I generally find most average people, no matter their race, religion, colour, creed or location to be very decent human beings.
It's when you put those same people into groups that they all become a problem because they'll be swayed by the loudest most obnoxious a-holes in the community.
I keep imagining some stock financial ticker tape system that keeps operating on its own even after we're gone and our environment can no longer sustain life.
Nothing is alive any more ... but the ticker tape keeps pumping along, raising the price of the whatever its counting and generating imaginative wealth that no one will ever understand.
The thing is that ... WE .. caused the change ... the negative change that will severely affect all human lives now and into the future.
It's like we started the truck engine inside our enclosed garage and we are arguing with each other that we don't want to turn off the engine, no matter how lightheaded we are getting.
Earth for millions of years was a paradise with a stable climate ... and it would have stayed that way for millions of more years unless it got hit by an asteroid or major geo-tectonic events happened.
My wife has Pulmonary Fibrosis ... a condition where lung tissue has been inflamed by some contaminate and the immune system generates a run away reaction that can't stop. It inflames one part of the lung tissue and then grows ... until you have no more lung tissue left and the person dies from it.
My wife was infected by what we think was a minor virus or bacterial infection about six years ago and since then, the infection grew out of control until she had this permanent fibrosis. It wasn't because she was weak, was more exposed or less exposed or whatever ... I had the same infection but I got over it, she didn't. And this type of infection can be caused by viruses, bacteria, mold, chemical or biological contaminants.
When I talked to a doctor friend of ours about it later, he said it was just luck of the draw. Your lung tissue is basically delicate tissue that is directly exposed to the environment ... it can be affected by anything and sometimes the right event happens to trigger an immune response in the wrong way ... it's like an infection lottery ... most times people get infected and then recover ... but every once in a while, you win the infection lottery and your immune system is triggered and you now have runaway fibrosis and a ticket to an early death.
No medical expert can say why it happens, how or to whom but it happens ... and it almost doesn't matter if you are unhealthy, healthy, fit, young, old, fat, skinny or whatever genetics, its basically just chance infections ... not every time and not to everyone but if you happen to be the lucky person to win this great lottery, then your lungs are screwed.
Safety glasses ... any time you join a protest these days ... wear safety glasses ... any kind will do because it will give you a fighting chance at saving your eyesight.
So many protests over the past few years have featured police forces aiming munitions, tear gas and other projectiles at people's faces on purpose. These projectiles won't kill you but if they hit your face can severely wound you or destroy your eyes and blind you.
Wounding people as opposed to killing people is also a psychological tool used by security forces. If they hurt, maim or even cause people to bleed ... then it has a psychological toll on those who see it. An even greater psychological hit for anyone would be to see a healthy strong, vibrant young 20 year old man losing both his eyes and blinded while everyone witnesses it and tries to help. It might only directly hurt one person but the event would psychologically affect dozens or even a hundred people who see it.
One of the saddest stories I ever saw was the story of 20 year old Gustavo Gatica in 2019 who was part of a protest against the government in Chile. Police were actively shooting at protesters' faces on purpose blinding many people in one eye. Gustavo was hit in both eyes and was rendered completely blind.
It's one of the saddest and most infuriating images I've seen in a long time ... no matter where you are and you want to join a protest ... wear safety glasses and save your eyes. Police might not try to aim for your face but if they do, they'll just make the excuse that you shouldn't have been there in the first place and blame you for your injuries.
.... and instead of reputable journalists and independent organizations printing our news for us on the television .... ANYONE with a pulse and a grade ten level of writing skill can publish anything for anyone to read .... and the evolution after that will be that ANYONE with access to a computer can use Artificial Intelligence to publish an entire feature news story out of thin air promoting whatever idea, theory, belief or information they want regardless if it is true or not and no one will be able to tell the difference.
Expect first nation protests everywhere and often in the next few years.
Like one chief in the north here said ... Chief Jennifer Constant in Mattagami FN near Timmins .... the government has put all resource development at risk because FNs won't stand for this. There has been years of negotiation and relationship building with FNs and industry, now all that good will is drying up. Now any company that wants to go anywhere near FN lands will have entire communities protesting, blocking and fighting them at every turn. Their projects all just got more expensive because they pissed off the people who live on the land.
You'd think they'd get the message .... when push comes to shove, and if they ever get into real authoritarian power again, the majority of the world will take up arms to fight them ... and there are more of us than there are of them and judging from the track record over the past few wars, they've seldom won (they have won in a few places but not many)
So these right wing nut jobs had families and ancestors that fought a global war to fight against fascists and nazis ...... so that their children and grandchildren can become fascists and nazis
I generally find most average people, no matter their race, religion, colour, creed or location to be very decent human beings.
It's when you put those same people into groups that they all become a problem because they'll be swayed by the loudest most obnoxious a-holes in the community.