Comment on What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine?

• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Doomerism doesn’t help, but doom is what we’ve chosen.

  We gleefully voted for it, in fact.

  Time to suffer.

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  • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You do that, I’ll be doing what I can.

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    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Such as?

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      • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I had an entire list in a comment on this very post.

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I applaud you. Have fun attempting to turn the majority of Americans into responsible, educated voters. Especially while Republicans, who now control our government in its entirety, work to dismantle our public education system, which they literally ran on doing.

      Here comes that doomerism…it’s over. We had a chance, and we completely dropped the ball. You don’t have to believe me when I say we’re in for long-term decline, just remember that some guy on Lemmy told you a handful of years from now when the decline is obvious and it’s clear that there’s no end in sight.

      This was a pivotal moment in U.S. history, and we failed the test.

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• Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s doomerism and there is reality.

  This is reality and it’s bad. It isn’t a maybe it will be fine maybe it won’t situation. Trump has promised wealthy powerful people a lot of stuff to get him into power. And they put him into power specifically to do that stuff. They have plainly said exactly what they are going to do, laid out an agenda and promised to follow it as best they can. The final hurdle was the election, which even if it went a bit bad for them could have still worked with lawsuits about voter fraud or plain insurrection. But it didn’t went bad for them, it was a major victory. They couldn’t have dreamt of a better outcome. There are no more hurdles, no more barriers, no more limits. At this point it’s denial to think they aren’t going to do what they set out to do.

  I feel there are things we can do for our own mental health and maybe the people around us. But as for the big picture, it’s done, it’s over. We’ve seen first hand what happens if this kind of thing goes down in a country and the outcome is always the same.

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  • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Then I’ll go down fighting.

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    • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The fight is over mate, we lost

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• Player2@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Excessive optimism reduces pressure on making things better

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  • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Saying there’s no way to make things better also reduces pressure on making things better.

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