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I live in a late capitalist hellscape, saddled with unrelenting exestinsial dread gifted to me by a whole generation of people who live in denial about the sad state of the world. I have no choice but to watch as the planet is slowly boiled alive while fascist leaders advance their hateful agendas. Tolerance and human decency are stigmatized. The very idea that a person should have the right to be queer and adopt a child, determine their own sexual identity, retain their reproductive rights, have access to affordable healthcare, and be able to pursue an education is decried as radical and dangerous. But why? Why work so hard to make life difficult for so many people when you already have everything you could ever want or need?
Today I got to watch libraries get defunded and student visas get revoked, because none of the above is enough. The people who are trying to make the world a worse place are coming for free thought and diversity next.
So I'm going to laugh at some memes, because otherwise I'd be crying at the sheer despair of it all.
Petrolholic
#3 Existence is pain!
DanielAsparagus
#8 false. I can’t even functionally do the things I want. I’m considered by some to have expertise, but I have Jo actual practice, as it’s just what if bum fuckery floating around my brain.
Ebo352
#4 I tried confronting my sister about how she treated me in hopes of building a better relationship. Backfired and now we have no relationship.
charondaboatman
#3 https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJldnNna3BleGF1eWwybWN6cDNpb28yaWU5c204dXVpcWw2MDJtb3FidiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/4T3QPfXhVHrlvekSbf/giphy.mp4
sharikov
badgesweedontneednostinkingbadges
#10 So, is having to pee, but you're in the middle of something you don't want to interrupt, so you just squirm and suppress the feeling until you almost pee your pants, ADHD? Or am I just stubborn?
bearstrap
#1
lordnequam
#3 - Right, right...and what is a "test of realism"? Cause this all sounds like self-justifying pseudoscience.
fartharder
#4 ouch
StevieTheAussie
#8 Wh-what kinda ADHD does this person have…?
I’ve got the one that just makes me socially awkward, anxious all the time, spacey, exhausted, so on and so forth
Zootsoot
#7 The hardest thing I did as a Covid Tracer was ask my low income clients to unlock their front door and then lay on the couch and talk to me in case they passed out from oxygen deprivation before their friend/family member came to drive them to the ER. Why? Bc they couldn’t afford to call an ambulance.
We GOTTA make ambulance rides paid by the government the instant an epidemic is declared.
unclefisty
How about we just make all healthcare paid for by the government?
reichstein
When you hate your life hard enough, and can't make it better (or can't be bothered), it's easy to just tear other people down so that your life seems better by contrast :(
Yeah, people are frequently terrible :(
johnvictor
#3 I don't know about all of human life but there are people who make a good job out of making life unbearable for the rest of us.
AtmaDarkwolf
#3 actually it isn't this, so much that with intelligence and logical thinking comes with the realization that there is far too little those of us with limited means can do to stop or slow the madness. Feeling helpless is EXTREMELY soul crushing.
TheGoudaKaramazov
Hey, so- life sucks, I know.
A point of random good news:
Today I secured funding and means for my organization (DV survivor resources) to assist the escape and Visa status and re-housing of someone in an insane situation.
Everything sucks. But::: this woman gets out now and gets to live.
Maybe it's a drop in the bucket, but I'm taking the night to smoke a bowl on my bathroom and toss a chew ball for for my puppy
Shit is so shit. This is actually a good big thing. Let's make more.
Zootsoot
That is a most excellent thing- thank you for sharing it!
generilisk
It's not a drop in the bucket for the woman getting out.
bearstrap
I'm sorry you have to do the work, but that's FUCKING GREAT. I'm thankful that she's going to get the chance to be safe. Blessings upon you and your organization.
WatchTheWorldLearn
#3 r/HFY Deathworlders *spoiler* this is a major plot point of the series. The antagonist AI race started by uploading minds and found out they quickly went suicidal due to existential dread over the inescapability of entropy and the heat death of the universe. Solution: Infiltrate and gentle all sapient races via cranial cybernetics and partially run your AI stack on an inheritly self-deluding organic CPU.