more traveled that it used to be.

Esp, when there are THOUSANDS of miles of off road trails they -can use-

cjpaloma, to random
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It's an excellent point: what IS "outside the context" of a given topic -is- a super effective technique.

Especially for skilled folks (often already seen as authorities) who discount real costs by simply ignoring/dismissing them

Subsidies (yeah, we're not gonna mention those) tax breaks (yeah we're not gonna mention those) contributors to climate change (yeah we're not gonna mention that) huge corporations coming to destroy alternative media landscapes (yeah that's just paranoia) etc.

cjpaloma, to random
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one weird trick the ultra wealthy have known for a long time is this:

freedom of the press applies to those who own the printing presses.

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