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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House
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I already wasted 20 years of my life in sacrifice to politics. I want to be done and other than venting about how we're doomed I more or less am done, thank you.
I hope I'm wrong, and I earnestly wish her luck but I do not owe a population of people who chose Trump a single solitary fucking thing. I'm bitter, exhausted, and my patience is gone.
If you're done with politics, then just stop. This isn't an airport, you don't need to loudly announce your departure.
How about I loudly announce whatever the fuck I want.
So childish. "I didn't get what I want! I quit!" "You can't tell me what to do!". Get over yourself.
Yeah this is definitely a white heterosexual man. The privilege is wafting off those sentences.
White, yes. Bisexual though. AMAB, but honestly IDK what my gender is. I just go by he/him for convenience though.
Significantly Autistic. Negative net worth from the expense of a nearly worthless college degree. Live in a red state rural American wasteland. Terrified of death yet still with suicidal idealization as of late.
But honestly none of this matters. Concern over Identity is all virtue ethics. I don't care about virtue ethics. My identity doesn't intrinsically matter outside the consequences of it. Whether I'm correct matters. Consequences matter. Or at least, mattered.
As if no drag queen has never once loudly shouted
There are lots of people out there with all kinds of takes. Don't just assume what you want to be true. (Even if it might be)
A lot of people love their identity politics, yeah bOtH siDeS. To some, what's said isn't as important as who says it.
I owe you literally nothing. I owe the world literally nothing. I could just off myself out of spite and I'd be 100% in the right because I literally did not choose to be born, no individual chooses to be born.
That said, I earnestly wanted the world to be better. I used to have a small sliver of hope for that. My resentment toward politics comes from seemingly having to swim up a fucking waterfall while people who ought to have been my allies hold my ankles.
"Whine, whine, whine." The world doesn't owe you anything either, bud. And the only people that piss and moan about that are privileged children. Adults get to work making things happen, and understand it'll be long, frustrating work to do so.
Human society owes the individual human everything. Every individual. Especially a society that has any pronatalist inclinations.
Otherwise, what's the point of continuing human society at all? Why birth new sentient beings on the expectation that they be the one's to work all their life and suffer for a future that is constantly out of reach? To make humanity great? Why? No one consents to being born.
Your focus on my personal privilege and selfishness is myopic and indicates an unwillingness to engage with my points. Its an attack on my character and I earnestly don't care if you think I'm a piece of shit. I want you to be better than me. I want you to face reality or explain to me why I am actually wrong.
Lol. You have no points. You've only whined about not owing anyone anything to justify your previous whining, and then demand "everything" from the world and an "explanation" from those calling out your doomerism.
Tough shit. I don't play nice with self-centered hypocrites and what you "want" is irrelevant when you're actively belligerent and antagonistic to everyone else. So how about you be better? The rest of us are busy trying to deal with everything else.
Cool...
But if you're done, why are you here trying to convince others to give up?
If it's too much for you, that happens.
Go check out from politics, dont hang out and tell people it's pointless to try. Literally no one is happy in that scenario except trump.
I'm not, I'm just angry and bitter and venting. Its not rational its seeking catharsis from lashing out.
Coulda fooled me, most people I know lashing out don't recognize they're lashing out and dont explicitly say they're not being rational.
Real catch-22 moment here, if you know your being irrational, you're not actually irrational.
Its probably something to do with being autistic but IDK.
I'm not being rational anymore since the election, I'm just giving in a lot to bad impulses because I don't have much fight in me anymore because before I kind thought things were worth fighting for. Now I look around at the average stranger and think "7/10 times that person either voted for Trump or failed to vote meaning I probably hate them." And then like, half of the remainder who voted Harris were probably libs that were anti-Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020 so I don't think I'd be happy to meet them either. Its not good for my mental health and there is no solution but suffering a now pointless fucking existence.
I know other thoughts floating in my head are new as well and I'm not super thrilled about them.
Sure shit sucks right now, doesn't mean it's not worth fighting to fix. If you're burnt out from being politically engaged for a decade, disconnect from it for a while, and actually disconnect from it until you get to a better head state, not just scream into the algorithm about how you think its all pointless. As cliche as it is, touch some grass, go outside, breathe some fresh air, find somewhere quiet and disconnect for a bit. Pick up a hobby that doesn't result in being terminally online, disc golf is pretty affordable and surpringly more common than you think.
Not one person in this world is rational or sane. It would take a sane world to create a sane person and we just can't help but pass on our issues even at our best attempts.
When people are acting foolish and know it at least they know. That means they can recognize it and change if they currently aren't. It's when they don't recognize it at all that we must be wary of their intentions.
It’s understandable why you feel this way, but ultimately unproductive:
— Plato
I don't know if I'm capable of being productive. I'm having a mental breakdown.
Stop watching the news and focus on things you can control in your own life. Grow plants. Read. Paint. Create something with your hands. Try a new recipe. Help a friend or family member out. Call your parents and have them talk about their lives. Hope things get better soon.
Apparently not exhausted enough to just sit silently instead of actively depressing the discourse and actions of others.
Staying silent is exhausting.
I've spent the last 20+ years of my life fighting for my right to simply exist in this country, and the reward is a government that vilifies me for being brown, neurodivergent, trans, and gay. I'm done, I'm taking the next opportunity out of here.
Understandable.
"Walking away" isn't a thing in this case. You are not entitled to choose not to fulfill your obligations as a citizen.
Even if you want to emigrate, that's not your choice: you have to convince some other country to let you in. Until that happens, you're fucking stuck here and you have to suck it up, buttercup, and deal with it!
Just a bunch of cowards who don't want to recognize the impotence of their unwillingness to get involved directly.