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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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.
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.
Doomsday clock don't fucking work except for this.
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.
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
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.
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
@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