• @fastandcurious
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    -1110 months ago

    The thing is, we can’t do anything anymore, whatever happens, i have just kinda accepted that we are fucked and am just trying to enjoy life as best as i can…

    • @Pretzilla
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      1910 months ago

      I get the sentiment, but why not stand up and fight? Why not make this about saving the planet, because it really is.

      • @fastandcurious
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        10 months ago

        I do what i can, i am a student, i walk wherever i can, i try to tell my friends and family about better alternatives, what else do you suppose i do? The amount of people supporting authoritarian leaders is insane, its not 40 or 50%, its closer to 90% how can i stand up to them?, it doesn’t matter what kind of government system you have, rich people can and will suppress any opinion against them, and the government will support it

        Not to mention that these people feed these things to their children from a very young age, they still don’t know how to to do basic multiplication accurately but do know which people they want to be leaders and know how to discriminate people based on their beliefs and even their ethnicity. Changing their opinion is like changing a fact for them

        History loves to repeat itself, this cycle of authoritarian and democratic regime(s) has been one of them, and i am afraid we are at the former part of the cycle. I am doing whatever i can to prevent this, but in the back of my mind, i know that my words or feelings are unlikely to cause a significant change

        Edit: wanted to clarify that the numbers are anecdotal and it might vary for you or from a survey, but you cant deny that they are a massive chunk

        • @MudSkipperKisser
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          610 months ago

          I just want to say good on you for doing your part. And I also want to say that I don’t think the majority support extremes, I think it’s just that the extremists are SO much louder and so it’s all we hear. I think the majority are like you and me and just want someone reasonable to lead the country. Just keep voting, I know it feels like it doesn’t do anything but it’s our main way to really speak and it does matter.

          Side bar, if you’re a student it most likely means that you’re a lot younger than me and it makes me so sad that this is how you’ve had to see and live the world. No pressure but if you are younger the future is truly in your hands.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          The amount of people supporting authoritarian leaders is insane, its not 40 or 50%, its closer to 90%

          Who are you meeting? That’s not typical.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        I’d be all for an uprising, if only it was as uncomplicated and low risk as video games and movies have demonstrated.

      • snownyte
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        110 months ago

        Why not stand up and fight?

        You know, instead of preaching these infantile ideals in how to really make change. I’m more ready for individuals who actually have a more thought-out plan in how to achieve what we need to do.

        And so far, yet, I’ve not seen anyone really do it and I’d be including myself before anyone makes that jab later. It’s just very tiring to see people rush to social media and think that their posts will be heard or read that’ll make some significant impact. When, there’s absolutely no organizational structure in place or any motives in how to go about the things we all keep daydreaming of happening.

        Guess it’s too easy to daydream than get off of our asses and make the sacrifices required to make change. Not if we have to miss another minute of being online in a boring dystopia that is what the internet has become to all piss our time away looking at memes and making memes.

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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      210 months ago

      I’m with ya buddy. There isn’t a single thing I can do, no number of petitions I can sign, that will change a dam thing. No company loses profits to be good for the planet, they only ever do it because they are forced/regulated to. So I vote Green.

      I also try to avoid buying shit that just ends up in a landfill, repair/re-use as much as I can.

      But it doesn’t matter, we’re fucked anyway. At least I won’t have any guilt. In the meantime I’m going to mountain bike as much as possible before the collapse.