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The Counter-Revolution of 1776:Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.
As the United States of America, celebrate its independence anniversary declared on 4th July, 1776, we take a look at the history of America, the events that led to declaration of independence, and most importantly why declaration of independence was not a cause for celebration among all Americans, particularly for the native Americans and the enslaved African Americans. “For Native Americans, it may be a bitter reminder of colonialism, which brought fatal diseases, cultural hegemony and genocide. Neither did the new republic’s promise of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” extend to African Americans. The colonists who declared their freedom from England did not share their newly founded liberation with the millions of Africans they had captured and forced into slavery.”
The so-called Revolution was according to Professor Gerald Horne, was a ‘Counter-Revolution’ a conservative effort by American colonists to protect their system of slavery. Contrary to anonymous role often assign to African Americans in the American Revolution (which Prof. Gerald Horne refer to as Counter-Revolution) the prof. lucidly outline their roles and their major impact. The book is a great shift in paradgim.
Professor Gerald Horne, is the author of the book “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origin of the United States of America.”
https://kritisansar.noblogs.org/files/2017/12/The-Counter-Revolution-of-1776.pdf
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Very cool to find out from a fucking LLM that the muscle relaxer the doctor I saw who rushed my ass through the appointment prescribed me without literally any discussion whatsoever of use, side effects, etc. can actually have severe withdrawal effects even at the lowest possible dose, and also functions by desensitizing your CNS to adrenaline (the llm didn't say this but that's my interpretation of its function) instead of what my dumb naive shit ass thought which was idk it affects my muscles directly. Sorry i guess i'm not as smart as i think i am because i didn't think to interrogate any of that before taking it. I didn't realize doctors just throw stuff at you with no instructions when it can literally kill you
Since the pharmacy also got multiple orders and they gave me a shitload of it i'm gonna be real, i like drugs and it hardly felt like it fucking did anything so i definitely used more than the 2mg minimum dose
I think based on the severity of what Im thinking are withdrawal symptoms that I luckily self tapered off from the higher doses and things will be manageable without formal medical intervention. I'm not sure how much of it is the muscle relaxer due to several confounding variables that have effects on related systems
but like hahaha this could have easily killed me (and might, still, if I'm wrong about my subjective interpretation of my symptoms (which are mostly that I feel fucking hot, sweating my ass off in 72F dry air, anxious (that's my life though), and this morning my hands kept shaking while I posted that shit about mitch McConnell definitely being dead) turns out to be incorrect and I actually do still need to properly taper off of it to avoid a cardiac event)
Anyway, wow that sure does explain a fucking lot about how fucked up Ive been feeling the last couple days in particular
First off - why are you overloading on prescriptions, youre not following orders and something sucked after you took way more than ordered.
Second off - quit taking medical advice from LLMs they dont know shit and get shit wrong all the time.
Third off - yeah doctors suck at instructions, your pharmacist should've been better at it. That does suck. I feel like I talk to my patients (Im a nurse) over and over and over again about the same meds, what they think they do, what they actually do (not always the same as what they think), how often they should be taking them, but its because people need more than 5 minutes to get up to speed and get their questions answered
Fourth off - it sounds like Tizadinine? Which you arent going to get withdrawal symptoms if you took it a handful of times - sensitization and then withdrawal takes a long time of use. If it was Tizadinine, yes they should have talked to you about withdrawal and cyp1a2 inhibitor/inducer use (cigarettes affect that pathway majorly). If you took way more than ordered off the hop, yeah you mightve overdosed yourself and might be contributing to feeling shitty.
Fifth off - If youre really scared or feel something us really off, go talk to a medical professional about the drug and a taper schedule. Doctor, pharmacist, anyone but an LLM.
Also actually my subjective experience was it really felt like it did nothing, i was told it might cause drowsiness, i was desperate for sleep, and still thought I was staying at a relatively low dose because I didn't understand the mechanisms it works by. Because the human who gave it to me barely interrogated my issues and did nothing to explain. Oh no but the llm is gonna kill me
Oh but that's also the only reason i know my stupid mattress was basically breaking my spine lol oh but i guess i should whip myself for once again learning a useful thing from the demon machine. I guess i'll pick my mattress up off the floor and put it back on the box spring despite causing actual relief for my pain that the muscle relaxer did nothing for
P.s. the instructions i got were essentially a shrug and "take it when you have a problem, it might make you drowsy though" and that was from some office pharmacist who i had to ask the receptionist to get when i realized I'd been given no instructions, and i clearly told her this wasn't discussed at all, so i got 0 actual explanation from two medical professionals in one visit, fun
Yes that is my point and i love the "don't listen to llm" people giving me their religious screed when like the point is literally that this specific and incredibly important information would not have been otherwise presented to me. I would have loved medical advice from a professional, but that was not given to me. But christ, yes, obviously i need another "woah dude you're googling too much" from someone who in the same post acknowledges both its utility in this case and my exact fucking point for being upset with the doctor
Im glad i can just block everyone who annoys me so
What muscle relaxer? I can only think of a few that cause physical dependence and none of them are prescribed frequently
The other poster was right, it was tizanidine, but as far as I can tell the llm provided accurate info which I simply did not think to look into previously and which my human doctor and also the office pharmacist (also human) who I asked and told "this wasn't really discussed at all" failed to mention entirely. The doctor, i didn't even know she prescribed anything until I was walking out, and of course since she was too busy to spend more than 25 minutes in an appointment (that they rushed me into early) the receptionist couldn't find her, so she got the pharmacist, who basically gave me a shrug and a "take it when your muscles feel tense"
It might not ultimately have been the tizanidine's fault due to a slew of other self inflicted issues but given that I was feeling weird fight-flight feeling and the thermal dysfunction issues where I kept sweating, something which causes extreme sensitivity to adrenaline when you're withdrawing from it makes sense. And it's been feeling better on the time frame that it should based on when I ran out of it. Those issues are gone today.
I don't need to be told not to go to llms llike they're doctors but like there's just so much that should have been explained to me. I did a brief look into it googling after the appointment but without realizing it could be tied to these issues didn't think to ask the right questions. I saw not to take it with grapefruit drugs basically, not to exceed 36mg in a single day, and that it had a fairly short onset and peak and a quick half life. I interpreted that as it being fairly short acting and given that it honestly hardly felt like it did anything it seemed like it would be safe to take extra doses as long as they were well under that 36mg threshold
But if I knew it affects how my CNS interprets adrenaline on a long time frame independent of the drug's actual half life that would have totally changed my interpretation of the safety of the drug.
But like, i dunno, again, i was operating on the naive impression that muscle relaxers would target muscles directly, woops
The point of my post isn't llms great it's wow i hate that doctor and i hope the new guy Im seeing next week has better bedside manner