10/25 just say no to world war whatever

The world stops for no one, but you wish it would. How many people will be lost in the chaos? How many stories will go unheard? How many have already slipped through the cracks all over the world? It would have to happen on both sides of any conflict but if every soldier just walked away said "no" "we do not terrorize or kill each other anymore" who would be there to punish them for allowing peace? what if they deserve to be haunted what if evil only happens again when we're not? A couple nights ago someone was sitting under my window playing music. It wasn't heavy or blasting bass - it was kind of pretty. I don't look outside anymore, but I did this time. A small 4 by 4 SUV with an american flag sticker on the back windshield. A person scrolling through a phone in the driver's seat. They made an OK sign and held it up to the window. I closed the curtain and retreated back into my room. I have these kind of panic attacks sometimes where my mind just tries to understand a situation. Like a computer suddenly dumping all its files on a subject. I guess it's a way to cope. I've read the OK hand sign thing started as a joke on 4 chan or some other dark and murky part of the internet. Over time - in just the past few years - people started using it for real. Usually to indicate some reference to white supremacy. It is not a welcomed thing for me to see. Used to be funny now it's another unknown warning. Though I had a conversation with someone once who argued that people should "take it back" like we take back words that are used against us and not let it be defined by those trying to weaponize it. Which I thought was a good point but now I can never tell the difference or what people mean when they use it and it just makes me cringe. Back in 2020 someone posted a picture of the police making the gesture out of the window of their squad car passing protesters on the sidewalk. There are hundreds of examples of Proud Boys whatever they're calling themselves these days doing the same thing. It doesn't mean someone is automatically a Nazi but you can be sure it means the worst to some people and the ones doing it deliberately know that. Sometimes I wonder if people are trying to indicate that what they're talking about involves white supremacists or those ideologies. Like a flag that says they think these people might be Nazis. Or is that just pronoia? Hoping for the bets? Hoping they're just looking out, not just laughing in our liberal faces? And what if it doesn't just stand for "White Pride"? What if the three fingers are for the 3%? What if they're for World War 3? Could that be and what would it mean if it was? Or is it just a bunch of people making a joke because they think it's funny to be scary and that's the only sense of power they've ever known? People who would rather you feared them because you didn't love them and that negative relationship is the only way to feel connected to you? In other words I'm horrified and I don't know what to do. just say no to world war three just say no to world war three just say no to world war three just say no to world war whatever just say no to the war on agency and medication just say no to the war on feeling good just say no to the war on artistic expression just say no to the war on outsiders just say no to the war on whoever's next just say no to the war on whoever's left just say no to the bizzaro proxy wars we're forced into just say no to the war on you