Jenni, LCSW odanu@mastodon.coffee Profile picture
Mental health & human rights. Still on Twitter to encourage people to go to Mastodon & have actual CONVERSATIONS. Server list: https://t.co/2b1NjHcplm
Nov 22, 2020 13 tweets 3 min read
We need to have a serious talk about the difference between justice and revenge with regard to Trump and the GOP in general. As a decent metaphor, let's review the history of the aftermaths of WWI and WWII in a very History 101 sort of way. The long and short of it is that after WWI, Germany was required to pay reparations of an enormous amount, crippling their economy. This did nothing to address the issues at the leadership level and instead served to further radicalize ordinary German citizens.
Nov 4, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
These late-breaking numbers in swing states are why Trump didn't want anyone to vote by mail. Let me break it down:

Since 2004 at least, elections security experts are *positive* that actual votes are being changed on electronic voting machines. In order to calculate how many votes to change, you have to know how many opposing votes are coming in, because otherwise, you risk the exit polls alerting officials to discrepancies and forcing a recount. So vote by mail and absentee voting makes this sort of cheating much more difficult.
Apr 15, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
It's increasingly obvious that the far left (or at least the bots and "thought leaders" among them) are never going to be satisfied with anything short of a civil war. Every time a Democrat agrees to adopt any part of their platform, which has a *lot* of overlap with mainstream Democrats that the far left is unwilling to recognize (in part because a lot of their platform is stolen from liberal Dems), they move the goalposts. When asked *how* they plan to enact their goals, they don't have answers, but rant and rail against bills that get much or most of