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This wasn't just the Panthers, there were plenty of armed volunteers during the Civil Rights movement. I highly recommend "This Nonviolent Stuff Will Get You Killed".

Have you also thought of the idea that maybe she's masking some of those symptoms around you? A lot of the language in your post seems judgmental, if just ignorant. It could be she's willing and able to internalize those symptoms around you or other people in order to make her life easier - lots of us do it around family because a LOT of parents wind up coming out of the gate sounding like you, and it's easier to just go "look I'm fine" rather than have to justify our diagnosis constantly.

Autism, especially what used to be considered "high functioning" autism like Asperger's, isn't always a "constant" feeling of these symptoms anymore than an average schizoaffective person or someone with BPD or someone with bipolar is constantly experiencing their own symptoms. You have good days, you have bad days, and you have triggers and sometimes you can nut up even on the bad days and go to work or school or whatever. Autistic people aren't constantly Rainman-ing their way through life, or constantly reenacting Sheldon from Big Bang Theory or whatever your popular conception is.

You're already saying "she's mostly not off", so why is it so hard to believe that she has this disorder, or that it's hard to take the next step and say "huh, she says that the medicine really helps and makes it easier for her, so I'll believe her on that.". I understand wanting the best and worrying about things like chemical dependency, but her doctor should be - and almost certainly IS - monitoring for this at regular checkups.

That's what they were talking about with the first part. It sounds like a ritual because of the language used, but it's literally just an herbal remedy.

"I feel like we couldn't let Congress know first on the off chance someone actually grows a spine and says you can't launch a war without approval from us."

Still not a coup. This is straight up kidnapping. A coup by definition is internal.

Honestly, I can see that. A lot of suicides are spur-of-the-moment, and the more a person has to actively work at it, the less likely they are to actually follow through on the attempt. Even just those couple seconds of working at it to get a whole box of blister packs open could be enough for a lot of people to stop, think, and say "actually wait".

Yup. Antiquities and artwork are both prime movers of cash if you don't want people to see what you're doing.

Or liver failure.

They don't just need votes. With the clear imperialist designs they have over the Western hemisphere, they want these people to have kids, lots of kids, because they know they're going to need bodies. The whole shit about Greenland and Canada and (probably) colonizing Venezuela, Cuba, and everywhere else in the Americas tells me they want a world war involving every country in the West.

In fact, this is something I could genuinely see multiple people in my own extended family saying.

This might also count under assault, depending on state laws. Someone turns up at my door with a fucking sword, a gun, and a belt full of chemical weapons, I'm definitely going to feel like he's there to harm me, whether or not he says he is.

Sounds a bit like bite mark analysis - make up the result you want, then make the data (or test) fit.