cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24992262
A positive score comment chastising an evil dictatorship for supporting a fascist gets removed.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24992262
A positive score comment chastising an evil dictatorship for supporting a fascist gets removed.
Man, all of the world has been living casually this way for a century. It’s the western world that is catching up. I feel indifferent to this… at most, disappointment. I was planning to apply for asylum in an EU country but if what you’re saying about the EU is really happening (i only know of germany and the AfD), we’ll too bad, i guess.
I guess i’ve just gotten so used to living under it that i’m not even shocked or angry anymore. This is life for me. Everytime i think of it, i tear up a little, thinking where i went wrong, wishing i was born in the west and being angry that they got to live great lives while the rest of us have to live in filth… But what will that do? Nothing.
I’ve been depressed for basically my whole life, a lot of it not knowing why. But I always felt more anxious, but calmer outside my own country. I tense up less and now i see why, but the solution is near impossible.
I guess what i’m saying is, count your blessings? And i’m not saying that in a way like “be grateful” or in a rude tone, i’m saying that as in, fight for what you have; because you will lose it all if you don’t.
I’m a cynical person. As i said, i’m used to it so i feel mainly indifferent to this (as insensitive as that may sound, sorry)
This too, shall pass. It may be lost, it may last decades retaking it. But it’s not forever, nothing is. Even in my despair i know the house of Saud will fall, be it may even take a century.
Oops, hit send way too early. Yeah life is not fair, and if it helps, the citizens of the USA are much more likely to die in nuclear fire and radiation than a nation that has already stabilized into an authoritian regime.
It’s worth being angry if that helps consider the various possibilities, but also there are small joys to be found in life that anger often destroys, so it helps to try to set it aside even if only for an hour or two each day if at all possible, so as to allow room for life itself to breathe in those spaces.
As you said. Bc being in your country keeps you always “on edge” (another way to phrase that is keeping you “sharp”). The decadence of the West was always going to be a temporary thing, and many of us are going to be shocked, Shocked I say, SHOCKED to find out that the real world does not function as we hoped. But we should not have been so shocked, or really shocked at all. It’s just another kind of sickness - a different form than what your country has but similar in causing stress in life.
My thing is: in order to cure a disease you have to first understand it. I don’t, personally. And then second you have to know where you want to head towards. And again I don’t know that either. Maybe I could recognize a good plan if I heard one told, but even there, I am so cynical that I don’t even trust my own self there, based on past experiences. So… I wait to see what happens.
Yeah, I do feel mad sometimes (sorry lmao, but i cant control it), but I also feel guilty for it too lol. I’ve been trying to sympathize more with people who aren’t used to living like this.
But I wish you americans the best. Including the Europeans. GL, and stay safe.
Why feel guilt? Whether we were created by a God or by nature, we were built this way, and you did not choose to build yourself:-). Instead, I see that you are honest about your feelings, which is more than I can say for a good fraction of the people that I have ever met.
We here are learning: there’s a LOT that we can no longer control, a good bit of which we used to if not be able to then at least we lied to ourselves that we could try to influence things by our votes. Long ago that used to be true, somewhere in the past few decades it changed and now we finally have the opportunity to be honest with ourselves. A chance which we are refusing to do btw.:-)
We will toughen up. Or die. Probably a bit of both.:-)
Well, tbf the EU does seem the singular holdout. Which helps explain why the UK was targeted for Brexit, and the USA by Faux News for takeover by its own internal right-wingers, and now the rest of the EU might have to stand up to Russia + USA (& maybe Xi will manage to charm Trump to extend that alliance still further?), at which point how could it hold out for long? Though it still would remain as it is for a few more years yet (even possibly measured in decades?), so for you personally that idea might still hold merit. And, possibly none of my worst fears here may come to pass, America (and the UK) could “wake up” and resist fascism after all? I doubt it, bc the way technology is changing makes it favorable for a tech bro to gain authoritarian control - globalization and automation and especially corporatization have all radically altered the landscape compared to the 60s and 70s when democracies were more favorable.