The fascists don’t just want people to be afraid of dissenting. They also want you to feel hopeless and cynical, convinced change can’t happen.
They want you to just take care of your own life because the greater world is too much.
They want you to feel this precisely because things *can* change.
They want you to just take care of your own life because the greater world is too much.
They want you to feel this precisely because things *can* change.
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We see it over and over again: Just a few words, constrained by the limits of a Bluesky post, that carry power and find resonance.
Here’s another one.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevencharleston.bsky.social/post/3lkzk5gxejs2x
(Apologies if you've linked this earlier. Not a perfect piece—uses "woke" the way the right does—but captures the risk we face in terms of hopelessness/cynicism.)