I don't know if my input is wanted here but you should know everyone, everyone goes through this feeling at some point. We are so beautiful because we are so small and temporary.
One day the bones of the universe will crumple to nothingness in what we call heat death (we don't know if this is accurate but the thought exercise is still valuable) and time itself will cease to have any real meaning. But you were real, you still happened, and nothing can change that. You're beautiful because you're a speck. If you're ex-faithful you may have come to internalize that it's by chance we exist at all (though I don't know or want to tell you what to believe). It is by chance that an asteroid didn't kill us in our pre-history like the dinosaurs. It is by chance that we developed cognizance and things like music and culture. It is by chance that the Cold War didn't go hot and kill us all in the 80s. Every single day is a miracle. We are so gloriously, exultantly insignificant.
I just got on Tuta and don't want to do this every 3 years forever. Can you elaborate on Tuta upselling the customer? I just need reasonable encryption, basic mail service, and for my data not to be in the hands of psychopaths.
You must not have been following politics when he was impeached twice during his first term and it didn't mean anything because congress was majority republican.
GAMERS ON THE WELL MANNERED PUPPY-GIRL ALPHA CHAD FEDERATED REDDIT ALTERNATIVE WHEN YOU BEG THEM NOT TO BE TOXIC TO THE DEVELOPER (THEY WILL DEFUSE THEIR SHITTINESS/THEY WILL NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY OR TAKE A TIRED DEVELOPER'S PLEAS GRACEFULLY)
GROW UP fuckers. The game sucks, I've played it. I've also been playing increasinly bad Dragon Age games long enough to know ITS EA, ITS ALWAYS BEEN EA. Everything they touch turns to shit. Veilguard was a live service team-based wave survival game like ME3 multiplayer until eight months before launch and you can reeeaaally tell.
I don't give a fuck about blue haired devs, pronouns, none of that shit. If you do, grow up. Yes, Bioware is a skeleton crew with hack writers and a captain hired to go down with the ship and get the game out the door... BECAUSE OF EA.
ARE YOU JUST NOW PLAYING VIDEO GAMES FOR THE FIRST TIME? DID YOU NOT KNOW ABOUT THE PUBLISHERS IN GENERAL?
Gamergate's still fucking going on. Bitching about Anita Sarkeesian in 2025 in response to a dev begging to stop being harassed, PATHETIC.
Its going to take hundreds or thousands of years to achieve A Better World and not three back-to-back election cycles that are shutouts for the right, nor one or two color revolutions. All of time since the French Revolution and the Enlightenement has been the blink of an eye in historical terms.
It's hard right? All the ones we were raised with like mrn and even the more enjoyable corruption/portmanteaus like fuck-t*** just punch down. Any slur or bad word has its nuances and pros/cons (almost exclusively cons with words originating as slurs) but the ones to do with intellectual disability are particularly hard because they were EVERYWHERE. And the reason for that is that the intellectually disabled can't as easily advocate for themselves as for example the Roma, or the gay/mlm community. I tend to think contrived insults that imply your subject of derision is responsible for their own undoing work best. Like asshat, or fuckstick, ignorant motherfucker, sour cunt, livid piece of shit, etc etc. Either these are conditions of personability that a person could change about themselves (if we want to go that far "sour cunt" is sexed and possibly implies a hygeine problem) or they invoke a situation that took some doing to get into, like making a hat out of some ass and wearing that.
Sorry friend, I can't. What I can tell you is reality is a shared hallucination and I personally believe things can get better, not necessarily that they will, and not necessarily in our lifetimes. The future isn't written.
Maybe sports shouldn't be the barometer for who gets to particiate in society? Sports are the most acceptable right to strip away from a group, as the right to play a sport isn't a civil/human right, its particiation in a game. Conpetition is the secondary motivation compared to the primary motivation that people like social games where they can roughhouse.
For a country that loves sports so much people really are being two faced snakes pretending not to grasp the significance of that. No sports today, back of the bus tomorrow. We don't want to play games with you = We don't see you as human.
Keep calling them out and internalize the spite. We're not extinct yet. People have come back from worse than this. Despite what these people say things can get better.
They are typing up Bible length posts talking of neoliberalism and how the DNC can't win elections and how Kamala should have come out against Israel so she could have been crucified by the American Evangelical Zionist community, ADL, blue hawks, and veiled Nazi media sources. You're not going to see them take any responsibility for spreading fascism enabling paralysis of conscience. Their current attack pattern is to blame people scared of being hauled off to camps for not personally taking their Kalishnikovs to the nearest internment camp up to now to die at the gates.
As if no Palestinian ever wept for the fate of a Burmese victim and felt powerless for being half a world away. As if no Chechan man ever wept for his brothers and sisters in the gay community in Uganda. As if no Han ever wept for a Uyghur. As if Jews did not weep for the Roma.
You can take the view that the election was stolen if you want, or that it was decided by apathy, or that Americans really want fascism, but whats likely is these cold, dull pieces of shit are not to blame for the electoral turnout being what it was. What they are guilty of is being politically illiterate pawns that had no organzational outlet besides putting down other leftists online. They failed to understand that America is a colonial white supremacist state and working to change that has been a 250 year project worked on by non-passing trans women throwing bricks at cops, by coal miners getting murdered by machine guns, by laborers fighting Pinkertons, by black men arguing for themselves in newspapers, by black women climbing into bed with white men for a seat at the table, by college students getting gunned down for protesting, by corporate soldiers who could have been monarchs but had the mad impulse towards humanity at the last minute, by folk musicians, by poets, by degenerates, by satirists, by Satanists, by sci-fi writers, by unpopular pornographers, etc etc etc...
And the large majority of the time it probably felt like failing, screaming into the void and then getting shot in the back of the head.
But no color revolution ever occurred here (yet) by electoralism and the cruel detachement of bitter online "leftists" with authoritarian tendancies shouting the rest of us down as moral hypocrites.
You failed, during your life time, so far, to live up to the image they had in their head of a swelling proletariat seizing the means of production with a gat and a smile. Kamala Harris failed, in two months, to tease the United States military industrial complex, reflexive colonial state long-term goals, and Christian millinarian suicidal religious motivation, apart from the Democratic party, which perpetually exists in the chiaroscuro negative space of a white supremacist colonial state. They can accept no nuance because nuance hurts, it actually is painful and it sucks. Better to blame everyone else.
America will now do the most genocide possible instead of any variation on that. People who could have been given time to grow and live and even possibly escape now wont be. Don't feel responsible... electoral reform is hard and democracy is thusly untenable. Go back to bed after telling a frightened girl on Lemmy she deserves whats coming because she didn't, allegedly, care about the international situation (I saw this happen). If this is your first election cycle after coming to political awareness, fuck you imperialist pig, kys. If you're thinking of evolving yourself and your activism don't, you should have been there already. We are born steeped in original sin and none of us are worthy of the kingdom of Heaven. None of us deserve each others grace. Give up and collapse like a dying star and pull the world down with us.
Kamala will be just as bad as Trump I'm told