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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by lemmylem@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

I'm worried for the world. All I've been thinking about is WW3 and this shit makes me want to vomit. I can't even smoke weed anymore without having a near panic attack. I feel unmotivated. I wake up and immediately just want to go back to bed. I'm not trying to spread fear but the Doomsday clock is 90 seconds till midnight, during the Cuban missile crisis, it was 7 minutes before midnight. Can we just have one day of fucking peace? Can everyone just stop for one day and enjoy one day of peace?

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[โ€“] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

no my friend. we are fine. sure, bad things happen , but a lot of it is just fearmongering. it will all work out

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[โ€“] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I mean, you could log out.

That isn't going to change the fact that the US is becoming a fascist state and the rest of the world will follow, but you can get a day of blissful unawareness.

[โ€“] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The key is to learn to accept our inevitable doom. It gets easier if you design yourself to it and just go play video games or something to pass the time.

[โ€“] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Doomsday clock don't fucking work except for this.

[โ€“] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

While big imperialist superpowers are quick to kill innocent civilians and sacrifice their own soldiers, the fear of their own death is enough deterrence to make them not use nukes.

I think this being an election year in the US also makes the whole world more wacky. It will decide if the world gets one more dictator or not, and one that would have a massive military at his disposal.

[โ€“] A_Chilean_Cyborg 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

We, southamericans, have little to worry about.

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[โ€“] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah we're fucked. Take the average person and they'd sooner become a nazi when push comes to shove than believe in a better world.

It's not if society is going to fall, that's going to happen regardless of what you do, it's if you personally are going to survive the fallout.

Not really. Just the firstworlders

[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

I've stopped caring really, humanity can go extinct. We don't deserve this world. It will be a much better place when it's just deers and wolves frolicking about.

[โ€“] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works -1 points 8 months ago

If you really look around things are way better than they ever have been, like hugely better in practically every metric.

It's OK to enjoy life

[โ€“] EmpeRohr@federation.network -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@lemmylem@lemm.ee dude we are so fucked. We are heading to a dystopian cyberpunk fascist future, so we are fucking up the planet and we fuck ourselves that way

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