No, it’s not. At this point, it’s entirely clear that 1/3rd of the country is terminally stupid, 1/3rd is too lazy to do anything about the terminally stupid, and 1/3rd too busy screaming at each other over purity tests to do anything to convince the lazy that they shouldn’t default-allow the stupid to lead everything.
I’ve reached a point where, frankly, I don’t care anymore. This year is going to be about me, and frankly, screw whatever other people want or think.
I’ve done some minor things: I carry now, got a motorcycle license and a bike, am spending rather a lot more time and energy around getting laid.
Long term, though, I cannot see a way that the US is going to survive in it’s current state, and I also cannot forsee me ending up as involved in things as I have been becasue it’s absolutely crystal clear that unless we magic up a way to solve stupid and lazy, this is going to be the default going forward.
And, just for clarity here: the ‘default’ does include Team Blue winning the occasional election, because it’s basically just being told the Stage 4 cancer that’s going to kill you is in remission, but probably only for 2 or 4 years and at random intervals. At some point the cancer WILL kill you, and the occasional moment of pauses in the destruction are not saving anyone or anything.
And yes, I know this is absolutely coming from a position of privilege: I may be gay, but I’m also white, cis, and can absolutely pass as straight, and while not being rich, I have a house, a reasonable nest egg, and the absolute unqualified glorious privilege of not needing to work 40 hour weeks to pay my bills.
But, well, I’ve paid for that privilege over the last decade of working 60 hour weeks, and I cannot see any reason why I shouldn’t exploit the shit out of it and stop making some corpo shareholder richer while I sit there stressed and upset over shit that does not matter. (I worked in IT: none of it matters, at all.)
Do whatever you can to get to a friendly location.
Post-US, I expect to see the new country of California to become a world superpower, but it will not be an easy path. I expect it to be a major military target, from both foreign and domestic adversaries.
I feel like you get me: this has now become our new normal. Future years will be compared to this one. 2026 will be 2025 part 2 rather than 2020 part 7.
No, it’s not. At this point, it’s entirely clear that 1/3rd of the country is terminally stupid, 1/3rd is too lazy to do anything about the terminally stupid, and 1/3rd too busy screaming at each other over purity tests to do anything to convince the lazy that they shouldn’t default-allow the stupid to lead everything.
I’ve reached a point where, frankly, I don’t care anymore. This year is going to be about me, and frankly, screw whatever other people want or think.
I’ve done some minor things: I carry now, got a motorcycle license and a bike, am spending rather a lot more time and energy around getting laid.
Long term, though, I cannot see a way that the US is going to survive in it’s current state, and I also cannot forsee me ending up as involved in things as I have been becasue it’s absolutely crystal clear that unless we magic up a way to solve stupid and lazy, this is going to be the default going forward.
And, just for clarity here: the ‘default’ does include Team Blue winning the occasional election, because it’s basically just being told the Stage 4 cancer that’s going to kill you is in remission, but probably only for 2 or 4 years and at random intervals. At some point the cancer WILL kill you, and the occasional moment of pauses in the destruction are not saving anyone or anything.
And yes, I know this is absolutely coming from a position of privilege: I may be gay, but I’m also white, cis, and can absolutely pass as straight, and while not being rich, I have a house, a reasonable nest egg, and the absolute unqualified glorious privilege of not needing to work 40 hour weeks to pay my bills.
But, well, I’ve paid for that privilege over the last decade of working 60 hour weeks, and I cannot see any reason why I shouldn’t exploit the shit out of it and stop making some corpo shareholder richer while I sit there stressed and upset over shit that does not matter. (I worked in IT: none of it matters, at all.)
I’m trans, intersex, and can’t really pass definitively as either binary sex. I’m also quite disabled.
It’s a coin flip if I live to see the nation that comes after the United States of America. I’m fighting like hell for my life.
But I’m glad you can blend in.
Do whatever you can to get to a friendly location.
Post-US, I expect to see the new country of California to become a world superpower, but it will not be an easy path. I expect it to be a major military target, from both foreign and domestic adversaries.
I feel like you get me: this has now become our new normal. Future years will be compared to this one. 2026 will be 2025 part 2 rather than 2020 part 7.
Put another way, America is now “great” again!?