It bugs me that these groups care called Melitas.
Melitas are temporary armies organized by the state.
These guys are not that in any way. They're armed LARPers at best, domestic terrorists at worst.
Constructive Nihilism, or my own spin on it, has helped me.
Everything in the universe, including us, are nothing but subatomic billiards balls bouncing off one another. Free will isn't even an illusion, but a delusion. Consciences may not even exist beyond a concept we use as a shortcut to describe ourselves.
If you can truly internalize and grock those ideas, getting angry at a person, makes as much sense as getting angry at ocean wave. In fact your feelings of anger are internally nothing more than a few billiard balls bouncing in your own brain.
It's not perfect. I still get annoyed occasionally. But then I remember these facts, and suddenly the feelings of anger just go away as quickly as they arrived. They seem silly and trivial.
In part.
That's one of the long term goals. But tariffs have short term economic effects, and political effects that also need to be taken into account.
Tariffs are more complicated.
Do you have a plan for one party to do it by themselves?
I like the Forward party and Represent.Us, but those are long plays, that'll eventually need support if both parties. On the local level at least.
If an outside Corp comes in displacing local business, the profits that would cycle back into that community now get taken out. It doesn't matter what the prices are, when the community as a whole has less money with each transaction.
As an XRay tech, I have taken an image of a butt-plug (with flared base) that got lost up there.
I don't know what was involved in getting out. But the docs did get it out before asking for another image 7 hours later.
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80%95% sure he's trying to be funny.This is why