Sterile_Technique
For real though, what does the rescue float in the meme represent irl?
Cuz I sure as fuck won’t be praying, but I’m not really seeing any options other than watching in horror as our country burns down around us.
We can’t even point to the electoral college fucking us over this time - an actual majority of voters decided they want to experience 1930s Germany live and in color.
We’re not going to fix a political system when the majority of actual voters are evil to the core.
Whittling away at pawns isn’t what we need right now.
Quote appears to be from this article, citing a poll.
I can’t find the actual poll though.
Tardigrades are definitely resilient enough for a solid shot at it.
Less realistically (since whatever wipes us out will also wipe them out) if we wanted to bring it a bit closer to home, I’d be rooting for the orangutans, which are chill as fuck. IIRC we evolved from chimpanzees, which are angry face-eaty little fuckers, which honestly explains a lot of today’s bullshit when you consider that as our foundation.
A ‘humanity’ that branched out from orangutans and progressed to the technological equivalent to where we’re at now… we’d be looking at a legit utopia.
If history weren’t such an asshole, that first mutant chimp that went on to become whatever the fuck the world is doing now… would have just gotten eaten by a crocodile or something after taking its first steps, and the planet lives happily ever after.
That’s the plan - RN is my ticket out of this shithole. I’m not aware of a political utopia, but there are at least a few options that aren’t swan-diving into fascism. If I’m lucky, it’ll be somewhere that dodges global instability long enough for me to die in a semi-natural way.
…oh god no - the fire putting us all out of our misery is my last hope at this point. This is one of the worst messages I’ve ever seen.
I guess I never had the privilege of such comfort to begin with.
I may have overstated that unintentionally – it’s the fine line at making just enough to pay the bills, but the check-engine light still being terrifying. The comfort is that I’ve got a roof over my head (not my roof, my landlord’s, in exchange for most of my paycheck), and food on the table (not healthy food, that shit’s too expensive; but food).
If I get caught acting out of line, I’m a missed paycheck or two away from homeless, and that’s a pretty powerful motivator. I’ll still come here and bitch my landlord and such - that’s not illegal yet. But actually taking to the streets? That’s risky as fuck.
building solidarity with your neighbours and co workers
I’ve recently learned that most of those are Nazis. Unsure if solidarity is what I want.
You can’t run away from making a choice
The choice to do what? Guerrilla shit? Pretty sure that’d end really quickly with me either dead or in prison. Voting? Haven’t missed an election big or small since 2016, and that hasn’t accomplished shit. Supporting my community? That’s why I went into health care (surgical tech currently, in school part time for nursing); and even once I become a nurse, I live in a state that legally mandates that I violate the nursing oath if I ever get a patient who needs reproductive or gender affirming care… pretty sure I can get in legal trouble just for telling them which states to visit where they actually can receive care. It’s fucked. All of it.
they are already coming for your neighbours, and eventually they will come for you.
Yeah no shit - they even made a roadmap for how they’re going to do it called Project 2025. My neighbors and I are fucked, and something like 80% of those neighbors are going to spend their last breath pointing at the other 20% and laughing from the other side of the toiled bowl as we all spiral down the drain together.
Redefining ‘good’ to whatever it is you speculate may be cooking in Zeus’s noggin isn’t going to dodge the Epicurian paradox, it just changes it to god can’t be all three of 1) all-powerful, 2) all-knowing, 3) all-whatever-the-fuck-word-god-chooses-to-use-to-label-the-concept-of-the-thing-we-call-‘good’.
That’s like arguing that the thing you’re looking at right now isn’t a screen, because maybe god calls it a chipmunk instead.
