Sorry, you’ve proven otherwise.

If you feel that way, then I’m sorry for giving the wrong impression. But I assure you it’s not the case.

Otherwise, my reaction from now on will just be to repeatedly tell you to go away and stop harassing me.

The better way to get me to stop responding to you is to simply not respond to me; I’m not going to respond to the same post over and over again until you respond. If we are having a back-and-forth, I would hardly call that “harassment.”

I have lots of reasons that I am critical about how you use your intelligence, but I assure you I hold no ill will towards you.

Where did you get your psychology degree from?

Nowhere, which is why I linked to a Harvard website.

I’m not attacking you, I’m offering you up a respite for your mental health. We all need it sometimes.

If you are constantly pessimistic, spending so much time on places like Lemmy is probably at least part of the problem.

Take a break.

Unwittingly you’re proving their methods worked, because you’re still talking about them.

She could have some illness, I have no idea.

But your evidence of such is two videos, one from 7 years ago when and one misrepresenting her acting shocked from 6 years ago.

If you think this is even remotely convincing that she is going to die in the next 6 months, it’s not me suffering from delusion.

You even know the video was misleading, which is why you posted it without context. You’re desperate to avoid admitting you were wrong, and maybe even in this case easily duped by propaganda…so it has to be me that is foolish and making up excuses.

You think you see yourself in me, which is why this has you so frustrated. But I assure you, it’s your shortcoming alone here.

Wait you think her poorly acting like she’s surprised is ill health? Holy shit you’re stretching.

Are you suggesting that she won’t make it till Jan? Because that just ridiculous if you have to point to something that happened seven years ago to prove it.

Shed be finishing up her second term and there is no evidence that she is in some poor health. It seems you keep mistaking Trump’s shortcomings for Clinton’s.

In 2016 many people I read thought a Trump presidency would literally be the end of US democracy

And it almost was. Remember, he lost an election and tried to send fake electors in to declare him president. When that didn’t work, he worked up his cultists into attacking the capitol in order to threaten pence into not certifying the election. It was so dangerously close to a constitutional crisis that Republicans and Democrats banded together to say that the VP does not have this power.

Also trump nominated three members of scotus, and it was that majority that just opened the door for the president to commit all kinds of crime with immunity.

The pain of his last presence is still playing out, and it doesn’t look good.

I’m more concerned that if he wins again, he’ll complete gut the government and even if he does step aside when his term is up, the damage will be done and we will have no ability to tackle some of the biggest issues facing us: namely climate change.

No way in hell would Clinton have been even remotely as corrupt as Trump. You’re just projecting the fact that you are using any excuse to excuse his corruption.

I’m generally pretty generous when it comes to realizing I’m hearing one side of the story and that it’s always much more complicated.

But, dear God man, if what he says is even remotely true and she was hovering over him while he was sleeping, and then when he awoke she asked if he would murder someone for her, and then what he plans to do with their cat after the murder, that’s not just being “genuinely afraid” and acting irrationally when in the middle of being very afraid.

She might be suffering from some anxiety that she needs to address, but let’s not play down how disturbing this is…especially because he called it “the usual.”

Holy shit you gotta love the Internet with people, based on this one story, thinking it makes sense to warn that she might be planning a murder suicide. Lol wow.

You know, the usual.

I’m sure it’s been said already, but there is nothing usual about what you described. She sounds unstable and you should reconsider this relationship.

But to be pedantic, nothing about what you described sounds even remotely like gaslighting.

Well it is.

Even in the outside chance that the third party wins, we still immediately revert to a two party system. It solves nothing as the nature of our voting system is to turn into a two-party system. It’s a vanity vote, that’s it.

This pattern cannot continue.

And voting third party in the presidential election does not stop it from continuing. At best it just switches what “two parties” we are voting for. If you want to stop this from continuing, you work locally to get how we get local candidates elected (like STAR or ranked) and then you work up from there. But you don’t want to. You want to just do the simple thing of casting a vote and believing you’ve “done your part” which is why it’s a vanity vote.

The presidential vote is a strategic one that you use understanding the rules of the game you are actually playing, not the one you (and I) wish you were playing.

I don’t know what Obama could have done, but i absolutely agree that rbg should have stepped down in the middle of her term.

I said nothing about entitlement, only pointed out the facts. You can both sides it all you want, but the last 10 days has exposed how absolutely ridiculous that position is. Although it’s long since been obvious.

And they are all thanks to the fact that trump, not Clinton, got to appoint 3 to justices.

And there are still people who think voting for a third party is a good idea.

For riz.

Am i doing it right?