A key factor in making your own cigarettes, is the ability to provide the worst of yourself with a modicum of guarantee. Knowing that cigs are covered in the here and now is an important layer to peace of mind. Knowing that smoke is covered for today less so, although still an important fight to the greater battle. And the same with smokes covered for the next 2 or 3 days, which amounts to one less thing to stress over, so that when matters present themselves which are very much worth immediately stressing over you find yourself well-equipped for the fisticuffs
Impressions on the shots fired at Trump’s rally of 13/7. I imagine it’s some militia toadstool upset over waiting for civil war to officially break out, looking to instigate matters further. There was a lot of that with the Occupy demonstrations and going back to the antiwar protests of the 1960s, that’s what the Church senate select subcommittee hearings of the 1970s were concerned with explicitly, the setting up of innocents. People get peeved when their opponents are not presenting themselves as the threat imagined, so send in plants to start throwing trash-cans through shop windows, sucker-punching uniformed authoritarians or shooting people outright, to make everyone else guilty by association. It was easy with the antifa protestations, as anyone could put on a black mask and hoodie and become antifa, even undercover cops or FBI agents in the field. I haven’t yet seen pundits or commenters acknowledge any of that yet, but someone did suggest it as a red flag operation on behalf of Trump’s own campaign, to trigger additional sympathies for the man with the shooter paid by obliging donors. Though there are in fact militias around the states fed up with Trump currently even as they are all quite far-right politically, for him not already overthrowing the government and outlawing foreigners or whatever. There are interviews online with Christian Nationalist sorts who drop every hint of growing tired with making endless excuses for what Trump says and does, seeing him increasingly as a more useful martyr than a continuing centerpiece. Like how tragic the loved buffoon carried on high was not saved by gun-owners such travesty must be avenged. Right-wingers largely define themselves by playing victims in response to any perceived threat toward preventing them from making victims of others, as with insisting others deserve lesser rights than themselves and that any self-defense or retaliation is surely the work of unprovoked monsters.
Granted as making sacrifices of others is hardly the matter of putting their needs before one’s own, it is nonetheless a practice not uncommon for liberals today, who have devolved to be no better than competing shades of rightwing self-inclination. By their own egocentric fallacies anybody could simply self-identify as President and only the arrogant or ignorant might dare contest such affirmation. This heartless and thoughtless world is not overflowing with cruelty because your demands have gone unmet, rather the cruelty arrives from how everyone responds to the world not existing to service their passing interest. What do your dreams require of others that you in turn would never dream of passing on to others? Suffice to say, that going only by the pamphlets it’s never the Universal Free Healthcare supporters who engage with target practice.
Life is very much an entitlement, arguably the more dire of entitlements fathomable, but it’s not a luxury or privilege, it is a responsibility. Adversely, humanity is the leading cause for its very own and for other species becoming endangered, and going extinct.