The vibe vs 2016 is pretty palpable; nobody seems interested in performative protest. A lotttt of people just seem pretty cold, turning inwards and talking truly about forming real interpersonal networks assuming the state is lost; that is a pretty powerful, ultimately positive shift if it holds up. - ThreadSky

unormal.bsky.social • 115 days ago

The vibe vs 2016 is pretty palpable; nobody seems interested in performative protest. A lotttt of people just seem pretty cold, turning inwards and talking truly about forming real interpersonal networks assuming the state is lost; that is a pretty powerful, ultimately positive shift if it holds up.

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serpentworks-games.itch.io•115 days ago

Dude my cis white mom who's name is literally Karen was taken aback by the election. She's been telling me for years that 'things will get better' even when Roe fell. When I talked to her earlier this week she was shook about the whole thing.

There's hope yet, I think.

unormal.bsky.social•115 days ago

oh definitely, there always is; our ancestors have literally been like 30 total humans huddled on an ice sheet, forced out of their homes by seas rising hundreds of feet, had half their population culled in plagues, a thousand other forgotten megadisasters; yet here we are.

patrickleder.bsky.social•113 days ago

Somehow I'm getting fed r/Union and they are tearing into each other in the best way. Loads of dudes finally reckoning with what happened and pushing each other to mobilize before it's too late.

newobject.bsky.social•115 days ago

100% the same vibe in my neck of the woods.

unormal.bsky.social•115 days ago

the state ain't gonna save us; now we gotta save ourselves, the true seed of a state that can belong to us, instead of the other way around.

lord-of-crime.bsky.social•115 days ago

This is the way.

And if ever I hear Trump voters crying out to be saved from the mess they made, I shan't be moved. Because I TRIED to save them. By casting my vote for Harris-Walz. And they refused salvation as I did.

timjung.bsky.social•115 days ago

there’s a sobering sense of personal accountability I’m seeing. last time I just didn’t see material hands on action. It felt like people treated it like a tv show. shits dark but this could be a seed that leads to people doing the actual hard work it’s going to take

nferrar.bsky.social•115 days ago

I would see that more as a positive if the US had mandatory voting + preferential votes. Cold and turning away just means they won't vote any more, right?

unormal.bsky.social•115 days ago

maybe not for an establishment democrat

nferrar.bsky.social•115 days ago

For sure, hence the value of preferences. A painfully large subset of people probably won't see value in voting third party since with a single non-transferable vote in a first past the post system third party can't win. Without change to the system itself it probably won't get better.

rodneylives.bsky.social•115 days ago

We all carry deep psychological wounds from last time, and don't want to open them up again.

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