Apytele
I love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I’m going to troll you back. FAFO.
I know this is an issue in a lot of places but they do where I grew up. Farm kid on meth throwing a weighted psych ward chair through a plexiglass window is practically a meme on my unit it happens so often. They have to do the meth to keep up then they wind up psychotic but still with all that muscle mass from the manual labor. It’s a gotdamn mess every single time. One of them was in restraints for three months straight.
Then what do you think those people do? They’re not all out there being homeless, you can’t be homeless in the country like you can in the city. They’re mostly ag workers OR in industries that support ag like equipment repair and large animal vets. The high school I went to literally had classes on animal husbandry because a bunch of us were expected to wind up doing that. Stop disrespecting these people then wondering why they take up with someone who can at least fake it. There might be more immigrants but those are still people who do jobs that are important and a big part of the reason that they support dumb shit is because dems don’t look out for them either. They enact ecological policies (which are important) but without placing restrictions on corporate farming to prevent them from getting pushed out by not being able to compete. That’s how they get talked into shit that “supports small businesses” even if it’s bullshit.
those are the people that control the food supply we need them on our side
I keep telling my coworkers chosen names aren’t even really a “trans” thing. We work psychiatry so we get plenty of people that don’t want to be called by the name they share with the relative that beat them or whatever. There’s plenty of reasons to go by a different name!
Honestly at this point I just assume by default that of all politicians at that level. They’re all basically evil its just a matter of sorting out which ones are evil in ways that will hurt me more or less.
Also psychopath isn’t a clinical or legal term in modern usage, which is the only situation in which the linguistic prescriptivism you’re advocating for makes sense.