I was wondering if the next admin will double down.

The kindness and forbearance here got me hooked. Being disillusioned isn’t always fun, but as someone on another platform says; A lie travels quickly, but the truth endures.

Would you prefer the term malignant psychopath? Or sociopath? Same general outcome in meaning, just more clinical

Yes.

That is a man.

Men Humans are capable of things considered god like and demonic, but that is a man. Dehumanization of Palestinians is how the genocide began and how it is perpetuated.

I went fishing and caught a . Wow. Leviathan. Wow.

Thanks for the bait. This article is certainly food for thought, which has a watercress bite with a good bit of indigestion. Nourishing, though.

and the one thing that the US really wants from it - a naval base - it gets to have whether the Cuban government likes it or not.

I’ve never understood how that can be. Went is this?

Bowe Berghdal?

It’s going to be hard but don’t engage anyway. Save and protect your energy for things that are important.

So these lofty projects are distraction?

Truth.

the final threshings of a dying state

I’ve been saying that about patriarchal religions for 30 years and they’re still going. I think at the time I began saying that, I was conflating religion with governments, which kind of makes sense, as religion is used to uphold and justify horrific acts perpetrated by (nation) states.

It sounds like anxiety then. Others in this thread have given helpful tips. If they don’t work for you, maybe there are other ways of participation to help further the cause. Wishing you the best.

Have you always had this experience at demonstrations or did it start after you’d been to one or some? Is this a post traumatic stress reaction?