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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • Nat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzfuck this
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, I’ve given some thought to what I’ll do in the next election cycle, and I just don’t know. I can wish that people would think like me, but I’ve seen enough evidence from several elections that that’s not gonna happen.

    That makes me feel a bit hopeless, that we’re doomed to the worst politicians winning and ratcheting the US further right, and that I will not be safe to live here for a long time. I know there’s organizations I can get involved with, but I really struggle to commit time to anything, and I just feel isolated from everyone (yay social atomization). I think my best bet is giving up the fight and just leaving the country.



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    2 days ago

    I’m sure the first camp exists, but you should not imply that everyone who voted Democrat and wanted people to vote Democrat was that. I did that, and I encourage everyone to criticize their horrible decisions and actions, of which there are depressingly many.

    I’d love it if we pressured them to not be quite as horrible, but at the same time I did not want the Republican party to win control because I knew they’d be worse for people in almost every way. And now, as a trans person, I have to worry about what I won’t be allowed to do anymore, or how they’ll try to make my life worse just for existing. Sending a signal or whatever you think Democrats losing does does not justify the new shit minorities will face now.