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TWO WOMEN PUSHING SHOPPING CARTS IN A GROCERY STORE
HEY CLAIRE! HOW YOU DOING?
OH, I’M FINE!
THOUGHT BUBBLE: FREAKING OUT, ACTUALLY.
ANY PLANS THIS WEEKEND?
THOUGHT BUBBLE: WILL THERE BE A COUNTRY TOMORROW?
YEAH, JUST HAVING NEIGHBORS OVER FOR DINNER.
THOUGHT BUBBLE: AND STOCKING UP ON NON-PERISHABLE ITEMS IN CASE SUPPLY CHAINS COLLAPSE.
COSTS A LITTLE EXTRA THESE DAYS, HEH HEH!
WELL, HAVE A GOOD ONE!
THOUGHT BUBBLE: MAY AS WELL ENJOY LIFE WHILE YOU CAN.
TAKE CARE!
THOUGHT BUBBLE: HEAVEN HELP US ALL
This made me think of an article I read today about the Nazi occupation of Rome during WWII:
Marjorie Scaretti, my great-aunt, lived in Rome for much of her life. She was in the Apennines after the armistice talks of July 1943 and returned to Rome on 20 October, two days after the remaining Jews of the Roman ghetto were sent by train to Auschwitz. Her husband, Enrico, was a banker, some of whose property and businesses were appropriated by Mussolini after he refused to join the Fascist Party. Aunt Marjorie kept a diary, and in its pages she writes about the furtive lives Romans led during the occupation: the ceaseless speculation about where the Allies were; whether the Nazis would destroy Rome by defending it from an Allied attack, turning it into another Stalingrad; at which prison or police station someone was being held and how to get them out – many arrests in the months of the occupation were entirely arbitrary.
[…] She wrote of ‘the hair’s-breadth escapes, the adventures, the amazing and often fantastic existence of thousands of fugitives, coupled with the fear, the secret anxiety, the danger and the want, the heroic, the ludicrous and the vile – all packed into the daily life of the harassed citizen’. Josette Bruccoleri, an interviewee in Trevelyan’s book, spoke of the same unease: ‘Everyone seemed to be in possession of some great secret which they did not dare reveal. People hardly spoke to each other and if they did it was only for a moment. I myself felt like a time bomb ready to explode, but like everybody else I did my best to look as innocent as possible.’
Not exactly the same, but every day it feels like there are more and more echoes of the past.
I’m reading this while on a bus packed to the brim of people going downtown for a protest.
Heck yeah man, get em
You are all awesome
Oh my god, yes! I went to my first one today in NYC. I was so mad our march maneuvered us around Trump Tower instead of past it!! Not that we were planning to egg it or anything…
Well not with the cost of eggs these days!!!
…wait…I think I just uncovered a completely insane but also totally logical conspiracy theory.
THATS WHY EGGS ARE SO EXPENSIVE!!! TRUMP DOESN’T WANT TO PAY EXTRA HOURS FOR CLEANERS TO CLEAN HIS BUILDINGS WINDOWS EVERY 5 MINUTES!!!
Does that check out, or am I just high?
Thank you!
I’m reading this from next to a very large stack of non-perishable goods and bottled water.
…you’re at the grocery store, who for some reason is using the endcap as water?
How are you doing? Anything new? What you up to these days?
Oh, you know. Just working on the usual. Little of this. Little of that.
Five minutes later posts online:
I’m a doomer who is generally pessimistic about the future, but I don’t spend every moment thinking about a dramatic end to life as we know it. Maybe I’m a fake doomer.
Is this AI?
No, the person who made it is on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/114366108708464396
what the heck does “will there be a country tomorrow” mean?
Fear of society to collapse or civil war to break out, I guess. Sentence could use a “still”
that doesn’t mean the country will disappear
How old are you? Have to you learned history?
ok I guess you will be swimming in an ocean then tomorrow
A country is not land. A country is a human construct. Usually, a country is situated on land. The Soviet Union is no longer a country, but several other countries now occupy its land.
A country is usually seen as its government. If the government ceases to function, the country effectively no longer exists.
Does that make more sense?
I gave up and already moved on from this clown, some people just get entertainment from wasting other people’s time. Lemmy gets them just like any other site.
ok yeah that does make sense, but still the soviet union didn’t collapse in one day right?
I honestly don’t know. If the government declared itself void via some action, then maybe? I really have no idea
People tend to exaggerate in their thoughts anyway, so this is reasonable to imagine someone thinking.
At this point I’m convinced either English is second language and you learned it entirely from a single shampoo bottle label, or you’re trolling everyone and just coming off as mentally challenged.
woah
Have you been paying attention to anything? Like, at all? Did you just wake up from a coma?
the wording just doesn’t make sense to me
You sound high as fuck or you’re recently transferred to earth and still learning how separate individuals, and definitely not colony organisms inside a realistic skin suit, communicate information to each other.
nah it’s just that I ran out of country today
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