Spoon-fed? What? States are HUGE. If you don’t ALREADY have a car you own, you gotta have fare for a bus or a train. If you don’t? You have to walk, and that’s not a realistic option for most people, particularly those who live in conservative areas spanning multiple states. God forbid you live in southern Texas. Cars are expensive, and fare for transportation out of state is also pretty damn expensive, especially since these dangerous areas tend to neglect their affordable public transport options. It’s great that YOU have the money upfront to even start getting out. Not everyone has the privilege.

To be clear, I’m not arguing against getting out. I’m taking umbridge with your statement that “It costs nothing to get in your car…” etc. GETTING a car is a cost.

It was a bunch of cope/scapegoating that happened on Jan 6.

Except, you know, the cost of the car and the gas and the food and shelter when you do get across state lines. All famously very cheap and affordable things.

Are you not also complaining about freedom while also participating on Lemmy? Lol

Isn’t manipulating and coercing people to do evil things also evil?

Exactly what I was about to say. The markers in Mirror’s Edge are less “Go here dipshit” and more “Here’s an option for maintaining flow state”. Because of that, it feels more like an intuitive instinct manifesting in color. And in a lot of the more open areas you don’t always even need to follow it.

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We don’t need to. But we do it anyway for ease of language flow. See: Every single contraction, some of which don’t even reduce syllables. Just contacted to make the tongue say it faster.

Because you are coming from a place that has a generly higher standard of living. If you get deported, you’re coming back to the US. There isn’t NEARLY as much risk.

Medically necessarily to have a chance to live, YES. You are confusing medically necessary with profitable, which is the whole point behind the outrage and the reason why the insurance “industry” is monstrous and dispicable.

That’s a lot of copium you got there.

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It doesn’t matter if you “agree” with it in the same way that it doesn’t matter if you “agree” with children growing above a certain height. It’s going to occur. Treat them humanely.

And thank you for the vote of confidence! If this has been able to help even one person put this complex and often emotionally heavy interaction into an understandable framework then I’m happy. ❤️

It all depends on how you say it. Some people just genuinely do need to know someone understands them at face value. Adding your own experiences and using that to validate their feelings rather than overshadow them is an invaluable practiced skill. It also allows you to layer advice into how you convey it, sometimes without them even realizing that’s what you’re doing.

A great way to do this subtly is to ask them questions that help you find VERY close similarities that open the door to a segway into your own experience. Example:

“Oh man, that’s horrible. Hitting a roadblock like that sucks so much. Did you have to deal with [related thing] too?”

“YES and it only piled onto my stress. Ughhhhh.”

“I know all too well. It’s the worst and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I’m so sorry. If it helps, I could go through what I did. It’s not exactly the same, but maybe something that helped me will resonate? But I understand if you’d rather just vent. My ear’s always open.”

The trick is usually asking if they want to hear it. Then you know for SURE whether or not to proceed, and you’ve framed it in such a way that is less about you and more about investigating ways the shared experience can inform how they handle the issue themselves, or how the differences can add better insight into their own trouble.

Source: I have severe ADHD that has a side effect of being extremely empathetic due to comorbid RSD. The result being a heightened awareness to how others are feeling, subconsciously taking that onto myself (for better and for worse), and subsequently feeling compelled to do what I can to help resolve it. What I described above is the most graceful way I’ve found to resolve my own quirks while also benefitting those relying on me for comfort and usually advice through this framing.

Even if I took this at face value it only confirms to me even more that for profit insurance is a ghoulish waste of resources. So much pain and suffering just to milk people in need of a pittance of a profit margin (relatively speaking) is atrocious.

If they want to take offense at what is essentially a synonym for “normal, societally accepted brain function” the sure lol

Your description of the tankie position doesn’t explain why they call for Ukraine to surrender like Russia isn’t the aggressor. Leftists in general do realize it’s a proxy war like you said, but we call for the invader to stop invading. Because, you know… The victim of an invasion surrendering doesnt usually lead to good outcomes for the victim.

Why did I laugh at this?? I THOUGHT I HAD STANDARDS!

Not true. Plenty of Switch exclusives emulate super well on PC.