Yes it’s really great to get that when I post something that I have, in fact, been aware of for some time, but am pointing it out and trying to welcome in others who are noticing it now to be part of the conversation about how we can make it better. 🙃
I thought we want this platform to be factual and scientific. This can be a safe place, but even your allies may say things that are uncomfortable to hear. If you want to feel supported only use a friend or therapist. We need to be real and prepare for a long ugly war.
Maybe the message should actually be, it will get worse if we don’t do something different? I think history can teach us what happens if we continue the path we are on. I am seeking fresh leadership with a vision that does not rely on the wealthy donors. I am a realist problem solver not a doomer.
I've been rallying my union around the need to get more militant in the face of this new administration. We've had a surge in interest and involvement as a result. "It will get better if we work at it" is true under both democratic and republican presidencies.
It will get better. We have to hold on to hope and stick together through this.Teachers aren't letting ice get their kids. That's the first step, we're pushing back. I work with kids and I'll gladly go to jail before I give ANY of them up. I'll punch a Nazi in the face. I'll help my neighbor.
You'll have to forgive them, that's their reaction bc they spent every last drop of energy for months shouting from the rooftops Project 2025 is coming to no avail.
But I agree, these aren't helpful rn.
I hope it makes ppl feel better knowing that we're ALL in this together & THIS TOO SHALL PASS!😊
Yeah I'm about to unfollow a couple big name accounts because it's too much masturbatory glee over constant doomposting, interspersed with smirks of "Well I intend to escape so I can keep writing ✊🏽" like it's doing something.
Yah my favorite ones are "this is the end, we're all gonna die, well not me specifically, I have tickets in my pocket and bags packed for my move to the French Riviera, but you guys are doomed" kindly fuck off dude
"the economy is collapsing and we're all going to starve to death while the rich people abandon us! BTW I'm moving to Europe to avoid all of this lmao bye" is the one eating my nards today
The truth is not pretty but at least someone isn’t just placating you with bullshit and GRWM vids by desperate “influencers” who thought they’d retire making 2 cents off every “view”.
Its time to practice personal austerity. Cancel subscriptions. Don't eat out. Stop the lattes. Reduce recurring payments. Forestall major purchases. #resist #actblue
Any form of resistance to fascism is cool. But far more effective is working with others to resist and even improve conditions. Form a union at your workplace, join a local progressive org like DSA, or learn how to defend yourself and your community by taking shooting classes.
Well then, don't complain or comment about the oligarchic a*holes creating this sh*storm; "ruining your life" as if you're not spending yourself into that state of misery while funding their power climb
We might be headed into a market crash or hyperinflation. Don't, like, blow your 401k on coke and booze, but please go ahead and spend whatever you planned to spend today. If you go without to save it up, it is not guaranteed to still be there tomorrow. (Source: lived it.)
doesn’t seem any action steps yet for me, but i feel we need to talk about consequences of actions today. And it doesn’t alleviate my disappointment in American voters and government. But the moment we stop talking is the moment we tacitly accept. See Germany in 1930s.
Most of them didn’t start off that way. They started by warning people, and were told they were too strident. Then they warned louder and were told that it’s actually both sides. Then they marched and protested, and were told their hats made them look silly. Now you get what you get.
Posted something about my anti-covid precautions family being un-accommodating and someone commented “sorry dad is a yutz” and it genuinely solved all of my problems. 🤣🤣
It always gets darker before it gets lighter. Just stopping makes the dark last way longer. The light is created by the energies of the collective working together.
Yeah, this one. I'm old enough to remember how we used to be - water fountain issues, redlining being okay - and what we're seeing now, bad as it is, still isn't as bad as it was then. This IS the America we knew, just not the one we want yet. Gotta keep fixing what the right-wing breaks.
Hey it will get worse than this but you’ll probably stumble upon a human being that goes beyond sympathizing and actually takes action to help you. Not me though. I just relate 🫠
When i read those declarations, i 'thought' they were taunts from some natc, like 'welcome to the new, better america, liberal.'
This instead sounds to me like liberal Doom sooth-saying? 'its all over now'
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Some people fear the worst so they can be happy when it doesn't turn out as bad. Some people hope for the best and are sadly disappointed when it does not happen..Pick your poison as we all know the status quo is changing.
Agree with your sentiment but also grateful to others for the reminder that it will get worse. Its both a warning and a call to action, political and/or personal self preservation. Pollyanna doesn't have a place anywhere in the world today. Much less in the US.
Effective protest is optimism. Want to do something to warrant optimism? Wear a mask..N95, KN95, cloth (paper at the very least). R policies are all aimed at killing Americans. Don't help them. Masks keep you healthy now like they did b4 trmp sold mask kool-aid to his cult. Your mask is a FU to maga
I wore PPE for decades &never brought home an infection. Painters &exterminator wear masks every day. I haven't been sick in 5 yrs..have you? Rs are trying to kill us so..yes..everything little thing we can do helps. And nothing is easier to do or more in their face than wearing a mask.
A mask is only one easy visible thing anyone can do.There is a reason Rs downplayed C19, now RSV, bird flu. Only one reason for prohibiting masks in public. Like ALL they do it is meant to sicken &kill. Every predator knows weak prey=easy kill. Do anything you can to stay alive. Esp something easy.
There is one singular thing that one can do that will have any effect at all on the broader situation, and at the same time, protect yourself, and that's to leave
But even people who are posting about how things are going to get worse are not ready to have that conversation yet
This is what I’ve been saying “it will get worse before it gets better” because in a lot of cases that has happened. And we as humans have been through this before. We can get through it again. And a lot of people need to hold onto that hope cause as soon as you lose it they won.
I hear ya. Try this, my husband doesn’t pay attention to any of it. Nada. Watches movies and sports.He’s happy and life moves on. They want us in fear. I refuse. False Evidence Appearing Real.
So.... Your husband doesn't care who is being hurt as long as he can watch sports and doesn't have to see it. Well I'm glad he can be happy while others suffer. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
It's that attitude that led us to this point. Too many people turning away, and refusing to believe warnings. The army of the apathetic allowed authoritarians to prosper. The tipping point has been passed. It's going to get much worse, whether or not you bury your head in the sand.
I dunno, I’m relatively optimistic about the medium to long term. We’ve lived in an oligarchy for a long time, but we’ve never had the oligarchs shoved in our faces.
The next step for this one is 2028. As I said unless people sweep the midterms the GOP will reshape our democracy or what is left because people like some in the comments just can't see beyond their stupid whiteness
Helpful to whom? And to what? I was helpful during the elections. If you think anything going on now and in the future will stop that by ReSiStInG you are deluding yourself. This country had its chance and failed miserably.
The election is when the time clock gets to 0. We are now in the first quarter of a new game with halftime 2026 midterms. 4th quarter ending with the general in 2028.
A whole lot happens in each of those quarters. Pay attention.
not seeing beyond your whiteness is despairing when there's still action to be taken. i'm trans. i can't afford to weep and say "woe are we!" i need to act to at least try to save me & those i love. you can too. perhaps you are already are. that's politics too.
4 years to get rid of him. Unless white people as a whole actually grow a pair and sweep midterms. And yes, the election is a game with winners and losers
We are not going to "get rid of him" until we understand why he and his enablers in Congress are so successful, and correct the structural issues that enable that.
It’s unfortunate, but people just want to believe what they are fed. They aren’t curious enough to get down to the truth. So that in combination with wanting to “blame” someone else. The GOPNazi party was smart enough to exploit the ignorance of the general public.
some of us might not make it through the next few years. the "game" right now? help them survive, don't roll over for the admin & crush them in the process.
With that attitude we will never get anywhere. The partisanship we are in today is a direct consequence of attitudes like yours. Nobody can have it just their way. Good laws are made when people compromise, nobody gets it all or nothing. We must accept that and work together to make it better
It *will* get worse, but also we *can* do something about it, and more importantly, we can be a *community* helping each other through whatever comes, and we can just *live*
I got sick of it too. I just created a Reddit group where I can at least do something positive. Let’s boycott the businesses who don’t support us and use our consumer power to actually “DO SOMETHING” https://www.reddit.com/r/consumershavepower/s/CJvXRl0Xt5
God damn, either these people truly are solutionless, doom-ridden losers or the bot problem has gotten really bad. If someone only has doom to respond with and no sense of action to fight with, they should keep it to themselves while the rest of us work it out. They are literally do-nothing assholes
I want it clear I am talking about reply guys. If you are suffering from a sense of doom, that is natural. But if you actively try to spread that shit onto people, you're an asshole.
Serious questions. What should the response be to the godawful shit we've seen in just the last week? What kind of positive spin would be appropriate here when we all know that barring a miracle it is going to get worse?
Doesn't have to be positive but it should be supportive. Don't have to wait for a miracle. Never been miracles that stopped tyranny. always been activism, information circulation, and unity. You can take small actions to help resist. Doesn't have to be big. It even helps break down the doom inside.
Right! We -know- “it’s going to get worse.” Try, “I’m definitely voting midterms,” or, “I contacted my rep and…” Give ideas and support, not useless woe. Time to put that anger and despair to work for betterment. If this pessimist can muster up some positivity and action… I’m just sayin’. Fight!
Yes! I'm for sure a pessimist but would never make comments that do nothing but make people who are already terrified feel worse. I don't understand why people in the comments here think the only two options are doom and burying your head in the sand.
The point isn't "everything's fine, actually," it's "We know things are bad and gonna get worse, but repeatedly telling people that only serves to further demoralize everyone"
Look the thing is this: there is no silver lining. No good news. We have a multi decade battle on our hands to get democracy back and truly, once you lose democracy, you don't just get it back.
Process this and get ready. No platitudes or positive vibes will help. We're at war
Because we already know and have processed it and are trying to continue living but then we have smug dipshits like you thinking you're giving us the fuckin news, you're not
Ignore them. If you have the energy respond with something useful for others to see. Don’t give in. Find community locally. Do what you can and inspire others. Talking about things can help. Learn from history and spread knowledge.
Makes everyone feel worse.
But it’s not going to get better. The USA is now facing decades of fascism and dictatorship. Either you voted for this or the election was rigged, or 15 + M voters sat at home and didn’t vote.
dRumpf is president for LIFE!! No more elections!
It will stop getting worse.
It will get preternaturally quiet.
...right before Lockdown 2.0.
...which will last 4 years.
Until they let us out.
To fight WW3.🌈🌞✨
I've been enjoying Bluesky but it is 100% riddled with bots lol. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bot (or several) made just to be discouraging about everything.
report and block bots. And if you can’t tell a person from a bot because of how they are replying, it’s probably healthy to block those as well. Eventually they will either learn to interact or move on.
The only price is fewer followers but it’s a small price.
I've reported a few blatant ones, but I haven't gone through my followers yet. I know most of them are probably bots lol I hadn't considered blocking them.
I’ve blocked 244, according to https://Clearsky.app
≈100 of them variations of some account in a single afternoon.
The rest manually, the VAST majority accounts that looked botty - 1,000s of follows, zero or one post, 0-1 followers, botty bios… a couple of sea lions but not very many at all here… +
I don’t do much debating, though I will engage in a good conversation where we have differing viewpoints, and am happy to learn and/or stand corrected.
"Trump can't build a sunblocker like Mr. Burns did on the Simpsons to keep the entire country in darkness. The logisitcs don't exist and it would defy the laws of physics."
"No, he's just going to do it because he's a dictator."
Dopes' gunna cope, but I hold out hope that my 2-year-old hobby of making IFAKs for housewarming gifts isn't going to be perceived as weirdo shit like it use to.
Write the time of tourniquet application (12:39 PM) on the patient's arm, body, shirt, whatever. Never apply a tourniquet to someone's neck for a head wound btw. They wouldn't say this if this hadn't been attempted.
Just out of curiosity, can you pinpoint the exact moment at which you gave up all hope of doing anything meaningful with your life, and decided to focus on being boring and annoying in people's replies instead?
Yes exactly. This is why I am all in the commiserate but the ‘don’t bother fighting there is nothing that can be done’ undercurrent is so clear and unhelpful
As far as I'm concerned, this administration affects transpeople the most and in my opinion, it CAN get worse but I'm not about to give up. Guess what? You're probably going to get stressed out if you're not already. THEY want you to accept THEIR doom.
I think so many feel the need to point it out bc they haven't been believed for the last 9 years by others or our leadership, and as things get more serious they're screaming to finally be heard in hope of change. Not bc they want to kill any joy.
well, it's accelerationism, right; if it gets worse and everything goes down in flames, the empire collapses, perhaps utopia can rise from the ashes, I think that's the idea
never mind how many people will suffer horribly along the way
As a mental health professional, I have informally taken the hippocratic oath, which is first to do no harm. My political philosophy never includes allowing harm. I understand the temptation to want to see things get worse. I get that that appears to be a valid strategy. I will not do that.
However, we have now been forced to the point we were going to find out whether or not enough pain and suffering will actually make people do anything. I can’t stop this from happening so I will say I told you so, but it won’t give me very much pleasure.
Been doing that every day since Reagan took office. The end result seems to be that any amount of suffering is bearable and if it gets bad enough, people will just long for someone who will make it even worse as long as they promise to hate the right people and make those people suffer a bit more.
Catastrophism. The international socialist organization back in the day wanted to see things get worse, so there would be revolution and they would be the Vanguard of the proletariat, but they wouldn’t tell you that at their booths.
Thank you, it’s getting real boring the amount of people just choosing to complain and reiterate what we can all see with our own eyes. Can us normal lefts come back to the front please?!?!
Despair is and offers no resistance. It’s enabling for those who want to make things worse. Hope and resilience and refusal to give up is more radical than acting edgy will ever be.
I’m a realist. A person who believes very strongly in being grounded in reality, and not swinging too much towards optimism or pessimism. A realist is more likely to be objective about situations and can solve problems planning for both positive and negative outcomes.
.. it’s good to know oneself, at the same time.. it’s important to remember that what is happening right now is bigger than any of us, my pov is showing support in whatever way possible is the only sensible thing to do.
Millions are to die due to climate apocalypse, you should be an absolute pessimist at these times and let it mobilize you. That’s the real crisis ultimately
No. We know what's going on. We just understand that it isn't helpful for anyone to be a doomer about it, and it's just annoying as hell to do it in other people's comments
Imagine if we all found some f-ing determination to fight back, rather than wallow in despair... after all, we'd all be slave labor working 6 days a week for pennies if our ancestors had said "it will just get worse" and gave up. They fought back.
Personally, it accomplished as a reminder to not wallow in hopelessness. Even if I feel I can’t make things better, at the very least I don’t have to make things worse for myself or others.
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But I agree, these aren't helpful rn.
I hope it makes ppl feel better knowing that we're ALL in this together & THIS TOO SHALL PASS!😊
But I hear the light at the end of the tunnel is an incoming train
https://youtu.be/KbmyIzsCpk0?si=3TS6wT9OOJD2Rpwh
This instead sounds to me like liberal Doom sooth-saying? 'its all over now'
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You in a mask: yea but how many common colds have you had these past 5 years, hmm?
But even people who are posting about how things are going to get worse are not ready to have that conversation yet
Bad habit of mine, I try to avoid response with no other content, although the cynicism and despair is a beautiful black pit
Or maybe the same.
Not giving in to techno-nazi's tales of rage and despair is also a good thing for the environment.
A whole lot happens in each of those quarters. Pay attention.
DONT.
Here. Here's a fluffy bunny picture, for your feelings.
"Oh fuck we're getting driven off a cliff" someone says
"Aktually we don't KNOW what's going to happen. You can't see the future" someone replies.
I'll leave it to you to determine which is intelligent.
Everything should be back to normal any second now. Good work, everybody! We did it!
https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/mathematics-pictures-catastrophe-and-psychology-1978
Look the thing is this: there is no silver lining. No good news. We have a multi decade battle on our hands to get democracy back and truly, once you lose democracy, you don't just get it back.
Process this and get ready. No platitudes or positive vibes will help. We're at war
But it’s not going to get better. The USA is now facing decades of fascism and dictatorship. Either you voted for this or the election was rigged, or 15 + M voters sat at home and didn’t vote.
dRumpf is president for LIFE!! No more elections!
It will get preternaturally quiet.
...right before Lockdown 2.0.
...which will last 4 years.
Until they let us out.
To fight WW3.🌈🌞✨
“Don’t worry, it will get worse.”
“Um…. Thanks, I guess?”
(so what's the point? Is I think what is aggravating OP 😅)
The only price is fewer followers but it’s a small price.
≈100 of them variations of some account in a single afternoon.
The rest manually, the VAST majority accounts that looked botty - 1,000s of follows, zero or one post, 0-1 followers, botty bios… a couple of sea lions but not very many at all here… +
That will at least keep me para-socially adjacent to someone who cares about solving problems and feeling better.
"No, he's just going to do it because he's a dictator."
thanks!
It will get verse(s).
Currently the void gives Bonespurs a free ride.
Websites and media need engaging with too.
A lot, I hope.
because
it will get worse
never mind how many people will suffer horribly along the way
It will get worse because you slept through the fucking revolution
Now that's some funny sarcasm!!! Right there with you regarding the doomers.
Perfect
I’m a realist. A person who believes very strongly in being grounded in reality, and not swinging too much towards optimism or pessimism. A realist is more likely to be objective about situations and can solve problems planning for both positive and negative outcomes.
He has been preaching this for the past five years. Why have you been ignoring the facts
It is your commitment as an American to do your own research
Time to get back to therapy, your doomer attitude is showing.
Nothing of value whatsoever.
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