The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 during the First Red Scare by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. The raids targeted suspected leftists and labor activists, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants, especially if they were anarchists or communists, and generally sought to deport them from the United States.
The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with more than 3,000 arrested. Though 556 people were deported, including many prominent leftist leaders like Emma Goldman, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to methods.
On this day in 1920, the Justice Department launched its second series of raids against leftists and labor organizers across more than 23 states. Because the raids targeted entire organizations, agents engaged in mass arrests, and President Hoover later admitted that there were "clear cases of brutality".
Although the DoJ initially claimed to have taken possession of several bombs, no evidence of the bombs was produced. In their entirety, all the raids only confiscated four pistols.
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"due to the large amount of cases, we are reducing restrictions"
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Does depression give you brain damage? I was severely depressed on and off my entire adolescence like from (age 12 - 22) with suicidal ideation almost everyday for a period towards the end of highschool and I never have felt "right" since then but the only time I don't remember feeling really miserable was literally never but I feel like how I behave isn't what someone with a normally developing brain should have grown into
like I have serious problems with volition, I will kinda just lie around all day and I seem to be locked into a habit of doing nothing
Depression absolutely has long term negative effects. As does trauma, especially in childhood. Fortunately, the brain seems to be very plastic and through difficult, intentional work, can be plied towards working in a way more conducive to mental health. At least that's what I've come to learn while searching for hope with my own neurological, mental-emotional issues. The analogy that I like the most is likening our mental state to grooves on a record. If you keep going down the same cognitive path, it's like a record player stuck in a groove, continuously making that groove deeper, making it more and more of the default state, and harder and harder to jump out. Your synaptic pathways are strengthened, the more you utilize them, and the harder it is to follow novel pathways. But that doesn't mean you're stuck forever in those pathways. You have to make a conscious and determined effort to build new pathways, make new grooves in the record, and use them repeatedly to strengthen those pathways, or deepen those grooves. It's hard work, but it pays off. Unfortunately, the "bad" pathways that have been carved out, will stay carved out. You have to be careful not to slip back into them, which is all too easy. Keep trying to find new grooves, keep building new synaptic pathways and keep trying to deepen and further carve out the good, healthy ones.
Anyway, I have similar problems with volition. I have pretty severe initiation deficit. (I have AvPD). So I really really hear you about the difficulty getting motivated to do anything. It's hard to even get myself to do things that I genuinely enjoy, even love doing. I wish there was some trick, some "hack" to just get out of that mindset. But I've found that mindset follows behavior, not the other way around. I mean, often you have to force yourself to do shit you don't want to do, do it even if you feel like you can't do it. And then the mindset that you can do it just might follow. For the record, I despise the "just do it" logic, and I know what I'm suggesting pretty much sounds like that. But there are subtle and important differences. You aren't "just doing" it, you're actively training your conditioned brain to make new grooves, to follow different pathways. It takes effort to dig out those new grooves, but the intentionality and dedication are the shovel.
I don't know. Probably corny and unhelpful, but it's what I tell myself as I try to work on the very kind of thing you're talking about. And I've had at least some success, even if it's still minor. Whatever the case, empathy and solidarity to you comrade.
I'm not saying that the world would be better or anything, but it would be more fun to read about European history if the people who founded states decided on names like the Chinese emperors did.
Why are we called the Yuan dynasty? I got it from a book
Why are we called Wei? My great great grandad was from Wei.
Why are we called Song? I used to have a job in Songzhou.
Why are we called Qing? :shrug-outta-hecks:Really love scrolling through :reddit-logo: and seeing a SA joke on a "leftist" sub. Glad I spend the majority of my time online here
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:thinkin-lenin: Met someone so freakishly compatible that it's like facebook used my data for an AI, both of us want to go to the Pacific Northwest this year, she's a classical pianist, and the Seattle Symphony is doing three of Gershwin's best piano compositions right around the time it starts warming up there. Either this is going to be a charming love story or a story about a single guy going to a concert alone and then gorging himself on salmon chowder in the dark.
Currently in an argument with a lib who insists that Dick Cheney is now "the only good republican" because he's publicly decrying Trump. Because Trump is a traitor who colluded with Russia to steal the presidency.
Utterly mind-boggling. I'm no fan of Donald Trump (though obviously I don't believe Russiagate is real. Trump had business dealings in Russia that is improper for a president but that sort of corruption is small time compared to what a lot of politicians get up to) but Dick Cheney has got to be one of the worst living people. He's definitely got to make the shortlist for "most destructive people" to live in the Post-WWII era. A large burden of the guilt of a million slaughtered Iraqis and Afghans rests on his shoulders.
Which is what I said, more or less. Response was "Sure but Cheney's crimes were over there, not here. Trump was here." What sort of fucked up logic is that?
Compared to the War on Terror, or even compared to the destruction of Libya under Obama, Trump's worst crimes are mild. Like, even if he actually did steal the presidency and commit treason, the actual impact of that crime is far less than the War on Terror. I'm not terribly concerned by Trump's supposed "assault on democracy" because it's pretty clear we don't live in one, but inasmuch as it was an assault on those values, worse things occurred under the Bush admin.
Trump's worst crimes were probably war crimes (I guess you could say he bungled the COVID response, and he did, but it's clear our entire system of governance was completely ill-equipped to deal with a pandemic) and those are a.) standard for any president, to my knowledge Trump's war crimes weren't worse than anything Obama or Clinton did and b.) a direct result of the wars Cheney helped start in the first place.
