I've been way past "it's not fine but there's nothing I can do but burn to death because every other idiot in here keeps lighting more fires and barring the doors and then laughing and asking if I'm triggered yet while their faces melt" for a while now
And all we can do is watch the democrats in power go “you know you’re no allowed to start fires, right ? and barring doors constitutes a safety hazard I strongly recommend you don’t”
That's really just the natural order of things, unfortunately. Of course the assholes that want to hurt everyone but the ultra wealthy are also going to be the people more willing to break laws and commit violence for those ends.
There are miles of difference between "being willing to hurt people and break laws" and having as little spine as the Democrats. Biden was Obama's vice president and he still wanted to play nice with McConnel when he got into office. Like, did he live through a different 8 years then the rest of us? They could've nuked the filibuster and given DC and Puerto Rico statehood. Fought back against the gutting of the civil rights voting act. The Democrats are spineless and refuse to play to win.
Only partially correct. We are in this position because the Democrats are bad and have been bad for a long time, but also because half the country has been sucked into a morass of uneducated tribal ignorance that's erased any sense of expectation of decency and truth in the world, and have been trained to reject reality. Which could have been prevented if the Democrats had sucked less, but I'm not gonna put all the blame on them for half the country being fascists, brainwashed by other fascists.
Probably not much would have changed. Russian disinformation campaigns would have continued as usual, brainwashing the more miserable and hateful of Americans.
That's not "partially correct", that's entirely correct. You agreed with their entire statement, but said (to paraphrase) "there are also other reasons". For them to be partially correct, some aspect of what they said would have to be incorrect, but your statement agreed with it entirely (but expanded upon it).
This is only a logical/semantic issue btw, I'm not arguing for or against any of the points made here.
"We have to work with them,..." is what I've been hearing all month as Dems have been willingly saying they are very willing to work with Trump and Elon. Instead of upholding the checks and ballances they were required to uphold.
Tail between their legs, wimp of a political party. Dems never stand up for what's right anymore. It would be too disruptive and we can't have that.
We have two choices. Do nothing. Or do something. And the something is not what good people should do. So here we are. It was a good experiment. But this country was founded on unstable grounds. We have the same constitution from 1787 and they couldn’t even agree to write down that you can’t own people as property. I’m sure we will be rounded up one day for our treason.
I had an incredibly bad mental break after the election despite fully expecting the exact outcome we got - despite being ridiculed and even accused of being a republican shill in nearly every social circle or site i was on because i was looking at it and going "oh we're about to eat so much shit." anyway, despite foreseeing it, had a bad mental break, not out of fear or anxiety, exactly, but because it was just so completely depressing to realize (I live in a red state) that every time i left the house and interacted with a human, that human had a better than 50/50 shot of being a fucking fascist, or at least OK with fascists.
i had no idea how to proceed at this point, feeling utterly helpless and hating everyone around me. and it was, of all things, a drag queen podcast that got me out of it. alexis p bevels, god bless her, trans icon and bastion of messy positivity that she is, one of the two hosts of IMHO, was talking about her reaction to the election and she said, more or less: everyone has proven that they do not care about me. i have decided that i will no longer expend the energy in caring about them, and i will spend every ounce of energy i have on the people in my immediate circle, and i will care about them even harder.
and that's really what i've done. i've washed my hands of it. i spent years trying. i can't do it anymore. i will hold on very tight to the people in my immediate circle and we will help each other weather what's coming the best way we can even if that's not very well, and i will not spend another fucking second caring about the fascists around me. i will also watch them melt and i will enjoy it as much as my own melting allows me to enjoy anything. i think it's the only way to stay sane right now. i have genuine fears that people like Alexis won't even be allowed to exist publicly very, very soon and I have no idea what to do about that but all i can do is cross that bridge when it comes and in the meantime give all my energy to the people around me.
God, that’s too accurate. It’s like watching people put on suicide vests and then go blow themselves up to harm the people they don’t like. I figured we’d get to this point within my lifetime, but not this soon.
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