[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

As FD Signifier said, put on your clown shoes.*

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Bold of you to assume your vote will matter in the future.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 39 points 14 hours ago

Spoiler alert, it won't. They were already alienating their base by playing the "both sides" card.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

The shame is that they won't care. These people will just find another scapegoat and punt the ball down the line.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

That's just it, I'm a white male, I know I'll be comparatively fine. It's not really me I'm worried about.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It already well on it's way depending on your province. People have moved out of Quebec because of the intolerance going on there. Hell, I know a streamer who moved because someone threw a fucking brick through their window at his wife who moved there from the USA. Not because she's black or colored either, because she's white as a piece of paper.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not just that, people are acting like things are better in other countries. Like, name ONE country that has not gone off the deep end and ended up on the right recently. One major player. I'll wait. There is no utopia waiting for you in those other countries because they don't want you there and acting like you will be accepted as a refugee is foolhardy. The USA is a shit show right now, but we also don't know the future. It looks bleak right now because of the information we have RIGHT NOW. If you want to move out of the country, be my guest, but don't act like it's going to automatically be better, it's just going to be a different kind of shit show.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It is almost always the non-voters that are the problem. In this case it was a combination of demographics that just chose not to vote at all which led to Trump winning.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I wish I could argue with you.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

To these people it's fine if they get fucked as long as the person they don't like gets fucked harder. It's insane.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

We have been long past that point, it just took this election to make it obvious. This is who America is, and who it has always been. Denying just leads us further down the same hole.

[-] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

And there it is. Already learning the wrong lesson. I really wish this wasn't so predictable.

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Preamble: I'm doing this because I have some feelings I need to get out of my head for my own mental health, and thusly I am just as guilty of doing what I am condemning in this post. Also, I started writing this before fully thinking it through so if it seems like my post doesn't follow the title exactly that is why.

Pretty much as the title says, I truly believe humanity in general was never meant to know, or let others know, everything that happens in their life good or bad. The reason for this is that it is impossible to explain nuance with just words, you need verbal and/or face to face communication to adequately explain to people situations in your life. Just saying something bad happened to you on the internet doesn't really explain to people how bad it was to people. You know what does let people know how bad of a situation you are in is? Having an emotional breakdown. It's ugly, and terrifying to most people, and it should be because it lets people know you are going through real shit.

People can discount and simplify horrible actions on the internet without adequately experiencing the pain of the victim. They can easily ignore proof, or add what they think is context, but is actually just an excuse to victim blame. It's easy to logically, or illogically in some cases, explain things away without taking into account how the person in the horrible situation felt. This is not me trying to victim blame, but it is me trying to say that victims having easy access to a place to post their trauma to the world without having access to proper care does not really help them in the long run, and can in fact make things worse. Yes, I am aware how loaded "proper care" is, but that is not point of this post. I do think people need to "vent" (I'm simplifying extremely here because victims do not simply "vent") their feelings for their own mental health, I just do not think that doing so to random strangers on the internet who are not interested in listening is in the best interest of anyone who needs to vent. Most people on the internet just want to "solve" the problem. They want the problem to go away. That's about it. I will not go into it here because this post is already long enough, but the other side is that people were also not meant to ingest random people's trauma.

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