Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

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Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby 82_28 » Wed Apr 04, 2018 6:17 am

No links from me. Just free form here.

What would it take? Look at everyone on a hair trigger. Everything out of our hands. I say that nobody will know what to do or how to respond. The "safety" of the US government has pretty much been hollowed out. Bigotry is acceptable, polarization is rife, art is niche, science is corporate. Sheer fascist state.

Some on the left may say "what about Syria"? Indeed. What about it? I care so much about Syria and Palestine that it hurts. I still think of Rachel Corrie just about every day with each fascist, BUT DISTANT, atrocity.

Something has to dawn from this that is positive for humanity somehow. But we are on the cusp of a very complex panic regardless of where your heart lies. Panic does not care whether it is complex or nuanced or not.

When it happens it will just happen. Realize how close we are. trump is literally about to allow crops to grow, die and rot on the vine in order to fulfill the wishes of a genocidal .01%.

Panic will happen before anything changes and boy will we all be changed. Hopefully something hopeful happens soon.
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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby Pele'sDaughter » Wed Apr 04, 2018 7:46 am

I don't doubt it. We have many modern examples; just look around at various US interventions and see how those people are surviving. :wallhead:
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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:43 am

we wake up this morning to a trade war with China ...Wilbur Ross saying “even shooting wars end with negotiations”.

trump wanting to send troops to the boarder of Mexico

stocks post worst start to April since the Great Depression

Mueller tells guy who legally can’t be a target that he’s not a target, perhaps in a bid to make him legally targetable


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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby liminalOyster » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:57 am

As always, IMHO, it would take a disruption to food distro or other commodity chains to trigger a panic. In much or maybe most of the country, current events have not yet seemed to lead to any kind of (immediate) direct effect perceptible at the ground level of human lives. It does seem the tariff shit is more likely to lead there more quickly than past shenanigans, though. But I think slow, deep, fading decline has been foretold in our national karma for along time now.
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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:58 am

yea thank god we have a president that can lead us through it instead of enabling/revelling in the chaos

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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby dada » Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:22 am

I think the lesson here is, don't wait for the panic to happen. Really experience it in your gut as if it were happening right now.

In this way, you use the energy productively, to breakout of your patterns of thinking, habits of waking sleep.
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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby American Dream » Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:46 am

I'm thinking about the hit on Martin Luther King today and how tanks were deployed to Washington D.C. They were ready for a civil emergency but these same forces knew he had to die.

1968 was a key year worldwide. That is a big part of why Martin Luther King was murdered by the State. You probably can't defeat the War maker at his own game right now, however- at least not until there is a general strike or some other such form of mass resistance. The more that we arm ourselves with good thinking, good community, broad networks of solidarity, the stronger we will be. We need to take extra care that we fight the Power, not serve it.
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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby minime » Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:47 am

82_28 » Wed Apr 04, 2018 4:17 am wrote:No links from me. Just free form here.

What would it take? Look at everyone on a hair trigger. Everything out of our hands. I say that nobody will know what to do or how to respond. The "safety" of the US government has pretty much been hollowed out. Bigotry is acceptable, polarization is rife, art is niche, science is corporate. Sheer fascist state.

Some on the left may say "what about Syria"? Indeed. What about it? I care so much about Syria and Palestine that it hurts. I still think of Rachel Corrie just about every day with each fascist, BUT DISTANT, atrocity.

Something has to dawn from this that is positive for humanity somehow. But we are on the cusp of a very complex panic regardless of where your heart lies. Panic does not care whether it is complex or nuanced or not.

When it happens it will just happen. Realize how close we are. trump is literally about to allow crops to grow, die and rot on the vine in order to fulfill the wishes of a genocidal .01%.

Panic will happen before anything changes and boy will we all be changed. Hopefully something hopeful happens soon.


"Look at everyone on a hair trigger. Everything out of our hands. I say that nobody will know what to do or how to respond."

No. No. No.
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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby 8bitagent » Thu Apr 05, 2018 6:52 am

Took a bit of a break from RI, but glad to see some people still here. Ive been feeling an absolute sick pit in my stomach and spine lately. I won't go into woo or esoteric interpretation, which there may be...but
right now everything is in front of our faces, in plain view. Revelation of the method with a wink, a nod and a slick con artist reality show host grin. I read about the Princeton New Egg study with the theory their were people having bad dreams, visions and queasy feelings in the months before 9/11. I think everyone now deep down is feeling that same pit in their stomach whether they know it or not.

Things have become so surreal, so fast, the Overton Window not pushed...but obliterated like WTC7...that our normal defenses, normalcy, etc has been razed and were prostrate, prone and ready for the abyss.

Could anyone have predicted the possibility that a 1980s goofy cartoonish celebrity tv movie game show reality star could very well usher in World War 3 and a biblical-esque apocalypse? Did any of us left leaning "conspiracy people" who deeply hated the Bush era and neocon wars and "deep state" one day face the possibility that anti Bush/anti neocon "globalist" under Trump, Roger Stone and Alex Jones acolytes could possibly be WORSE? To usher in the very fascist state and world war they warned against? Meta doesnt begin to describe this period...where the very anti war "patriot" conspiracy side may be the one ushering in the very horror they claimed was going to happen by the "false flag terror deep state shadow government jackbooted thugs".

In just the last 24 hours, President Trump has gone off the rails claiming Latinos are coming Mad Max zombie horde barbarian style to invade and attack America, sending the US military tonight to the border. Trump also upped the ante on an apocalyptic fantasy trade war with China, with China responding in kind. Trump in the last 24 hours is obsessed with tanking the Nasdaq, Dow, and tech stock market in his weird obsession against Jeff Bezos. While Trumps pal Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are determined to colonize their own cult on mars and bring transhumanism.(gee, the stuff Alex Jones claimed to be against?)
Driverless cars, advanced AI robots everywhere, e-paper, and technology changes are going to be here and change everything as we know it by 2025. But I fear something built from many disparate layers converging into irreversible horror is also going to come by 2025.

China is now working closely with Russia's military in joint anti US war drills, as North Korea and Iran's ties appear to grow tighter. Is China/Russia/North Korea/Iran going to be on one side facing America, UK, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc? https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/94 ... orth-Korea

Things are spiraling way the fuck out of control, with no yield. Every day the news with Trump and the world as of April 2018 gets crazier and more nutty like a high speed chase criminal smashing through police barricades.
Sure, hyperbole...but it certainly *seems* like the most outlandish RI conspiracy doom predictions may be forming. To think President Obama's media roast against Donald Trump in May 2011 as Obama was secretly killing Osama may have started us on this course. A course perhaps predestined for some time. Is Trump evil? Or an empty soul, an empty vessel being puppeteered and manipulated by agendas and forces not yet understood

All I know is i feel things about to get...really...fucking weird and dark.

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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby 8bitagent » Thu Apr 05, 2018 6:59 am

82_28 » Wed Apr 04, 2018 5:17 am wrote:No links from me. Just free form here.

What would it take? Look at everyone on a hair trigger. Everything out of our hands. I say that nobody will know what to do or how to respond. The "safety" of the US government has pretty much been hollowed out. Bigotry is acceptable, polarization is rife, art is niche, science is corporate. Sheer fascist state.

Some on the left may say "what about Syria"? Indeed. What about it? I care so much about Syria and Palestine that it hurts. I still think of Rachel Corrie just about every day with each fascist, BUT DISTANT, atrocity.

Something has to dawn from this that is positive for humanity somehow. But we are on the cusp of a very complex panic regardless of where your heart lies. Panic does not care whether it is complex or nuanced or not.

When it happens it will just happen. Realize how close we are. trump is literally about to allow crops to grow, die and rot on the vine in order to fulfill the wishes of a genocidal .01%.

Panic will happen before anything changes and boy will we all be changed. Hopefully something hopeful happens soon.


As much as all of us here Im guessing, hate the fact Bush and Obama were responsible for millions of injury and death, and the collapse of Lybia, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, etc...did Bush and Obama have cruelty in their hearts? Were they soulless? Or was there still humanity in them?

Looking at clips of Trump yelling at his cult on live tv to severely injure and hurt black protestors at his rallies in 2015 and 2016...seeing Trump say he could murder someone in broad daylight and he'd still be beloved. Seeing Trump seem to defend the neo nazi killers in Charlottesville...hearing reports of him talk about Nigerian immigrants going back to their huts in their "shit hole countries". His obsessive hate of Hispanics and a military solution to that.
Islam has a lot of issues that dont align with progressive values, sure...but his saying Muslims should be kicked out and banned. His humilation of a black woman who lost her husband fighting for the US military in an African country, and humiliating the black congress woman supporting the widow.

That shit aint fucking normal. Yes Jackson, Van Muren, etc ordered genocide on Native Americans. Yes our founding fathers had slaves. But in the last 50 years, have we had a president ruthlessly proud of violent racist words and deeds? Even war criminal Bush says his biggest regret was Kanye West calling him a racist.

This, as Europe seems to be descending into literal neo fascist nazism and being taken over by out right racist neo fascist leaders from Hungary to Italy
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/far-views-goi ... 01911.html
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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby 8bitagent » Thu Apr 05, 2018 7:04 am

American Dream » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:46 am wrote:I'm thinking about the hit on Martin Luther King today and how tanks were deployed to Washington D.C. They were ready for a civil emergency but these same forces knew he had to die.

1968 was a key year worldwide. That is a big part of why Martin Luther King was murdered by the State. You probably can't defeat the War maker at his own game right now, however- at least not until there is a general strike or some other such form of mass resistance. The more that we arm ourselves with good thinking, good community, broad networks of solidarity, the stronger we will be. We need to take extra care that we fight the Power, not serve it.


definitely some 1968 tumult vibes lately.

American Dream » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:46 am wrote:I'm thinking about the hit on Martin Luther King today and how tanks were deployed to Washington D.C. They were ready for a civil emergency but these same forces knew he had to die.

1968 was a key year worldwide. That is a big part of why Martin Luther King was murdered by the State. You probably can't defeat the War maker at his own game right now, however- at least not until there is a general strike or some other such form of mass resistance. The more that we arm ourselves with good thinking, good community, broad networks of solidarity, the stronger we will be. We need to take extra care that we fight the Power, not serve it.


And yet today, Trump advisors Alex Jones and his co-host Roger Stone were live on air claiming MLK Jr, while murdered by the deep state, somehow supported their
crazy right wing views



https://www.theonion.com/mlk-s-family-u ... 1824991630
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MLK’s Family Urges Nation To Spend Anniversary Of His Death Twisting His Words To Fit Own Political Agendas
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Re: Think About How Quickly a Panic Could Happen

Postby American Dream » Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:14 am

So horrifying. I'm hoping Peter Dale Scott- an archetypal Berkeley progressive- at least gave up on InfoWars by now.
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