100% there.
look for local mutual aids, or political organisations fighting for your rights.
being active will make you feel better and will actually make the world around you better.
"They" want you to give up and doomscroll
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100% there.
look for local mutual aids, or political organisations fighting for your rights.
being active will make you feel better and will actually make the world around you better.
"They" want you to give up and doomscroll
This! Political activism is about networking and mutual aid, not visibility in media. At least it should be. Give me less Gretchen more aid workers.
I have considered joining NGOs, but they all require WhatsApp.
And? Jesus people need to get off their high horses sometimes. Yes we all get Facebook is bad. We all get that Whatsapp is not ideal and something like signal is infinitely better.
To use Whatsapp as a reason why you won't do good? Fucking weak bro.
I feel overwhelmed a lot lately.
I think one of the causes for the situation in the U.S. is isolation. Both that the bad actors are too isolated from their fellow human, and that people of good will feel alone in facing rising assholedom.
It's helped me to physically go to gatherings of people who are like minded. To be reminded that you're not alone. We'll never get everyone on our side, but I believe we can get enough.
How do you find these in person gatherings, most of my socialization with other Americans happens through work and I cannot be my authentic self at work because that has negative consequences in my experience, the American work culture is kind depressing, where everyone seems to be in some rat race to be the most busy and most productive or at least pretend to be so, most of my interactions lack human warmth and it all feels fake and performative, I have to be guarded about what I say so that it doesn't come back to bite me even with colleague's of the same level and I am tired of the expectations of overwork and constant threat of being laid off of the right people don't have a high opinion of you.
This ain't funny.
to quote jreg, "these people have physical bodies"
Make an app that tracks them ... it seems to bother them. They dont seem to care if companies spy on us, so spy on them. Im sure nothing bad could happen just from an app that shows the physical location of a politician, CEO, or billionaire.
Sign a strike card, baby https://generalstrikeus.com/ we've got a long way to go but I've been handing out flyers on the street... Spread the decentralized jeezus-i-wish-we-had-labor-unions word. Please. No really... I'm begging.
I keep being told it's my own fault for not voting. I'm not even a non-voter. But every time things get worse, I'm told that I deserve it for not making Texas a winning Dem state by... idfk, sneaking into the back of a voting booth and spamming "D" into the console until someone drags me out.
People love an easy answer to excuse why they can treat someone else with less care or not listen to them as if they are already wrong. We love the little lies that make life easier. Its far less effort needed than trying to understand.
I’m right there with you. For all of you that say to just wait this out — how many of these am I supposed to wait out?! I’ve been doing this since Reagan, and it’s only gotten worse.
Insert (I’m tired boss) meme.
I just want out at this point.
Not too many more; you'll either die in the camps here, or, after a couple brief decades of the living envying the dead, the planet will no longer support life, and you will necessarily die.
This is the refreshing optimism I come here for. Finally someone talking sense!
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i dont think george constanza said that on the show..