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Engagement Engagement - news and content designed to instill fear, distrust, and hopelessness in the name of capitalism, profits, and division between social classes.
This place is threatened by the new, unclear laws. Very few people here would want to provide IDs just to have a safe space to vent, and even less of us would be willing to give up our anonymity to continue having a community (WhatsApp, telegram, signal, even texting).
It will only further our disconnection from a wholesome safe space. While I do have a few people blocked on this thread, I come here for safety, for connection, and to be kind to those of us who need that. We are all human, and humans are social animals, for the gubmint to take away our anonymity is to deny humans the social connections they require to maintain a semblance of stable mental health.
It's fucked up, the world, the government, the companies that seem intent on dividing us and removing our empathy to prevent us from organising and protesting. If we are too busy arguing with each other, then we cannot organise ourselves against the true evils of this world.
I don't have much to say to provide hope in these dark times, as I also feel the weight of the world and the fears they ellicit. But for now, we still have each other, and that's what I'm focusing on.
I think they would prefer you to stick around.
As a niece myself, who's aunts and uncles do not talk to me outside of family gatherings, nor provide financial assistance, I would prefer to spend more time with them, over them leaving me an inheritance and killing themselves.
As a daughter who's father helps monetarily, but does not otherwise talk to me outside of family gatherings, I would prefer to spend time with him over any money he gives me. I'd rather be homeless and destitute if only he would take an interest in me, or just even text...
What do you think your nibblings would prefer?
A) A large inheritance and sad memories of a troubled, burnt-out uncle who left the earth early
B) A inheritance and mediocre memories of an uncle who held no hope and prioritised working themself to death
C) maybe a smaller inheritance but wonderful memories of an uncle who was there for their weddings, there for their own children, and died of old age?
Don't answer to me, think about it. There is nuance, of course, as I don't know what you do outside of this thread. Just speaking from my own experience I suppose, so take it all with an ocean of salt. Nothing I say could ever change the way you see yourself or the future, but I suggest considering finding meaning in something other than "I must make lots of money to give my family".
I know what I would pick, personally. ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ