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Everything is going to be alright (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With all the negative stuff going on (Trump's failed assassination) and everything, it is natural to get absorbed in the doomerism. Of course, pretending that nothing scary is happening isn't the best thing to do. Scary stuff is happening, and we need to take action.

That being said, I personally trust Americans to do the right thing. Trump won't win, and America won't go fascist. This is because good people will fight and win. Same goes with other countries (France and the UK for example).

Leaving politics aside, there's a lot of hope ahead. Science and Tech is advancing, life expectancy is increasing, investment in transit is increasing, countries r going greener, etc. Many cancer therapies r coming out (see the cancer vaccines for instance). Many cities have done some much needed land rezoning, due to which affordable housing will be a thing, 15 minute cities will be more and more common and so on.

The future is looking good, exciting stuff is happening and EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT.

Again, a little fear is good. Fear is what prevented early humans from being killed by predators, and it is what will prevent bad things from happening to us in the future. However, letting it consume our lives is a little counter intuitive.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That being said, I personally trust Americans to do the right thing

Time and time again shows that this is false

[–] shalafi 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

This quote was meant to give hope, but I'm now dreading the literal implications of this. Americans will renounce to the idea of maximizing shareholder's value for the next quarter only after exhausting all other options that don't have to. By then, however, we'll live in a world engulfed in climate change going haywire and a shell of a world power that is barely sustaining itself, if not collapsed. Our American friends don't deserve this. No one deserves this.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If we did the right thing...

Columbine would be the one and ONLY school shooting.
9/11 wouldn't have led to security theater.
Police would be seen as a community good
The average American would have their basic needs met. Home. Food. Educational resources.
Healthcare wouldn't be all levels of fucked up.
CEOs wouldn't be getting 200-10000x more compensation than the average employee.
Companies would be punished for harming the environment.
The drug epidemic wouldnt have taken over many small towns and cities

That's just like 25 years.

[–] MrJameGumb 9 points 4 months ago

You are aware that Columbine was not even remotely the first school shooting right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Time and time again shows that this is false

I trust my fellow GenZers in the US to get out n vote for our future. Every year millions of my GenZ siblings become eligible to vote. The American GenZ is the same generation that had to go through school shooting drills and in some cases, actual school shootings. They have seen their friends be hurt by conservative policies. I know they will make a difference in the elections to come.

[–] grue 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You say that with such certainty, but there are any number of dictatorships where young people have gone through even worse, yet have not managed to dislodge the dictator. And what makes you think there will even be [meaningful, non-rigged] "elections to come???"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought that Millennials would do this after the Bush era and the 08 financial crisis. I was wrong. Republican brainwashing and propaganda is extremely strong and the lack of a stronger leftist representation makes it difficult to get much will to vote. I hope you're right but I'm also not gonna hold my breath.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Voting millennials are why a Republican presidential candidate hasn't won the popular vote since then. They are also why there's actual, durable, leftist representation in local governments for the first time in decades.

Change is coming, if for no other reason than the comparatively low wealth of the generation blocks the typical path to conservatism.