Eleven days before I graduated college, university police incited violence on a group of students peacefully protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The situation got so bad that my house, right on the outskirts of campus, became an oasis for protesters as smoke bombs and pepper spray polluted the air.
Looks like our touch grass posts were in synch today -)
What also might be at play is a phenomenon experts call "affair fog." This occurs when the person engaging in an affair is hyper-focused on the excitement of a new relationship and not considering the gravity of what they're doing.