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“POSITIVE MALADJUSTMENT. A conflict with and rejection of those standards and attitudes of one’s social environment which are incompatible with one’s growing awareness of a higher scale of values which is developing as an internal imperative.”

@neeratanden The hate is reserved for the 'state' as in the government. The land is some of the most beautiful in our country.

This is a gorgeous state. No place like it on earth. Never understood the hate towards the state, except envy from the right wingers.

@DrTessaT He has become a parody of himself.

Then why did my relatives who had very few vaccines live long, healthy lives into their late 80s and 90s while younger relatives with a lot of vaccines have many chronic conditions and die much younger???🤨👇

@bondcliff @TexasTamieK I take your points about human nature and agree with some of them. But I can also see that when you set up a forced participation safety net it will impact people's behavior.

Not so much. Human nature in at least the USA is to live for the moment. Most people don't even think about retirement until they reach their 50's and most younger folks are being fed propaganda that the future is bleak and they become fatalist that feed a self fulfilling prophecy. Live for today, escape from reality, ignore history and blame the past generations. The past generations of today's retirees where born during the great depression and where taught by their parents to save and plan for the future.

Can you imagine if WE were in charge of how our social security was invested from day 1 of our working careers? We’d all be millionaires and retiring at 55 or after 25-30 years of hard labor. We’ve all been suckered.

@Jeff_Eager Where were they in 2020?

No Kings protest in front of the building in which supermajority Democrats & Tina Kotek just worked overtime to shield their unpopular tax hike from a public vote & to avoid electoral consequences of same. Photo: Statesman Journal.

@bondcliff @TexasTamieK Maybe that is one of the "not a bug but a feature" of the SS system. It keeps people from investing in their own future. Knowing they'll get *something* encourages them to put off saving or to save less.

Truth? 98% would all be broke. Otherwise Social Security wouldn't even be an issue. I have been telling for decades people I know, young and old to invest for the future. Most agree and then don;t do it, instead buying expensive toys, taking expensive vacations and going out to eat every night. We as a general rule, are not disciplined to do the boring stuff, but are quick to chase shiny objects.

@jws201812 @ArtemisConsort @ChristinaPushaw Recent conversation with a progressive devolved into a weird childlike yet authoritarian dead end. His response when asked how his plan would work: "It just has to." What if the "rich" use their resources to evade your plan to have them pay for everything? "We will make them."

@ArtemisConsort @ChristinaPushaw As a fellow former progressive, I think there’s a genuine belief that if you just try hard enough, eventually the 2nd and 3rd order consequences won’t exist and everything will work out Many genuinely think the 2nd and 3rd order consequences are propaganda that won’t materialize

As a former progressive, this is absolutely accurate and caused me endless frustration with my co-partisans. They fundamentally don’t care if their ideas work. They hardly even have a concept of ideas working. Their entire evaluation function is based on social perception and emotionalism which is, in fact, profoundly selfish and unvirtuous. If you care more about feeling like/being seen as good than you do about results, you’re a selfish parasite. Hardly exclusive to the left, but it defines the leftist project in a way it doesn’t define any other political faction.

@conor64 5. Few if any public health officials did anything but cheerlead for the establishment. Many did not seem to be able to answer questions coherently with evidence logic or reason. Most simply repeated marketing slogans and expected us to "trust the experts".

@conor64 4. From the beginning the focus was on vaccines being 'the only way out'. Historically pandemics end. Why would this one be different? Was it just a set up to justify the experimental mRNA injections? They sought 100% compliance. No medical intervention is one size fits all.

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

A Washington State Senator runs a consulting firm. The legislature created a program at the Department of Commerce. Her firm got the contract to run it. She now controls Commerce’s budget. /1

The US Census has updated population estimates out today. Here are the total changes by Oregon county from 2020 to 2025.

@jasonrantz Just like Kotek with Oregon's transportation tax. So much "democracy" with these Western States Governors.

NEW: Here’s the devious reason Gov. Bob Ferguson hasn’t yet signed the Washington income tax into law seattlered.com/seattle-red/ja…

@wideawake_media First adults were encouraged to accept mood altering meds and they did so by the millions. The next step was to match the children to the energy of the adults around them. If you are drugged, normal child energy probably does feel like too much.

Ex-school principal exposes the truth about ADHD medication: "Schools are drugging 6.4 million children for the crime of acting like children." "We are medicating normal childhood behaviour because schools can't handle natural human development." "A seven-year-old boy who can't sit still for six hours isn't sick. The system forcing him to sit still—that's sick."

@GirardotMarc @DrSuneelDhand It is definitely like a religion. Believers are told they're smarter, more caring and just generally better people for not questioning the faith and they're encouraged to denigrate heretics.

It's simple: Antibiotics never needed marketing. They simply work, and people know. It's because vaccines aren't safe and aren't effective, that the industry had to craft a religion-like narrative, faith in vaccines is about having faith in your doctors. If one criticizes vaccines, one doubts the doctors personally, hence the emotional response.

I am trying to figure out why the medical profession is so psychologically attached to the word “vaccine”. I can’t think of anything else which provokes such a strong reaction. As an example, antibiotics in my humble opinion, have saved way more lives than vaccines— but there’s no psychological attachment to the word “antibiotic”. I would like someone to look at this from a psychological standpoint. Maybe do a study? There is something very strange about why doctors are so mesmerized by the word “vaccine” that they are literally stunned into not asking any more questions. It is damn weird. Like a magic spell.

@goatpurple1 @pdoherty972 @erichhartmann Exactly. At the right price a house will sell. Prices must adjust to interest rates and income levels. Locally a few years ago buyers were throwing cash on top of sales price with no appraisal contingency. They bought at peak+ pricing. They overpaid and now they can't recoup.

@pdoherty972 @erichhartmann 2 things can be true at same time * high rates reduced sales * prices need to go down

LOWER. YOUR. ASKING. PRICE. (Your house isn't worth what you pretend it is)

@ThinkitThruu @PsychedeliaSmi4 @newstart_2024 I think you're right. "stay home and save lives" was useful in gaining compliance. Why weren't the consequences of lockdown addressed? Emotions were played upon, but always in one direction. Rules like your Dubai example often turned out to be more rumor than practice.

@BarbaraCastor2 @PsychedeliaSmi4 @newstart_2024 IMO fear of spreading an illness that could take out the vulnerable was a huge motivating factor Strangely I’ve never tested positive, despite bouts of a Covid like virus. I resisted vaccination till I had to travel & was told Dubai would insist on proof - they didn’t ask

The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia. Melanie Phillips (former Guardian journalist): “Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconvenient. The very idea of reason and rationality was dismissed. All these ideologies — multiculturalism, lifestyle choice, deep green environmentalism, moral relativism — were utopian. They promised perfection. Anyone who brought facts against them wasn’t just wrong… they were evil.” Result? - Evidence became “right-wing” - Dissenters were bullied, ostracized, fired, threatened - The Guardian itself became the heart of this ideological machine… until she fell foul of it. When ideology is sacrosanct and the world must be perfected, facts become the enemy — and truth-tellers become heretics. Have you watched this shift in real time — where inconvenient evidence gets labeled “hate” or “misinformation”? Which sacred ideology do you think has done the most damage to open debate? Your honest take 👇

Why the fuck would I pay back any of my debt when the u.s. government is insolvent?

@billybinion It’s bigger than this one family. Several were offered deals and declined. Look deeper.

The buyer offered them *ten times* what the land is worth. Take the money.