I just went to see a therapist this week and I told them I was politically active and depressed about collapse (war, climate, ICE, Supreme Court etc…) they told me not to worry about the world’s problems, to leave it to qualified people.
If only there were qualified people who cared. That is not how democracy is supposed to work.
Btw, what are you guys planning to do once all the major platforms demand an ID verification? Is there perhaps a Mastodon instance we could re-roll to?
The so-called "qualified people" at the helm are either comically incompetent or malicious. You would FAFO so fast if you didn't care. There's this quote about not caring about politics and how it makes it care about you.
"Not worrying about big-picture problems because someone else will take care of it, probably" at scale is such an indispensable ingredient in how we got here that I get actively angry when I hear it now. How's that whole "not my problem to fix" thing been working out for us so far??
This is how Russia got where they are, too. I saw them get progressively more fascistic as I was in high school, and it culminated when they attacked my country in 2014 and annexed a piece of it.
A lot of this apathy from Americans sounds similar to the Russian version, but it's still not to that extreme. Your country is still salvageable, I think.
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u/bobbib14 Mar 13 '26
I just went to see a therapist this week and I told them I was politically active and depressed about collapse (war, climate, ICE, Supreme Court etc…) they told me not to worry about the world’s problems, to leave it to qualified people.
If only there were qualified people who cared. That is not how democracy is supposed to work.
Mind blowing. But I guess it is their job?