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ugh i’ve been trying to get back to sleep but my heart keeps racing. i don’t know what to do. ugh.
i was consoling myself by reading about historic US elections that were so incredibly fucked-up, but I don’t know where to go from there.
I don’t think there is any consoling. I just feel like hugging U.S. nationals right now.
Well - the U.S. nationals who didn’t do the thing.
No one here is awake and I feel very alone and frightened so this is extremely helpful. Thank you. We have to overcome and move forward and fix this but right now it’s 4:30 in the morning and I don’t know what to do and I’m so tired.
Xanax? Heroin?
Remembering whites are projected to become a minority in the U.S. by 2045, and let me tell you, the moment that happens the global collective sigh of relief will cause hurricanes.
ugh I’m at a friend’s house so I don’t even have access to my own liquor cabinet, let alone anything stronger. (which, honestly, I dont’ even have in my house, so.)
White anxiety over becoming no longer a majority is surely an enormous part of what precipitated this, so I’m not expecting that to go smoothly. Also by 2045 I’ll be 65 years old so I don’t know that I’ll have survived whatever turmoil that generates. You’re telling me that because you seem to think it’ll make things better, but what I’m hearing is these assholes are going to panic nonstop for the next thirty years so brace yourself.
True. I’m still boggled by the way white people in general vote against their own interest when the race card is played. I feel like I should be offering asylum to U.S. Citizens right now.
I’m hoping that a demonstration of how acutely useless a populist pseudo-Nazi is in power will lance the boil and make people come to their senses. But that still means you have to live with the shitshow while it is in town.
And you know, people in Syria, Ukraine, Baltic states, Iraq… fuck
Shit, I wrote a response here that was coherent and Chrome crashed and ate it.
My point was, though, that I don’t think we have time to wait for the backlash. In ‘04, gutted by W’s win, I was young and dumb and convinced myself that ‘08′s backlash would undo the damage.
It didn’t; 8 years of Obama barely touched the surface of the damage W had wrought, and did almost nothing to undo the damage that had existed before.
Given that Trump himself is nothing, and the power will lie in whatever advisors he chooses, and those advisors may well be, hmm, Putin, we certainly don’t have time for that.
And given the fact that he’ll have a Supreme Court justice to appoint For Life, because no way will the Republicans pass Obama’s nominee now, the damage his administration can inflict will be decades long.
mandos-probation-offices:
bomberqueen17:
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bomberqueen17:
mandos-probation-offices:
bomberqueen17:
ugh i’ve been trying to get back to sleep but my heart keeps racing. i don’t know what to do. ugh.
i was consoling myself by reading about historic US elections that were so incredibly fucked-up, but I don’t know where to go from there.
I don’t think there is any consoling. I just feel like hugging U.S. nationals right now.
Well - the U.S. nationals who didn’t do the thing.
No one here is awake and I feel very alone and frightened so this is extremely helpful. Thank you. We have to overcome and move forward and fix this but right now it’s 4:30 in the morning and I don’t know what to do and I’m so tired.
Xanax? Heroin?
Remembering whites are projected to become a minority in the U.S. by 2045, and let me tell you, the moment that happens the global collective sigh of relief will cause hurricanes.
ugh I’m at a friend’s house so I don’t even have access to my own liquor cabinet, let alone anything stronger. (which, honestly, I dont’ even have in my house, so.)
White anxiety over becoming no longer a majority is surely an enormous part of what precipitated this, so I’m not expecting that to go smoothly. Also by 2045 I’ll be 65 years old so I don’t know that I’ll have survived whatever turmoil that generates. You’re telling me that because you seem to think it’ll make things better, but what I’m hearing is these assholes are going to panic nonstop for the next thirty years so brace yourself.
True. I’m still boggled by the way white people in general vote against their own interest when the race card is played. I feel like I should be offering asylum to U.S. Citizens right now.
I’m hoping that a demonstration of how acutely useless a populist pseudo-Nazi is in power will lance the boil and make people come to their senses. But that still means you have to live with the shitshow while it is in town.
And you know, people in Syria, Ukraine, Baltic states, Iraq… fuck
Shit, I wrote a response here that was coherent and Chrome crashed and ate it.
My point was, though, that I don’t think we have time to wait for the backlash. In ‘04, gutted by W’s win, I was young and dumb and convinced myself that ‘08′s backlash would undo the damage.
It didn’t; 8 years of Obama barely touched the surface of the damage W had wrought, and did almost nothing to undo the damage that had existed before.
Given that Trump himself is nothing, and the power will lie in whatever advisors he chooses, and those advisors may well be, hmm, Putin, we certainly don’t have time for that.
And given the fact that he’ll have a Supreme Court justice to appoint For Life, because no way will the Republicans pass Obama’s nominee now, the damage his administration can inflict will be decades long.
