i suggest a career in itinerant software development and pizza delivery.
How to Live in a Dystopian Fiction
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#32Maybe I'm not alone in reaching a breaking point recently. Kennedy retiring and giving Mitch McConnel two supreme court picks has pushed me over the edge. We're heading for a dark, dark place as a country and I just can't care anymore. It's too much. It's not even anger, just inconsolable depression. I'm turning off the news and going back to playing World of Warcraft.
Imagine telling future generations "We could have stopped it, but it was too stressful, so we played video games." People died fighting to end slavery. People died fighting for an 8 hour work day. People died fighting to oppose Hitler. You are just as strong as those people. No matter how bleak it seems, do not give up. Write, Complain, Vote. Edit: Why the downvotes? Ok, maybe I'm being too tough. OP, you should know…
Why do we have to fight for this stuff? Why can't people just be decent humans? That is the part that I struggle with.
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Re: How to Live in a Dystopian Fiction
#34Maybe I'm not alone in reaching a breaking point recently. Kennedy retiring and giving Mitch McConnel two supreme court picks has pushed me over the edge. We're heading for a dark, dark place as a country and I just can't care anymore. It's too much. It's not even anger, just inconsolable depression. I'm turning off the news and going back to playing World of Warcraft.
Imagine telling future generations "We could have stopped it, but it was too stressful, so we played video games." People died fighting to end slavery. People died fighting for an 8 hour work day. People died fighting to oppose Hitler. You are just as strong as those people. No matter how bleak it seems, do not give up. Write, Complain, Vote. Edit: Why the downvotes? Ok, maybe I'm being too tough. OP, you should know…
Don't do those three things though. Do something that will actually change society. Fix, Build, Create, Expand, Move Beyond.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine telling future generations "We could have stopped it, but it was too stressful, so we played video games." People died fighting to end slavery. People died fighting for an 8 hour work day. People died fighting to oppose Hitler. You are just as strong as those people. No matter how bleak it seems, do not give up. Write, Complain, Vote. Edit: Why the downvotes? Ok, maybe I'm being too tough. OP, you should know…
Don't do those three things though. Do something that will actually change society. Fix, Build, Create, Expand, Move Beyond.
Why can't we do all of them?
I'd also like to add: we need to organize.
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#36Maybe I'm not alone in reaching a breaking point recently. Kennedy retiring and giving Mitch McConnel two supreme court picks has pushed me over the edge. We're heading for a dark, dark place as a country and I just can't care anymore. It's too much. It's not even anger, just inconsolable depression. I'm turning off the news and going back to playing World of Warcraft.
Yeah, judges that are constitutionalists are literally going to ruin the country! /s
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine telling future generations "We could have stopped it, but it was too stressful, so we played video games." People died fighting to end slavery. People died fighting for an 8 hour work day. People died fighting to oppose Hitler. You are just as strong as those people. No matter how bleak it seems, do not give up. Write, Complain, Vote. Edit: Why the downvotes? Ok, maybe I'm being too tough. OP, you should know…
Why do we have to fight for this stuff? Why can't people just be decent humans? That is the part that I struggle with.
>Why can't people just be decent humans?
because everyone has a different definition of what it means to be decent - the people on the other side of the debate do believe they're being decent as well
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
But topic is about subsequent parents and child separation, with putting children into foster care.
Which is what happens (or, should happen) to citizens who are criminals and endanger their child's life for familial gain.
They are forced to make these crimes not because of good life and equal access to opportunities, and likely want better future for their kids. It is very easy to look on those people from above sitting in office chair, empathy only distracts from first class citizen problems.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine telling future generations "We could have stopped it, but it was too stressful, so we played video games." People died fighting to end slavery. People died fighting for an 8 hour work day. People died fighting to oppose Hitler. You are just as strong as those people. No matter how bleak it seems, do not give up. Write, Complain, Vote. Edit: Why the downvotes? Ok, maybe I'm being too tough. OP, you should know…
Why do we have to fight for this stuff? Why can't people just be decent humans? That is the part that I struggle with.
We shouldn't have to fight for stuff. Everyone should be decent.
But some are not. I don't know why. But they are not. They rig the system in their favor. They hurt others.
Maybe we can all evolve into enlightened beings of pure energy. Until then, we have to put in hard work to make our world a better place.
Everything you enjoy as a free person - someone had to fight for it.
(I'm not literally saying fight like beat someone up. I mean fight for your rights and the rights of others. Get involved in something.)
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Except prior US policy for illegal border crossing due to disparate laws and judicial rulings. FTFY
It astounds me that people get downvoted for the factual observation that illegally crossing the border is, in fact, illegal and results in deportation.
I think they (original comment) were referring to the recent activity of separating and detaining children on a large organized scale.