No I’m not catastrophising.

The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.

Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.

I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.

I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.

Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.

*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.

  • HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “it’s not real if you just ignore it”

    Or even

    “They’re just lying to you about it for views”

    I’m sorry to inform you, but the world is going through very rough times politically, especially the US. Many things are exaggerated, or even entirely fabricated, for views, but many things are not. Some of the worst stuff, however, is stuff that is never even covered by the news, like Project 2025 or the stuff happening in the Midwest/southeast states. Putting your head in the sand helps no one, even yourself.

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      USA needs to go through rougher times, and probably even crippled to the point they ask Uganda for loans and get IMF’d by Africa. It has created rough, dark times for half the world.

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      9 months ago

      So what difference does it make if you watch it? You gonna go vote and end it all?

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        9 months ago

        Believe it or not, you can do more stuff than just vote. However, you can do nothing about problems that you’re unaware of, even if they’re problems that affect you directly.

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          9 months ago

          Like what exactly?

          I seriously don’t think people have any power to change anything at all. The game is completely rigged. I understand that people want to have hope that things can get better, but I don’t see any sign of that.

          I’m more like the guy who watches the titanic go down and enjoy the last year’s before it sinks.