It feels all but certain that I won’t be able to enjoy a prosperous life or get to retire. All of the wealth is going straight to the top. All of the opportunities to move up in the world are being rug-pulled. All of the federal agencies that help keep us safe and healthy are gone. The social safety net is getting flushed down the toilet. We will live in disease and squalor, and the most vulnerable of us will die.
Because I dared to not be a sociopath, I and anyone else who voted for sanity will be deemed enemies of the state and hunted down - which won’t be hard, because it would be trivial to build the most robust surveillance state in human history if it doesn’t exist already.
I myself have disabilities (which I don’t think qualify for benefits) that make it hard, but not impossible, to find a job. The problem is that I just can’t bring myself to do it because I don’t get what the fucking point is anymore. I have to work so hard to get out of this rut just for some fascist fuck to kill me or toss me into a torture facility before I can even experience life on my own.
Have you been in a similar headspace and were able to escape it? If so, what snapped you out of it?
If everybody gives up on the system we fought to build with protections for workers and public goods everyone can use, then starting over will just cause more death and suffering.
People love to romanticize accelerationism until the civil war start and they begin starving.
When the revolution starts, I’ll be the one running alongside the main character, who gets shot, like, immediately. Everyone will be in the heat of opening battle, and some dumb ass on the other side who opened fire before he was supposed to gets a lucky shot and gets me. I’ve made my peace with it. I plan on living just long enough to drag myself over to where the hero gets cornered, and in my dying moments, I take one last shot and save their life moments before passing away. I’m forgotten immediately, and that’s OK.
Just like middle aged doomsday preppers except its soviet flavored and encouraged by foreign psy-ops.
What protection and public good? What little we have is gone in three months tops.
Minimum Wage, Workers Compensation, Unemployment Benefits, Fulltime Employee Benefits, Union Protections, paid sick leave, maternity leave, vacation days, minimum employee age requirements, the ability to sue your employer for discrimination or other wrongful termination, etc
Roads, Hospitals, Schools, Libraries, Water supply, Fuel Reserves, Medicaid, Medicare, etc
And yeah, we’re going to lose a bunch of shit, because of assholes like you convincing everyone to “give up on it”.