- cross-posted to:
- climatememes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- climatememes@lemmy.world
alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.
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Ooh I like this. Let me upvote it so I feel like I’m making a difference while I sit here dreading existence
You’re making more of a difference than I am. I’m not even going to upvote OP post and I’m just going to sit here and do nothing. I mean I might get up to pee in a minute.
It made a difference to me. Thanks.
Reminds me of Matt Buchele (mattbooshell) 's video “disorienting times”. Bouncing between atrocity on social media and you boss wants you to fix a typo on slide 3.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2YMzm-LuR8/?igsh=anlneXloZHlsOXN5
The insta that followed that one for me was this one, and this is singularly the most legendary thing I’ve ever seen another human being do
Could you give context for us who would rather not go to a facebook site please?
I will describe it, literally.
A man on a tiny motorcycle with a microwave on his head, closed covering his face, comes to a screeching halt in front of the camera, opening the door as he does. This reveals his face and a complicated mechanism to keep it on his head. He stands using the momentum of the motorcycle to propel him up and says, angrily “I know a lot of you hatin’ motherfuckers want me to fail, but guess what? It ain’t happenin! You know why? Cuz I got a motherfuckin microwave on my head!” He leans over to close the door, remounts his tiny motorcycle, and scoots away in to the city.
I have no idea what this is meant to mean, but thank you for going to the effort of typing that all out XD
You can’t fix it. Turn off the news. Go for a walk.
It’s true that everything is shit. But everything has always been shit, whether you cared about it or not. And we’re all still here.
The only difference between caring and not caring is that now you’re miserable and anxious. And there’s still nothing you can do.
Living in ignorance is hardly healthy though. You’ll only be caught flat footed when the bad shit finally catches up to you. How long that takes is a matter of luck and privilege, for some people it’s sooner rather than later.
Sure, but if you can’t compartmentalise the stuff that effects you from the stuff that doesn’t, then it’s not worth sacrificing your mental health over most of it.
More importantly than the stuff that affects you is to focus on the things you can change. A friend of mine was in AA, which is a whole can of worms that I’m not going to delve into, but one thing I really like was the Serenity Prayer. I’m an atheist, but I like the thought anyway. It goes
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Do what you can, so when the end comes you know you did your part. Go vegan, ride a bike, vote left, shop ethically. It does a lot to curb the unease.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
Very reminiscent of this poem
Before I click, I’m going to guess “Whitey On The Moon”?
Edit: Did not disappoint. I wanna give credit where credit is due.
Exactly what I thought too
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face mask batteries
correct horse battery staple
Person woman man camera TV
Pony jar girl cup
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Reads like alt right zoomer doomer bullshit justifying that they aren’t brainwashed by their republican family lol.
Wales Visitation cadence sells it
There are no more speed limits on highways? What does the Center for disease control have anything to do with regulating speed limits on federal /county/states/whatever highways?
It’s hyperbole.
But everything else in his rant was real.
ITT: people angry at the suggestion both parties are fascists on opposite ends of the spectrum
Because the mental laziness of suggesting that conservatives are the same as liberals is literally destroying the world.
But nevermind that. bOtH sIdEs
Funny here I thought it was the capitalist order that’s destroying the world.
Y’know, the one upheld by liberals and conservatives alike.
People keep telling me that capitalism’s the problem. We should vote against that. /s
Liberals and liberalism are conservative, both sides are not the same but they aren’t as far apart as they should be.
I’ve heard this bullshit before. Keep peddling it elsewhere
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Opposite ends of what spectrum? Where are the left leaning candidates in America?
Bernie.
Bernie is a Social Democrat. He still wants Capitalism, he’s a centrist at most.
How many left leaning policies has he passed?
I think you mean “voted for”, he isn’t Congress, and therefore doesn’t pass bills, unless you suggest that only passed legislation makes someone one particular political wing, in which case, I’d argue that seems like a deeply flawed understanding of government.
My point was that there’s no left wing representation in any meaningful positions of power in the United States. Obviously.
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Was it obvious? Because it seems “obvious” to me that you moved the goalposts. If someone points to a senator or representatives at the federal level, you’d point to the lack of left-wing legislation they passed. That’s goalpost moving. Would you like me to point at non-federal positions so you can say they aren’t meaningful in spite of their passing of left-wing policies that affect my state or city? Also, I’ll give you a hint, all of those politicians are NOT one of the two major parties.
The point is that one party is definitely different from the other, especially if you’re queer, pregnant, able to become pregnant, a child, elderly, working, or a racial minority.
Fascism is purely on the right, it’s a violent entrenchment of Capitalist power.
That’s because they’re not, they’re fascists on the same end of the spectrum.
Because if they’re fascists they are not on opposite ends of the spectrum. The text is saying that Democrats produce fascists as well, because many Democrats enact what in regular life would be firmly right wing policies.
Because the Dems are the left wing in a bipartisan system, leftists hold the Dems to a higher standard. Likening them to fascists when they enact right wing policies against the will of the actual leftists forced to vote for them is a valid position.
There would have to be actual left wing candidates to begin with. Until then, they might be in different parties but they are firmly on the same end of the spectrum.
