Social Media Influencers on youtube just makes it even harder to get away from this. They are taunting you with "this game sucks and you should feel bad!" grifters on youtube hoping that you freefall into some seriously enraging stuff.
Tom, I'd add that they've also sucked the "mundane" out of our daily lives in addition to the joy.
NB: This is not a good thing. Having a mundane (ordinary) life much of the time (but not all the time!) is far better for one's health than constantly being in a state of hyperarousal.
who else up wondering if the economy will crash, if you'll lose everything, if you'll somehow be forced to flee the country. who else makes sure they know where the fucking passport is at all times.
I have a PADL, Green Card & UK PP that need updating. I hope when they deport me for being on the SSDI I paid into, I can be put on a train to Canada/Mexico, & then fly from there. Any form of American transport is suspect now, but at least with trains, it's a shorter fall if it goes off the rails.
My passport is out of date, but does hoping the cancer that chemo didn't eradicate quickly grows from the quarter-inch nodule to full-blown death-star count?
Does wondering how you will survive long enough to die well count?
Sigh. I recently retired. I'd planned to spend my next 20-30 years in America, instead of whatever appalling mess it's going to turn into, and if my pension, social security, and savings all get trashed or Trumpflated into nothing, it's not like emigration's a good option.
My mom was born in France, to American parents, but dual citizenship wasn't an option back then, so we didn't inherit the chance to become French, and my last Irish ancestor left long before the potato famine. I've got a cousin who married a Canadian and lives in the cold part of BC, but brrr :-)
My mind has been racing to figure out how to protect what I've worked hard to save. And I've come up with nothing. I'm so scared that the dollar is going to be destroyed and everything I have with it.
It keeps me up nights and distracts me all day. I've researched like crazy and I'm not eligible to go anywhere because I'm not young, highly educated, and/or wealthy.
i should be able to be a low level bureaucrat i worked hard for this to serve my people and these fucking bastards have pissed on it all. i will never forgive them.
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NB: This is not a good thing. Having a mundane (ordinary) life much of the time (but not all the time!) is far better for one's health than constantly being in a state of hyperarousal.
Does wondering how you will survive long enough to die well count?
It feels very Klingon.
It's just a handful of assholes who just get away with shit because, for some reason, nobody wants to stop them.
It's maybe a dozen or so people who are as fragile and mortal as any other human.
But it's wrong to wish ill on them.
They can literally ruin the planet, order suffering & death on a massive scale and face no repercussions.
But if you were to wish out loud one of them would get sick, authorities would be knocking at your door.