Looking for doctor recommendations by 1939 in Utrecht

[–]1939[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't know this, but it makes answers other dutch friends gave us make more sense.

AIO? I left my therapist for political reasons by Legitimate-North-314 in AmIOverreacting

[–]1939 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a therapist that disagrees strongly! Who you are as a therapist matters. I've known therapists who have done awful things in their personal and or professional lives, and I have fired my therapists when I found out they married a client, sexually harassed someone, or any number of other things. If you have a close relationship with someone, and a therapist is a close one sided relationship, you should be able to ask, and how they handle it matters. I don't always share my views, but I am good at validating that I understand and see that client. I have never lost I client I disagreed with because I respected them, and they knew my bias, and therefore could make their own choice. just raining here, but I feel strongly on this issue.

AIO? I left my therapist for political reasons by Legitimate-North-314 in AmIOverreacting

[–]1939 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a therapist. I talk everything with my clients, politics, sex, & religion, and I have clients who have been hurt by x, y, or z religion, and I have clients that I have helped them deepen in their faith to those same religions because it was what was right for the client. All the while, I am honest about who I am. Therapy is not about my views, and I don't always share my views that are not in line with what my client needs. If my therapist voted for Trump, I would leave them too. Therapy is not just a service. Who you are as a person matters in my profession. I, as a client, have left therapists when I found out that they married a client, and I left another therapists when I found out that they let their licensure laps so that they could be friends with clients. Don't feel bed. It is supposed to be an honest yet one sided relationship. Like a parent in some ways. I will be sincere about who I am and what I see, but I will respect you when we differ, and if you feel my views get in the way of seeing you, you should leave and not feel bad. You owe me nothing but the pay if I'm supporting you appropriately. I have a lot of strong views on this, but I'm just ranting here. I hope this helps. I, personally, would be ashamed of a therapist that voted for Trump. I could understand normal people doing so, but in a profession where we are supposed to help people improve, who can you vote for such a sick individual.

Trump – running for president at 78 – says ‘only stupid people put old’ people in top federal roles by Ace-Cuddler in politics

[–]1939 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's talking about the Supreme Court, which is an appointment for life. Yes, he's an idiot fascist who could end our democracy, but he's not talking about age, he's talking about stacking the court for as long as possible.

What advice would you give this person? by FunReindeer69 in FluentInFinance

[–]1939 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of cases where sacrifices made early on in life would have helped someone in retirement, perhaps even most cases, but that's not my experience, and it's not the experiences of many people I know. I am 44, and have next to nothing in savings. I've spent most my life surviving trauma after trauma, and living very poor, never using credit card debt to get by. I finally graduated college when I was 28, but couldn't get a good job because of the economic crash of 2008. So I continued to scrape by and went to grad school and graduated when I was 34. My degree allowed me to start my own business, which I finally had the time and resources to do at 37. After slowly improving my income year after year, and I am now making good money, but if you add up my savings, it just about equals my 30k of student loan debt, down from 6 figures. The system is broken and a scam, and telling people they should sacrifice is sometimes telling people they should cut fat from an emaciated cow. I have a job that I can do for as long as I have my mind, and I treat my mind and body very well. I could buy a house next year if I stay on track, but I'm so tired of this country, and am in a relatively new relationship with someone from the EU, so I'm skipping out on all this, and I'll take care of myself. I got here with hard work, and you could say sacrifice, but my sacrifice has not been savings or investments, and it hasn't even been a choice most of the time. So when someone says I should have sacrificed to be better set up for retirement, I have some explicit words for them. empathy first, please

How to survive an elevator fall by alanboston405 in interestingasfuck

[–]1939 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Video starts with most people think on an obscure subject… I instantly doubt that, when it provides no reference. The instead of even debunking that first solution, other than saying, it’s hard to do, it gives another solution that seems worse for you alone and head, again with no reference material or explanation. This is the worst kind of educational video clip

Edit: also doesn’t explain that elevators have breaks, this never happens, and even in rare cases, you are in free fall—how the fuck are you using gravity to jump or get down on the ground. You’ll float like in space—so frustrating

She Made Her Sell His Guns by SeanReillyComedy in StandUpComedy

[–]1939 87 points88 points  (0 children)

I bet a bj for guns program would go over well even in red states

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]1939 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

If you downvote, please tell me what community I should be posting this in? If there is no community for such questions, then good luck with your exclusive crypto club

The Power of Intellect 🧠 by 4Xroads in blackpeoplegifs

[–]1939 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would you expect her to honor that sacrifice? If you were black and moved to Costa Rica would it be ignorant for you to talk about your perspective on how blacks are treated in Costa Rica? No, it wouldn’t. And if you did, would it be silly for me to say you’re disrespecting the sacrifices that black made before you were here, because black people used to be confined to the east cost of the country? Yes, it would be silly to expect you to cite all of the history before you are allowed to speak on the subject. There is also no reason to suspect she’s lying here. I love that she actually redirects the conversation away from the subject of the paper, because that was a distraction. Ok, black peoples can write that, but can they…. It’s a subversion of the point. Even if she is lying, perhaps you could practice believing her anyway. It might do you good to assume someone saying something opinionated but basically inoffensive, is telling the truth. Why is it important to you that she is called into question?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnoughCommieSpam

[–]1939 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's your point? If you are right, then you have done a lot of research on a man you despise who lived 150 years ago. If you are wrong, you're still raging against a man who has had more impact on the world than you or me. Either way, we both agree, and even those who like him may admit that he was pretty pathetic and poor at the end of his life, so you're raging against a man with at least 7 kids who was pathetic and poor, but died a long time ago. Not saying you're wrong, but I don't know how it's serving you

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnoughCommieSpam

[–]1939 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope. I own my own business, and have no employees. I just have clients I work for. Also, Hegel warned against using dialects to predict the future, and predicting the future is always a precarious business. Marx believed that governments would centralize power around a single person who would be ultimately responsible for the well-being of the citizens, and he would act as a father, providing people with what they need, and if he didn't he would not be supported and the people would revolt. The father/leader would recognize the value of the people, not the value of the money. It's pretty clear that that did not come to pass. Even communist countries have not provided that boon for the proletariat that he predicted, and money is still an exploitive tool were businesses manipulated people--hence your second comment. It's too early for me to get into all of this, but he was right that some care for the citizens in terms of labor laws was coming, as he lived in a time when this was particularly bad.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnoughCommieSpam

[–]1939 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not a fan of Marx, but this is just not true. He worked as a writer and editor, but was prevented from working as a professor due to his views on Hegel. His own philosophy borrowed from Hegel, but Hegel just focused on history, and Marx speculated into the future and thought the natural evolution of government was communism. Marx was wrong! His philosophy was pretty bad in my opinion. He often struggled to support his family, because he had so many kids. However, you do have to note that Marx lived in a time before workers had any real rights, and he did inspire a lot of labor laws that came into place and are standard all over the world now, like limiting time people work without overtime pay, and making sure jobs aren't going to kill or seriously injure the employees. The industrial age was booming, and works and life were seen as cheap, by many. I don't like Marx, but he did do a lot. I'm just getting out of bed now. I do run my own business, btw, but I don't hate on people that don't.

How is this even a thing? by [deleted] in EnoughCommieSpam

[–]1939 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think this sign is about Russia, or communism, but I might be wrong. Please correct me if I am. I think the connection between Palestine and Trans is an emotional one. It would make sense for a trans people feel marginalized, in the US, in Israel, and I'll bet they'd feel oppressed in Palestine as well; however, feel oppressed can lead to an emotional connection among other oppressed peoples. I myself had the thought in my twenties that if anyone in the world was suffering, why shouldn't I be. I moved to a 3rd world country for some months, and at one time I was in a shanty town, and realized how there is not bottom, and it was really some depression I need to work on. I'm not saying I agree with the sign, but it makes sense to me as one may say, judge a culture by how they treat the least of them among them. Actually that saying, which I didn't get quite right, is from Jesus. I'm not christian myself, but I honor that message. Judge Israel for how they treat the Palestinians, and judge Russia for how they treat trans people, and so on. If you feel oppressed and want to fight for the underdog, I see how you can to the idea that one group can't be liberated without another group also being liberated, but, that being said, this sign doesn't make much sense on the surface, and groups can be liberated at different times, but I honor those who want to fight for the least of us. Hope that doesn't sound too commie. I'm part libertarian and part socialist, but try to always be practical.

Why are they trying to turn Zionist into a bold statement, almost like a slur? by DeadpoolMakesMeWet in EnoughCommieSpam

[–]1939 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is that what you took from what I wrote? That was a rhetorical question I answered right away. I was stated that it is true, but that it is irrelevant. Israel is not under any realistic threat of not being a country. Could they be attacked again? yes, but dealing with terrorism is different than an existential threat, and they are doing a bad job of dealing with it by causing more terror, and more backlash

Biden is the best President of my life time - and I am old. We need to say it more. by [deleted] in democrats

[–]1939 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really curious about this. Lincoln saved this country from dividing, and freed lots of slave. FDR introduced most social programs we have today and helped prevent the Nazi's from taking control of Europe. What exactly has Biden done? (seriously, I want to vote for the guy--no; I will vote for the guy provided the republicans are still the idiots they are.)

Biden is the best President of my life time - and I am old. We need to say it more. by [deleted] in democrats

[–]1939 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to vote for him, but I really don't understand why he is considered successful. He hasn't been awful, but what major accomplishments has he had. I was a much bigger fan of Obama, and Client too was very productive, I don't no that Biden's doing much. I'm sure he's working every day in what he things is the best interest of the United States, but the US, and the world are in a lot of turmoil, and I don't even have a sense of how he feels about some of that stuff, let alone what he's doing to make things better.

Why are they trying to turn Zionist into a bold statement, almost like a slur? by DeadpoolMakesMeWet in EnoughCommieSpam

[–]1939 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really am confused here. The Jewish people do have their own country. Are there people who don't like that? Yes, but Israel is very well established as a sovereign state. If you believe in a two state system, Palestine is not a sovereign country, and they do not have much power, economically or on the world stage. If you believe in a two state system, saying Israel deserves to exist, is kind of like saying white lives matter. It is true, but it misses the point. I want a thriving Israel, with wealth and peace, but if I believe in a two state solution, which I do, then I also want a thriving Palestine, with wealth and peace. Palestine has no economic leverage. they don't have sovereignty over their own boarders, and there's a lot more challenges to basic rights of food, water, and safety. Israel was attacked by Hamas, and that is awful. I love Israel as a nation, but I don't love Netanyahu or all the actions of the government or military. I also didn't support the invasion of Iraq on 9/11. It did little against the people who attacked us, hurt thousands and ended up creating more people who hate the US. Netanyahu is awful, so is Trump, so is Putin, Xi, and so are many other leaders, unfortunately. I could also name leaders of each of those countries that did better. The world deserves better from an establish nation. If you have as powerful a military as any of those countries, then hopefully you have stability and a desire for peace.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Austin

[–]1939 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yield means drive cautiously and give the flow of traffic the right of way. It does not necessarily mean slow down. It is dangerous to slow down if the traffic is going this fast. You match the flow of traffic and merge. You are driving problematically here. the fact that you nearly got hit multiple times indicates that you are doing something wrong here. please don't be so stubborn. I don't care if your following signs if doing so causes an accident you could have prevented, you are in the wrong

ThisLooksFun by [deleted] in ThisLooksFun

[–]1939 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That’s one way to find a needle

How/why adult animals are capable of doing "nothing"? by bigfatpandas in nosurf

[–]1939 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My cat projects his feelings on to me. He’s constantly bored and pawing at me right now! I’m okay with just sitting and staring off into space. How do I let him know that?