I think it'd be neat if during discussions about schizophrenia and psychosis more people made a point to mention how psychotic episodes themselves can be deeply traumatizing. because they sure can. experiencing a break from reality like that is traumatizing. delusions, even though they aren't real, are traumatizing. believing you're being prosecuted by God himself and not knowing how to cope with that just to later realize none of it was real is probably traumatizing. experiencing frightening hallucinations can be traumatizing. people talk about how psychotics suffer from their disorder but let's talk about why we do. and I haven't even mentioned the inherent trauma of living with a stigmatized disorder in a world where psychotics are despised and shunned and kicked out of homes. lets not forget that one.
It's called X because you should close it and go outside
yankee-defenders are really funny about their military defeats. 'we didn't lose, we just decided to stop fighting and leave.' why did you decide to do that? 'because it simply wasn't in our interests to continue fighting any more.' why wasn't it in your interests? 'a lot of factors, it was more trouble than it was worth.' weird, and the other side was causing that trouble? the trouble that was making continuing the war overall a loss for you? they caused enough trouble with your invasion force that you had no real choice but to stop the invasion and leave? so they defeated you? 'no we just decided to leave'
it's the geopolitics idiocy version of logistics idiocy's 'no really the german tanks could have won the war if only they weren't so terrible to produce that they could only build a dozen. if it were a one-on-one Fair Fight they would have won'. this weird view of war as like, bashing action figures into each other to see which is, detached from any real context, Cooler. yeah sure if the US completely ignored its material incentives and devoted all its imperial resources towards the singular pursuit of destroying a single guerrilla force, maybe they could succeed in their occupation. but they're not going to, are they, so all that the guerrillas need to defeat them in the real world is to make occupation more costly than beneficial.
somewhat related being the derogatory connotation of reverse-engineered weapons. 'you just copied our tech' - lmao really? nice! we got good guns and made you guys do all the work? that's a bonus! in case you forgot, the point of wars is to defeat the other side, not to look smart. like sunzi said: a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
I can't be autistic bc I'm actually great at understanding social cues!
[Cut to my POV, a Terminator-style overlay analyzing word choice and body language while over everyone's head a bar labeled Are They Mad At Me shows varying levels]
This is when they were trying to not hurt people also, not like the times where they just injected people with plutonium to see what would happen
