Get off the internet. This is not unprecedented. Society has collapsed several times and humans are so incredibly perseverant that we are still here. Live your life the best way you know how. And get off the internet. It is tricking you into thinking this is the worst its ever been. That is false by many metrics. Go find joy and spread it. And get off the internet.

Years ago. Heck decades a go technically at this point. You could see where it was all going and while we could not stop what was happening global warming wise we could mitigate and stop polluting. Reduce disparity and energy usage. Basically if we made all the right moves it would be bad but tolerable. Whelp we did the opposite. Rich folks went nuts with wealth hoarding. We fracked and fricked. Over 50% of the folks who had the power to make a difference dug their head in the sand and most of the others went along because other wise they might lose. I did not expect this fall into facism as a reaction for sure. I mean its never over till its over but man nothing looks good both long and short term.

I want to see us go where France is headed. Nobody wants to accept that that level of resistance is what's needed to make the people manipulating things actually see us at eye level. Until we do, it will be the same shit show where there are compromises made whilst those same decisions cause other bad things to continue. Then, this will all keep coming back to somebody removing what we made them put in place, and then we do this all over again because they still have a hold over us and that fear is what lets the corrupt 1% have their way.

It's a very twisted and toxic way of keeping peace and order when we can just make them listen to us in the first place without us having to bend down to our knees for their enrichment.

In the short term, a lot of things will get worse before they get better. But in the long run, I do believe it eventually gets better.

Progress has always trended forwards. Look at where humanity was 50, 100, 200, 300 years ago.

If you genuinely feel this lost and hopeless this close to such a huge election and are legitimately ignorant of all the reasons we should logically be optimistic right now....

It's probably because of propaganda trying to depress turnout.

Except for like a month in 08 before Obama let us down, this is honestly the most optimistic I've been for America, fucking ever.

It's gonna get worse, maybe a lot worse in the next three months. But over the next decade shit looks really good.

We're pretty much guaranteed to get on some FDR type shit unless trump full on coups himself and tries to be a dictator.

So I'm optimistic, but people on the left are running out of time to arms ourselves for worst case scenario and far too many people still don't own a single gun. Let alone a rifle, all the other gear, and the training to know what you're doing.

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And before anyone says "you can't fight the military":

1. We can

2. It wouldn't be fighting soldiers and fighter jets, it'll be the local brown shirt ICE agents for the vast majority of the country. Showing up to a protest with an AR and plates is what prevents fascist from escalating to violence, they won't attack openly armed crowds, because they're cowards.

The future is unpredictable and times can go from hopeless to hopeful pretty quickly. One thing that gives me hope is that I'm young enough that most of the horrible people running the world right now will likely die before I do. There will be opportunities to change for the better.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

My hope is mostly utilitarian--there to put up a good front so I don't discourage others.

I even do believe that humanity will survive. However, it's pretty clear climate catastrophe will shift from having an indirect death toll in the hundreds of thousands to having a direct death toll in the tens of millions. It's going to be extremely, extremely rough.

Until people can be fully substituted for robots, leading us into some Altered Carbon dystopia, there's hope in me. When regular people are not needed to produce goods then we're fucked.

But the timing is nice. Just before technology lands us in that dystopia we're getting a new swing towards social common sense. The other side swung early. Thankfully.

There's also a whole new generation of politicians just now getting into more powerful roles, and economic crashes such as the one we seem to be heading into most often generates a social reset.

And I think the groups that took a long while to start erecting their spine, hopefully won't crawl back too easily - long to wake up, long to sleep.

Trick or treat!