Yeah that’s a good point, we should all probably wear helmets to any protest with a high potential for police brutality, concussions suck. All other body armor can be mostly concealed in clothing.

That sounds like a panic attack, so the general advice works here too. Here’s some advice from people smarter than me.

At an actual demonstration I would suggest repeating the chant, and being prepared. Being prepared is having all the notes you need in case things go south and that you are connected to your group. And supplies like water and milk of magnesium in case of tear gas. No shame in wearing a helmet or any amount of protective gear you can tolerate, the police do.

Those nerves are a big part of the reason for the chants like “not another nickle, not another dime.” Shouting them with the chant leaders should help with those kinda nerves. Let your fear and nerves flow into it.

If you’re having a panic attack while watching videos, turn them off and take a break. Nothing good comes from watching too many of them.

I would presume that they are talking about the federal bill Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Shab-eh-nay Band Reservation Settlement Act of 2023 and one in Illinois. If I’m understanding this correctly, after over a 100 years the Potawatomi band right to sovereignty as guaranteed by a 200 year old treaty is being debated in both the US congress and Illinois congress.

Reading in to this makes me want to go to a protest in DeKalb county as according this NBC news

Many residents who live next to the park oppose the plan, fearing construction of a casino or even a hotel would draw more tourists and lead to a larger, more congested community.

“Myself and my family have put a lot of money and given up a lot to be where we are in a small community and enjoy the park the way that it is,” resident Becky Oest told a House committee in May, asking that the proposal be amended to prohibit construction that would “affect our community. It’s a small town. We don’t want it to grow bigger.”

I’d want to tell them “Land back and I’ll go away.”

I suspect that trauma is being a tool of reactionaries to create more reactionaries. Imagine starving and having the media tell you it’s because of X-men (lgbt+, other race, other religion, ect). European elites told their citizens that god was punishing them because the Jews in the 15th(?) century, so the Jews were expelled. Over time the elite began to realize they could escape judgement for poor leadership and remain unquestioned as long as there was an “other” they could blame and punish. The leadership did not wish to be judge, so the leadership found a scapegoat.

During the rise of industrialization through capitalism, they need more scapegoats, so they found more. By indicating to people that wealth and private property were signs of good morals, they were able to claim a moral high ground in the eyes of the traumatized. So by spreading this logic in areas where the population hadn’t yet recovered from a shock, they are able to spread fascism. Lots of countries have dealt with trauma without turning fascist. Trauma can absolutely help create fascists though.

Trauma to create fascism is basally a few steps:

Step 1:

Man made trauma, economic, drug wars, colonization, slavery, cyclical capitalist crisis, war, disease

Step 2:

Blame the poor, or other, and flaunt wealth, so they know that the holder of the wealth is the good guy, not a thief.

Step 3:

Tie aid for recovery to demonstration of fascists ideas so that only fascists can thrive.

DSA communist paper says communists should join DSA. In other news red flags are indeed red.

Know when to fight and when to walk away. Battles that can’t be won aren’t worth fighting. Rest if you need it.

Yeah I was honestly kinda shocked, but it really helped. Took a cool shower after and it might as well have been late fall. It’ll probably take a week or a few weeks so be patient. But it really helped my heat tolerance.

In the short term, cold showers and wet clothes are useful. Longer term I’ve found that a bit cardio helps massively with heat tolerance after a week or so. I mean the difference between 21 feeling warm before and 23 feeling chilly after a solid week of cardio.

This sounds like an example of what Lenin was talking about in “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder. Not all the Pro-Palestine folk are well principled, but I don’t think that has much to do with an excess empathy. It’s often hard to tell the difference between treachery and ignorance.

There are few people more dangerous than fascists who have read Marx. How do we survive her presidency?

Didn’t Biden say the same thing?

She is a cop, the other guy’s a criminal.

Jill Stein and Claudia De la Cruz are the only candidates worth considering.

Religion is the opium of the people.

-Karl Marx

Opium is a wonderful in the case of a person dying or in great pain, but in other circumstances, can be quite harmful. Contemplating religious concepts can be helpful for getting through extremely trying times. It can provide comfort in the face of the unknown. This allows religion, like corrupted science, to be twisted into something used to support atrocities. Sadly because some people seek truth through religion, and rely on religion for their morality, it is easily twisted into a weapon of war. It is similar to the way opium was turned into a weapon of war against China in the mid 19th century.

I like to think of religion as a pain medication for the spirit. Even in a wholly just society, people die. Their loved ones will feel that pain, and religion can provide some relief.

The only 2 candidates I’d consider voting for are Claudia De la Cruz and Jill Stein. I think I’m going to go with Jill because if I’m not mistaken, technically there is chance she could get the electoral votes needed to be elected. It’s like 1 in a million though, but there’s a chance.

That may have been true in the past in the US, but this three way split isn’t helping us. There could be an opportunity here, alot people are just voting against the other guy.

Couple of the candidates seem to be leaning in that direction.

This isn’t about making a difference in the system. It’s about deciding who could lead the revolution.

It is one of many tools that need to be used to make a difference.

It’s hard to win because malice and disregard for the truth are often hard to prove, and loosing the case can be more damaging. It has however one of the few I ways I know of to convince people that reporters got it wrong.

The hit piece about rape from the NYT keeps getting cited, despite it’s sources claiming their words were twisted.

They responded to “ceasefire now” with “four more years”…

I wonder if they realize how much it sounds like they want four more years of genocide. I wonder how many of them actually support the genocide.

I know that, you know that. It was absolutely disgusting.

However most people didn’t really seem to care, and the language was a bit less genocidal.

Fewer people took a closer look because they just don’t care about Ukraine. Americans are much more interested in Israel.

Americans also care more about it. So they do a bit more research. There’s also the shear scale of it, the whole Russia/Ukraine thing also has a crazy complex history, not quite as simple as maybe don’t support genocide.