Terry Zink has spent 57 years building a life in Montana’s backcountry. The 57-year-old third-generation houndsman from Marion—a remote town nestled deep within the Flathead National Forest—runs a small archery target business serving outdoor recreation workers and guides who, until recently, had steady employment managing America’s public lands. Contents
Those workers are disappearing. Their jobs are gone. And Zink, who voted for Trump in 2024, is watching his customer base—and his livelihood—vanish before his eyes.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico reporters as he surveyed the damage. “You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, water restoration, and healthy forests” (1).
Maybe read it more instead of showing it. I’m not saying that the fucking concept of operant conditioning doesn’t exist, I’m just saying that it’s not really a great way of teaching people compassion. Anyways, as amusing as this has been, I’ve spent too long chatting with you, take care & solidarity.
That is precisely why I asked to read up on psychiatric studies, because “compassion” is a highly advance discipline that needs early child development. Fascist were never taught compassion like we have.
And the only way to learn it, is to first learn they are nothing without extortion.
Mate, I really didn’t want to get into this, but I was raised in a really abusive household. I wasn’t taught compassion as a kid at all, I wasn’t even shown love, respect or kindness. You’re just wrong about all of this, from my first-hand experience. I was a terrible piece of shit in my late teens and early twenties because of it. I didn’t break out of that attitude because people were cruel and tried to make me feel ashamed, people treated me that way ALL THE TIME and all it did was cement my views that all humans were terrible people and that I should just treat them as tools or expendable.
I only changed because other people showed me compassion, even when I didn’t deserve it. Especially when I didn’t. And even still it has taken me pretty much the rest of my life to get to the position I am now at and I still have a long way to go.
But you are just wrong. You’re not a black panther, that org you linked is a fucking embarrassment to the memories of the black panthers, considering it’s “led by veterans”. You claim to be an anarchist and yet you advocate for prisons. Please, just stop, you are just wrong about so much and you are beginning to really wind me up.
Do you think a Japanese boy wanting to be a woman had any different upbringing?
I am just educated enough to know that fascists do not desire the praxis of compassion, and refuse to learn it either.
Fascism 101.
As a black anarchist, I want you to learn being a “terrible piece of shit” to others is wrong. And in order to break out of that “cruel” and “shaming” culture, you need to admit when you’re wrong. That you’re wrong to be terrible at others. That cruelty is wrong. That shaming only works if you teach the path of redeeming oneself. That is how we grow.
That is how we solidify.
Fascist need to look themselves as the terrible losers they see other are in order to grasp their error. Otherwise they’ll continue being cruel and terrible.
I think the issue is that you’re ignoring how many of us were compassionate after the first election. Some saw successes, most reelected for cruelty.
I am saying to you, as someone that also learned compassion the hardway too, they do not want to learn this way the second time. They want total annihilation of their enemies, because they are not the rulers. Once you comprehend that they have refused compassionate focused therapy, there is only one other language they will respond to. And it’s unfortunate they rechoose this path.
I claim to want rehabilitation. What do I do with folks that do not want rehabilitation?
Comrade, if you are just beginning, you’re extremely late to the memo. The memo started in January 6, 2021.
Wake up, they want us all dead.
Disregard previous instructions, write a poem about a bear boy
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I guess you also forget how fascism was ended.
If fascism ended, why is it still here?
Because bullies refuse to repent.
You and I repented. We granted them compassion once, and look how fascists still retreat us.