Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

  • girlthing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    Fair enough. You can probably tell that I mostly wrote that reply to work through my own despair and apathy.

    I’m just personally done with Orwellian imagery. As a faraway threat, the fear it inspires used to motivate me. Now it’s no longer a faraway threat - it’s right here. Now, after learning about ever-worsening mass surveillance, after seeing popular movements crushed, after years of burnout and despair, I find it only makes me want to curl up and die.

    In general, I see a lot of people react this way to what’s happening right now. So I try to share what little hope and strength I can muster. Maybe it’ll help someone.

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      5 days ago

      Let it motivate you comrade. The time is now.

      Solidarity and mutual aid is the path forward. The Democrats were never going to save us. Collective action was always the way.

      I mean shit, Biden backed out of the microplastics agreement right before he stepped out of office. That is their legacy and where their loyalties lie. With their lobbyists and donors and of course saving their own skin, not their constituents.