The other night I had to genuinely ask my mom if it was okay to feel uncomfortable with bigotry. No one should have to do that. Hate should not become normalized, that's how some of the worst events in history occured.
Hey, after waking up one November morning realizing my neighbors would 100% throw me in a concentration camp if it meant lowering the price of eggs a few cents I really can’t feel worse. I just hope the world doesn’t forgive America for what’s about to come if the campaign rhetoric does materialize.
It will never truly materialize.
Just look, he’s already breaking campaign promises in favor of the chaos of pretending to buy 3 more sovereign nations, all while LA is literally on fire. 🔥 🔥
It will and already has materialized for some of us.
So many immigrant, Black/Brown, and transgender people are not going to make it out the other side of this. Those who do will be traumatized and even disfigured.
Immigrants, I agree.
Who believed the guy who talked about nothing but eating the cats and eating the dogs would follow thru with mass deportation? 🙄
He only said it everyday, but Latino men wanted the dictatorial “strongman”. They shld cry when folks are dragged from their homes & separated.
This is the stuff all the Facebook Twitter goons were sharing non stop.
No Plan. No ideas. No Policy.
So landlords are just going to.... lower rent? Groceries are just gonna jump off the shelves and become our servants, you say? I heard magic puppies will also tell me, "Good ay' sir!".
They’re now deluded into believing he is the chosen one, with all the power of the Almighty Himself. And when nothing happens to lower costs (tariffs will raise prices exponentially) they will just go along, hoping things will get better.
I speak Spanish with my wife in public and private, since we are both immigrants. We live in a red state. I’m not looking forward to showing my ID to prove status. We already cope with mean stares and awkward questions from boomers in the grocery stores at times. I am not positive about the future.
Bro you have no idea, I’m trans and the way I get looks for just being out in public. They absolutely will turn their head as the cops take us to a concentration camp.
No one is throwing you into a concentration camp. Have you ever thought that getting your news from a liberal majority platform might not tell you the full truth?
Have you thought that liberals might stretch the truth in order to get more reactions and engagement?
They won’t throw us in a concentration camp the police will, they will just act like it’s not happening and do what the Germans did during WW2, where they claimed not to know.
People are not required to endlessly consume media that was designed to > drive consumption of media <
Quit cable news, stop worrying about the latest moronic distraction out of Trump's ass, stop fretting about Greenland, Facebook moving to automated moderation does not mean immediate genocide.
You sound like some who use to say “don’t worry they’ll never get rid of Roe v Wade”. I’d suggest you look at the pattern and what this presidency means for many many Americans and our rights.
My therapist told me to just write letters to the people I hate and then bury them in the backyard to feel better. She didn't tell me what to do with the letters though. :-)
⚠️ Ambiguity Alert
I'm confident that I know what you mean, but the wording leaves room for an unfortunate misinterpretation.
✅ It is OK to have feelings
✅ Now is an appropriate time time to be upset
❌ It is OK for the state of things to be sickeningly bad
It's also ok not to feel sick. Or happy, angry or anything about it - we all have to process things in our own ways at our own paces. What's going on is not normal, but it's also not the end of all possibility.
I don’t know why of all the things this new meta policy announcement has me the most shook, probably because Instagram and Threads have been my go to place to kinda escape, and now they feel gross
That stopped being weird for me when i figured out many of the white cops who grew up to kill black people listened to black music against that very thing as kids.
Since they don't fact check anymore, you can say ANYTHING about Mark Zuckerberg. Even going the MAGA route by saying bizarrely disturbing things that have no basis in reality.
I hate it. Freedom of speech? Freedom of speech? What about the countless whistleblowers, group movements and company atrocities that are constantly suppressed by algorithms and news networks? What about my right not to be subjected to hate speech? I know I shouldn't be angry, but I want to scream
I'm frustrated. Once again confirming what I already knew when liberals in my life didn't believe me. I've had to use FB since everything local and even my job is coordinated there, now they're just saying out loud that they DO encourage queerphobia as it's the only thing that keeps their site alive
To me it's because even though I already wasn't using their platforms, they have a lot of power to shape public opinion and they will be shaping it further towards hate.
It also breaks the idea that what social media is doing to society is something even the companies making these algorithms have no control over, now that they are choosing a political side against truth, secretly tweaking the feed to advance certain ideas doesn't seem so unlikely anymore.
It’s more than sick. I’m terrified. I knew this was coming about 35 years ago. The devaluing of education and a free and open press has been accelerating. I guess all my raging and action didn’t help. Goodbye American democracy. Hello fascism.
Reagan opened the door with his ridiculous “trickle down” plan, closing mental hospitals across the country, & cutting funding for public education. The dumbing down of Americans was the plan for a Russian takeover. I’m so sad.
Thanks for saying aloud what I have been muddling about in my head. Am I weak? A stereotypical hysterical female? An old fool?
NONE OF THE ABOVE. I know shit when I smell it and I do not like it. Thanks for permission to hold my nose.
It's only a matter of where that anger is directed.
Maybe, and I am hopeful, when Trump's complete failures take place, the cons and the complete corruption we can get the disillusioned maga / centrists on our side. Here's hoping.
Although, it won’t help much, let alone yourself. We need to learn how to interact with things by first measuring the (minuscule) impact an individual has on very big things, and thus not make yourself sick over it; You’ll do more good as a healthy happy person than a desperate news-thirsty one.
I’m more disappointed than anything else. I thought the average American was better than this. One good thing trump has done is expose exactly how stupid people can be. He’s shown proof that our education system is crap and how bullshit our “justice” system is.
We just got our water back after not having it since Monday morning. Everything is not great rn but I'm pretty sure it's gonna get worse before it will get better.
Yeah. As I told a friend of mine, it helps to log out for a while to recharge, especially if you're using the other platform. #draining #socialmedia #takeabreak
Also, whilst we do what we can, accept that much of it is (for now) outside our circle of influence, so don’t beat yourself up about it.
It’s understandable and legit that you feel the way you but it’s not ok because you don’t deserve it. Take care of yourself, whatever that would be for you. Hang out with like minded people for support. We’ll get through this. Remember, it’s not over ‘til the fat lady sings. And I’m not singing!
I can’t really express how sickened I am of all the things going on. A far right party in germany backed by Elon. War in Ukraine. Facism on the rise everywhere. Trump threatening EU and other allies….It gives me so-called „Weltschmerz“ (Pain over the state of things in german)…
I'm tired of feeling sick over the state of things. I'm not ignoring, or numbing myself to it, because I still care. However, I am choosing not to focus on things I have no control over, just for the sake of my own mental health.
Part of the human condition has always been that much of what we experience is outside our control. If it's not ok, that's what it is. We make due in this pointless endeavor and we try and minimize the suffering we can where we can. Maybe something inspiring or positive happens by accident? 🤷♂️
I mean ... buckle in. This is our new reality and it won't change in four years. If you've been paying attention even a little bit you'd know that this nightmare won't end in four years
Did you miss the “pick me girls” in my comment? Did you miss the incel comment which covers the young men who turned to Trump cuz they want a government ordered girlfriend?
Look at the statistics, the older boomers overwhelmingly voted for this so yes they hold a huge part of the blame.
Two things can be true. We most assuredly can blame the voters who voted for Donald. We can also blame the oligarchs for buying our democracy and turning it into a Christian fascist nation.
what are you even talking about? the world is literally on fire and regressing on every front. social progress being undone faster than real time. or maybe that's what you think is the improvement?
poverty is way down, violent deaths are down, hunger is way down, preventable disease is way down… we are talking about billions of people. the world is much, much better than it was even 20 years ago. social progress is improved too, i would rather be a persecuted minority now than in the 90s.
So we will live longer but with ailments and expensive care that most can't afford. Now consider mental health, climate health, education, and social progress - they don't seem to be improving. Ignorant, anti-science, anti-knowledge people would prefer we get polio and go backwards in time.
The recent news about the three geographical locations is a distraction, meant to trigger our outrage once again while he is likely doing something much worse.
Oh, I agree that he means it, for sure. But such announcements before he even takes office is a distraction. Especially since he announced a couple of weeks ago that bringing down grocery prices will be hard. How much press did that get? Meanwhile, all these outrageous decrees get all the hype.
I feel like an a-hole for not "caring," but I refuse to focus on the shit he says and does. I am not going to boost his crapulence this go round. He wants to create a show that no one can look away from.
He spent 4 years distracting the American people with a non-wall, putting children in cages and bluff and bluster while enriching himself and his family at the US taxpayer's expense. I'm not sure he wants to do anything different, but fear the Project 2025 mob will
Liberals have lost X, TikTok, and now Facebook. Disquieting rumors circulated that YouTube might also ditch “moderation” for a community notes system. Your world keeps getting smaller.
Pardon me, but I was responding to Hank. I am kinda new here so please bare with me as I figure things out. You are welcome to look at my homepage. I am right leaning, but independent at heart.
Sick? Ha! I have not yet *begun* to feel sick! I have levels of sick that they cannot possibly understand. I have sick that will make their heads spin. I have sick that... erp...
Many of us do feel worried - especially after hearing DT’s insane word salad talk. It’s not even funny anymore. And what do reporters treat his comments like they are serious possibilities? They are part of the problem. Call him out on the spot!!
It’s also okay to try to stay positive and believe that we can get ourselves out of this mess. I have to. The alternative is to live life in utter and profound depression. And that’s no good for my kids.
I wish you the best of luck in staying positive! It truly is challenging to emotionally stay above water these days. The alternative is no life at all really.
Well yes. But spiraling into hopelessness and cynicism isn’t going to make me a very good father, is it? This is why I must carry on as though we will get through this on the other side.
Well…the future I dreamed for them involved flying cars, spaceships, hoverboards, and friendly wisecracking robots that do the laundry. And for the record, I have let go of any hope of that and do not go about pretending it’s ever gonna happen. So no worries.
But there are ppl like me at 72 who are willing to sacrifice ourselves to stop this. I've lived my life, I'd like to see our country recover in 4 years.. if I'm still around. But I'm sick of turning my cheek.
I spent many years expending a lot of energy on being irritated about what politicians were doing. In the end, my life fundamentally didn’t change very much.
Trump’s an idiot. But me getting my briefs in a twist about it every day won’t change it. Shrug.
Reminder to all of us. PTSD only happens post trauma. Right now we need coping skills. And they are being tasked to their very limit. I understand it, and I'm heartily sorry for it, and I wish it wasn't that way, but it is. When you're going through hell, don't stop-But do pick up your neighbor. 🫂❤️🦋
You can do something, you can take care of yourself and your loved ones. I felt a lot better when I started thinking about the coming storm as that - a literal storm. You can't change it. You can't stop it. But you can try to survive, and it will end eventually.
That's exactly what I'm doing. There isn't anything we can do with the bigger picture, but I can help lead my family safely through it all and into the next world. Hope I see y'all there.
Don’t mourn; organize! The power to change this is inside you and everyone else that is about to suffer, and when we all realize it by organizing, then this will pass and we can build a better world together!
But how do you make yourself better? When you’re sick, you know you’re going to get better. This crap is a never ending river of diarrhea from an immunocompromised social order that is in a toxic waste dump of discourse.
The care giver is a Munchausen syndrome by proxy messiah complex psychopath.
I saw more than two dozen posts on X about Trump's stupid Greenland/Canada comments. Another few here. He is an idiot, but nothing is going to come of it other than the US being an international embarrassment. Don't stare at social media folds, it is repetitive negative.
Thanks Hank. I am beginning to suffer from News Fatigue. The contagion became fully-inflamed in my brain with the BS about conquesting Greenland. I cannot take it any longer. tRump’s dribble is eroding my own thoughts, pushing out joy and hope, replacing it with doom.
What more sickening is that Americans you thought would have known better... instead the majority got played into re electing this moron for another term unleashing his madness on the rest of us in the world. Now we have to endure another four years of it.....
Last night I woke up thinking about the horrific fires in California and how timing is everything, hoping Biden can approve aid quickly before trump quashes it 😫
Yes it’s okay as well as feeling disappointed and 😞 sad but we’ll survive,I think how blessed I am not being in those wildfires,and feeling so sad for them,and hoping they survive the trauma that comes with all of it.I’m a hurricane survivor, barely, the PTSD is real,and difficult to shake.
The way to stop feeling sick, is to get into action.
Our ancestors fought and died for our democracy, now it is our turn to fight for it and if that means death, bring it on.
About 6.2 million Americans who voted for Biden-Harris in 2020, didn’t vote for Harris-Walz in 2024, and about half of them appear to have voted for Trump-Vance.
This might be explained by misogyny and racism, but that’s not entirely clear.
The simple answer was that the president directly controls the price of eggs it's his only job he just sits there with a dial and turns it up a few cents every day. Trump said he would turn the dial down.... after he fights Canada. Panama and Greenland. The electorate is also very dumb.
More likely explained by demoralization of progressives on the further left. Harris ran a depressingly conservative campaign, and took flak from all sides on the Gaza conflict, which she handled poorly.
One fascinating feature of the past three presidential elections is that the outcomes were so close that any of several possible explanations can explain the results. Any hypothetical that accounts for a million votes did tip the balance.
But the signal on this hypothesis seems pretty strong.
I think you're showing up in my feed today because my daughter was saying yesterday that teachers don't teach anymore, they just show youtubes, and she couldn't remember if it was "Hank" Green or "John" Green, so we googled. Hello.
But is it ok to actually blame the parties responsible or is this another lib crying session ending in anger beat poetry. If these next four years don’t radicalize you finally, then the world is going to be a very confusing place
I think maybe you forget that a key part of the civil rights was poetry- Black Arts Movement. We each have our role in this fight. And the arts has been important in all fights for equity, equality, and democracy
Definitely a fave of effete white liberals who didn’t want to deal with the actual work of the marches and activism being done by X, MLK, and the Black Panthers. Crickets for most of them until about a few decades after the fact. Again libs love cry sessions and performative words over everything.
I'm not sure what this has to do with white ppl. The black arts movement was by black ppl. Just like most other minority literature and art movements. Marches, lockdowns, boycotts, and mutual aid are all vital to change AND so are the arts.
I don’t know if it’s just OK. I am devastated at what’s going on in this country. But I have to stay strong and fight. We have to keep fighting back because this is not America.
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Just look, he’s already breaking campaign promises in favor of the chaos of pretending to buy 3 more sovereign nations, all while LA is literally on fire. 🔥 🔥
So many immigrant, Black/Brown, and transgender people are not going to make it out the other side of this. Those who do will be traumatized and even disfigured.
Who believed the guy who talked about nothing but eating the cats and eating the dogs would follow thru with mass deportation? 🙄
He only said it everyday, but Latino men wanted the dictatorial “strongman”. They shld cry when folks are dragged from their homes & separated.
No Plan. No ideas. No Policy.
So landlords are just going to.... lower rent? Groceries are just gonna jump off the shelves and become our servants, you say? I heard magic puppies will also tell me, "Good ay' sir!".
Have you thought that liberals might stretch the truth in order to get more reactions and engagement?
Quit cable news, stop worrying about the latest moronic distraction out of Trump's ass, stop fretting about Greenland, Facebook moving to automated moderation does not mean immediate genocide.
😄👏😜
However, I didn't support and work for and donate to the Dems so they could just acquiesce.
Maybe I should have been doing all that for the GOP. Then, maybe I could have had some influence on their policies and candidates. See what I mean?
I'm confident that I know what you mean, but the wording leaves room for an unfortunate misinterpretation.
✅ It is OK to have feelings
✅ Now is an appropriate time time to be upset
❌ It is OK for the state of things to be sickeningly bad
☝🏼In so doing, I end up (accidentally) coping!
President-elects, even.
We aren't safe until everyone shares in the love.
If everyone is sick about things, why are t they changing?
NONE OF THE ABOVE. I know shit when I smell it and I do not like it. Thanks for permission to hold my nose.
Maybe, and I am hopeful, when Trump's complete failures take place, the cons and the complete corruption we can get the disillusioned maga / centrists on our side. Here's hoping.
*Because Deep-Dive Dad sounded even dirtier coming from an elder millenial.
Also, whilst we do what we can, accept that much of it is (for now) outside our circle of influence, so don’t beat yourself up about it.
" challenges ahead, but today I'm ok"
It still works. Most of the time.
https://youtu.be/q6GyTBVAF4w?si=uFb3_VzweH5W-8QJ
Look at the statistics, the older boomers overwhelmingly voted for this so yes they hold a huge part of the blame.
It’s an ugly little Voter Suppression bill.
I already voted. Not interested in another white spectacle
I spent many years expending a lot of energy on being irritated about what politicians were doing. In the end, my life fundamentally didn’t change very much.
Trump’s an idiot. But me getting my briefs in a twist about it every day won’t change it. Shrug.
The care giver is a Munchausen syndrome by proxy messiah complex psychopath.
https://youtu.be/khxsqf_L_v0?si=wuaT9v2vO8aSoRgF
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna186700
Gop hate fomented by billionaires.
I'm sick of those who naively chose to put us all in this state of things, again, for myopic, selfish, short term gains.
Our ancestors fought and died for our democracy, now it is our turn to fight for it and if that means death, bring it on.
So, yes. 👍
This might be explained by misogyny and racism, but that’s not entirely clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
But the signal on this hypothesis seems pretty strong.
The three million people who voted for Biden and switched to the insurrectionist are worth taking a closer look at.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-senator-deb-fischers-husband-rejects-kamala-harris-handshake-at-swearing-in/
https://www.nbcwashington.com/decision-2024/2024-voter-turnout-election-demographics-trump-harris/3762138/
https://www.varsitytutors.com/en/national-reading_comprehension-tutoring?keywordId=kwd-271396141&devicemodel=&adgroupid=152376268713&v=variant&geoid=9192578&gad_source=1&zip=&ad_test=rsa-Original_Root_AC_PvtHybrid&accountid=%7B123-208-7597%7D&vtsubject=reading_comprehension&network=g&capaignid=20161997495&keyword=reading%20comprehension%20tutoring&placement=&position=&device=m&matchtype=b&creative=661656808732&gbraid=0AAAAADkqTpTRpv3CptgHP0-ZFKtmyXdsN
https://www.thefp.com/p/jay-solomon-pro-china-tik-tok-brainwashes-american-youth
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-rematch-poll-april-monmouth-b2536817.html
It’s also of dubious utility.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLnZ-0zyHg&pp=ygUZdGhhbmtzIG9iYW1hIHRob3VnaHRzbGltZQ%3D%3D
https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/