@darcher @Orc @dalias @bmalsuj I think we both know...

@darcher @Orc @dalias @bmalsuj I think we both know the patterns that end up coagulating around gun-toting (e.g.) Kentucky politicians who say they are also concurrently some sort of mechanic *and* engineer. Neither one of us has the magic pill that's going alleviate the anxiety that drives the insecurity around these guys never being able to control the world enough to please the imaginary women in their heads.

It's these guys that drive *me* to crazy rambling rants.

Guns down, boys.

Like 27 August at 19:47 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social

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ᓚᘏᗢ 🦋 replied to Janis

@janisf sadly, I agree. No magic pill, just a festering multi-generational cultural dysfunction. Even if the political will and the political coalitions were already in place, it would still take many years to repair.

@Orc @dalias @bmalsuj

27 August at 19:59 | Open on hachyderm.io

Janis (she/her) replied to ᓚᘏᗢ

@darcher @Orc @dalias @bmalsuj I have a start, speaking of culture: saying you're a Christian doesn't equate to good personhood. Granted, we need a replacement, but that'd be a start.

27 August at 20:05 | Open on mstdn.social

ᓚᘏᗢ 🦋 replied to Janis

@janisf yeah, it's wild how that works. I didn't have any real exposure to Christianity until my early teens, and then it was all people who took "WWJD" very seriously indeed - Unitarians and Liberation Catholics and whatnot. So I *still* struggle sometimes with the way a lot of Christian churches are openly hostile to Christian scripture and teachings.

@Orc @dalias @bmalsuj

27 August at 20:24 | Open on hachyderm.io