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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not at all ready for it, but I've been acutely aware it was coming since the night of Nov. 6th.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean most of us were acutely aware of it since November of 2016 and perhaps even before, but yeah. So far the awareness seems to be more of a punishment because we can see the train wrecks coming but can't seem to convince the drivers of the car we're in to actually stop parking on the tracks.

Perhaps blissful ignorance may save our mental state.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I avoid news a lot more than I used to because all it does is cause distress about things I have no control over. In his first term I at least had the hope that the shaky guardrails were there to keep him from going too far, but those are gone now and I'm fully aware I live in a country under a fascist regime with no opposition from anyone with the power to do something about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

By the way, there were sanctions against Russia in 2014 because of occupation of Crimea, and that gangster fascist state significantly started to use psy-op techniques and weponizing of corruption against Western countries.

But people still should have personal responsibility, anyway.