Sure, for the low price of a lifetime pension I’ll benevolently dismantle the oligarchy; ban guns; make cars luxury items; massively expand mass transit; and bring in universal health and education!

Just ignore the claims that I’ve actually jailed or killed my opposition; held the families of so called “freedom fighters” so they’ll turn themselves and their buddies in; made travel outside your area and healthcare impossible without government approval; and completely changed the history everyone learns.

Okay that’s obviously pretty extreme. Just a reminder that if you’re not careful even well intentioned dictatorships can be very oppressive. And every dictatorship is on a timer to a coup or revolution. And resetting that timer is not pretty. The only way off the treadmill is to have elections again.

Anyone under the delusion that splitting a country can be peaceful should research any split since the idea of nationalism took hold. India and Pakistan are still the odds on favorite to kill us all with a nuclear winter.

Don’t confuse not being an ammo sexual with not fighting.

To be fair, oppression has existed in every generation. We are not immune, polling makes that very clear. As another example, the leaders of the generation that made the post world war 2 boom did everything in their power to prevent black people from benefitting. Just like the leaders of the baby boomers and silent generation decided to fuck over poor people and begin the regression to another gilded age in the 1970’s.

We were never going to do representation by population. We barely got the southern colonies to agree to apportionment with land. (This was the 3/5ths compromise.)

Don’t join the military then.

Nobody said anything about professionals until you came along. And you don’t have to be the best. You just have to be enough. In fact nobody claimed anyone was the best until you came around. It seems like you just wanted an opportunity to insult Americans.

Ooo, it could take a minute. But yeah if that’s what you want, I’ll do it.

Hold on, lemme go dump my entire homebrew notes in there. :)-

Just kidding, sounds like an invaluable place.

They have more gear than we had in Afghanistan. To arrest working class people with no violent history.

Mexico has a giant deposit but they insist on silly things like environmental regulations.

Duh? You don’t think a Fox News host is actually running the DOD either right? Or Naomi DHS?

This has been transparent from the start.

So much for parents doing research and deciding if it’s right for them. Yet another bad faith argument.

Hilariously those are the two that would probably be containable.

So uhhh, yeah…, that’s not happening.

It was just a general sentiment but he’s definitely going to try. And if his party supports him through all the protests then the best defense of Democracy is indeed going to be voting him out.

I went to check it out. It’s 100% real.

Now they’re trotting out reports they’ve miraculously found of him being a human trafficker.

Hi. Long time therapy winner here. So first things first, you should absolutely talk to a therapist, not just take pills. The second thing you need to do is figure out your preferred grounding mechanism. This is usually going to involve one your senses, sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste, or breath. (Even though breath isn’t a traditional sense)

I know people who keep pine bark on a necklace, I know people who list 5 things of a particular color near them, and I know people who listen to a song. Usually breath is combined with whatever else you’re doing. Both as part of grounding and to cue your brain to pay attention to the sense you’re using.

A therapist can help you figure what works for you to get you back from panic attacks as quickly as possible. And you are absolutely not alone.

This is an entirely different approach than most people are used to. My advice from a couple of combat deployments is to cultivate a task oriented mindset. What does that mean? It means worrying about the task you are doing right now and nothing else. That doesn’t mean you never look at the bigger picture. But if you’re at dinner, then you’re at dinner and you enjoy that. You can check when the next protest is, after dinner. You take each day like this and before you know it we’ll be voting Trump out of office.