@kara_dreamer I've stopped trying at all, I just see all Trump supporters as subhuman garbage at this point

@kara_dreamer these people are so drunk with propaganda it's kinda sickening

_nihil humanum a me alienum_ is a motto that I learned twenty years ago when I was studying classics, and I've come to take it very seriously indeed. some friends and acquaintances of mine seek refuge from humanity in non-human identities, and I can respect that choice, although I have my doubts about it. like, however much kinship you perceive with dragons or otters or whatever...you are also a human animal, with human behaviors and human weaknesses, and you have to learn to function in a human society.

so I've tried, I've tried really hard, to grasp how humans work, to empathize with all that humans do

but

@kara_dreamer None of this surprises me. It's built on decades of propaganda, much of which was phrased "apolitically", and I grew up near enough to it that on some level I can still get how these things would feel right even though they're deeply fucking wrong, both morally and factually.