Are they going to deport Elon and Melania? Of course not.

I imagine it’s less fun for employees.

And money! Customers pay for these atrocities.

Traumatized people are compliant. Traumatized with a rap sheet will work 3 minimum wage jobs while sleeping rough.

That’s karma. The longer we seek instant gratification, neglecting doing the hard, dirty necessary work that yields no immediate discernable benefits, the more severe the bite is, when it comes back around and bites us in the backside. As a collective, we stay on the wheel of suffering, figure out we need to do something differently, figure out necessary changes, then implement them… Then a few generations, the wealthy overlords convince us we’re spending too much on very sensible investments that yield no immediate discernable benefits and we repeat the cycle. It’s like Groundhog Day over centuries (which add up to millennia,), rather than days, weeks, years. Because they plan family fortunes for centuries, rather than days, weeks and years, because they can afford private communities, with private police and fire departments, and comprehensive health. The rest of us are means that justify their ends, and the sooner we, as a collective, wake up and smell the roses and love each other enough (which preserves our own arses) to figure out ways to fix this mess, for centuries that turn into millennia, the better off we and the rest of our ecoweb will be. Or not. 🤷‍♀️

Heh. I’ve got no problems with my demons or my crown princess of hell. They’re here to teach, and if we do the work to heal the inner child wounds, they become guardian angels. But healing is a lifelong thing.

Don’t take everything so literally. We say we “fight our demons.” Demons of shame, guilt, despair, substance abuse, mother and father wounds. JFC Lemmy. Abused parents who haven’t dealt with their demons have the tendency to repeat the cycle of abuse, subconsciously transferring their guilt and shame (”sins") onto the children, who become “sacrificial lambs.” This is why shadow work is so important.

I am not speaking to the veracity of charges in the following, merely my own experiences: Parents know, even facilitate or participate. The abuse creates mental health challenges, and the family uses that to deny allegations.

This is, imo, one of many forms of “Satanic Ritual Abuse,” child sacrifice, because make no mistake, caregivers profit from this in some way, be it financially (the golden child is groomed for success and devotion, the scapegoat for mh issues and plausible deniability), when it is to older men, it is most definitely for financial/social/career benefit.

If you are having mh issues, ask yourself: who benefits from this narrative?

Eta: this is metaphor, hello!

It’s ironic that nowadays, certain semitic people’s semitism has been erased so that noticing their genocide is now called antisemitic.

Funnily enough, middle Eastern Jews have DNA almost identical to Palestinians, Ashkenazi have European DNA.

There are ethnic and religious Jewish people, to my best understanding.

Don’t worry, it’s completely voluntary.

Underlying conditions, over 65. Why does this sound familiar?

We have to arrange that for wealthy/corps first.

All of them, if I’m honest.

That’s what wealthy elites lazy always say, right before they crash the economy. 1929 much?

Some people see a half empty glass, others a half full glass. It’s a half glassed either way.

🫂 I’m so sorry. It is not “only a single anecdote.” So many people share similar experiences, with specific details swappable. But society stigmatizes feeling a way about our circumstances, when the circumstances are what needs changing, and that’s the truth.

I’m grateful you have shelter. I hope you have somewhat decent? meals?

Does anyone reading know if there’s some sort of help or mutual aid community on Lemmy? If people could chip in a buck here, five there, I bet a lot of us could use the help.

Any necessity should be nationalized and given. How tf are people supposed to work on issues (wound/trauma healing) when constantly exposed, without time for rest and recovery, to the same or similar traumatizing events? No. Give homes and competent, comprehensive health care, along with healthy foods and decent clothing. After recovery, people can contribute back to societies in meaningful, sustainable ways. But that would mean the end of wage slavery or literal chattel slavery (via social constructs, such as prison or threat of deportation), and billionaires and corporations being heavily taxed, and we can’t have that now, can we?

🤣 I see the original meaning has come full circle!