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... Sadly, the first thing that comes to mind, upon reading your comment...

First, we take Manhattan... then we take Berlin.

... I am hopeful that I can make it either to, or at least nearer to Canada, into a blue state, within the next year...

I am fully expecting shit to get very bad, very fast now.

... At least I am white... as sickening as that is for me to say... it does make me less of a target.

...

Spent the better part of two decades telling my friends and family that what is happening now ... is the trajectory we are on, and we must enact change now, while we still can, to avert this path.

... I don't talk to any of them any more, as they all thought I was insane...

They didn't believe 'it could happen here.'

And now, it has.

And most of them would either entirely deny that it 'has happened', as they are neck deep in QAnon/MAGA insanity...

...or they would tell me that simultaneously they don't remember me explaining how and why this could happen, how it became more and more likely as the years went by... and also, at the same time, just remember me being hysterical, about something, vaguely, for no reason they can remember.

Welp we've got farm labor, cold turkey 'detox', no cell phones, communal bunks type rehab camps for... everyone on either hard drugs, or any kind of medically prescribed anti depressant or anti psychotic.

Thats still on the bingo card from RFK, to my knowledge, that hasn't happened yet.

We've also got concentration camps guarded by I guess Blackwater (whatever they're calling themselves now) for all homeless people, a few miles outside of major cities, and of course a 0 tolerance policy for existing in a major city while homeless.

That hasn't happened yet, but Trump has outlined that idea a couple of times.

... that one will be super-fun as the economy crashes.

Because confirmation bias is a superior substitute to basic research, how else would one inform themselves about the world?

/s

What I'm suggesting is I am asking ChatGPT to validate my idea that all Filipinos have the same beliefs, wherever they are, almost as if their worldviews are entirely determined by their racial/ethnic origin.

Please stop and maybe read the things your write outloud before you post them...

... and you'd be wrong.

It does resemble a terrorist attack...

But if you watched the press conference with the chief of police (or the equivalent title)...

They have the suspect in custody, there were no specific threats to the event before hand, the suspect has a long history of mental illness, and the suspect has had many previous run ins with the police, 'suspect is well known to the department'... gives me the impression this is a person who is having one kind of mental breakdown or another ... every month or other week.

At one point a reporter asked if it was terrorism and the CoP basically says... that would require a political or ideological motivation.

The CoP ... you could tell he was doing his best to divulge information he could without divulging information he couldn't. He paused and tried to rephrase things a few times, openly struggled with ... seemingly genuinely being unclear about what he was legally allowed to say.

If the person truly is seriously mentally ill, there may be additional laws in place protecting some extra level of their privacy, at least before charges are actually brought.

Put all that together, and it seems like this person has been just... very very seriously mentally ill for a long time, as in, too mentally ill to be capable of forming a coherent or describable ideology.

Or, at the very least, that seems to me to be what the police are saying.

Yeeee-up.

Because we do not live in a Democracy with regular election seasons.

We live in a fascist oligarchy, which must constantly beam propoganda into the minds of its citizens.

...

Trump basically never stopped campaigning during the entirety of the Biden term, nor even for his fist term... despite being the President.

US political ad seasons are notorious for being ... way too long, up to a year... compared to most functional demcracies, where this ad season is often several weeks, not several, or many months.

Trump ratcheted this lengthy American political ad season into just literally all the time.

Before him, a sitting President running ads... during the middle of their own term... I think its literally unprecedented. Sure they'd give addresses and speeches to the public in extraordinary situations... but not run what amount to campaign ads... just all the time.

This is the power of money and media in the digital age.

Tell the lies often enough, and they become real to the enthralled. Literally right out of Goebbels playbook.

It truly now just is cult reaffirming propoganda, in the derogatory 1984/dictator sense of propoganda

Trump has stated many times he'll serve a third term. Told people they'd "never need to vote again." He fully plans on being President untill he dies.

Polar bear plunge for your balls!

Not for the meek, lol.

... My ex was SA'd by a staff member during one fairly long term stay.

Managed to get that guy fired, but not ... you know, prosecuted.

The state of mental health is fucked because mental health, at its core, foundationally is built off of 'how do we pathologize and treat people who have trouble being or cannot actually be any kind of an ideal employee.'

No one fixes this, or homelessness, because ... no one cares, these people have no money or power, they are viewed as drains on society, instead of potentially productive members of society, or even fundamentally as just... human beings with consciousness/souls.

It is a structural issue with literally all of society, and the severely mentally ill, and the homeless (which often coincide, what a shocker) are literally the untouchables class.

We like to think we are more modern, more enlightened, more decent... no, we are not.

We are just better at technological propoganda and treats and distractions.

... Maybe there is a world where ... now that the veil of this has been shattered by the rise of fascist MAGAs... maybe, down the line, this will lead to some kind of equivalent social/philosophical reexamination of how... we do everything, as there was after WW2 and the Holocaust... maybe that could be our future.

So... yeah.

I just wanna say... they're not 'imaginary' tormentors, in the sense of someone playing make believe, who can just ... not do that.

They cannot turn off the voices in their heads.

They cannot control the fact that they have vivid visual, audio, tactile, olfactory etc hallucinations that are indistinguishable from actual reality, that their memories of past events can basically just have things that did not actually happen... formed or inserted as a 'core memory', or things that did actually happen.. wildly warped or just removed.

So... what do you do, show them a video of what happened, with them in it?

Nope, thats fake, thats not them, that is their doppleganger, that is their evil clone.

Nobody really knows how to 'fix' this, or if its even possible.

Antipsychotics generally just make them more docile and less prone to aggressive outbursts, but they also have massive sideeffects... they often do not actually stop the actual 'unreal' experiences.

It is nowhere near as simple as 'stay on your meds and all the hallucinations go away.'

The result is that... they cannot trust anything... because quite often, the psychiatrists and other medical people they see will basically manipulate and trick them into beleiving the meds ... are a cure... insinuating or even directly stating that their meds will solve the problem.

There is also a lot of other kinds of fraud and abuse going on with many people who treat schizophrenics because... who's going to believe them?

...

I had an ex who ... developed into severe schizophrenia.

Shit sucks man.

Ever taken a shower with a detachable/flexible shower head, and pointed it upward at your bunghole?

Bidets are sort of comparable to that.

Difference being... if you get one of the basic bidet kits... they tap into the water line your toilet bowl uses to refill after a flush.

And they often don't have water heaters or or resevoirs of their own, if its an affordable bidet kit.

So that means your bidet water can be... quite cold, if your house/building doesn't have great insulation, during the winter, or fairly lukewarm, during the summer.