So don’t do it.
The nature of this particular game is that our side–the side of sanity, restraint, community mindedness, integrity and genuine decency–has a much harder position to play. We are dealing with amoral psychopaths whose main goal is to drive us insane with emotional, physical, and intellectual violence (there is violence to established norms inherent in the complete abandonment of principle and moral coherence) then use our reactions, combined with their lies, to trick stupid people into supporting them. That is the game.
We live in the freest, most prosperous, most just nation in the history of the world. And with their lies, they have convinced large swathes of the population that they live in hell.
It is true than many Americans lack meaningful connections with one another. But this would happen, naturally, with no extra effort, if we were not being divided continually. But the sirens and horns are blaring non-stop everywhere. People get scared. They pause in their outreach, they wonder if they really CAN trust their neighbor. Maybe they are a serial killer. After all, the world shown in the 8 hours of daily television most Americans watch is a dark, dangerous place where your best friend is liable to betray you at the worst possible moment.
The real enemies of decency and true progress are people like the Umbrella Man, who is allegedly a cop with the Minneapolis police force. Watch this video, which I may or may not have posted here:
https://banned.video/watch?id=5ed16ba4ef3949002fba2d1b&fbclid=IwAR3M7aj5RMtf8IdTFDPuL44GO3Cfhuw7R2SFEc2j6q_H6A5tUSJ5QMeY3mA
When I searched the term, the first two websites which had had video, had had the video removed.
If you are not freaking out a bit, you have no brain.
But if this guy does not look like a textbook Agent Provocateur I’m a fucking Democrat.
THESE GUYS are the enemies. Later in the same video, some guy talks about military or cop looking guys on motorcycles trying to talk him into breaking into the Mall of America. This sounds plausible to me. Why not, after you see that video of the guy using the umbrella to hide his identity, after breaking windows in a building he had no intention of entering, and which he clearly did not break in anger?
These guys, and the people sitting in 20 million dollar mansions (or whatever floats their boat, which might also be a 20 or 50 million dollar yacht, which actually might make more sense) and pushing the buttons and paying the cash transfers, are the enemies.
Black people are pawns in all this. Yes, some small minority of them is very violent, but keep in mind those same people have been preying on other black people probably all their lives. George Floyd did four years for breaking into a pregnant woman’s home, pointing a gun at her belly, and ransacking her home with 3-4 other guys, after which he drove the getaway car. She was black, of course. Most victims of black psychopaths are black.
White people don’t care. Protests are a vacation, not a serious commitment to understanding, much less actual measurable improvement.
Keep your cool. Arm yourself if you feel the need, but keep your cool. Don’t give the bastards food and ammunition.