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Wytch

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75 points

I was born just before Reagan was elected. Growing up, I got the mostly mistaken impression that America had some of its shit sorted from Vietnam, WWII, and all that 20th century turmoil. A period of stability. Upward trending society. Reagan undid a lot of that progress.

I’ve been watching this country die, slowly, for 45 years. This has been such a weird time to be alive. Fighting over scraps we volunteered to subsist on instead of overthrowing corrupt and cruel systems. We had periods we thought we were recovering. We had hope. I feel today like there isn’t any left. Another four years of this, and it will be worse.

He struck a fatal blow. He used the tools of fear and rhetoric to do it. The weakness was there, the vulnerability. And here is the next evolution of American fear. We’re a country voluntarily destroying itself out of fear of our imminent destruction. We had everything, and we gave it away.

We heard the call of the void, and we’ve answered.

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You’re not a good person. And you know it.

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I’m broken. I’m so tired of it and now I fear it’s really all over. It’s not 4 years, it’s a revelation. We really are full of irredeemable hateful idiots. I’m not ok. I fear for our queer brothers and sisters. I fear for our families and neighbors. For our future livelihoods.

I’m afraid we’re not all gonna make it out of this.

I don’t know if this is the tipping point. But it feels like a mountain has fallen, in my heart. I want to crawl away. When I was just getting myself together. These next four years will be hell on earth for me. I’m going back on my meds

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10 points

Then they eat him

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A. Keep your identity secret

B. Participate in a violent insurrection and brag about it online

Pick one

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You’re not wrong. I was, however, just making a joke. I’m up voting your earnestness.

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No thanks, we have drinking alone with the cat at home.

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Don Jr then boasted: “I think my father knows the McDonald’s menu much better than Kamala Harris ever did.”

Yeah I’m sure he does, you fucking dumbass

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There is no lie too petty for these weirdos

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