Climate change, fascism, being mislead and lied to by school system that thought I was a lost cause.
I’m not demoralized by the problems the world faces. I’m demoralized by people’s active efforts against solving them, or encouraging making them worse. Racism above economic benefits for all. More expensive gas vehicles over the multitude of transport options that don’t pollute our environment.
In history books, I read stories about how the world had to band together to win WW2; for instance, stories about sharing used nylons to make parachutes, or how the modern post office was reinvented. As horrible as war was, I miss when people would actually try. It disgusts me that a great many people just know that you-know-who lies on the regular and still support him.
I don’t even hate him so strongly. I hate what he showed of our world as a litmus test, and it’s made it hard to trust that world again.
Because the world sucks and there is nothing I can do with it
The world doesn’t suck
The world is awesome
There are a few handfuls of expansionist narcissistic oligarchs, dictators and uber rich that ruin the experience for everyone else.
Seriously, we hang a few dozen very specific guys from the gallows and literally the world would be saved the next day. All of the sudden genocides are over, we can focus fully on stopping climate change, we can form a UN that can enforce peace, we can implement wealth caps where nobody gets crazy rich anymore… Can you imagine?
Seriously… That is the weirdness of the problem. We have a few people with so much power that 8 billion of us have their lives ruined by at most a few hundred
I would change John Lenno’s “imagine” to “imagine we hang the parasite class and implemented wealth caps, it isn’t hard to do”
Mh sorry but there are FAR FAR more, like orders of magnitude, people that make it worse for everyone else just so they can have even the slightest advantage (or even just so others have none).
Because all of these moneymen and salesmen have their collective boots on my throat. I can’t just go outside and play anymore what with all of the cameras and evil groups concerned about why I might be outside.
Everything keeps getting further away economically. It’s like those dolly zoom shots in cinema where the camera keeps the subect in the same spot but the background rapidly recedes. I keep trying to move forward, but it feels like we’re not getting anywhere.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Through the Looking Glass was published during the original Gilded Age, and we are currently living in another.
Because I’m working for the Devil.
Everything is expensive. I’m behind on everything. There’s no end in sight.
Right now? My boyfriend is very clearly emotionally wounded by something he doesnt want to share with me. Feeling helpless makes me unhappy, EZ.
Gestures around broadly
Well that for one, but inwards too. Fucking chronic diseases. Really won the gene lottery and then some.
And still we all have to play the capitalism game.
Because everything is awful.
cause i wasnt born in the scandinavian region
capitalism, mostly.
if i only owned the means of production i’d be ecstatic
communism bestism
Almost every issue I have right now goes back to billionaires, fascism, or capitalism. The last two years have been the most difficult of my life so far, and literally existential. I just nearly avoided statelessness and now I can’t legally work following a layoff, so I’ve been living off of savings
Capitalism, religion, and being born the wrong gender.
Why are you unhappy with your gender, I think you will suffer from politics regardless of the gender.
If you’re being serious, there are lots of reasons ranging from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria to things like the systemic disenfranchisement of women in modern society.
Fun fact: when were women in the United States allowed to have bank accounts?
A: Since the founding in 1776
B: 1870’s
C: 1970’s
D: Oh God it’s 1970’s, isn’t it?
Answer: 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed.
(EDIT: this answer previously said 1970 instead of 1974. Thank you to u/elephantium for the correction.)
'73 I thought
Looked it up. 1974 for the credit act. Thanks for the correction! Edited my comment.
And thanks for correcting my correction. I’m not sure how I came up with 1973, but I was thinking of the credit act. I should have looked it up myself before posting :\
Why are you unhappy with your gender,
The fuck kind of question even is this?
Capitalism. Definitely capitalism.
