I get insomnia but I also really struggle with an adhd combo of poor body awareness/poor time awareness/impulsivity that can lead me to be up very late even when I probably *could* fall asleep. Weed's an absolute miracle drug for that shit. Sticking to a bedtime for the first time in my life lol

While true, unorganized spontaneous destruction also comes *from the masses* when there isn't a strong scientific movement to direct energy in a crisis. Is it that communists are being adventurist, or is it that tailism and opportunism have left the masses without leaders?

I moved to a different city in the same state and people kept asking me when I was going to switch to a local PCP. My PCP managed the prescription for my (controlled) meds very well. Trying to replace her would have been way more painful than driving across the state for appointments

Like maybe there's some historical precedent to the one-day strike thing that I'm not aware of but it seems like a pretty bad combination of high risk and easily ignored

The misunderstanding goes beyond how strikes are organized and into what a strike actually *is*. I've been trying to press people more on it. Like, even if everyone agreed to strike, then what? When they wake up that day, what do they do? How are they forcing the state/company to meet their demands?

My response is always: if a tornado is coming towards you, you can't call up a storm shelter company and say they need to come build you a storm shelter right now. Doesn't matter if you say "but I'll die!", they can't get one built in an hour.

People have been calling for spontaneous general strikes for so long that we could have been organized for an actual general strike by now

Yeah I really understand why people think "but there isn't time to spend years getting people organized and prepared, we need to make things happen *now*" but there are some things you just can't do spontaneously

If you don't even start the slow, steady work, you just end up back where you started

Sorry I initially sent a chain that was meant to go somewhere else ;;

but yeah I do think that even people who come around to hating the US don't realize it's possible to reject it completely. It'll take longer for people to come around to thinking big enough, if that makes sense.

I'm glad people see the severity of the problem, and that they're taking action, but even when responding to a crisis that affects them personally, few people actually change their world view. Like whyyyyy do you still identify yourself with this pit of a country

exploration is the broad state but disinterest or even distaste is a boundary set by a particular condition or context

Cops hold us accountable to the state and they also hold the state accountable to capital (by being a reactionary militia stationed in every city). So there's two big challenges in getting the state to do anything major; people have to really force them to do it

Without the salary a lot of them would leave, but I also bet that some of them don't let it get that far, even without the current federal support. They might not *think* of it as a coup, but if you start with a trained militia thinking "hey they can't do that!!" sometimes it just goes from there

Different kind of queer person than you are though so YMMV

When you live with a mountain of repressed frustration, seeing people "opt out" of it can force you to think about it consciously.

That's not every time but ime it's definitely sometimes. Getting blamed for the emotions themselves *and*, on some level, for ruining their efforts to suppress them

I found following a magazine (for me, Clarkesworld) to be super helpful for re-training myself. Knowing that I could finish a story in one sitting helped me push through distractions, and not wanting to fall behind on issues kept me moving. The lower stakes made my pickiness less of an obstacle.