I’m starting to adjust to the Trump term and learn how not to be disappointed with these news stories - here’s my one simple trick:
Expect news tomorrow to be worse than today, in ways you can’t even imagine. Each day repeat this process, with new baseline lowered expectations from the day before. It’s that easy!
Yeah, in posting my comment, I was thinking about this as well. It’s certainly their tactic and it’s how fascists win.
The problem: I don’t know how to effectively counteract it. “Stay hopeful,” “don’t get discouraged” is all well and good, and I’m going to continue to watch the bloody corpse of America get hacked to bits out of some semblance of duty, even if I’d like to look away.
The only response that would actually help is collective action and direct resistance - and I’ll certainly join a protest, or something with an actual end-game plan that isn’t just “raise awareness we don’t like this.” But none of the leaders we elected are giving any actual leadership. Even if they were, the media isn’t reporting on it so we can’t efficiently align. Lawsuits aren’t even being filed fast enough to keep up with the onslaught, even if the Supreme Court is potentially captured. The Overton window is moving so fast, they’re actually pulling off the coup.
Hmm, I’m worried to find out if we’re talking a Fahrenheit/Celsius kinda scale where our expectations become negative at some point, or if it’s more of a Kelvin where absolute 0 is the destruction of planet earth or life as we know it.
I’m starting to adjust to the Trump term and learn how not to be disappointed with these news stories - here’s my one simple trick:
Expect news tomorrow to be worse than today, in ways you can’t even imagine. Each day repeat this process, with new baseline lowered expectations from the day before. It’s that easy!
the thing is, i expected ‘bad’. we got ‘worse’ instead.
then i expected ‘even worse’, and we got ‘what the fucking hell?’ repeatedly.
and it’s been downhill with no end in sight, since.
2 weeks down, 206 to go
At this rate I expect their second civil war to have kicked off by April, should be quite an event!
From my perspective, that’s “our” second civil war 😐
Each day’s better than the next…
We have to look at the positive side: from now on, every day will be the best¹ day of the rest of our lives!
1.— Least worst, truthfully, but it works out the same, more or less.
Every day worse than the last, it’s part of their tactics to demoralize and inundate us as well.
Yeah, in posting my comment, I was thinking about this as well. It’s certainly their tactic and it’s how fascists win.
The problem: I don’t know how to effectively counteract it. “Stay hopeful,” “don’t get discouraged” is all well and good, and I’m going to continue to watch the bloody corpse of America get hacked to bits out of some semblance of duty, even if I’d like to look away.
The only response that would actually help is collective action and direct resistance - and I’ll certainly join a protest, or something with an actual end-game plan that isn’t just “raise awareness we don’t like this.” But none of the leaders we elected are giving any actual leadership. Even if they were, the media isn’t reporting on it so we can’t efficiently align. Lawsuits aren’t even being filed fast enough to keep up with the onslaught, even if the Supreme Court is potentially captured. The Overton window is moving so fast, they’re actually pulling off the coup.
I did my taxes the day I got my tax forms because I’m afraid Elon Musk is gonna determine that tax refunds from last year are not “efficient.”
My return was only like $300, but imma need all I can get with how things are going.
Hmm, I’m worried to find out if we’re talking a Fahrenheit/Celsius kinda scale where our expectations become negative at some point, or if it’s more of a Kelvin where absolute 0 is the destruction of planet earth or life as we know it.