No I’m not catastrophising.
The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.
Instead people are either ignorant or blaming wokeism for their problems.
I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.
I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.
Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.
Germany
Hey, at least we are fighting them this time! But sure, if system-wide changes are not coming, more people will fall into the hands of the fascists.
Slowly?
(Don’t forget Israel!)
Even better is watching liberals ignore it and ban everyone who tells them to arm up to defend themselves. This is seen as “advocating violence” because they think that fascists will be nice to them if they are nice to fascists.
Yeah, well, the dichotomy exists because of the inability of the average human to appreciate nuance. No surprise it’s become a fucking shitshow.
It’s interesting watching idiots like you thinking fascists will respect you for owning guns.
It’s far more likely they’ll murder you and your entire family in your own home for being perceived as a threat to their fascism.
It’s the ones who won’t fight back that survive.
Looks like we found one of the first targets
A bully apologist.
Where did I apologize?
My knowledge and ability to apply logic to a future scenario seems to have confused you as approving future scenario.
Based on this new knowledge, I can predict there is a 50/50 chance the fascists will successfully recruit you as a useful fool.
Morons are easy to brainwash.
With that air of superiority, I think you will be the authoritarian.
Moving that prediction up to 80/20 in favor. Best you order yourself a pair of jackboots.
Nah. It’s plainly obvious.
Let’s start with this: Can you do anything personally to save the world? I’m not talking incremental personal improvement rainbows and butterflies horseshit, I’m saying can you personally do anything to stop what is clearly a catastrophic trajectory?
If you can, do it. If you can’t, which I believe nobody can at this point, it’s time to stop worrying and live the life you have left.
Spend more time outside, learn to paint acrylics, go get some pussy.
Why torture yourself and live in misery? Why allow all the evil people trying to terrorize you to succeed. Fuck that noise.
Read this, it’ll help: https://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
“You can’t do anything to personally fix this, so you might as well not worry about it”
I fucking hate this mindset. This mindset is the reason we are in this position. We can’t just sit idly by and silently watch the right implement fascist policy and say “well, they were gonna try anyways, nothing we can do I guess”.
Go do something then, dumbass. Bc you won’t.
How do you expect to change someone else/world when you can’t even change yourself?
Behold, the unconscious class, pontificating about inner peace and enlightenment from their ivory tower of unearned privilege and willful ignorance
Its not about ignorance but being aware. Realising you can’t change the external situation so you change what you can control.
So you instead choose silent complicity with injustice and evil? I can’t change geopolitics sure, but at the very least you can bear witness and raise your voice to make others aware. And then somebody else who sees that issue, might have the power to change something.
If we all said “Damn that sucks for George Floyd, but police unions and politicians are big and scawy institutions- let’s do absolutely fucking nothing and go on with our lives” that is moral bankruptcy.
Stop digging and admit you don’t care about others dude, there’s no good way out of this hole you built
Right now. I no longer have the energy to do what you say. The only thing I CAN do as individual is focus on my self.
I care about others, I also donate to charities, i care about.
Idk what you mean by “hole i built”, it’s not that serious as you are taking it to be.
I can’t change your opinion about me (if you think, I’m evil) no matter how much I scream and yell. Everyone else sticks to their own positions in life, you and I are no different. It’s hard to change someone else or make a difference without influence/power.
That’s why its better to try and spend energy and time to create the life you want to live. Maybe then something can change and you may have the power to influence a small community/people.
Think globally, act locally
I don’t think you’re evil, but this attitude is part of the problem that enables terrible people to get away with horrific acts. “Why didn’t the Germans stop the holocaust?” can be explained a lot of ways, but complicity and silence feature throughout the answers, along with the ghouls who encouraged it
For a while I did exactly as you are doing. I was super involved in tracking and witnessing police abuses and misconduct, watching the drip-drip-drip while the country sat idle - and you’re right, it’s super depressing to see an obvious issue and be unable to change it. I did step away for a while when it got overwhelming, but me ignoring a problem, simply permits those abuses to continue without criticism or exposure.
I have the social, geographic and ethnic privilege to not be routinely affected negatively by the issues in the world, but I refuse to turn that to mute complicity
You are 100% correct. But…
For me, I don’t have the time to think globally.
I’m an 18 year old Asian male teenager - Middle Class Family.
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I need to make money - help my parents financially hoping to retire them earlier. These are the closest people I can help. My loved ones
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I have to stay in shape, fit and healthy (for the work I’m in)
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Trying to work on my business for passive income.
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Dealing with personal stress, issues and finances. (I’m in physcotherapy)
Do you still think as an individual, I have enough energy left to think about stuff that won’t help me and my family.
You say that you used to think like me. That does not mean you’re better or worse than me. It just means our priorities as individuals are different.
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This is really bad advice, you sound like you’re like a 15 yo.
Ahh yes. The better advice is to protest and waste time. 😂
It worries me too and I’ve been thinking a lot about margaritas, I’ve been sober for four years so its troubling thoughts of alcohol are creeping back in. I don’t know what else to say. Need a hug?
Are you going to the meetings?
What fucking meetings? For my alcoholism or for my depression about the future?
…If there’s any for the latter can I get a hookup?
I think this is the meeting.
Hi everybody, my name is Zink @programming.dev and I am a democracyholic.
Hi Zink
https://aa-intergroup.org/meetings/
On line AA meetings. 24/7. The only requirement to go to AA is a desire to stay stopped. If you think your depression is going to make you drink, come talk about it.
SMART Recovery is a non-Christian substance abuse support group. Though it can be difficult to find an in-person meeting because AA is so prevalent.
I’m in NA meetings on discord. There’s also a big God involved but just try to look besides that. They’re open ans very welcome to anyone that wants to stop
AA is a Christian support group, if you don’t believe in their God they won’t help you.
If you look at the site I provided, you’ll see that they have plenty of atheist/agnostic meetings [labelled ‘secular.’]
They also have a lot of LGBTQ+ meetings, as well as men only and women only options.
AA suggests people try to find a Higher Power of their own understanding.
These are religious meetings for addicts and alcoholics. The atheist and agnostic meetings are well-meaning but they talk about gods even more than at the non-secular meetings.
I am however delighted it works for you.
This is not true .
Yes it literally is. Or at the very least you have to “submit yourself to a higher power”
As you understand it.
That’s one of the steps yeah. And it’s recommended to follow all steps but nobody is forcing you. You can just go as you want and try to follow the other ones as much as possible. Also a higher power could mean different things if you’re creative enough.
Need a hug?
Wish I could give one
No I’m not catastrophising.
2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all
Yeah, I don’t know about that.
If only this was that simple. A “Democratic country” doesn’t just wake up one day vote for a bad guy and become fascist. This has been happening all over the world for last few decades. All the past politician created few policies out of fear, out of ignorance, out of greed, and out of malice that edged us towards this. And now most of the people have accepted this blatant abuse of our freedom, our privacy, our democracy as just part of life. There is nothing that anyone can do to stop this. Because we don’t bother reading EULA because we don’t demand the companies the governments to do better we just sign away our rights our freedom because we have better things to do.
Yeah you poor souls are truly living in an anti democratic fascist oligarchy and man I wish I could do something to help… God save us all for what will happen when the time comes to pay for someone with weapons
Ok maybe Austria will get these fascist assholes in power. Thats bad because Austria is like a playground in politics if it could happen in Austria it could happen in Germany too and then everywhere else.
The UK won’t be far behind. Our left leaning party is likely to get in at the next election, but the overton window has shifted faaaar in the past 10-15 years and today’s labour may just be yesterday’s Tories. Who’s to say what tomorrow’s Tories will be…
I don’t know what is missed And at this moment, I am too afraid to ask
I find it fascinating that so many people realize that this happens but very few actually do something against it. I don’t mean demonstrating, although that’s a good thing and better than nothing, but what to do to fight fascism on a sustainable, more permanent level? Fight disinformation wherever you meet it, don’t ever ignore it. Ever. Spray cans and large permanent pens are your friend in the beginning. No paroles. Truth. Do something for/ with the youth in your area, even if they laugh at you or ignore you, they WILL think about it in the end. Network. Talk to all kinds of people, again, no paroles, just listen to their problems, then lead them carefully on a way and let them decide themselves. Very many will come to a human conclusion. And make it clear to the rest, that the fascists will take their money first. Compare them to con men, because that’s what they are. One last thing: “shock therapy” does NOT work (anymore). People filter much easier today. Any more suggestions? I mean real ones, not “shoot them all” BS
From the perspective of age, we’re always careening one direction to another one potential catastrophe to another. It’s never pretty in the short term, in the small details. However from the larger perspective, the direction of society approximates a middle of the road direction.
For your own sanity, step back from the immediate details and see where we’re heading from a more safe distance
How old do you think I am?
I’m ancient by Lemmy standards.
Age has made me more aware that most adults have no idea what they are doing but think they actually do by virtue that they’ve survived to their 40’s and beyond. This makes them incredibly dangerous.
Maybe we can still win against these facist assholes
I’ve been saying this since 2015.
Hermano!!
I remember talking to a friend a few days after Trump declared. She told me that she didn’t want to have to think about Donald trump, ever.
