Actually, flies love vinegar. It smells like rotting flesh, which is a great place to go lay eggs.

This unintuitive fact matches the truth that being rude to people is an important part of the process of personal growth. Getting people to change takes a carrot AND a stick. When they do change, they'll remember the carrot more easily. But the stick is important too. You can see this politically with the fact that the government likes to praise MLK for his nonviolent methods, but Malcolm X is the one who got Reagan to pass gun control laws in California. MLK's movement was threatening because the politicians knew that if they didn't work with the nonviolent protesters, those protesters would join movements like the Black Panthers. Likewise, rude leftists encourage people to be more open to listening to the polite leftists in their lives. The rude ones raise the stakes.

Unfortunately, most Lemmy users are past high school age, so we'll have to educate them ourselves.

Problematic for the children who are having their rights taken away. This change bans children from connecting with their friends in other countries, other states, and even other cities.

Even something as simple as hopping in a voice call with your squad to play Deep Rock Galactic is now illegal for 15 year olds. That's ridiculous. The fact that they can break the law is great, but they shouldn't have to break the law in order to do something so harmless.

What about using Zoom to speak to a doctor or therapist? What about contacting queer support resources through social media? What about using a text based suicide hotline? According to the law, that's social media.

It's a good thing we wiped out covid and will never need students to use Zoom again!

Oh, wait

Blue Eye Samurai.

Name a traditional thanksgiving food that's made out of bugs

Because they're ducks. Ducks aren't an evil predator species like humans. The most meat they tend to eat is bugs.

Do you worry that the weed impairs your ability to produce effective counterarguments? Drag wouldn't want to go into a situation like that without being on drag's A game. Thanksgiving can be one of your few chances each year to argue with your relatives, so drag tries very hard to avoid wasting it.

Jean-Paul Sartre says that human beings are imbued with radical freedom, which is the ability to do whatever you want. Society can't take away the freedoms you have within your own mind, regardless of social manners or coercion.

For example, you could approach the bad family members in private the day before Thanksgiving, and tell a lie that you're all going to have dinner at a restaurant because the oven broke. It only works once, but it sends an appropriate message.

That's a very vague statement. You didn't specify which type of empathy. For example, cognitive empathy is the ability to intuit what other people are thinking. Autistic people tend to have less cognitive empathy, which is related to the poor social skills. It's hard to participate in social situations when you have a clinically significant inability to read minds. Drag doesn't think you want to treat autistic people with suspicion, so why don't you work on clarifying your statement to an appropriate level of specificity?

Then we should make psychology a compulsory subject in high school.

Honestly, drag agrees with your mother in law on one thing: the psychiatrist who told your husband he doesn't have NPD wasn't following professional standards.

Lack of self reflection is not a diagnostic criteria of NPD. That psychiatrist was not following the DSM, they were following their own preconceptions. That's not ethical. And it's not supported by the research, either, because the current research actually shows that people with NPD struggle with self doubt a lot. That's where the "excessive need for admiration" comes from. They need to be told they're not a failure. Your husband needed to be told he's not a bad person. Drag isn't saying your husband has NPD; he probably doesn't. Drag is saying the psychiatrist's reason was wrong.

Maybe your psychiatrist is actually competent, and was telling a comforting lie to soothe your husband's fears. Or maybe they were letting their preconceptions and stereotypes compromise their professional judgement.

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Abortion

Gender affirming care

Healthcare in general

Immigration

Food

Shelter

Healthy teeth

Voting

Life

Liberty

The pursuit of happiness

Drag wishes there were fewer people in the world willing to set aside politics for family. People like that are destroying the world.

Conservatives 🤝 Liberals
"The political positions I dislike are caused by mental illness"

Socialists: "Hey guys maybe we could try not denigrating mental disorders? Maybe we could try building a left wing that welcomes and accepts the neurodivergent and marginalised?

Liberals: "Fuck you, we'll never accept psychopaths like Trump!"

Socialists: "I never agreed with you that Trump is a psychopath. We don't have to accept Trump in order to treat ASPD folks with dignity!"

Liberals: "You're disgusting, enabling abusers like that. If we treat psychopaths with basic dignity, they'll only use it to abuse us!"

Hypatia needs to be in it

Spider Wood, Spider Wood
Makes your girlfriend say she would
Hurts a lot, in your shaft
How are you this fucking daft?
Eat fruit!
Eat fruit for the Spider Wood

Thor took an elective on Groot's language in college

Drag has no interest in making Trump better by helping him. Drag only wants to make him better by making him less able to hurt others. That's why he deserves prison and not therapy.

If you're right, and Trump has NPD, imagine what a fully self-actualised Trump would look like: he doesn't get offended when people call him weird. He's able to maintain strong diplomatic relationships with as many foreign dictators as he likes. He's not afraid of assassination attempts. He's even more confident, AND he becomes well-spoken and coherent. He stops eating McDonald's and starts working out, and that leads to him surviving another 15 years. That's horrible! We don't want Trump to be more functional than he already is! We want him scared, incoherent, and dying of cholesterol.

Drag doesn't actually think any of that hypothetical stuff is possible. Drag thinks Trump is already the best Trump he can be; that being an overgrown toddler is the limit of his potential. But if you're right, then giving him a diagnosis and connecting him with a therapist would be horrible for the world.