I’m more okay than my recent questions have let on. I’ve sometimes been too spicy for my (few) friends, and was looking for the old recovery network (pre-internet) where I might get a support group and a sponsor.
After exhausting a list of contacts in Sacramento (either they cost money I can’t afford, or they require interest in a specific brand of Jesus), I called 988 to see if they had leads. The good news is they have a robust search engine at www.findhelp.org so I have more phone calls to make.
Coincidentally, I was quite spicy at the time, as the mere existence of CECOT hit me hard, let alone that ICE is collecting innocent folks and sending them there. My country is for-realsies doing the concentration camp / gulag thing. It’s difficult since I’ve been screaming like Cassandra about it since 2004, and here we are.
But while I’m not a suicide risk (I have dependents), living in a society that is being burned, and is purging undesirables appears to be a valid concern, and I can’t tell if those around me are confident we’re safe for the foreseeable future or are engaging in hypernormal behavior (🐶☕🔥)
But if the White House instructs ICE to collect and evacuate the crazies and then ICE starts sweeping California, then I’m really not sure there’s a sane response. The other concern is if my benefits discontinue and all the resources are impacted or disabled.
and, I’m trying new meds since my previous regimen isn’t cutting it any longer so I’m playing that roulette game as well.
Are you worried the US GOV will start to extend their program from people without citizenship to other undesirables? I don’t know a lot about what’s going on in the US, so I thought it only affected people without US citizenship (although mostly PoC). Regarding benefits, it seems like that is a program funded by the state itself, so hopefully that doesn’t change.
Currently, the primary targets are said to be undocumented immigrants, but naturalized Americans and legal aliens are getting caught up in the ICE dragnet, and rendered to CECOT. The movement to restrict trans folk access to medication and life activities continues.
This rhymes a lot with the early history of the German Reich. Heydrich and the Chancellery were fully aware of the need for the enemy within rhetoric and the need to capture and contain a growing list of undesirables.
Even though it’s the Tiger Repellant Rock fallacy, when the public sees authorities at work arresting people (and making them disappear into the custody system) it shows the authorities are sincere in their effort to make society safer. The Trump Regime is doing exactly the same thing.
And as the Niemöller poem observes, the list of undesirables continues to grow, including more and more of the marginalize until it starts tapping into the mainstream. Every last one of us who is not a billionaire or a billionaire’s favored sex-puppet is on the list. Some of us are higher on that list than others.
Shortly after the Abu Ghraib torture scandal exploded in 2004, more news showed that this was the first appearance of a larger CIA extrajudicial detention and torture program. Rumsfeld suggested that torture was necessary and waterboarding isn’t really torture anyway, and a conspicuous lot of Republicans fell right in line, saying torture of terrorists (without due process) was acceptable, and waterboarding wasn’t even torture. My dad was among those toeing the Republican line, about which I was aghast.
So I went on deep dives into moral philosophy and dared to stare into the maw of Holocaust history.
::: Of note,
the marks inside the genocide chambers at Auschwitz were victims were clawing at the walls as they died. :::
So when news of CECOT emerged only last week, I lost my mind, and to this hour I can’t think of a proper appropriate, rational response to such news. Alexei Yurchak, survivor of USSR and teacher at Berkeley talks of hypernormalization in which we humans tend to try to just conduct our normal everyday lives as civilization falls apart around us. Is that what people around me are doing? It’s hard to believe I’m overreacting.
I’m still beside myself about these events, and for now I’m distracting and avoiding thinking about them, which is really not a great response.
I’m more okay than my recent questions have let on. I’ve sometimes been too spicy for my (few) friends, and was looking for the old recovery network (pre-internet) where I might get a support group and a sponsor.
After exhausting a list of contacts in Sacramento (either they cost money I can’t afford, or they require interest in a specific brand of Jesus), I called 988 to see if they had leads. The good news is they have a robust search engine at www.findhelp.org so I have more phone calls to make.
Coincidentally, I was quite spicy at the time, as the mere existence of CECOT hit me hard, let alone that ICE is collecting innocent folks and sending them there. My country is for-realsies doing the concentration camp / gulag thing. It’s difficult since I’ve been screaming like Cassandra about it since 2004, and here we are.
But while I’m not a suicide risk (I have dependents), living in a society that is being burned, and is purging undesirables appears to be a valid concern, and I can’t tell if those around me are confident we’re safe for the foreseeable future or are engaging in hypernormal behavior (🐶☕🔥)
But if the White House instructs ICE to collect and evacuate the crazies and then ICE starts sweeping California, then I’m really not sure there’s a sane response. The other concern is if my benefits discontinue and all the resources are impacted or disabled.
and, I’m trying new meds since my previous regimen isn’t cutting it any longer so I’m playing that roulette game as well.
Thank you for asking.
Are you worried the US GOV will start to extend their program from people without citizenship to other undesirables? I don’t know a lot about what’s going on in the US, so I thought it only affected people without US citizenship (although mostly PoC). Regarding benefits, it seems like that is a program funded by the state itself, so hopefully that doesn’t change.
Currently, the primary targets are said to be undocumented immigrants, but naturalized Americans and legal aliens are getting caught up in the ICE dragnet, and rendered to CECOT. The movement to restrict trans folk access to medication and life activities continues.
This rhymes a lot with the early history of the German Reich. Heydrich and the Chancellery were fully aware of the need for the enemy within rhetoric and the need to capture and contain a growing list of undesirables.
Even though it’s the Tiger Repellant Rock fallacy, when the public sees authorities at work arresting people (and making them disappear into the custody system) it shows the authorities are sincere in their effort to make society safer. The Trump Regime is doing exactly the same thing.
And as the Niemöller poem observes, the list of undesirables continues to grow, including more and more of the marginalize until it starts tapping into the mainstream. Every last one of us who is not a billionaire or a billionaire’s favored sex-puppet is on the list. Some of us are higher on that list than others.
Shortly after the Abu Ghraib torture scandal exploded in 2004, more news showed that this was the first appearance of a larger CIA extrajudicial detention and torture program. Rumsfeld suggested that torture was necessary and waterboarding isn’t really torture anyway, and a conspicuous lot of Republicans fell right in line, saying torture of terrorists (without due process) was acceptable, and waterboarding wasn’t even torture. My dad was among those toeing the Republican line, about which I was aghast.
So I went on deep dives into moral philosophy and dared to stare into the maw of Holocaust history. ::: Of note, the marks inside the genocide chambers at Auschwitz were victims were clawing at the walls as they died. :::
So when news of CECOT emerged only last week, I lost my mind, and to this hour I can’t think of a proper appropriate, rational response to such news. Alexei Yurchak, survivor of USSR and teacher at Berkeley talks of hypernormalization in which we humans tend to try to just conduct our normal everyday lives as civilization falls apart around us. Is that what people around me are doing? It’s hard to believe I’m overreacting.
I’m still beside myself about these events, and for now I’m distracting and avoiding thinking about them, which is really not a great response.