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[–] rekorse 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Well there is a wide range of experiences and perspectives.

For me personally, while theres a bunch of awful stuff going on, its not like those things didnt exist before. We have been dealing with nationalistic terrorism for at the very least since the end of the Vietnamese War.

I hate to sound all silver lining or whatever, but the reason I'm not worried is that over time, in general, it seems the majority slowly moves forward as fast as they can comfortably do so.

Objectively bad things like violent crime, unequal rights, tribalism, religion to an extent, have all declined consistently over my whole life.

And I will add that the republicans who are saying that their way of life is under attack, it absolutely is. I dont know why people expect these groups to just hear a well argued position and just decide to change their mind.

Its very rare for people to change against their local community without a strong driving factor, and a loud democrat is never going to be that.

And for the record, I dont care about Biden's problems right now because even he is changing as fast as possible given his own biases and past experiences, and the fact that the democrats lead as a party leads me to being comfortable with the VP taking over if he dies or goes senile.

In fact I'd much rather a senile Biden to any version of Trump. Ive also yet to hear anyone say that the next election cycle is going to be more of the same since. I hear about optimism for our next possible choices.

[–] JustZ 1 points 5 months ago

Jeez. I'm glad I'm not the only one for whom there was something about the above poster that prompted a long-winded response.

I always say, reality leans left. Like, how long do these dummy-o's think they are going to deny climate change before they die in a flood? How long will they deny vaccine efficacy before they die of measles? They're going to bend left or reality will snap them off like a reed in the canebrake.¹ I just don't know where they think they're going by themselves.

Epic of Gilgamesh: “Yes: the gods took Enkidu’s life. But man’s life is short, at any moment it can be snapped, like a reed in a canebrake. The handsome young man, the lovely young woman—in their prime, death comes and drags them away. Though no one has seen death’s face or heard death’s voice, suddenly, savagely, death destroys us, all of us, old or young. And yet we build houses, make contracts, brothers divide their inheritance, conflicts occur—as though this human life lasted forever. The river rises, flows over its banks and carries us all away, like mayflies floating downstream: they stare at the sun, then all at once there is nothing." That's where we're all going, like bugs.