These are chaotic times where anything can happen. There are more people questioning what the entire US project stands for than there ever has been before in my entire life. Now more than ever, it is important to have hope. You matter, the things you do matter. I have faith in you. If you are able to organize, now would be a great time (it’s always a great time, but now especially)
Improving our conditions and caring for each other is built into human DNA. It is inevitable.
We’re in the rapids now. It feels like we’re sliding into open fascism, but I have hope that they overplayed their hand and tied themselves too tightly to the current establishment.
Most avg people I meet and those through my job (addiction rehab in rural Midwest) all seem tired as Hell with the current admin, heck I’ve seen quite a few FDT hats and pins on pissed of old people. I think fascism trying to tie itself to Trump as reactionary conservatism did a major disservice to it given it’s committed two immortal sins for Americans: gas is expensive and the overall feeling of daily life is too unpredictable to easily go to sleep (ICE raids, airport fuckery, poor employment and economy). Will revolution come from this? No idea but there’s energy present at least.
We need to hope the US does not go “cancel elections” mode. I know most here are ambivalent about bad stuff happening to the empire on a good day, but this level of bad thing would actaully be bad for the world at large. The US needs to lib out and circle the drain as it declines, not start a world war.
And to take a hit off the Bloom OG we are passing around, I hope that after Palestine, Venezuela, and Iran, the appetite for any sort of military incursion is repulsive among the USian electorate, although they can’t be fully trusted with that.
Some old boy from China said “all under heaven is in chaos the situation is excellent” and he was cooking.
organizeI’ll actually be going to my first PSL event today. I’m doing the thing! (So long as I get over my social anxiety, which I feel like I can do for something this important).
You’ll do great!
i’ll be going to one over the weekend as well and it’s been around a decade for me since i got involved.
here’s to hoping that it goes well for the both of us! 🫡
Hell yeah, good luck to you too my friend.
it occurred to me a few minutes after i wrote that, that it’s actually been over 20 years since i got involved and then i also realized that 2004 wasn’t 12 years ago; i hate how getting old plays with your memory like this. lol
I feel hope with the US withdrawing from west asia but feel even worse thinking about our inevitable climate disaster and our already bad water drought that will be unbearable in a year or few
I hope that China grows enough as a global power to at least provide similar pressure as USSR to force concessions for the global working class
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if humanity is worth saving, but I want to be more optimistic and am trying to be so.
