It’s like they can’t help being assholes.

    • @ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world
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      Take care of yourself. None of this is normal and thus you’re going to need more self care than normal. You are making a difference even just sharing the way this makes you feel. We’re all in this together and I can see you know that too.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍
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      9 days ago

      I feel exactly the same way as you. I didn’t have any plans to leave my country up until a year or two ago. While I’m glad I did leave, I’m also so extremely angry and upset at the failure of a country that caused me to leave. It also makes me sick to my stomach to think about what’s going to happen to the people I love

    • Have you ever seen a chicken hatch? It’s a messy and destructive process. Before that first peck, the chick inside the egg is all but invulnerable. As soon as it makes that first crack though, all bets are off. The shell can cut the chick killing it, it can drown in the remaining embryonic fluid in the egg if it can’t get out in time, and it is immediately set upon by hordes of bacteria and viruses that couldn’t get to it. However, as long as everything goes somewhat normally, 5 minutes late you have a cute fluffy chick.

      Humanity takes a bit longer to develop societally because so many bad habits have inertia. Your generation kept the ball rolling, and specifically set up the necessary destruction needed to get society to the point that you were at 55 years ago. The process started in the mid 1800s, and should finish, in the next couple to few decades, with either all of us dead, or whoever’s left uniting under a single banner of equality and prosperity for all.