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Guess I'll give up on everything, not have any kids and shoot myself at age 60,... unironically. I have the gun already.
This is not end of the world, history is full of bad moments and we got out of them.
We need people to join protests to help change things, not kill themselves. If we accept that we have no power, we will have no power.
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/
https://fiftyfifty.one/
https://maydaymovementusa.org/
Are we beyond the point of protests yet? Our politicians are actively taking affirmative steps to avoid listening to them.
Did anyone protest when Philadelphia police dropped bombs on their own city in 1985 to kill black people? Didn't think so.
Very close to it, in some places tragically far past it already.
We have been far past that point for a long while but nobody cares.
Peaceful weekend protests might make people feel like they're doing something but are not successful. You have to disrupt the economy for people to notice general strikes massive protests.
Oh I will, all the way up to age 60. I'm not going to wait quietly for old age. I have lots of time to flick off conservatives.
But do I actually have any hope at all?
nope!
Our problem is apathy. It is much more of us than them.
If we succeed and still have democracy the laws can be reverted, but as I mentioned the apathy is the biggest problem and the reason how we got where we are.
No, that doesn't ring true to me even though I hear everyone say it including myself sometimes when I get frustrated.
I think our problem is much more unsettling, our problem is believing being as busy and productive as possible is a sufficient placeholder for boredom, for apathy, for space to understand and let others exploit resources we could have raced to first but left as a gift and that the genocide of indigenous peoples and cultures all over the world is a desperate attempt to make us forget the wisdom and power of letting things be.
That is such a funny fucking joke you made there old buddy old pal. "We got out of them" no we didn't you fool do you see where we are now?? This has been a build up of events that have happened before. Ignoring that is just plain ignorant and dangerous to the situation at hand, we got here because we never truly "got out of them".
By all means fight the good fight and keep your friends, families, and neighbors safe. However, we need to stop placating people with this rhetoric.
You could do so much more good with that gun.
That's most millenial Americans' retirement plans.
I have given up on the idea of retirement or security/safety in my lifetime a loooong time back. We live in the worst possible type of dystopia, a world where "evil" won long ago, and has had ample time and opportunity to sink its claws into every aspect of our lives, forever.
And the worst part is that most people won't even believe it. In fact, almost a majority seem to relish it somehow. Like they want the world to be as terrible as it can possibly be, even for themselves.
If your mental health is in that kind of state, please get rid of the gun. The world is better with you here, and we need each other the fight that's coming.
And if we need guns later, I'm a hobbyist that's been collecting them for years and I've got a TON of them.
Yes, please, no matter how you feel right now if you are super depressed and you buy a gun anyways, keep it at a friend's or family member's place who has guns that you trust, there is no shame in that hell everyone understands, let them have it and go to the range and stuff to target shoot and have fun together as a way of connecting.
Don't keep it in your house, with ammunition.
Life is really fucking hard right now and brutal permanent choices are almost always a bad idea.
I can't imagine any 100lb bag of rice being worse off because one grain is missing.
You're not the only one, though.
That analogy would work if people were genuinely as identical, thoughtless and replaceable as grains of rice.
Grains of rice don't live, don't love, don't build relationships and societies with each other. People do.
Take your ice cream koan elsewhere.