cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24992262
A positive score comment chastising an evil dictatorship for supporting a fascist gets removed.
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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.:-)