It can take months for them to adjust to one another. Sometimes a full year before they're comfortable sitting next to each other. Make sure the scared one has a safe space to retreat to and put a calming diffuser close by. Ideally the safe space also has food and water too.
kisstrel
Make art buy ammo laws aren't real put peanut butter on your toes and send me a picture
The ratchet effect is an easy go to and I almost referred to it myself, but its a very non materialist framing. I think a better explainer is how the contradictions of liberalism cannot hold and eventually come undone.
If AOC against odds actually came into office in '29, and at best dems win a simple majority in Congress because the electoral map deck is so stacked, they still have to contend with a 6-3 conservative supreme court plus thousands of conservative justices in the system, a gigantic fully funded immigration terror apparatus, completely stripped to the bone non-functional institutions, and countless EOs and bills to overturn or replace.
In the most rosy scenario a progressive wing works with the moderates to rollback or fix, what... 25% of all of this?
Uhh this belongs in goodposting
I've been saving sandwich crust each time I make sandwiches and just used it all to make a breakfast friendly bread pudding

I don't think this is quite what you're asking for, but A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Their really helped me understand Capital. I believe an audiobook is available too.
Okay peter piper


but these '20 biden to '24 trump voters really are just lost souls that maybe deserve some :gasp: empathy and outreach
I'll count myself lucky with four hours