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• Deiskos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As will be every year after that. It’s all downhill from here folks.

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  • clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pessimism literally helps nobody, it just makes people more depressed and less likely to do anything about a bad situation. Don’t forget that last election had one of the highest young voter turnouts ever recorded, and was by far a huge swing to liberal. Since then the Republican party hasn’t even been close to as organised as they were during 2016 and 2020.

    Change can and will happen. It already is, albeit slowly and with bumps along the road, just like any progression in society.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pessimism literally helps nobody, it just makes people more depressed and less likely to do anything about a bad situation.

      Change can and will happen. It already is, albeit slowly and with bumps along the road, just like any progression in society.

      Yep. Seriously, keep the faith. And fight the good fight.

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    • Deiskos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m glad you have some optimism left in you. I don’t.

      Trump or that clown Sunak winning your election will have catastrophic effects for my country who’s been in full scale war for almost 2 years. All the while the “allies” drag this war out by giving bullshit reasons to not send long range missiles and aircraft (uwu 5-8 months for basic proficiency for already proficient fighter pilots, also known as “if they started even last year, f16s would be flying at least SEAD by now and not relying on a jank adaptor to launch HARM”), and decide that sending 31 Abrams tanks is good enough for a 1200km long frontline.

      I had some optimism in March 2022, despite how bad everything looked at the time, it slowly diminished to what it is now by Spring of 2023 when it became clear that goal #1 for our “allies” is NOT to end this war, as quickly as possible, but to bleed russia out, death by a thousand cuts, all with our lives.

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      • Deiskos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        rant (cont.)

        I can even understand unwillingness to give ATACMS, you don’t have a lot of them and need them all to fight Mexican drug cartels or whatever you would use ballistic missiles for in 2023.

        You don’t even use f16 anymore, and just sold some to Vietnam recently.

        There’s at least few hundreds Abrams tanks sitting in the desert in dry storage. But no, 31 is all we get.

        And the total clownery of political debate where at least two candidates build their platform on being friends with russia and china and stopping all support to Ukraine.

        And the total clownery of passing a lend lease act in 2022 and then not using it - trusting Ukraine to win so as to not burden us with returning leased hardware, but not trusting enough to give enough to win.

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    • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You got through to me and changed my perspective. Ty

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      • clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pessimism is so addictive. I’ve struggled with it a ton throughout my life.

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    • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pessimism hapoens vecause the fucking liberals wont let us call Nazis what they are and keep insisting that they deserve more fucking free speech than progressives do.

      Arm up, everyone, or get shoved into the boxcars.

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nobody’s getting shoved into boxcars. Well, unless you’re trans, or gay, or the wrong skin color that day (I’m guessing brown first), or if you say something the president doesn’t like, or if you’re associated with a terrorist organization (by showing up to the wrong protest).

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      • clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I get your statement but it’s really overly violent, and honestly sounds kind of libertarian. More guns & more violence really will not solve anything. If you get violent all you do is justify violent means for your oppressors. In this day and age, there’s no winning a fight of violence against the government and groups you disagree with. There’s far better alternatives that we have. The benefit of capitalism is that it means the only fucking thing that works against the power structure is to scare them from losing control of their capital. I guarantee en-mass “voting with your wallet”, and literal voting, will have a much better effect than arming up.

        Also, you’re free to call Nazis, Nazis. Nobody is stopping you.

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  • set_secret@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    but there well be a brief period where we can swim in late autumn and early spring. so won’t that be nice.

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• LurkNoMore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, I’m banking on the younger generations coming out of the woodwork. They’ve dealt with so much and really hoping they realize their vote could really send these dinosaurs into extinction.

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  • Hoomod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Taylor Swift seems to be doing a good job with that.

    Didn’t she get like 150k people to register in a day with an Instagram story or something

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    • puppy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Register where? What’s the story?

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      • uskok@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Register to vote. Americans have to register or they cannot vote.

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  • gsfraley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree, I have some hope as common folk get more and more tuned in, especially as obscure runs like the Wisconsin Supreme Court judgeship and Ohio constitutional amendment process change get overwhelming positive outcomes.

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