The Trump administration has also been holding meetings with the leaders behind the Alberta separatist movement ( source). At this point I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the US is performing a targeted destabilization campaign against Canada.

The split seems to have started with the Epstein files and It's starting to grow. I'm curious to see how overt it will become. Will it simply result in lower republican voter turnout? Or will a high number of former allies in government start to turn on him?

In a court of law, the most the ant could get for this is manslaughter. Very likely though he would get off with a mere wreckless endangerment charge

Yeah things are really looking bleak over there. That plus their recent attacks on free speech (you can get arrested for supporting "Palestinian action") paint a very dystopian picture for the future of the UK

Oh, you’re an American.

Say what you will about the US. It's far from perfect. But their legal model for human rights is more robust than many of their peer countries. The fact that free speech is constitutionally protected there is good thing and the fact that free speech is dependent on majority support is a weakness of the UK system; that is, after all, how the UK got themselves into this current situation.

(I'm not American btw, and I'm by no means a big fan of the US. But still, you have to give credit where credit is due.)

Brilliant system. Couldn’t fault it.

If you read my original comment, you'll notice that I said the US is far from perfect and I'm not a big fan. That said, it's an incredibly unnuanced take to think that literally everything the US does is evil. They do at least some things right, even if you want to argue that, on balance, they suck. And one of the things that they do do right is their protections of free speech. This prevents a situation where you can arrest people for protesting in support of Palestine, as currently happens in the UK and Australia.

Why do people find it so hard to believe that someone could take issue with trans-speciesism? Have you guys ever talked to someone irl before? Judging by the downvotes this is an unpopular opinion here, but 99.99% of the human population would agree with me about this

Are there any issues with having pet squirrels? Not that I'd want to adopt one for the sake of it, but if you have to rescue one like OP is there any issue with just adopting it as a pet?

How active is it now compared to the good old days?

It's weird. If people were just being weird by themselves, that would barely worth any comment. But when people co-opt the language of social justice to justify their weirdness, and accuse you of being a bad person for not going along with it, then things have gone too far

Some heavy bass would still be cool though

What are the odds that the EU would actually accept the UK as a potential member state again? I would assume that they'd just say sorry, missed your chance

What happened?

Also, I hope you’ll reconsider your views on furries!

The person I was conversing said their belief they were an animal was a furry thing, so that's the word I used in this post. Since then have been a number of comments here explaining the technical terms used to describe the different subtypes of furries. If someone just likes art of anthropomorphic animals then I don't take issue with that

Over time interacting with her, I eventually learned that delusions come from something real, some genuine fear or memory or whatever. Directly telling her that things she was experiencing weren’t real got me nowhere. The best approach for me was to help her talk it out - what was she experiencing, how was she feeling, what situation led up to her feeling that way. Just talking, listening, and believing her - I know it sounds crazy, but just telling a delusional person that you understand and that you believe that their experiences were real to them - helps so much.

This is interesting, thanks for sharing (I posted this response earlier but it didn't federate for some reason so I'm trying again)

There is at least one. If you read enough comments you'll find them eventually. I think it would probably be inappropriate to single them out specifically though so I won't do that

you also exhibit such hatred for them because of their supposed mental health issues that it’s difficult to see your arguments in any other lens than ableist at best.

So it's hatred to not affirm their delusions?

And what about you? Should I be patient with you, too, as someone who is enabling these delusions and, by extension, potentially harming people?

You went to great pains to correct me earlier that you were talking about "otherkin" or "therians" not furries. But now we're suddenly talking about furries again? Whatever word you want to use, I'm talking about the people who think they are literally animals

You realize that enabling people's psychosis is actually really dangerous right? This is why ChatGPT can lead to mental breakdowns

Transphobic, ableist, willfully ignorant and hateful.

So this is your final resort. When you realize you can longer defend your position you resort to name calling