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EA-NASIR IS HERE FOR US, RIPPING OFF CAPITALISTS

AS PER MY LAST TABLET

If I HaVe To

But Mommmmm!

EA-NASIR IS HERE FOR US, RIPPING OFF CAPITALISTS

AS PER MY LAST TABLET

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

I don’t say that to absolve the National Guard, either. I say it because if you read about the minutes leading up to the shooting, it is extremely obvious the ONG was an absolute fucking mess. Orders were not being passed along correctly, unclear and contradictory orders were being given. At least part of what happened next was due to individual members of the Guard being agitated and on edge due to having no fucking idea what was going on or whether there was danger from armed students.

It’s important to know this because it’s important to understand what a breakdown in communication and discipline looks like on a military level, especially as we move into an era where military presence can be expected to increase at protests and demonstrations. I don’t know how different 4 May 1970 would have looked if the Guard had received clear and consistent orders. I do think it would have looked different, though. I think there’s a possibility nobody would have died. There were students who were out of order, yes (rocks can be considered lethal weapons, there’s a reason stoning to death is a thing), but not one of them deserved to pay for it with their lives.

It's the first day for someone right now.

The deadliest infectious disease in human history is cured by the same packet of chewable tabs individually packed in foil. It comes in beef flavor so your dog won't resist taking its meds as much. It's like a hundred bucks for 30 tablets on pretty much any pet pharmacy.

In the long ago times (1970's), in poor rural America, I had a bacterial infection affecting one of my toes. It lasted for many months. Long enough to affect my gait. It leaked puss. I was an ignorant child and lived with it. Chronic pain and probably systemic inflammation. When someone else finally noticed, the family eventually took me to the nearest doctor. The "treatment" was to soak the affected foot in salty water. After a month of that with no great change, part of my toe nail was removed surgically. The infection returned. More soaking. Still infected. Worse pain, because the newly regrown toenail was slicing through very tender skin with every step.

One day, I was treating the family dog for an infection it had. For some reason, something clicked and I decided to try breaking up one of the dog's antibiotic pills and soaking one of my fresh bandages/cushions in the stuff.

Lo. Within 2 days, puss production was gone. Within 5 days, the wound skin was healed and the swelling dramatically reduced. I could put weight on my foot without excruciating, stabbing pain. Everything was healed within a few weeks. And has stayed healed ever since.

My toe was saved through a topical antibiotic that my family could afford for a dog, but not a person. And i learned over time that the local "doctor" didn't think to provide cheap antibiotics in the first place.

Because they've never met or spoke with a scientist.

Bitch, have you ever been in a room with a scientist and showed the slightest bit of interest in their research topic?

eventually I got older (and medicated), but in the meantime spending time in woodland really helped. it comforted me to be around plantlife, which feeds not on life but on sunlight, and therefore causes no harm.

then you get shit like epiphytes that decided to just grow on top of other plants. strangler fig vines, for instance, which decided well fuck, im just gonna cling to this tree trunk and let it do the support work. maybe entangle our roots and envelope my host completely over time. oopsie my host died? that's ok I'll just cling to its corpse for eternity

equally horrifying is the honeysuckle, which preys on young trees boa-constrictor style, squeezing the life out of saplings, which grow with permanent deformities before dying prematurely (makes for a neat walking stick though)

then you get out and proud parasites like mistletoe who are happy to attach themselves to tree canopies and suck their blood extract water and nutrients. so yeah some plants do eat each other actually. gives ya some perspective on the old christmas tradition of hunting mistletoe with guns (yes that's a thing, shooting them down out of trees like squirrels. yes, unlike squirrels they deserve it). as for the romance angle, who doesn't want to kiss a lover beneath the dying corpse of a parasitic trophy kill? sexy as heck.

in conclusion, PLANTS ARE VIOLENT AS FUCK, and that's not even getting into the eternal chemical warfare they are forced to wage against insects, fungi, microbes and other enemies.

one day soon the forests will turn on us, and when that day comes I'm cheerfully betraying humanity and skipping away to cross enemy lines 🫡