About that original Thanksgiving:
By 1637… Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop “was proclaiming a thanksgiving for the successful massacre of hundreds of Pequot Indian men, women and children” – a bloody pattern that would “repeat itself across the continent until between 95 and 99 percent of American Indians had been exterminated”.
This is some pretty dark shit. But coming from colonial America, this isn’t a surprise.
This is the song I listen too when learning about 17th century colonial America (scare warning):
My reactionary programming now tells me to indiscriminately kill americans in retaliation. I hate the human mind in that regard. We just cant help ourselves being stupid. Sometimes i think we should never have left the trees.
Does anyone have a suggestion how to not rage all the time? My stomach is making huge problems because of all the anger in the last year. I need to calm down while still agitating others.
Your reactionary programming is right you should be angry anyone telling you otherwise is a radlib or fed who infiltrated this community trying to funnel you into the no kings “movement”, you should channel that rate and pass it on to other members of your locale get them riled up and angry at the present situation then use their anger Into helping the FRSO or the PSL
Are you organized in real life? In addition to its necessity for getting anything done and for studying correctly, it’s very grounding to work with real people on real problems, and it’s calming to see even small wins. Rage is a natural reaction when you have nowhere to direct your feelings and are focused more on hatred for the capitalist class than on love for the people, but when you’re channeling your feelings properly into productive action, rage fades.
I’m actually organized irl but i have just recently switched orgs from a socdem org to a communist one and it is tiny so i do need to get into it more. You’re right. It does help with rage as well. I think building a circle of comrades irl will help with that as well. Thanks for your advice comrade. I’ll do my best to follow it.
Walking. A lot.
if you find out let me know
So far i have gotten some quality advice. Organizing irl and not having a bunch of assholes around apparently helps, same with exercise and writing. It of course depends on the person but those were some good suggestions imo.
I’m not the best at following my own advice, but do you have any outlet or release valve for that rage? Any activities that you like that take your mind off things? There’s plenty to rage at these days, but to be effective commies we know we need to give ourselves time to rest as well.
Thats some welcome quality advice comrade. Thank you. I often overlook rest and push myself. I know I’ll be more resillient if i rest in between i just need to follow your advice. Have a good one.
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