The relationship between slavery, women's suffrage, and the Republican party is a little more complicated than that. People fought to end slavery and people fought for women's suffrage.

And it's a similar story with the civil rights movement, Democrats didn't give anybody anything. People demonstrated and organized for their rights. Likewise for workers' rights during the Great depression.

Though I agree with your point, parties do change and nothing is static. But it's pressure that changes them. And with left activism basically dead in our country right now, it's election financing that mostly calls the shots.

Maybe if it bent around me in particular. I watched an interesting sci-fi movie that was on a similar concept of temporal bubbles.

But I forget the name.

Just like the first time over and over.

Space and time or inseparable, and we are inseparable from space and time.

Which is saying, if time is a knot we are part of that or knot, just like everything else and would have no idea that we are in it.

Optimally observing the breath and the body first. Trying to observe thoughts without that solid foundation, tends to get us caught up in our thoughts.

And yeah, we do have to be aware when our thinking hijacks are attention. But the focus of attention should first of all be on the breath and the breathing before it shifts to any sort of deeper observation of thoughts and feelings.

And that's generally good advice whether you're on the cushion or not. Thoughts and feelings can easily carry us away. Our body and our breathing is always in the present.

If sitting meditation doesn't work for you, there's walking meditation, Qigong, body scans.

Really it's just about finding your breath and your body and settling into the present and sitting meditation is just a tool to teach us how to do that.

The meme is shit by the way.

The idea isn't to build up tension all day and then let it go when you finally get to the cushion. The idea is to learn to let go on the cushion so all day you can let shit go.

That's why we call meditation practice. It's so we can implement it in the moment when we need it.

This person made posts celebrating Trump's win by the way.

They deserve every one of those down votes

Finally an article calling it what it is. Racism and misogyny .

Racists, misogynists, homophobes, billionaires.

Oh and Russia and Israel.

I'm scared too. I just started hormone replacement therapy a few months ago, and found self-acceptance for the first time in my life. And also have a child, who's a very sweet boy that will become a young man with misogynist assholes in power. That's not the example I want for him.

I've been crying this morning. And I'm crying now.

I'm also blaming propaganda from billionaires and Russia.

As well as the White House. Biden should have stepped down so we could have ran an actual primary.

And the White House sat on Trump's insurrection for four fucking years.

Because he was convicted in New York and according to Florida law the state that he was convicted ins laws apply as far as his voting rights.

I hope the state goes after them.

The current DA is pretty fucking liberal as far as DAs go.

And they are a big reason why politics in Wisconsin are so stacked in favor of Republicans. They do a lot of business here and her husband is heir to the Schlitz beer fortune. They fund a lot of the Republican state representatives campaigns.

They are also the main reason why Wisconsin is still a prohibition state in regards to marijuana. Supposedly good Christians don't want cannabis competing with their much more destructive and addictive product.

The exact type of people Jesus was talking about in his eye of the needle parable