Recent content by rightkindofme

Thank you, folks. I do have a lot of support. I am leaning on folks. I don't have a therapist--I moved to a rural place where therapy is thin on the ground. I'm going round and round in my mind. I feel like I had gotten to a much better place with all my stuff. I feel like I haven't really been...

I need to say this somewhere and all of my usual avenues for coping with my brain are closed to me right now. I was raped again after 17.5 years being rape-free. It was a glorious span of time. Now I'm feeling obsessively sexually interested in the man who raped me and I can't admit that out...

One of my longest term friends is a combat vet with PTSD. I am close to him because he doesn't do the "men shouldn't feel" "men should be tough" thing. He struggles with accepting empathy some days because he has general feelings of worthlessness, but it's not because he thinks he should be...

Important to note that the UK still has a ways to go on racial justice and police brutality even with fewer guns: The Restraint Technique That killed George Floyd Is Used By Police In The UK Too

I'm not speaking for any movement. When *I* say I want demilitarization I want that along with sweeping gun reform. I want less money spent on weapons. I want less or almost no military weapons in the hands of police. The kind and quantity of deescalation training taught to US police is quite...

I literally left the US because the violence there makes me sick. But sure, I'm the problem for "inciting violence". I moved to a country where 2% of police officers are allowed to carry guns and any escalation of violence is met with a full inquiry. Cops have to pass psychological evaluations...

Boston Tea Party? It really doesn't matter what I think or what you think. There are at least tens of thousands, probably more who are pretty darn pissed off and they don't care what you think they should do.

I always feel stunned by people saying that in the US violence isn't going to solve anything. Wasn't the entire foundation of the country on violence, rebellion, and looting?

When you look at the statistics around who is in prison for relatively minor crimes, when you look at distribution of wealth by race, when you look at generational poverty by race... you can't say the US doesn't have a race problem. And frankly police brutality needs to be stopped and if...

This post eloquently addressing the value of violent protest: The Truth You’ve Probably Never Heard About Riots

One major factor is the lock down. People have no jobs to go to and they are scared. Folks have watched the creeping horror of four years of Trump. The whole country is a powder keg and this was just a spark not really the whole reason for the explosion.

I suggest you go and read a bit more about MLK: By the end of his life, Martin Luther King realized the validity of violence

It is really cruel of him to cause you a bunch of strain and stress and anguish so he can feel better.

Here in North Scotland there are major plans to renovate the streets to make them more walking/biking friendly. It's not bad around here but it's hard to do with social distancing. They are using water barriers (so highly removable at some point) and folks are flipping their lids. It's actually...

The drunk bit is leading to the chunk part in my case. Well, I'm not getting drunk. But I'm drinking more than in the past.