it obliterates my faith in humanity that if this was a fictional story it’d be described as “worldbuidling but the only tool you have is a sledgehammer” and yet that guy still has people that support him???
i thought that once trump eventually gets exposed as a vile monster, people would turn away from him… and though some have, it’s nowhere near as big of paradigm shift as i imagined would happen :(
That was never going to happen because Trump isn’t some random fluke, but rather a symptom of a much greater disease. “Subtle fascism” is not a stable, sustainable state, it naturally produced Trump and even if it were somehow possible to reverse time and go back to that, it would simply produce another Trump-like figure.
There are only two possibilities: either conditions will continue to decline and we will get increasingly overt fascism, or we make radical changes to fix those conditions. Socialism or barbarism. Maintaining or returning to the status quo is not viable.
don’t get me wrong, i don’t want the status quo back, i just want to feel hopeful for the future again :(
don’t mind me either way tbf, i’m romanticising the past when the world was barely any better than now, i was simply more ignorant of what was going on around me. i’m aware of this, i don’t indulge in that feeing too often, but sometimes i do
Hey. I feel it, too. I’ve been grieving for the last year, especially seeing the atrocities of ICE grabbing people in our street. I really thought Trump was the low point and we’d be able to move forward as a nation and catch up with the rest of the world, especially after the Jan 6th Insurrection.
honestly, i don’t really do hate, it’s not an emotion that gets invoked in me easily, nor does it last long. instead of hate i feel a mixture of pity, sadness, fear, and hope for a better tomorrow, and sometimes i run dangerously low on hope
You are still valid in pointing out that even if the world sucked before and they did what they do now, that it was easier to excuse people due to ignorance
That’s not the case anymore when Trump proudly admits they invaded Venezuela for their oil and people still praise him and what happened
can we like… go back to subtle fascism please?
it obliterates my faith in humanity that if this was a fictional story it’d be described as “worldbuidling but the only tool you have is a sledgehammer” and yet that guy still has people that support him???
Can we go back to yanks killing fascists please? They were so good at that.
I’m sorry, you want them to have plausible deniability?
I want him to rub people’s noses in it. We are the bad guys.
i just want to have hope again :(
i thought that once trump eventually gets exposed as a vile monster, people would turn away from him… and though some have, it’s nowhere near as big of paradigm shift as i imagined would happen :(
That was never going to happen because Trump isn’t some random fluke, but rather a symptom of a much greater disease. “Subtle fascism” is not a stable, sustainable state, it naturally produced Trump and even if it were somehow possible to reverse time and go back to that, it would simply produce another Trump-like figure.
There are only two possibilities: either conditions will continue to decline and we will get increasingly overt fascism, or we make radical changes to fix those conditions. Socialism or barbarism. Maintaining or returning to the status quo is not viable.
don’t get me wrong, i don’t want the status quo back, i just want to feel hopeful for the future again :(
don’t mind me either way tbf, i’m romanticising the past when the world was barely any better than now, i was simply more ignorant of what was going on around me. i’m aware of this, i don’t indulge in that feeing too often, but sometimes i do
Hey. I feel it, too. I’ve been grieving for the last year, especially seeing the atrocities of ICE grabbing people in our street. I really thought Trump was the low point and we’d be able to move forward as a nation and catch up with the rest of the world, especially after the Jan 6th Insurrection.
I want you to hate America as much as I do.
honestly, i don’t really do hate, it’s not an emotion that gets invoked in me easily, nor does it last long. instead of hate i feel a mixture of pity, sadness, fear, and hope for a better tomorrow, and sometimes i run dangerously low on hope
You are still valid in pointing out that even if the world sucked before and they did what they do now, that it was easier to excuse people due to ignorance
That’s not the case anymore when Trump proudly admits they invaded Venezuela for their oil and people still praise him and what happened
I try to remain optimistic, but then the US does something evil again and I despair.
Hate and spite keep me alive when the hope runs out.