I do what I can when I can. Hopelessness hinders the change I can make
I go to asklemmy threads and try to sneak my message by their partisan hack, censorship/ban-happy mods by leaving subtle jabs like this one:
Knowing it’s better than the alternatives being touted.
Spread awareness, break all the little rules you can, scatter seeds of all kinds across town, refuse to recognize the dollar, point high powered laser pointers at private jets taking off, make up your own gender unique to you and dont respond to bigots who dont use it to refer to you, shit in the driveway if the CEO if your company (especially if you are the CEO), become ungovernable. The social contract is shattered, you owe nothing to them.
One of these is potentially dangerous to others, and how do you not “recognize” your currency? Do you pay for food and utilities with wolfskin and eggs?
Sure, barter if you want and can. Their power relies on the vibes of markets. Line go down is how you really hurt them. Stop buying stuff.
This for real. Stop buying shit.
I just want to say that invasive plants species are a thing, and if a jet crashes on actual real people because of this, you might as well just get a gun and start blasting away, given the random places it might end up.
It’s like you people are unhinged or something
“Stop him! He bought local seeds and is spreading them across the city! He’s an unhinged menace!”
Give me a fucken break.
Cannabis and passive suicidal ideation
My stupid body took the cannabis away from me, now all I have is the passive suicidal ideation… It’s also my retirement plan! Good ol’ 40
9mm1kIt’s also my retirement plan! Good ol’ 40
9mm1kJesus Crist! I get wanting to overkill serving yourself a Kurt Cobain breakfast special, but where the hell did you even find a 409mm gun? Do you own a battleship?
We all own many battleships in America! The trick is having them let you on board at the right time. Lol
I just like thinking about it, ya know?
The only freedom i have left in my life is deciding when I die, so i get to feel a little free whenever i decide that today isn’t the day…
First I realized that I was reading the news for entertainment, not to actually get informed in any meaningful actionable way.
Then I started to doubt any headline that confirmed my biases. “Trump says terrible thing” boils down to a 3 second sound bite with zero context. “Trump voters regret voting for him” is a summary of 8 tweets taken off a recent trump post. “New study” has 23 participants.
In other words read the damn article. Things are bad, but not quite as relentlessly bad as social media would have you believe.
Also, I vote, I donate, I march. There’s not much else I can do, so what does all this “being informed” do me? Me being miserable doesn’t help anybody.
Second: stop consuming rage bait. 50% of Reddit is just videos of people being insane in public. It’d have you believing that we live in a warzone. We don’t. There is nothing to be gained from watching that shit.
Outside of that, picked up some video games and even started reading books again. Trying to deprogram the brainrot that makes it hard to concentrate on anything for more than 10 seconds.
Oh, and alcohol.
Weed and booze
I’ve cut down dramatically on the booze, increased the weed and feel a lot better. You can smoke so much more if you don’t drink, it’s awesome
It’s kind of like trying to cope with the reality of death
Preparing myself for the world Titor predicted. Small communities.
Learning to homestead as best I can as a renter. Lots of raised beds and planter bags.
I only buy things to support my hobbies. Saving up for land and a prefab home so I can go completely independent.
I don’t want to worry if critical food gets expensive again.
SERN will take over the world.
The Organization is on to me now.
El Psy Congroo
Tuturu!
I would have tried this so hard a long time ago but there is basically 2 things keeping me in the shackles: dentists & hospitals.
How do you deal with that?
Bite your doctors
With bad teeth? That won’t work!
Climate change is really fucking that idea up here in Scotland.
Our ecosystem relies on now non-existant snowy winters to reset the pest and fungus population every year, instead we get mild winters and summer that have no actual rain to water plants yet are so humid that everything is permamently damp, pests and fungi ramp up year on year and plants that used to grow fine here (Talking potatoes and even some native trees) are struggling. I’d say a full half of the non-confierous trees near my house have started dying in the last 2 years.
Now there is a name I haven’t heard in awhile.
Pretty easily.
I live my life and care about the people around me. I ignore things I can’t affect.
The sky is not falling. The ground is right here and things are generally OK for most people.
Me and my family have been doing really well since we escaped the leftist venezuelan dictatorship.
I don’t want to overstate this, but some liberation can come from within.
Yeah, we all have to play their game, but internalizing the values our sick society places on us is optional. Make peace with the things you alone cannot immediately change. Resist in the small ways you are able, find joy where you can, and do what you can for the people you care about. Free your mind and your ass will follow.
Just here trying to create an emotional and practical safe zone for myself, family, and my friends, and fuck the rest of 'em
I refuse to have children in response to what I see with my own eyes. No thanks to my parents for making me exist.
Glad I’m not the only person who resents their parents for making them
I say “thank goodness I don’t live in China, or worse.” Then I go back to trying to improve my life.
Dreaming about becoming a billionaire?
Lol because China doesn’t have them, is that what you think?
projecting?
China, while isn’t great, isn’t actually that bad, just look at North Korea, or Taliban controlled Afghanistan, and that’s what bad really means.
Yeah I did say “or worse” but I clearly draw the line of superiority between capitalist hellholes and an actual fucking dictatorship.
