@ldragoon I also like to point out that German culture was deeply, deeply religious, deeply affiliated and enmeshed in church life as a whole. This has been shown in historical study after historical study. People and families had *lifetime* relationships with churches that involved @ldragoon baptisms, Sunday school, Confirmation, first communion, continued attendance, marriage, on and on and on. The supposed widespread profligacy of the Weimar years affected a very tiny portion of the population in Berlin. The vast majority of the country was living quietly and going

@StephanFrost Just know that it isn’t laziness. I swear to god it isn’t laziness. Never ever ever use that word.
Do things *with* them, making lists of the order that you go in, as many times as it takes, until they start to unpack the underlying structure that *they* need. For example: @StephanFrost “Clean Your Room” will always create panic and depression and helplessness, and it doesn’t matter if it makes sense to you or not: you just need to accept it. So for a number of YEARS this will be something that you do together, in little bursts, in a cheerful, non-lecturing way.

Here’s why you need to vote:
You aren’t voting for a person. You aren’t voting to give a gold star to any particular administration.
You are voting to voice your support for a PLATFORM.
What has the Democratic Party pledged to do?
I’m now 50 years old. For the entirety of my

https://twitter.com/clairewillett/status/1435369000804884481

life, the Democratic Party has made the ERA a part of their platform. People have said “Take it off,” but someone like Ted Kennedy always said, “Like hell we will.”
The Democratic Party has supported abortion rights. It’s the ONLY party that gives a shit about Civil Rights.

@SmashAdams1989 @brat2381 @FrenchRainez Precisely. I think parties earn votes by having:
1) Stable platforms that are ideologically sound--not focused entirely on economics--and show concern for BIPOC
2) Party discipline. Let me say it again: Party discipline.
3) Infrastructure, funding, an established ground game @SmashAdams1989 @brat2381 @FrenchRainez For all of the Justice Dems supposed finger-on-the-pulse-of-the-people...for all of their supposed nimbleness of messaging...for all of their claims that they absolutely DID have party discipline, and they weren't just college sophomores playing at politics, I watched FOR YEARS

@Delafina777 @JonHammond1701 @jorymicah @skamaniabob @DavidDzimianski The NT has never bothered me, but I want to be clear: It’s been a long time since I’ve read it, and I read it with a very uncritical eye, in a religious environment that rarely (if ever) mentioned Jews. Where most Bibles say “the Jews,” our Church’s Bible’s translation usually @Delafina777 @JonHammond1701 @jorymicah @skamaniabob @DavidDzimianski substituted “the crowd,” or “the people.” As a small child I asked my mother if Jews had to go to hell and I’ll never forget her gripping the steering wheel and saying, “WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT.” I didn’t hear about the deicide charge until my Jewish friends told me in HS, and I