Disclaimer: I KNOW “liberal” and “leftist” aren’t the exact same by definition. Sue me. I’m using a colloquial tone today. I happened to be in the right circles at the right time to watch a generation of boys and young adults get radicalized in real time in the internet forums and gaming communities. This was…

I am begging people to look at how much they’ve already completed from Project 2025 in under half a year, look at the current situation with Republicans in Congress refusing to stop or alter pretty much anything, look at the Democrats being basically impotent in every area bc of their low numbers (and lack of…

If I hear one more person in person or online say something like “it’ll be fine, they’ve tried that three times already and it kept dying in committee/didn’t pass” or “they’d never get it through” or “that’s so extreme they couldn’t get it done” or “nah, I don’t think that’ll ever happen” or “they’ll be…

I was just listening to another video from The Bulwark and I really appreciate them but I do not understand how they expected there to be a slower roll than this or for the “checks and balances” to actually, consistently work. The people on the far right and in the religious conservative voting blocs spent…

(January 19,2025) TikTok “miraculously” came back online this morning, not even 24 hours after ByteDance took it offline for the U.S.A. preemptively before the ban officially even took effect. The pop up when I opened the app read: Welcome back! Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is…

I feel frustrated, othered, and alone like I did in the run-up to and early days of the early stage of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 illness causer) pandemic. I was following its rise back in 2019 and trying to warn people, both then and in January and February of 2020 before it got big in the…

(October 4, 2024) It’s so hard, every day, not to fall into the non-stop societal + political upheaval all media and social media are spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning 24/7. It’s like a merry-go-round from hell. I want to be a good person. I want to keep up with my relatives and friends.…

I tried to mentally and emotionally visualize and prepare for all the possible ways of being a martyr so I’d know what to do (and do it right, without failing God through cowardice) when the time came sometime before I became an adult in a school shooting or terrorist attack or targeted porch bombing or…

(July 2023) Hey, I don’t know if you’ll ever see this, but in case you do—thank you!!! Your comments here helped change (and save) my life down the road. Several years on from our previous interaction, I’m happy to report that I am fully free from the religious cult I was in, and my interaction…

(from various points in 2021-2023) Hey question did anyone else get super confused and grossed out by what “all men” thinking and wanting one thing all the time and being totally visual thinkers implied for you being around your relatives and having a dad or whoever do modesty checks for clothing or whatever else because they could…