If you don't fight authoritarianism, your mind WILL bend over to justify the inaction. And then you rot. There are worse things than dying. - ThreadSky

lordsovorn.bsky.social • 101 days ago

If you don't fight authoritarianism, your mind WILL bend over to justify the inaction. And then you rot.

There are worse things than dying.

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maya-weiss.bsky.social•101 days ago

Seems like kremlin is pushing new narrative, that calms people down with the idea that Trump's words is just a show or mindgame and he isn't really serious about 'dictator' his 'third term', anything.

'Relax we are good guys who know what to do, there is a plan! We also like to troll libs, haha!'

maya-weiss.bsky.social•101 days ago

Primitive, really, but it will have some effect, because it offers to the nervous public, more comfortable interpretation of reality, reality without freaks and criminals in the White House.

They are constantly working to nudge people to be selfish and isolated.

lordsovorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

It seems like kremlin is pushing more propaganda in general, more narratives and more bullshit than you can keep track of

Well, to the same effect

lordsovorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

If you don't act on your own, you are complicit in the actions of the killing machine that relies on you.

Knowing this is painful. You don't want to hurt people. No matter what you do, your mind will seek to avoid pain.

lordsovorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

If you hide behind your self-proclaimed impotence, you give up your will. Your body to those who'd use it. Your agency. Your ability to enact change.

And so you don't act.

And people continue dying. And the dissonance gnaws on you. And the cycle continues.

lordsovorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

With the ability to enact change, you give up the ability to imagine it.

Your choice has to be the right one. Anyone would choose what you did. No one could change anything.

There is no hope.

lordsovorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

And once you lose hope, you become hopeless. Forsaken. Unsalvageable. There is nothing that can heal you because you can't imagine it.

But the gnawing remains, you still crave to justify your choices as everything gets worse and worse around you. And you don't want to die.

lordsovorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

And you outsource hope, giving up yet more of yourself, and getting nothing in return.

And the boiling, nauseating gnawing within you flares up every time you see someone make a different choice. Someone hoping for better. Someone being happy in their hope.

lordsovorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

And so you try to look away. You try to find the irony in their happiness. You try to give them a reason to suffer.

The suffering of everyone becomes the justification of your hopeless life. See, it couldn't be any better.

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