The time to find this equilibrium has passed. I’m already depressed and nihilistic
I get the anxiety of global warming and global capitalism being the end of the world, but we we will fix it!
You see, as the globe heats up and crops die, countries will begin fighting for resources . There will be larger and larger migrations of people from the unhabitable places and warzones to more developed countries, which we have already been seeing. This has already triggered a push of nationalism and authoritarianism, and it will get much worse. As democracies fall to dictatorships, global peace will fall apart as despots wage war with each other. At this point it’s just a matter of time before all the nukes are launched.
And then it’s nuclear winter!
It will last only a decade, but with 93% of the population dying, we will see a large reduction of carbon emissions as humanity is sent back to the year 1300. Those billionaires who could afford their bunkers and have the political skill to maintain their power will emerge as competing warlords that will plunge humanity further into chaos to an age of violence, instability, and oppression. Then it’s just 700~ 1000 years to reach the technological and population levels of today!
I am an optimist.
Aka the difference between pushing voter apathy suppression propaganda online or actually helping.
The voter apathy propaganda is so damn infuriating and comes up around this time every 4 years from folks who refuse to offer any alternatives besides telling people to organize and other nonsense without providing any resources on how to do so.
But Biden directly shoots Gazan children himself so you should throw your vote away on a green party candidate instead. Trust me.
Yeah, Trump will be worse and we should just ignore everything Democrats have accomplished or try to accomplish by lumping them in with the worst of their party while blaming them for everything a Republican has done like the sane non brainwashed person I am. I’m helping! I swear! People do more when they’re hopeless!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/
Honestly the thing people need to do is just call it out for the ludicrousness it is every time. People think it’s a popular opinion and it may be in some circles. But don’t let it just slide. Make fun of it. Call it out for the propaganda it is. You don’t have to be a paid Russian troll to push prop. People here can fall for it just as easily as the people wacthing Fox News.
The will to fight? I’m treading the line for will to live most of the time.
I wish we could send the religious fanatics to another land and let them set whatever rules they want for themselves. Leave the rest of us alone.
That’s how you got America in the first place. The Puritans left England to go to America because they weren’t allowed to subjugate the people they wanted to. Colonialism fell out of fashion and now they have nowhere to run except Russia, China and Africa, but those places are filled with foreigners already.
Not exactly. The motivation to leave Europe is right in the Constitution if you look at it carefully enough. The whole church of England (or whatever country) thing was their big problem. They wanted to go somewhere that they didn’t have a mandatory church so everyone would be free to practice whatever religion they want. At the time if the church of England was Catholic and you were Protestant, there would be problems (and vice versa).
I’m not sure that the founding fathers really considered that having no religion was also valid, and that having a non-Christian religion was also valid, but that’s exactly the ideas they tried to enshrine in the Constitution.
The right wing nutjobs wanting to make their religious beliefs into law would be dissidents when the United States signed that piece of paper declaring themselves as a new country. IMO, they still are, and bluntly, they should go. If they’re not willing to be tolerant of other faiths, then they’re being rather un-American.
This was a long post that completely missed the point about the PURITANS. The “Founding fathers” were running around 150 years later. That’s like confusing someone referencing the 1810s with the 1960s.
The Puritans are the ones that thought the church of England wasn’t being theocratically authoritarian enough.
I remember a long while back, maybe even in the W administration, there was an image going around with The United States of Canada as one big happy country to the north, and Jesusland which was basically the American south.
I can’t believe how much MORE sense it makes now.
Therapy helps
I shouldn’t need therapy to decide on some BS that other people argue about.
Yup. Nobody should need therapy. Nobody should need a liver transplant either. Nobody should need insulin injections.
But, the first step to recovery is accepting what is, rather than what should be.
No. 1 and 3 are needed. 2 maybe not depending on genetics. But I shouldn’t need any from discussing politics. Like that was the whole point of the joke.
Try to find a reason to act that isn’t outrage, that isn’t healthy
I don’t know any other way about forced birth, racism, book burnings, christofascism, and genocide.
But you’re right, I’ve felt too worn down to do as much as I would have liked.
How about trying to end those things, by using techniques that work? (hint: outrage is not in that category)
