Not in an emotional way, but like digesting news from around the world and seeing logically we are fucked so may as well just quit?
I would challenge that belief.
Things are bad, sure. Climate is gonna change, people are gonna fight and die over the dumbest shit, and billionaires are going to loot any public good they can get their hands on.
But good people are still fighting. It's a lot less top-down and much less visible, but it's happening. Lives can still be saved, the damage can still be mitigated, and the bad guys can still be meaningfully opposed. Things can change quickly!
We have to keep in mind that the news is never gonna be good. Even when it isn't a glorified right-wing propaganda machine, it's a business that thrives on attention. And things that make you sad or scared or angry are always gonna grab your attention more than anything else.
We're not getting hit by a giant meteor. We're not all irrecoverably fucked. It's better to prepare for an uncertain better future than give up preemptively!
It burns my ass that some folks actually bought the whole "Trump doesn't support Project 2025" bullshit. I cannot imagine being such a gullible, credulous moron.
I hope at least a sizeable chunk of Trump voters regret voting for him. It breaks my heart to know that there are legitimately people who have paid attention to all his lies and already broken promises and still want the guy to lead the country. I don't know how to salvage someone like that.
I think the algorithm just compares the distance between the center and your first point to the distance between the center and each subsequent point. So, for example, drawing an imperfect but centered circle will get you more points than drawing a perfect circle that's really off center.
Hard disagree. Randomly murdering fascists does not a revolution make, to say nothing of the odds of winning that fight.
Go to the gym. Be able to do cardio without dying. Work on your fitness and health. Then buy a gun. Train with it. A lot. Organize with like-minded people. Invest in community defense, look out for LGBT / immigrant / marginalized friends and family. Be prepared for violence, but keep it a last resort. When / if bullets start flying, lives with be ruined on both sides of the gun.
Hear, hear! If anything, this election has proven that we need to work on class consciousness and the Overton window. Mutual aid, direct action, protest & strike support, salting, and civil disobedience are all ways we can produce the conditions needed for positive change.
I have no idea why people think late-term, abortion-as-contraceptive abortions are a thing.
Have they never known a pregnant person? Seen all the gross and painful shit pregnancy puts someone through? Do they really think people are subjecting their bodies to that for six months... just because???
I would challenge that belief.
Things are bad, sure. Climate is gonna change, people are gonna fight and die over the dumbest shit, and billionaires are going to loot any public good they can get their hands on.
But good people are still fighting. It's a lot less top-down and much less visible, but it's happening. Lives can still be saved, the damage can still be mitigated, and the bad guys can still be meaningfully opposed. Things can change quickly!
We have to keep in mind that the news is never gonna be good. Even when it isn't a glorified right-wing propaganda machine, it's a business that thrives on attention. And things that make you sad or scared or angry are always gonna grab your attention more than anything else.
We're not getting hit by a giant meteor. We're not all irrecoverably fucked. It's better to prepare for an uncertain better future than give up preemptively!