This will be, without a doubt, the most important election of a lifetime
I'm sure that's been said before, but this one seems objectively so Previous Message I've always been someone who (quietly) mocked people who "unplugged" from the news as privileged simpletons. I don't think I can do it entirely, but everything feels so fucking hopeless in a way that I've never felt before.
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My cynicism about the state of our country/world (politically, socially) is at an all-time high. - GMAW April 30, 2024, 10:10:55
- I’m more than fine being mocked in any fashion for this - digs April 30, 2024, 15:11:58
- congratulations on turning 50* - suburbanmyth April 30, 2024, 14:57:41
- You have running water and electricity. It’s not all bad* - opossum jenkins April 30, 2024, 14:49:38
- Agreed, hopefully only 7 ish more months of this* - bigbop85 April 30, 2024, 14:30:09
- It seems a cycle. There were major divides around the 1870s-80s, sometime around the 1920s, - ghost_of_clt April 30, 2024, 14:07:19
- Papers, podcasts ok; TV news 100% out* - Potomac April 30, 2024, 13:18:45
- i found a lot of comfort in the adam grant podcast. recently he interviewed historian yuval harari - Nobster April 30, 2024, 11:58:35
- Does anyone here know Gorsuch, or Gorsuch adjacent people? - complainant April 30, 2024, 11:57:03
- I used to think that our institutions would be pressured but would generally hold - CanHartlebHireSnider April 30, 2024, 11:30:36
- My approach: Focus more on local/micro that you can more easily see results from - oskeewowza April 30, 2024, 11:05:44
- except everything local where I live is an uncompetitive sameness - Potomac April 30, 2024, 13:35:13
- My local/micro politics are just as broken* - GMAW April 30, 2024, 11:30:44
- This exactly. I'm heavily involved with my Supervisor district, elections, and ballot initiatives.. - haighter April 30, 2024, 11:19:59
- meanwhile in Washington state - Sounder April 30, 2024, 11:16:03
- local/micro in Seattle is just endlessly long construction projects* - Sounder April 30, 2024, 11:07:58
- And now shit is really about to get real… - OB25 April 30, 2024, 11:04:26
- I always say that a lack of monoculture has caused this - Sounder April 30, 2024, 11:00:17
- The Culture War is poison * - VIV April 30, 2024, 10:52:19
- ooo - JeffFrank April 30, 2024, 10:45:20
- Says the guy who posts Trump videos on social media* - HamptonSki April 30, 2024, 10:36:20
- This will be, without a doubt, the most important election of a lifetime - UofIL6 April 30, 2024, 10:20:29
- wow, never heard that before* - Tooldresser April 30, 2024, 13:32:26
- Hardly. We’ll get through and have a reset in 28* - Potomac April 30, 2024, 13:20:31
- It seems to me that if Trump gets elected, we'll have something on the spectrum of actual fascism - meanjeans April 30, 2024, 11:07:04
- This won't get fixed until we get a Gen X'er in the White House - timmer April 30, 2024, 10:46:00
- it seems either the fever will start to break or the country will irreparably be on a very new, - John Coctostan April 30, 2024, 10:41:11
- No. The truth is that if Biden gets reelected, it isn’t the end of the world. If Trump - jjlocke923 April 30, 2024, 10:32:07
- It was a good run.* - timmer April 30, 2024, 10:18:54
- Agreed and it will only get worse after the election* - illini21 April 30, 2024, 10:13:21
- It's always been hopeless. You just weren't as aware of it. * - doubledown April 30, 2024, 10:12:10
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