I am dead serious about this for all of you, if your headspace is here right now you have lost all sense of perspective or ability to meaningfully engage with politics as politics instead of as a psychodrama and should, for your own sake, disengage up to and including deactivating on here. - ThreadSky

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I am dead serious about this for all of you, if your headspace is here right now you have lost all sense of perspective or ability to meaningfully engage with politics as politics instead of as a psychodrama and should, for your own sake, disengage up to and including deactivating on here.

Reposted from KANADI-Class NHP

If you could hear that 25-hour speech and then hear that UC was given for cloture on speechmaking for the nomination of a low-tier ambassador and *that* is enough to put you on the ledge you need to stop following politics, no, I *am* serious, you will not survive this administration.

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catzmeow.bsky.social•1 day ago

straight facts.

kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah I saw some weird shit, no taking the wins where we can get them. I get some people are suffering and sometimes project it onto here in the form of doomerism, but for me there’s a time when enough is enough.

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•1 day ago

That "You will not survive this admin" isn't metaphorical either, to be crystal fucking clear, I am seeing people become suicidally depressed following politics right now and that is un-fucking-acceptable for anyone to do that to themselves.

ianbobmorris.bsky.social•1 day ago

I find it interesting how much better I am doing then the first time

jlwastooshort.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can understand why people would have had a spike of suicidal ideation right after the election, e.g., but having come this far and experiencing massive depression because of Chuck Schumer is legit hard for me to get my mind around

hrryan.bsky.social•1 day ago

The idea of spending many hours out of every day for weeks excoriating and demonizing Schumer just boggles my mind.

jlwastooshort.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean I'm not *happy* with everything he does but I've seen folks calling him a MAGA collaborator.

The left doesn't always send its best

hrryan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right, he was never a favorite of mine, but he's been a Dem legislator literally for decades and he knows what's what. I bet the same people calling him MAGA hate Pelosi too.

i-bresnick.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's been this way for a while. Unless you're really into quietly smuggling the GND under the guise of "inflation reduction," there was just nothing about Joe Biden that should have engendered strong feelings. The outsized hate he got from the left and right said far more about the haters.

jlwastooshort.bsky.social•1 day ago

Biden was a case where there was one big thing that he legitimately fucked up on (Gaza) but also the people who were pissing on him the hardest about it were also pissing on him for everything else so you don't need to hand it to them, like, at all

i-bresnick.bsky.social•1 day ago

I will continue to buck the conventional take on here about whether Biden fucked up on Gaza, but yeah. They got one note and they're just gonna keep playing it until they die.

sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com•1 day ago

election night fucked me up very badly. a few days afterwards i made the decision that i could not sustain that level of emotional intensity for four years. it would kill me and accomplish nothing. i chose a colder frame of mind instead.

i want to win.

loudpenitent.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the smart play. I'm struggling to adopt it myself.

sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com•1 day ago

luckily. as a tran. i have many years of practice at overactive emotional self regulation

huge-jackedman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Me too. I just can't follow it like that and get so invested. I've got too many people who I care about who need me to keep it together. I'll fight and Ive called and rallied already, but I just can't follow the Bloodsport as much.

alderfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dig in.

meza.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was despondent for a couple of weeks, afterwards. Eugh.

It's just not sustainable.

jennyhayes.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hell yes

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