I was gonna title this “And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice” and then write “Stuck inside of America with the fascism blues again” here, but I’m not sure if that comes off like gloating and that’s honestly the last thing I want to do this morning.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    22 hours ago

    With sympathy, panicked thoughts about what to do next, and quite a bit of horror? Absolutely.

    With a casual blaming attitude, waiting for someone else to make it better? Sure, they’re allowed to, just like I’m allowed to tell them to go fuck themselves.

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      13 hours ago

      Panic doesn’t help anything. Neither does horror. We survived one Trump presidency, we’ll survive this one, despite it being monumentally worse.

      Do what you can to help those you can around you. Work in and grow the support structures in your local community, family, and social circles.

      Panic leads to stupid, rash, not well thought out decisions. It should be avoided as much as possible while you take a long, honest, realistic look at the situation and evaluate what is and isn’t in your power to effect.

      You’re right that passive defeatism isn’t helpful, but you don’t have to go straight to the other extreme of emotional turmoil.

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        4 hours ago

        Maybe you’ll survive, bunch of people will survive, but not a lot of the minorities the Republicans currently have in their crosshairs. Maybe you’ll find all the skeletons in the camps after however many years or decades it will take to defeat fascism.

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        13 hours ago

        I have to be honest, I am panicking a little bit.

        Nothing will change instantly, or everywhere all at once, but it could get very bad, and not even a long time from now.