I’ve already got my passport, and my partner is getting their’s later this year. I’ve always wanted to finish a masters, and it would be a great excuse to be anywhere else.
Same thing I did last time. Hunker down in a blue city in a blue state, worry about my friends and relatives in red states, and do what I can to take care of myself and others.
Well, the first thing I’m going to do is drink myself into a coma. After that, I don’t know. I keep hoping to wake up rich so I can have a lot more options, but that hasn’t happened yet.
Same here. Shit, I’m doing that right now in the front lines over here in Florida. I’m not going to cower to this madness. And when shit hits the fan, we are gonna need people on the inside.
Here’s a bad ass song about enduring. I’ve translated the lyrics using google translate in case you don’t understand Spanish.
Note: To endure, to hold, and to put up with are the same word in Spanish.
spoilerWe were born to endure what the body sustains We endure what came and we endure what is coming We endure even if we have the seconds counted Our body can last up to fifteen minutes hanging We endure whippings, having both arms cut off Fractures in any bone, three weeks in a cast We endure the urge to go to the bathroom all the time To see Halley’s Comet, you have to endure seventy years We endure school, college, institute At dinner time we hold in our burps The people of Burundi continue to endure famine We endured three days to reach the Moon We endure the cold of the Arctic, the heat of the Tropics We endure microscopic viruses with antibodies We endure storms, hurricanes, bad weather We endured Nagasaki, we endured Hiroshima Even if we don’t want to, we endure new laws We endure that today kings still exist We punish the humble and endure the cruel We endure being slaves because of our skin color We endure capitalism, communism, socialism, feudalism We even endure stupidity We endure the guilty when he plays innocent We endure our fucking president every year For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment To toast for endurance For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment Raise the glass and toast to endurance To toast for endurance We endure any type of pain even if it hurts us We endure Pinochet, we endure Videla Franco, Mao, Ríos, Mon, Mucabe, Hitler, Idi Amin Stalin, Bush, Truman, Ariel Sharon and Hussein We endured more than twenty concentration camps When you swim underwater you hold your breath To build a wall, we hold the bricks Those who don’t smoke endure the smell of cigarettes. We put up with Monsanto infecting our food We endure Agent Orange and pesticides When we sail, we endure seasickness We endure minimum wage and unemployment We endured the Malvinas and the British invasion In the city of Pompeii we endured volcanic lava And within the logic of our humanity We believe the lie and no one can endure the truth For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment Raise the glass and toast to endurance To toast for endurance We put up with the atheist, the Mormon, the Christian To the Buddhist, to the Jew, we put up with the pagan We put up with the one who sells bullets and the one who shoots them We endure the death of Lennon, that of Víctor Jara We endured many wars: Vietnam, the Cold War The Hundred Years War, the Six Days War Let them endure the revenge, we come to retaliate Today our liver can endure whatever the bar invites For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment To toast for endurance For what was and for what could be For what there is, for what may be missing For whatever comes and for this moment Raise the glass and toast to endurance Let’s toast to endurance!
And we’re in for our own ride with “Polly Pockets” as my wife calls him (pierre poilievre). Since it increasingly looks like our fellow citizens are going to fuck up… <sigh>
Resist as much as possible without getting killed. BTW, I’m an Old-White-Guy Boomer. Not all people in my generation are lining up to kiss Trump’s ass…
It’s important for the left to recognise that boomers as a whole also represent a group of people who face significant systemic challenges, and that the real enemy is capitalism and the power structures that maintain it as the status quo.
They’ve had it better than us at every stage of life and have trashed everything for those coming after them. If they are facing challenges now, they’re lucky.
As they do now, capitalists are to blame for what previous generations have had, not the generation themselves. While the boomer generation may have profited by the direct disenfranchisement of others, the same is inherently true of almost anyone who participates in capitalism.
Hating boomers for being born when they were is prejudice plain and simple, while we may face our own modern issues they had their own when they were younger. More recently there’s lovely stuff like elder abuse that’s rampant in aged care.
The leftist cooks did a great video on the topic that I’d recommend watching rather than listening to me, I’m no expert on the topic, I just think social cohesion is important and we need to keep in mind who really causes our problems.
I don’t dislike boomers because of when they were born. I dislike boomers because the right wing ones are assholes and idiots. They blame the younger generations for the problems they caused and they’re actively trying to burn down our country because they believe the bullshit they’re fed by fox “news” and wannabe dictator tRump.
Thank you for your comments. I was getting caught up in the hate rhetoric for “boomers” in general, forgetting who perpetuated these issues we face today.
Thinking back, I know I said some shitty things to older friends and family, who were just trying to get along in life like everyone else.
Unfortunately if the U.S. gets really bad, everywhere will get really bad. If Trump does putin’s bidding, then it will creat power vacuums around the world and will lead to wars. Leaving might be less safe than staying.
Or it won’t be as bad as predicted and it will just be very bad. Then I’m not sure.
I’ll be cutting out my tubes asap, if he wins. I’m in a red state but have an IUD, bf is in blue state. I already intend no children but haven’t made it irreversible yet. I will as after November, to put an end to the risk.
Unfortunately, it’s often not easy to do. Women have a notoriously difficult time convincing fertility doctors to sterilize them because “well what if you change your mind some time in the future?” or “well what if you eventually meet a man who wants kids?”. Yeah. Basically, your wants and desires take back-seat to some hypothetical future you, or some hypothetical future man’s wants and desires. Unfortunately, even some of my blue state friends have faced major road blocks in this quest. It’s a disease that’s only going to get worse if the Republicans take over the executive. :(
I am perplexed by people who like him. The party has shown itself full of the same ilk, but Trump specifically is… After everything he has done I have to assume ill intent, otherwise would be to assume offensive levels of retardedness.
Never said I like trump but Lemmy is way too politicized and unbalanced towards the left. You can’t have a proper discussion on a hive mind echo chamber. I’ve had to block a ton of subs, some that shouldn’t even be political, because it’s all super polarized rhetoric and no discerning opinions are considered
I’m not even in the US so I don’t really care that much about what happens over there so seeing almost everything end up being political propaganda for one side of the political landscape of USA is really annoying
It is annoying, but the US right consists of one party full of anti-science, so being in touch with reality automatically means not them, and in such a disgrace of a political system that means “the other party” because the bastards haven’t updated from their two-party elections since the 1800s.
Weird how ‘personal liberty’, ‘treating others with respect’, ‘having discussions with factual information’ is all “leftist” now. The overton window sure has shifted a lot…
Im a broke woman with chronic health problems in a red state who may be homeless soon and who sure as hell can’t afford to leave and go somewhere better. I guess I’ll just keep trudging along and hope that somehow we’re all being hysterical and things won’t actually get that bad but if they do and if I lose what little social assistance I have I guess I’ll just tap out and call it a life, ya know?
Have you considered to sell everything and be homeless hopping freight trains to leave the area? Or how expensive woulf a greyhound to another are be? Not trying to be mean, just have a hard time imagining being in your position.
Easy, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Duh. I don’t understand why you haven’t done it already. I kid. But seriously. I hope you get the help you need.
I’m really surprised the right isn’t more concerned people in your condition will look at their choices, their right to firearms, and decide if they’re going down, they’re taking legislators with them. That’s a serious concern when people are desperate.
I’m watching his interview with Laura Ingraham. I started yelling at the TV and started getting PTSD from his first term. I’m really scared of what another Trump term would do to us. I forgot how scary that time was.
Honestly, he is so incompetent, and he is so focused on himself that other than theatrics, I do not expect him to be any different from average republican president in terms of policies. Those policies will be formulated by whomever he likes at given moment.
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