Again with this Solnit essay
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Again with this Solnit essay:
❝[P]eople assume you can’t be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can. In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary. Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities.❞
❝I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis.…Feelings deserve full respect as feelings, but all they inform you about is you.❞
We can’t afford to be climate doomers | Rebecca Solnit
It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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I am interested right now in possibilities, actions •I• and •we• can take:
- to protect the trans, queer, Black, and brown people who will be vulnerable and in the crosshairs,
- to gird up our systems of mutual support while we are under siege,
- to counter, to slow, and to kneecap an unhinged Trump administration,
- to work around a broken US government to continue to fight climate change, establish abortion access safe havens, etc, and
- to uproot rampant fascist thinking.
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Gotta be honest, I’m really not digging all the posts about how this catastrophe proves people’s own pet political theories correct. I realize chucking rocks at the loser is part of the grieving process, but…I’m just not feeling it, sorry. The fact is that Harris ran a really strong campaign, and she would have been a great president.
The US is just too sexist and racist for that to matter.
It’s an abdication of responsibility to put the job of fixing all that on one campaign or party.
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For now, I’m a lot more interested in what actions we’re all going to take in the coming days and years. This is on us; we’ve got to step up. Somehow.
I’m feeling lost right now about what more I could have done, about what more I can do. I just don’t know.
I am, however, as Solnit wrote, making a commitment to search for possibilities. Please help me search. I want to be in this alongside all of you who also care.
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Captain Superfluousreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
The proof of this is that Trump just babbled bigotry to half empty venues for a few months, and won.
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There is a sophisticated propaganda apparatus in place. This is what I wish to fight.
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Sure, but the Harris campaign had the best funded ground campaign in history.
At some point, people need to blame the voters (and non-voters) for their own actions.
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I am thinking now is a good time for checking that mutual aid hashtag.
I’m also hoping to crowdsource information on businesses to avoid/ and others to frequent for ethical reasons. (Republican donors are on my avoid list)
A good/ bad list, if you will.
That might be handy in the future for further action. I notice that we all know businesses that are small and that we want to support, but we don’t necessarily tell each other about it and then everyone duplicates their research
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Captain Superfluous last edited by
@CptSuperlative @grechaw
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@inthehands I agree. A lot of the work was going to be the same no matter who is president
Now it gets much harder, but the work to protect and help people is still what’s important
It’s easy to give up, but we need people doing good things more than ever now
Take time to grieve and recover, then let’s get back to work
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@inthehands https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/ this is making the rounds and i found it had helpful advice, long read but worth it.
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@t60n3
Thank you. Lots of good thoughts in here.
