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Yeah, they're ahead of you on that one. Already zapped the Voting Rights Act and ruled that gerrymandering is legal. They're pretty competent at setting up the
by hotpotamus 4y ago
Yeah, they're ahead of you on that one. Already zapped the Voting Rights Act and ruled that gerrymandering is legal. They're pretty competent at setting up the doom loop for Democracy - that and cutting taxes for the wealthy.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoAdapt and overcome. I'm against panic and FUD.
- hotpotamus 4y agoYou know, it occurs to me that pessimism is pretty inherently toxic, but not always wrong, but optimism can have the same quality.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoI do what I can. I donate to principled and pragmatic political campaigns, I vote, and I encourage others to do the same. I've just heard too much doom and gloom that never turns out as bad in practice as I've been led to believe. c'est la vie. One must cultivate one's own garden.
- hotpotamus 4y agoI mean, I see the inflation now, I've lived through a climate disaster already (and quite the opposite of what I expected from global warming). I see the financial meltdown, the accelerating costs of living such that most people in my generation are actually poorer (and less healthy) than Boomers or Gen Xers. Also the president nearly had his vice president hanged by a crowd he whipped up. That last one might have had some entertainment value at least, but seems like it came pretty close to gloom and doom, no? Oh yeah, and the plague that apparently wasn't too bad because it only kills your grandparents and apparently they've had their time. And then the rich conservatives trot out their apparatchiks to tell you that actually you're just a sourpuss because your phone is too entertaining and your TV is too big and that's the most condescending part of it all I think. So yeah, not much of an optimist here I suppose.
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