For me: a big component of it is a sensory thing. My brain does NOT like it when I can feel roughness on my fingers or hands. The best I’ve been able to do is just keep a bunch of good glass nail files around the house and in the bags I use and travel with, as well as some cuticle trimmers. That way I just trim and buff things out until my brain is like “mmmm yes this is fine, carry on”, and it’s way less of a compulsion.

But stress also often triggers it for me, and that’s harder to buff out :(

It’s insane that we defined a bunch of the things he and his circle are saying as “white supremacist stuff” back in the decades following the civil rights era, and now I guess we’ve decided as a society that that’s just an okay thing again?

I want off this ride, it’s not fun anymore :(

More precisely: tell your government/ legislative representatives to ignore our government. Dialog with a bully is generally not going to end constructively.

Oof I hope not :(

Unitedstatesian here: please tell our government to fuck off.

I’m honestly more than a bit aghast that the Israelis seem to have learned all the wrong lessons with regards to the Holocaust

I’m betting that number is gonna rise

I mean that does tend to happen when the world starts looking for a new global reserve currency

No, my thinking is “it’s been nakedly apparent what kind of person Putin is, and how he and the oligarchic mafia that he initially aligned with and then suborned, have not only taken complete control of the Russian federal government apparatus writ large, but also have been trying to subtly undermine the social and geopolitical fabric of pretty much the entire western world since he orchestrated his own rise to power with false-flag terrorism executed against his own country”.

The fact that it took Russia attempting to fully annex a relatively enormous neighboring country not once, but twice (2014; 2022-???) kinda proves my point

I’m just utterly baffled why the whole damn European continent appears to be willfully ignorant of how consistently Russia operates in bad faith - particularly considering how long its been going on for.

Lmfao no you’re not, fuckwit. You’re deploying infantry bum rushes in appropriated civilian sedans with the doors ripped off. The Taliban has better kit than that, for fuck’s sake.

China can have a little genocide, as a treat

“Big Beautiful Bill” means something rather different than what anybody expected

Sure, but realistically, we are unfortunately now in another “might makes right” geopolitical era without any ostensible veneer of equity or justice. Personally, I thought most of the developed world was moving past that, but it seems we are not, and that makes me sad.

I mean, yes and no. Most of the userbase is that way. But there are some users (and instances) that tend to be massive pains in the ass. So build and curate your blocklist too.

Perhaps the CCP is changing their mind on the legality of that

Yep, that’s precisely what the regime’s plan is

In point of fact: a friend I have from Europe expressed amused appreciation when I first used that term with her, because “American” implies that people from the US are the only population that matters in The Americas (as in, North and South America), and that the default/accepted demonym has some implicit ownership/overlordship overtones, and I don’t disagree.

Ok, I’ll bite: realistically, what would you have me do, in addition to going to protests and generally not giving the fascists the rhetorical space to spew their insanity unopposed?