Exactly, also, anyone taking the gun and the bullets has obviously never used a handgun. Your chances of doing any damage is pretty low without a ton of range time, which takes bullets. Hand guns aren't accurate at any kind of range so you'd make some loud noises and that's about it. If you did manage to actually hit anyone, an Archer would kill you from way beyond your effective range and just take the gun and any remaining bullets.
The gun is the absolutely least useful thing on that list after the bullets.
Authoritarianism is extremely vulnerable to natural disasters, ask Syria. Climate change will ultimately being about the collapse of all authoritarianism because there simply won't be enough excess to support hierarchy. The question is if we will be smart enough to being about that change before material conditions force it to happen.
It's necessary to hold two truths: liberalism always leads to fascism and accelerationism does not prevent fascism. So one should both delay the inevitability of fascism by participating in liberal democracy and do everything possible to make liberal democracy unnecessary as quickly as possible before the collapse.
The thing that can be especially hard for some people to understand is that not everyone experiences fascism at the same time. It's not a switch. It's a decline. Some people have been expecting fascism for decades or generations now. So people will be at different places in terms of interacting with the system. We are all trying to survive. We need as much time as possible to build a resistence movement, but, at the same time, no matter what compromises we get via electoralism those can be destroyed instantly if we only rely on the state to protect them.
They're legal in Oregon and Colorado. Oregon has medical treatment programs. I don't know about Colorado. Washington had ketamine treatments, which operate in a similar way and include a medical professional to administer and monitor you.
I've been microdosing for a while to treat my PTSD. It's helped me more than I can relate. Since moving to the Netherlands it's also become so much easier. You just go to the smart shop and get a microdosing kit. I dosed for the first time in a couple of months yesterday and now I remember just how big the impact is.
For folks in the US, psilocybin is legal for medical use (under medical supervision) in Oregon. They are also decriminalized in Colorado. Ketamine is also legal in Washington for medical treatments. Last I checked in people in WA were also trying to legalize it.
Ketamine has also been super helpful as a PTSD treatment. I would recommend both, but I'd recommend really understanding what you're getting in to first. I don't think they really prepped me well for the ketamine treatments.
Psychedelics also foster creativity and imagination, which trauma inhibits. The greater the trauma (say, from climate change, genocide, mass shootings, etc), the less one's ability to imagine a better world, and thus the less one's ability to create it.
This is why the Republican strategy seems to just be "random terror and cruelty" and why the revolutionary period of the 60's and 70's were the direct result of the creation of LSD.
Ffs, there are a ton of interviews with rabbis calling for a cease fire or even an end to Israel. Jewish Voice for Peace has been consistently vocal in their opposition to Israeli apartheid.
The far-right simultaneously aligns with Israel and uses it to fuel their antisemitism. They don't care about facts or the truth because their only focus is power. That's why it's so critical to always call out the fact that Israel does not represent Jews.
It is critical to call out the contradictions of Israel so that people who do care about facts are not as easily fooled by the far-right.
Israel is not representative of modern Judiasm. It's representative of modern settler colonialism. There are a lot of Jews who have opposed the existence of Israel since the idea of Zionism came up. Don't conflate Judiasm with colonialism in it's name.
This is the disconnect between the DNC and normal Democrats. Everyone who's not in party leadership can see how absolutely idiotic this approach is, and the DNC is so far up their own asses they are incapable of recognizing it.
Observe the natural tendency of the tankie to label the left anarchist as a reactionary whenever confronted with facts. Notice the complete refusal to engage with those facts and instead distract from them by attempting to discredit the anarchist.
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