Like, imagine everything happening now but precious little video or first hand accounts or photos. Just whatever the newspapers and TV decide to run, which as we've discovered is, uh, shockingly disconnected from reality (and the interests of the people) and minimizes the terror.

It's much harder to project the image they want of a serious, righteous, uncrushable force when every day we're seeing out of shape dudes tripping on ice and getting pee thrown at them and being scared of a crowd of a 30 people as they try to pull pregnant women from cars and flashbang kids.

Some immediate spookiness with this haunting Sierra logo. Somewhat tempered by the soft pink background around it.

Among perpetrators of violence, there is a very small share who are independently motivated to violence. But the vast majority of perpetrators commit violence to seek approval and status from others.

This is particularly true among men who use violence to affirm their masculinity.

The goal of ICE watch is to surround that second type of perpetrator with people who *disapprove* of their actions.

It will make them less likely to be violent and we’ve seen that, in some cases, that includes rethinking their original plan to tear a family apart too.

for example. before i transitioned i thought the thing i was most dysphoric about was my chest for instance but since transitioning i've realized that my voice was actually a very intense source of dysphoria that i was just kind of oblivious to and having a deeper voice made me much happier