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No loans, but still absolute dread. I suspect a lot of people are going to die preventably in the next 4-12 years.
Maybe that will take your mind off of all the additional problems Trump is going to create from global warming, nuclear weapons proliferation from the New World Disorder, fallout from Fascism, destruction of health department, and increase in national debt from huge tax cuts for the rich etc.
Don't worry, most of those deaths are no longer preventable at this point, maybe they were preventable 10 or 20 years ago, but we're past multiple points of no return now.
Diseases, definitely. But I'm also thinking of friends and allies who will be shot to death when we pull our support out of places like Ukraine and Taiwan, innocent people trying to make a better life for themselves drowning in the Rio Grande, or committing suicide due to being banned from healthcare when they require lifesaving medications they can no longer get. Not to mention climate-related weather that Trump will slow walk support for, or will make worse through industrial deregulation or weakening of FEMA and NOAA.
The picture looks grim for many going forward.
You guys are acting like Trump is going to be driving around in a tank gunning down people that didn't vote for him.
By and large your life will not change much day-to-day. The worst thing you can do is give energy to something you cannot control. You voted and it doesn't work out. Now you focus on your daily happiness and don't try to let the big picture drag you down. There not much you can do about it anyway. May as well invest that energy into having something positive instead of dread.
son, you must have fallen down and hit your head, and missed the last go around from 2016 to 2020 when over One Million Fucking Americans died, bad, from a sandbagged and purposefully inept Trump led Federal Global Pandemic response, that saw The United States post higher numbers per capita of infections, hospitalizations, and death that any other countries in the world besides Russia, North Korea, and China. You aren't confusing any of the rest of us who lived through that horrorshow, and know he's going to make those numbers seem insignificant this time around. Go away. You're a trash troll.
But it's ok because he selected companies run by his chronies to handle distribution, netting them billions of dollars in government awards. Surely we won't see that this time around?!
/s
The numbers will be much smaller this time. An important lesson conservatives learned from the pandemic was that if the government doesn’t monitor and report numbers then you can claim it’s not a problem.
Here’s an example.
If another pandemic were to strike, they will be much more brazen in their “don’t give a fuck” approach.
What does obsessing over it every day and complaining on the Internet constantly do though? It not like Trump and his goons are gonna see all the comments y'all are making and suddenly change their minds. If there is something tangible you can do to make change absolutely do it, but letting it ruin your daily life is just letting them win.
Y'all do whatever you want. Your choice how you spend your energy.
One of the most impactful forms of activism is education. Talking about issues, putting effort towards things that we might not necessarily be able to directly impact, is how we garner new ideas from other perspectives.
You’re such an odd specimen.
Pretty sure that's an exaggeration. I get your point, but I don't think we were behind Brazil on how we handled it.
As someone who belongs to several minority and marginalized groups and relies on benefits and support to be able to live, yes my life will change day to day. You're either very self centered and feeling like you're part of the "in group" or just uninformed. It's not unreasonable to think that my life could be totally upended for reasons completely out of my control by the end of the year. This is all completely ignoring the shift in the culture and the possibility of my blue state going red. Things are about to get bad for many people, very fast.
This ideology is like “First they came for ____, and I did not speak out because I was not ____” without realizing why that’s bad
If you can make actionable change by all means spend that energy. But letting something you cannot do anything about ruin your daily life is just stupid.
You cant change what the Trump administration is going to do by crying about it on the Internet. You CAN choose how you want to spend that energy every day though. Spend it on the little things that make your life and others better. Put it towards charitable work or combatting things going wrong locally. Don't just wallow in sadness on the Internet daily.
Yeah I'm not worried about my life. I'm cis, white, earning, married.
I'm worried about other people who are the scapegoats of the incoming admin
If your worry doesn't result in action then it's just doing you harm.
Presidents always choose people to die. He's been a *dick about disaster aid to states that didn’t vote for him and he’s made it very clear he's going to be worse this time around. He and his morally decaying party have made it clear they’re okay with women dying instead of allowing them necessary healthcare. They’re number on priority is targeting the trans community. His cabinet is a bunch of exorbitantly rich people and it’s primed to give ore money to billionaires. His secretary of defense is a psychopath, and they’ve pro-Israel and anti-Ukraine. RFK wants to get rid of vaccines which could kill or seriously maim hundreds of thousands maybe more. I could probably go on but I’ll let you raise any point other than downplaying people's legitimate fears.
Maybe if you're a middle-aged straight white guy...
Your second paragraph makes sense from my demographic too. I'm a cis white married father that has an education, a career, and a house in a reasonable cost of living area that's not prone to natural disasters. I am also on the rural-raised end of the white male computer nerd spectrum, so I wouldn't exactly get beaten up at a trump rally.
I have a pragmatic approach to happiness and life fulfillment, and yeah my little corner of the world here will probably be stable. Probably. But it has been a long time since I realized that giving a shit about the quality of life of other people is one of the most important things about finding some purpose and happiness in the world. Leading a life where you focus on helping others rather than focus on getting ahead of others will genuinely produce better results for oneself.
Before anybody asks, the arbiter of what constitutes "better results" is 90 year old me laying in bed thinking about my life.
So I am fortunate, and I am grateful for that. I think being ungrateful in my situation is not only ignorant, but insulting to those who society punches down on who would absolutely be grateful to have what I do. That's not being grateful to white Jesus for making me one of the chosen, btw, it's just appreciating that it's a good thing to use your dumb luck to improve the world rather than being yet another miserable rugged individualist born on second base and admiring those born on third and throwing rocks at everybody at bat.
The point of all this is that while I should be fine, and there will be bad things I can't change that I won't dwell on constantly, to put my head in the sand and live completely in my little bubble and ignore the others in the world would make my life worse.
I can't believe you're getting shit for effectively the Serenity Prayer.
Because telling people, many of whom are going to suffer thanks to the incoming administration, ‘oh, don’t worry your pretty little heads about that’ is kinda stupid?
And what are you going to do about it? Simply worrying doesn't help.
Yeah idk. The mindset and mental health of the majority of this site are quite concerning to me. it is what it is I suppose.