No Kings 3 on March 28

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy

Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated, and affirmed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff?st=8r5XYV

Oh, wow. A white mansplainer who loves Trump and is a crackpot therapist who wantonly ignores history For those of you who don't have subscriptions....

"After a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

LOL, see everyone there!

Funny that you didn't quote what the woman said back to him:

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

“Well, f— you then.”

Such a completely typical response from one of these moronic protesters. If you aren't 100% with them, they tell you to f-off. Just like here on DCUM.

Alpert does not "love Trump," you moron. But he has certainly pointed out how therapy should be a neutral zone, free from politics, yet many patients and therapists are dragging in their political obsessions.

The consequences of political division are showing up in therapy rooms. Polarization mimics anxiety or depression, with symptoms of withdrawal, broken relationships and constant stress. Patients cut off relatives, refuse to date across party lines, even demand political loyalty oaths. Surveys bear this out: In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 27% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans said politics has negatively affected their friendships. Dating surveys show two-thirds of Americans insist on political compatibility, and 1 in 6 have ended relationships over it.

By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping. Therapists, far from treating it, often amplify polarization by validating partisan rigidity in clients. When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder. It’s becoming the defining pathology of our time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/politics-makes-for-bad-therapy-ad629070?st=BYW1De&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

DP

It’s funny how the RWNJ goons want politics kept out of everything else as soon as they hear that the voices don’t agree with them.

But boy oh boy, if it’s Jon Voigt or Toby Keith or Harrison Butker, everybody needs to STFU and listen to these guys!

I mean, do you hear yourself? You call anyone you want to silence a “RWNJ goon.” You literally want anyone who is not 100% in agreement with you to be silenced. The reason you love these silly marches is because it’s a safe echo chamber full of people who think exactly like you. The above quote from that article is it in a nutshell.

As for your last paragraph, that’s quite a leap. As usual.

Start your own edging thread. You are pathetic trying to come on here with your nonsense. Obviously the therapist doesn’t understand the effectiveness of protests, and WTH do you care.

Everyone, please ignore these naysayers. I’m banking the therapist lied about his story, and if he was pro-Trump, why was he at a rally trying to provoke a response? Because he wanted clicks — and this person was happy to oblige and try to derail this thread.

See you later!

[Anonymous]

EFFING ^^ obvs. And should have said I’m a DP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy

Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated, and affirmed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff?st=8r5XYV

Oh, wow. A white mansplainer who loves Trump and is a crackpot therapist who wantonly ignores history For those of you who don't have subscriptions....

"After a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

LOL, see everyone there!

Funny that you didn't quote what the woman said back to him:

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

“Well, f— you then.”

Such a completely typical response from one of these moronic protesters. If you aren't 100% with them, they tell you to f-off. Just like here on DCUM.

Alpert does not "love Trump," you moron. But he has certainly pointed out how therapy should be a neutral zone, free from politics, yet many patients and therapists are dragging in their political obsessions.

The consequences of political division are showing up in therapy rooms. Polarization mimics anxiety or depression, with symptoms of withdrawal, broken relationships and constant stress. Patients cut off relatives, refuse to date across party lines, even demand political loyalty oaths. Surveys bear this out: In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 27% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans said politics has negatively affected their friendships. Dating surveys show two-thirds of Americans insist on political compatibility, and 1 in 6 have ended relationships over it.

By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping. Therapists, far from treating it, often amplify polarization by validating partisan rigidity in clients. When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder. It’s becoming the defining pathology of our time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/politics-makes-for-bad-therapy-ad629070?st=BYW1De&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

DP

It’s funny how the RWNJ goons want politics kept out of everything else as soon as they hear that the voices don’t agree with them.

But boy oh boy, if it’s Jon Voigt or Toby Keith or Harrison Butker, everybody needs to STFU and listen to these guys!

I mean, do you hear yourself? You call anyone you want to silence a “RWNJ goon.” You literally want anyone who is not 100% in agreement with you to be silenced. The reason you love these silly marches is because it’s a safe echo chamber full of people who think exactly like you. The above quote from that article is it in a nutshell.

As for your last paragraph, that’s quite a leap. As usual.

You know that we can all tell how much the marches hurt your feels by the fact that you keep performatively posting about it, right?

[Anonymous]

Okay so the matches are silly and they don’t accomplish anything and they’re an echo chamber and group therapy and the people there are old and not 30-year-old Jazzercizers who smile while being ogled, and no one actually cares about them.

Anything else?

Okay then, I’m still going, see you there.

[Anonymous]

Have fun storming the castle!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have fun storming the castle!

As you wish!

We’ve got Inigo Montoya on our side as we do: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWY98obDn2k/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy

Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated, and affirmed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff?st=8r5XYV

Oh, wow. A white mansplainer who loves Trump and is a crackpot therapist who wantonly ignores history For those of you who don't have subscriptions....

"After a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

LOL, see everyone there!

Funny that you didn't quote what the woman said back to him:

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

“Well, f— you then.”

Such a completely typical response from one of these moronic protesters. If you aren't 100% with them, they tell you to f-off. Just like here on DCUM.

Alpert does not "love Trump," you moron. But he has certainly pointed out how therapy should be a neutral zone, free from politics, yet many patients and therapists are dragging in their political obsessions.

The consequences of political division are showing up in therapy rooms. Polarization mimics anxiety or depression, with symptoms of withdrawal, broken relationships and constant stress. Patients cut off relatives, refuse to date across party lines, even demand political loyalty oaths. Surveys bear this out: In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 27% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans said politics has negatively affected their friendships. Dating surveys show two-thirds of Americans insist on political compatibility, and 1 in 6 have ended relationships over it.

By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping. Therapists, far from treating it, often amplify polarization by validating partisan rigidity in clients. When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder. It’s becoming the defining pathology of our time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/politics-makes-for-bad-therapy-ad629070?st=BYW1De&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

DP

It’s funny how the RWNJ goons want politics kept out of everything else as soon as they hear that the voices don’t agree with them.

But boy oh boy, if it’s Jon Voigt or Toby Keith or Harrison Butker, everybody needs to STFU and listen to these guys!

I mean, do you hear yourself? You call anyone you want to silence a “RWNJ goon.” You literally want anyone who is not 100% in agreement with you to be silenced. The reason you love these silly marches is because it’s a safe echo chamber full of people who think exactly like you. The above quote from that article is it in a nutshell.

As for your last paragraph, that’s quite a leap. As usual.

Start your own edging thread. You are pathetic trying to come on here with your nonsense. Obviously the therapist doesn’t understand the effectiveness of protests, and WTH do you care.

Everyone, please ignore these naysayers. I’m banking the therapist lied about his story, and if he was pro-Trump, why was he at a rally trying to provoke a response? Because he wanted clicks — and this person was happy to oblige and try to derail this thread.

See you later!

If all that happens is you feel a little better being around likeminded people, then it matters! This is a long slog, and we should take every hopeful boost we can get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy

Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated, and affirmed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff?st=8r5XYV

Oh, wow. A white mansplainer who loves Trump and is a crackpot therapist who wantonly ignores history For those of you who don't have subscriptions....

"After a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

LOL, see everyone there!

Funny that you didn't quote what the woman said back to him:

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

“Well, f— you then.”

Such a completely typical response from one of these moronic protesters. If you aren't 100% with them, they tell you to f-off. Just like here on DCUM.

Alpert does not "love Trump," you moron. But he has certainly pointed out how therapy should be a neutral zone, free from politics, yet many patients and therapists are dragging in their political obsessions.

The consequences of political division are showing up in therapy rooms. Polarization mimics anxiety or depression, with symptoms of withdrawal, broken relationships and constant stress. Patients cut off relatives, refuse to date across party lines, even demand political loyalty oaths. Surveys bear this out: In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 27% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans said politics has negatively affected their friendships. Dating surveys show two-thirds of Americans insist on political compatibility, and 1 in 6 have ended relationships over it.

By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping. Therapists, far from treating it, often amplify polarization by validating partisan rigidity in clients. When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder. It’s becoming the defining pathology of our time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/politics-makes-for-bad-therapy-ad629070?st=BYW1De&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

DP

It’s funny how the RWNJ goons want politics kept out of everything else as soon as they hear that the voices don’t agree with them.

But boy oh boy, if it’s Jon Voigt or Toby Keith or Harrison Butker, everybody needs to STFU and listen to these guys!

I mean, do you hear yourself? You call anyone you want to silence a “RWNJ goon.” You literally want anyone who is not 100% in agreement with you to be silenced. The reason you love these silly marches is because it’s a safe echo chamber full of people who think exactly like you. The above quote from that article is it in a nutshell.

As for your last paragraph, that’s quite a leap. As usual.

Start your own edging thread. You are pathetic trying to come on here with your nonsense. Obviously the therapist doesn’t understand the effectiveness of protests, and WTH do you care.

Everyone, please ignore these naysayers. I’m banking the therapist lied about his story, and if he was pro-Trump, why was he at a rally trying to provoke a response? Because he wanted clicks — and this person was happy to oblige and try to derail this thread.

See you later!

If all that happens is you feel a little better being around likeminded people, then it matters! This is a long slog, and we should take every hopeful boost we can get.

Seeing the scale of people who don’t like what’s happening is so heartening. Trump is putting his name and image on absolutely everything — and shutting down questions and dissent in ways that range from “quiet, Piggy” to weapon using the DOJ — because he wants it to feel like his is a tsunami of power, something so big there is no point in pushing back.

Attending a protest makes clear that there is a counter-power and it’s larger than you even realized. You see all these people, all kinds of people, every walk of life, and they just keep coming, the truth settles in, “these folks aren’t going anywhere.”

It is really heartening.

[Anonymous]

*weaponizing the DOJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy

Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated, and affirmed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff?st=8r5XYV

Oh, wow. A white mansplainer who loves Trump and is a crackpot therapist who wantonly ignores history For those of you who don't have subscriptions....

"After a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

LOL, see everyone there!

Funny that you didn't quote what the woman said back to him:

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

“Well, f— you then.”

Such a completely typical response from one of these moronic protesters. If you aren't 100% with them, they tell you to f-off. Just like here on DCUM.

Alpert does not "love Trump," you moron. But he has certainly pointed out how therapy should be a neutral zone, free from politics, yet many patients and therapists are dragging in their political obsessions.

The consequences of political division are showing up in therapy rooms. Polarization mimics anxiety or depression, with symptoms of withdrawal, broken relationships and constant stress. Patients cut off relatives, refuse to date across party lines, even demand political loyalty oaths. Surveys bear this out: In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 27% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans said politics has negatively affected their friendships. Dating surveys show two-thirds of Americans insist on political compatibility, and 1 in 6 have ended relationships over it.

By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping. Therapists, far from treating it, often amplify polarization by validating partisan rigidity in clients. When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder. It’s becoming the defining pathology of our time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/politics-makes-for-bad-therapy-ad629070?st=BYW1De&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

DP

It’s funny how the RWNJ goons want politics kept out of everything else as soon as they hear that the voices don’t agree with them.

But boy oh boy, if it’s Jon Voigt or Toby Keith or Harrison Butker, everybody needs to STFU and listen to these guys!

I mean, do you hear yourself? You call anyone you want to silence a “RWNJ goon.” You literally want anyone who is not 100% in agreement with you to be silenced. The reason you love these silly marches is because it’s a safe echo chamber full of people who think exactly like you. The above quote from that article is it in a nutshell.

As for your last paragraph, that’s quite a leap. As usual.

Start your own edging thread. You are pathetic trying to come on here with your nonsense. Obviously the therapist doesn’t understand the effectiveness of protests, and WTH do you care.

Everyone, please ignore these naysayers. I’m banking the therapist lied about his story, and if he was pro-Trump, why was he at a rally trying to provoke a response? Because he wanted clicks — and this person was happy to oblige and try to derail this thread.

See you later!

It’s obvious you cannot believe that people can have a nuanced perspective on things.

Just because it seems like you’re moving it doesn’t mean you’re making progress.

You have to ask yourself, and be honest with yourself , are you making progress? Or are you just spinning a hamster wheel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy

Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated, and affirmed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff?st=8r5XYV

Oh, wow. A white mansplainer who loves Trump and is a crackpot therapist who wantonly ignores history For those of you who don't have subscriptions....

"After a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

LOL, see everyone there!

Funny that you didn't quote what the woman said back to him:

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

“Well, f— you then.”

Such a completely typical response from one of these moronic protesters. If you aren't 100% with them, they tell you to f-off. Just like here on DCUM.

Alpert does not "love Trump," you moron. But he has certainly pointed out how therapy should be a neutral zone, free from politics, yet many patients and therapists are dragging in their political obsessions.

The consequences of political division are showing up in therapy rooms. Polarization mimics anxiety or depression, with symptoms of withdrawal, broken relationships and constant stress. Patients cut off relatives, refuse to date across party lines, even demand political loyalty oaths. Surveys bear this out: In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 27% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans said politics has negatively affected their friendships. Dating surveys show two-thirds of Americans insist on political compatibility, and 1 in 6 have ended relationships over it.

By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping. Therapists, far from treating it, often amplify polarization by validating partisan rigidity in clients. When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder. It’s becoming the defining pathology of our time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/politics-makes-for-bad-therapy-ad629070?st=BYW1De&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

DP

It’s funny how the RWNJ goons want politics kept out of everything else as soon as they hear that the voices don’t agree with them.

But boy oh boy, if it’s Jon Voigt or Toby Keith or Harrison Butker, everybody needs to STFU and listen to these guys!

I mean, do you hear yourself? You call anyone you want to silence a “RWNJ goon.” You literally want anyone who is not 100% in agreement with you to be silenced. The reason you love these silly marches is because it’s a safe echo chamber full of people who think exactly like you. The above quote from that article is it in a nutshell.

As for your last paragraph, that’s quite a leap. As usual.

Start your own edging thread. You are pathetic trying to come on here with your nonsense. Obviously the therapist doesn’t understand the effectiveness of protests, and WTH do you care.

Everyone, please ignore these naysayers. I’m banking the therapist lied about his story, and if he was pro-Trump, why was he at a rally trying to provoke a response? Because he wanted clicks — and this person was happy to oblige and try to derail this thread.

See you later!

If all that happens is you feel a little better being around likeminded people, then it matters! This is a long slog, and we should take every hopeful boost we can get.

Seeing the scale of people who don’t like what’s happening is so heartening. Trump is putting his name and image on absolutely everything — and shutting down questions and dissent in ways that range from “quiet, Piggy” to weapon using the DOJ — because he wants it to feel like his is a tsunami of power, something so big there is no point in pushing back.

Attending a protest makes clear that there is a counter-power and it’s larger than you even realized. You see all these people, all kinds of people, every walk of life, and they just keep coming, the truth settles in, “these folks aren’t going anywhere.”

It is really heartening.

“Premature sense of accomplishment”

This describes when talking about a goal tricks your brain into feeling like you’ve already made progress.
• That feeling can reduce motivation to actually do the task.

Related ideas:
• “Social reality” (from psychology research)
When you tell others about your intentions, your brain can partially register it as already real or achieved.
• Dopamine reward from anticipation
Your brain releases dopamine not just from doing things, but from anticipating or imagining success—so talking about it can create a mini reward.
• “Intention–behavior gap”
The disconnect between what you say you’ll do and what you actually follow through on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy

Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated, and affirmed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff?st=8r5XYV

Oh, wow. A white mansplainer who loves Trump and is a crackpot therapist who wantonly ignores history For those of you who don't have subscriptions....

"After a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

LOL, see everyone there!

Funny that you didn't quote what the woman said back to him:

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

“Well, f— you then.”

Such a completely typical response from one of these moronic protesters. If you aren't 100% with them, they tell you to f-off. Just like here on DCUM.

Alpert does not "love Trump," you moron. But he has certainly pointed out how therapy should be a neutral zone, free from politics, yet many patients and therapists are dragging in their political obsessions.

The consequences of political division are showing up in therapy rooms. Polarization mimics anxiety or depression, with symptoms of withdrawal, broken relationships and constant stress. Patients cut off relatives, refuse to date across party lines, even demand political loyalty oaths. Surveys bear this out: In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 27% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans said politics has negatively affected their friendships. Dating surveys show two-thirds of Americans insist on political compatibility, and 1 in 6 have ended relationships over it.

By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping. Therapists, far from treating it, often amplify polarization by validating partisan rigidity in clients. When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder. It’s becoming the defining pathology of our time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/politics-makes-for-bad-therapy-ad629070?st=BYW1De&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

DP

It’s funny how the RWNJ goons want politics kept out of everything else as soon as they hear that the voices don’t agree with them.

But boy oh boy, if it’s Jon Voigt or Toby Keith or Harrison Butker, everybody needs to STFU and listen to these guys!

I mean, do you hear yourself? You call anyone you want to silence a “RWNJ goon.” You literally want anyone who is not 100% in agreement with you to be silenced. The reason you love these silly marches is because it’s a safe echo chamber full of people who think exactly like you. The above quote from that article is it in a nutshell.

As for your last paragraph, that’s quite a leap. As usual.

Start your own edging thread. You are pathetic trying to come on here with your nonsense. Obviously the therapist doesn’t understand the effectiveness of protests, and WTH do you care.

Everyone, please ignore these naysayers. I’m banking the therapist lied about his story, and if he was pro-Trump, why was he at a rally trying to provoke a response? Because he wanted clicks — and this person was happy to oblige and try to derail this thread.

See you later!

It’s obvious you cannot believe that people can have a nuanced perspective on things.

Just because it seems like you’re moving it doesn’t mean you’re making progress.

You have to ask yourself, and be honest with yourself , are you making progress? Or are you just spinning a hamster wheel.

If you think people should be doing something more/differently, attending a NK event is a great way to recruit people to your cause.

You seem intent on doing nothing by yelling from your couch.🛋️

[Anonymous]

Overthrowing a billionaire-backed fascist regime requires high bar, sustained, civil disobedience. And this requires connecting people into communities and showing we are the majority, our beliefs are the common sense norm. Both things are true.

There's a reason protests are also called "demonstrations." They are a way we telegraph, yes to people oppressing us, but more importantly to each other, what is millions believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy

Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated, and affirmed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff?st=8r5XYV

Oh, wow. A white mansplainer who loves Trump and is a crackpot therapist who wantonly ignores history For those of you who don't have subscriptions....

"After a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

LOL, see everyone there!

Funny that you didn't quote what the woman said back to him:

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”

“Well, f— you then.”

Such a completely typical response from one of these moronic protesters. If you aren't 100% with them, they tell you to f-off. Just like here on DCUM.

Alpert does not "love Trump," you moron. But he has certainly pointed out how therapy should be a neutral zone, free from politics, yet many patients and therapists are dragging in their political obsessions.

The consequences of political division are showing up in therapy rooms. Polarization mimics anxiety or depression, with symptoms of withdrawal, broken relationships and constant stress. Patients cut off relatives, refuse to date across party lines, even demand political loyalty oaths. Surveys bear this out: In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 27% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans said politics has negatively affected their friendships. Dating surveys show two-thirds of Americans insist on political compatibility, and 1 in 6 have ended relationships over it.

By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping. Therapists, far from treating it, often amplify polarization by validating partisan rigidity in clients. When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder. It’s becoming the defining pathology of our time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/politics-makes-for-bad-therapy-ad629070?st=BYW1De&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

DP

It’s funny how the RWNJ goons want politics kept out of everything else as soon as they hear that the voices don’t agree with them.

But boy oh boy, if it’s Jon Voigt or Toby Keith or Harrison Butker, everybody needs to STFU and listen to these guys!

I mean, do you hear yourself? You call anyone you want to silence a “RWNJ goon.” You literally want anyone who is not 100% in agreement with you to be silenced. The reason you love these silly marches is because it’s a safe echo chamber full of people who think exactly like you. The above quote from that article is it in a nutshell.

As for your last paragraph, that’s quite a leap. As usual.

Start your own edging thread. You are pathetic trying to come on here with your nonsense. Obviously the therapist doesn’t understand the effectiveness of protests, and WTH do you care.

Everyone, please ignore these naysayers. I’m banking the therapist lied about his story, and if he was pro-Trump, why was he at a rally trying to provoke a response? Because he wanted clicks — and this person was happy to oblige and try to derail this thread.

See you later!

If all that happens is you feel a little better being around likeminded people, then it matters! This is a long slog, and we should take every hopeful boost we can get.

Seeing the scale of people who don’t like what’s happening is so heartening. Trump is putting his name and image on absolutely everything — and shutting down questions and dissent in ways that range from “quiet, Piggy” to weapon using the DOJ — because he wants it to feel like his is a tsunami of power, something so big there is no point in pushing back.

Attending a protest makes clear that there is a counter-power and it’s larger than you even realized. You see all these people, all kinds of people, every walk of life, and they just keep coming, the truth settles in, “these folks aren’t going anywhere.”

It is really heartening.

“Premature sense of accomplishment”

This describes when talking about a goal tricks your brain into feeling like you’ve already made progress.
• That feeling can reduce motivation to actually do the task.

Related ideas:
• “Social reality” (from psychology research)
When you tell others about your intentions, your brain can partially register it as already real or achieved.
• Dopamine reward from anticipation
Your brain releases dopamine not just from doing things, but from anticipating or imagining success—so talking about it can create a mini reward.
• “Intention–behavior gap”
The disconnect between what you say you’ll do and what you actually follow through on.

Don’t listen to this armchair psych. Midterms will finish the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Overthrowing a billionaire-backed fascist regime requires high bar, sustained, civil disobedience. And this requires connecting people into communities and showing we are the majority, our beliefs are the common sense norm. Both things are true.

There's a reason protests are also called "demonstrations." They are a way we telegraph, yes to people oppressing us, but more importantly to each other, what is millions believe.

Overthrowing the current regime will help in the very short term but it'll just eventually be replaced by another billionaire regime until we can tackle the root of the problem. The root of the problem is money corrupting our political system to the extent that our major political parties have become too weak and dysfunctional to serve their purpose as intended.

Get to the root of the problem! The Trump era would never come to existence in an adequately functioning political system!