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alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

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[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Ooh I like this. Let me upvote it so I feel like I’m making a difference while I sit here dreading existence

[–] girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Ignore me:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

PS: There's !poetry@lemmy.world if you like having your mind 'sploded on the daily

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can't fix it. Turn off the news. Go for a walk.

It's true that everything is shit. But everything has always been shit, whether you cared about it or not. And we're all still here.

The only difference between caring and not caring is that now you're miserable and anxious. And there's still nothing you can do.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Living in ignorance is hardly healthy though. You'll only be caught flat footed when the bad shit finally catches up to you. How long that takes is a matter of luck and privilege, for some people it's sooner rather than later.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but if you can't compartmentalise the stuff that effects you from the stuff that doesn't, then it's not worth sacrificing your mental health over most of it.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Do what you can, so when the end comes you know you did your part. Go vegan, ride a bike, vote left, shop ethically. It does a lot to curb the unease.

[–] JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Before I click, I'm going to guess "Whitey On The Moon"?

Edit: Did not disappoint. I wanna give credit where credit is due.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Matt Buchele (mattbooshell) 's video "disorienting times". Bouncing between atrocity on social media and you boss wants you to fix a typo on slide 3.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgCZFA2lSPK/

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2YMzm-LuR8/

The insta that followed that one for me was this one, and this is singularly the most legendary thing I've ever seen another human being do

[–] ThePinkUnicorn@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you give context for us who would rather not go to a facebook site please?

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I will describe it, literally.

A man on a tiny motorcycle with a microwave on his head, closed covering his face, comes to a screeching halt in front of the camera, opening the door as he does. This reveals his face and a complicated mechanism to keep it on his head. He stands using the momentum of the motorcycle to propel him up and says, angrily "I know a lot of you hatin' motherfuckers want me to fail, but guess what? It ain't happenin! You know why? Cuz I got a motherfuckin microwave on my head!" He leans over to close the door, remounts his tiny motorcycle, and scoots away in to the city.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reads like alt right zoomer doomer bullshit justifying that they aren't brainwashed by their republican family lol.

[–] IdiosyncraticIdiot@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ITT: people angry at the suggestion both parties are fascists on opposite ends of the spectrum

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because the mental laziness of suggesting that conservatives are the same as liberals is literally destroying the world.

But nevermind that. bOtH sIdEs

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny here I thought it was the capitalist order that’s destroying the world.

Y’know, the one upheld by liberals and conservatives alike.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People keep telling me that capitalism’s the problem. We should vote against that. /s

[–] BigLgame@lemy.lol 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liberals and liberalism are conservative, both sides are not the same but they aren't as far apart as they should be.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard this bullshit before. Keep peddling it elsewhere

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Fascism is purely on the right, it's a violent entrenchment of Capitalist power.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opposite ends of what spectrum? Where are the left leaning candidates in America?

[–] Lommy241@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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