I would say start barricading their headquarters so they can’t get out as a sign of protest. If necessary start helping immigrants hide from the authorities.
Volunteer work. I can’t do anything for the folks in Minneapolis right now but I can invest that energy into protecting and supporting my own community so we’re better prepared when they come for us.
I signed up for a rapid response team training, and I’ve started 3D printing very loud whistles to carry with me and give out
For the immediate fit of rage/anger: breathing techniques to take the edge off. And probably not the healthiest advice, but acetaminophen also numbs emotional pain. (Slightly ashamed to admit it, but better than using alcohol.)
I’ve try meditation on/off for years, but it has never really worked for me. In a cathartic way, learning more about the history of collapsing nations has helped me reach a state of inner peace? Reading articles about the fall of the Soviet Union, feudalism, Mussolini’s death feel more topical every day. “Fall of Civilizations” podcast by Paul Cooper is pretty good listening. “History of Japan” by Isaac Meyer is very good overall, and has some episodes on the fall of the Ashikaga, Tokugawa shogunates, the bubble economy of the 1980s. We’re repeating history and there’s nothing I can do about it. All I can do is manage the world around me.
It’s okay to take a break from the internet and focus on your own mental well-being. Don’t let them take it from you.
I am becoming mentally prepared to have to make very difficult decisions.
I’m honestly too depressed to channel anything - it just comes out at random moments when I’m alone while I struggle to keep myself going (something only happening at all because I have to for those dependent upon me).
Have you considering doing poetry?
Sorry, poetry never appealed to me for whatever reason.
What kind of creative thing you’re thinking of doing?
I appreciate your persistence in trying to help, but it’s honestly better spent elsewhere. I’ve long lost virtually all hope, and even if things magically became as they should be tomorrow I believe I’m far too damaged at this point to be recovered as the person I could and should have been. It’s been too long. I have no life outside of my responsibilities, and I’m just going through the motions - and not terribly well, at that.
Hitting the gym. Exercise is good for one’s mental health
I’m fucking dead inside. I’ve learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
The people of the us chose this. Ice is simply enforcing what the people wanted
No country on Earth is like this. No polity is unified without opposition. Additionally, making this statement here, when it is obviously false, in a place where at least half the people are from the US, and likely all of those are left leaning and just as much victims if not more so, seems like rather tepid malevolence.
Its called democracy. And tyranny of the majority. It is the failure of democracy we have known this for thousands of since since when fucking Plato wrote about it. That being said under the social contract we have all accepted that we will accept the actions of the majority because we live in a democracy.
I don’t care that some people will take offence at what I’m saying. Free speech baby. Please tell me what is wrong about my original statement?
Yeah, because the electoral college and all the gerrymandering and voter suppression mean nothing. We should just pull ourselves up by our voter bootstraps, overcome all odds and the might of the entire federal and state government and die fighting radical fascists who have been carefully rigging the system from since before I was even born…
Starting to sound like a jan6 rioter now
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Funny how its gotten so bad, yet the people in the us cant be arsed to take the midterms seriously. Do nothing, accomplish nothing. Its not that hard.
Boooooooo. Gtfo, ice apologist.
Feels like more of a Diogenes era to me.
learning to write better rust code (no ai)
Are you a bit rusty?
I’m going to be playing the cool hand and putting a full court press with a measured response to my MAGA co-workers and roll out the slow drip of bad news to many of them who are already getting a taste of taking America back to Trump’s “new Gilded Age…”
They get to play the part of the people living in filth and squalor while the Robber Barons lived high on the hog.
Will do this by reminding them that their costs will continue to skyrocket for insurance, and oh did you hear that once we’re out of NATO ad kicked out of the military bases across Europe, taxes will have to rise to cover the costs of building new bases in other countries we haven’t pissed off. I mean, it’s too bad that the billionaires got permanent tax breaks from Trump while we get to foot the bills for them.
Trump sure loves the poorly educated, and the working class voters that voted for him, doesn’t he?
I’m going to needle and do it with as little gloating as possible and try and make them so sour on the GOP they either switch to a Democrat (unlikely) or don’t vote again (the better option)
Not getting hot about this and serving up resistance coldly is where I’m heading.
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I work in healthcare. I’ve been spending a lot of time studying, listening to podcasts, and improving my healthcare knowledge and trying to be a better provider for my patients. You know, do better for the little bit of community I can affect.
I also go to the gym a lot and I’ve started doing a martial art. Get my physical body in shape and get myself out of my head. It gets me to stop thinking of the world and my own problems for a while.
