Uh oh. Kamala's been greasing her palms with book sales...
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Uh oh. Kamala's been greasing her palms with book sales...
Uh oh. Kamala's been greasing her palms with book sales...
that wouldn't be any where close to the worst thing shes done.
That fits with all the other data that correlates mental health and happiness to political alignment. Republicans and Conservatives tend to be happier and suffer fewer mental health issues than Democrats and Progressives. This makes a degree of sense when you think about it in a meta-sense, if you are happy and content with your current situation, would you really want there to be any major changes made? No, of course not. Happy, content people are, in many ways, naturally (little "c") conservative. If you are unhappy and discontent with your present lot, well, you're want to change things, right? So unhappy and discontent people will want change.
Just because the person in the White House has changed doesn't alter this underlying fact. The person in the White House does very little to impact the day to day happiness and contentment of an individual, heck, national level politics does very little to do that. What build personal contentment and happiness is good relationships, lack of worry about where you next meal and such comes from and generally from fullfilling the basic hierarchy of needs, which are best addressed not by involvement in national politics, but by having a stable job, being married, raising kids, and being involved in social groups and organizations like Churches and such. If you note that's a list of things that, well, young people generally aren't involved with as much and take time to develop once out of school... and also things that tend to be much more common for people on the Right than the Left.
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
This is part of it, but there's another major aspect of it:
Modern leftism is based on embracing your pathologies, rather than trying to overcome them and become a healthier, more wholesome person.
Conservatism tells you to struggle to overcome hardship, to honor God and family, to 'be a man' and work hard work hard, not to let fear rule you.
Leftism tells you that your feelings should never be hurt, you should have trigger warnings, safe spaces, that any and every sexual deviancy you find appealing is 'valid,' your problems are the fault of anyone other than yourself, etc. It's all about you, and your expectations of life should be perfection, that a temper tantrum is the way to react whenever you don't receive that perfection.
One of these is a recipe for doing the hard work to become a healthier, happier, contributing member of society. The other is a recipe to wallow in misery.
One makes for citizens, the other makes for useful voting serfs.
strunkenwhite
Well-known member
Looks like this was just the Post being the Post. The story's author resigned, claiming "The Kamala Harris story — an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against — was my breaking point."
Is that the national average? Because if so I am beyond any redemption...
It's a predicted limit that would happen if we started taking actions to hit Biden's climate goals.
The prediction is that the livestock market would have to cut wayyyyy back.
It's not a specific part of any of his plans as far as I can tell. But the prediction is 4 lbs of beef a year.
Which is around how much I eat in a week lol
Navarro
Well-known member
There is also an element of disposition to this. If you feel that society and all its institutions are all illegitimate, of course you're going to have a lot of anger and despair and all sorts of negative feelings as a result of that alienation, which will have very negative effects on your mental health. Now the majority of those folks are on the left.
Young people are politically engaged, pro-Biden, and depressed, study finds - The Boston Globe
A new youth poll conducted by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics found young millennials and members of Gen Z far more likely to be politically engaged than their predecessors.www.bostonglobe.com
First time?
Maybe being imprisoned in their homes for a year has something to do with it?
Well screw that! I guess I will just have to get my livestock butchered a little more...
#Beingasmallfarmerhasitsperksdealwithit.
prinCZess
Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
It was shitty enough when they did this to vape juices (believe that was under Trump? Maybe Obama?).
And doubly shitty when they raised the smoking age to 21 under Trump.
Now Biden admin. carries on the legacy of...just kind of being dickheads to a demographic skewed heavily lower-class.
Because, apparently, having things you enjoy that are bad for you is unacceptable to the people in Congress and DC.
Even as a nonsmoker...This stuff needs to get bent.
On bright side? It occurs to me that you could burn big bags of mint as a part of a protest, and it would make things smell nice. I think?
And doubly shitty when they raised the smoking age to 21 under Trump.
Now Biden admin. carries on the legacy of...just kind of being dickheads to a demographic skewed heavily lower-class.
Because, apparently, having things you enjoy that are bad for you is unacceptable to the people in Congress and DC.
Even as a nonsmoker...This stuff needs to get bent.
On bright side? It occurs to me that you could burn big bags of mint as a part of a protest, and it would make things smell nice. I think?
A non smoker here myself and I was and am against every policy you just brought up.
I'm not just a non smoker. I find it fucking revolting and the smell is atrocious. I still am against this. (But I like weed lol)
As long as tobacco is legal, people should be allowed to choose what products they wish to consume.
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. . . Weed smells WAY worse than tobacco, especially if you're dealing with pipe or cigar tobacco.
It isn't the smell, more of the effects
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
Actually, majority if not all governments do it. The only question is how, exactly, is it done: it can be done via hard power (e.g. Nazis and Communists) or via soft power (e.g. modern "liberal" "democracies").
Terthna
Professional Lurker
It's a terrible prediction that ignores the environmental impact of all food production besides beef. Eating less beef and more plant-based food like soy would actually cause more damage to the environment, not less.
They dint know that
They think it would make methane go down and only that
Terthna
Professional Lurker
Of course they don't know; knowing would require thinking, and the regressive left are more about feeling than anything else. They feel that cracking down on cattle farming would help the environment; therefor, it will.
Sigh