• Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    From checking news posted to fediverse trans communities, it appeared the doj’s intentions to ban trans gun owners was first published on September 4th, and the nra published a statement on the 5th.

    That seems pretty quick to me. I don’t see where you’re getting over a week.

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      8 months ago

      ah ok. I hadn’t seen the NRA statement until today. The original announcement from the DOJ felt like longer ago than a week but I guess it wasn’t.

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        8 months ago

        We are living in Trump time again. Remember last term? Each day felt like a week or a month had passed, depending. And this time is much, much worse. We’re in front row seats to death of democracy, the routing out of the shattered remains of the middle class, militarization, privacy erasure, and bankruptcy while this admin robs the nations coffers.

        This is how the catecholamine response of the human body works. Fight, flight, or freeze it creates an internal sense of a time warp in which everything slows down.

        You may think you’re having a relaxed day, but if this is an overall effect you’re experiencing, you’re not, really.

        This isn’t as obvious as the lab animal that lays down on the randomly electrified floor, but that is our present state of being right now. A perpetual inner state of learned helplessness:

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          8 months ago

          Oh I definitely feel all of that. It’s such a bizarre idea to me that some people are totally tuned out of the world burning around them. My parents and some others I know are like that. I could never ignore the truth like that.

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              8 months ago

              For my parents, it’s not that though. They are just resigned to pretend nothing has changed with Trump, because they need to believe that. They voted for him.