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Anyone else losing faith in humanity? (Yes, I'm talking about Trump. TW: mentions r*pe))
RainbowPenguin
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Yeah, I'm just... just done right now.
70 million. Over 70 million people voted for that disgusting, racist, stupid, pathetic rapist liar to basically have absolute power. I literally just had to Google "Donald Trump rape" to check I hadn't fucking imagined the whole thing. (And yep, found a bbc article about the Carroll lawsuit - yes, technically the jury didn't find him liable for rape but SA, but come on) with some stupid bitch saying "I do not believe that Donald Trump would ever do anything like this and I am 100% on his side.") Tens of millions of people who know (or should know) what he's done and either truly believe immigrants et al are the enemy instead of rich arseholes like him, don't believe his victims etc., or believe it but decided his bullshit economy promises were worth everything else, or are among those who actually benefit from his crap (aka other rich arseholes) and are happy to buy into the lies. And there are so many other people in his circle who are just as vile but actually have enough of a functioning brain to really do lasting damage.
And that's the root of the issue for me because it just makes me lose hope that the world is ever going to really get better. I've tried looking for the fucking helpers but there's never enough people capable of being fucking decent human beings, all over the world, to change enough of anything, legal changes take too long and I've lost hope that humans are ever going to stop being bigoted and narrow-minded and selfish. It doesn't matter how many try to change things because the ones with power will always be the ones who benefit (mostly financially) from, or just dont care about, union busting and poverty and people dying because they can't afford medication, and cutting off access to abortion and education, and fossil fuels and pollution, and the police being able to do whatever the hell they want and every other fucking thing. (And sure, maybe in four years time enough people will get fed up and vote for the other party but that always happens, just like with the UK, it's like hardly anyone actually thinks especially when the economy feels off.) They'll always find the right lies to tell just to avoid basic shit like paying workers properly. And enough people will always be stupid or uncaring enough to believe them, and we'll always be treating each other like shit, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.
Sure, I can donate to wherever and people can protest and everything else. But we've been doing that for ages and yet the world is still a shithole. With a few beautiful places which haven't been destroyed or polluted - yet.
I wish I could do what the right seem to love so much, and only look out for myself and believe the lies about marginalised groups and not care so fucking much about all the suffering that I can do absolutely fuck all to change. It'd be so much easier. But I can't, so it's not, and it feels like there's no point in trying any more.
Sorry for the length and rambling and if this is on the wrong board. I guess I didn't realise how sad and angry I was until I started writing.
70 million. Over 70 million people voted for that disgusting, racist, stupid, pathetic rapist liar to basically have absolute power. I literally just had to Google "Donald Trump rape" to check I hadn't fucking imagined the whole thing. (And yep, found a bbc article about the Carroll lawsuit - yes, technically the jury didn't find him liable for rape but SA, but come on) with some stupid bitch saying "I do not believe that Donald Trump would ever do anything like this and I am 100% on his side.") Tens of millions of people who know (or should know) what he's done and either truly believe immigrants et al are the enemy instead of rich arseholes like him, don't believe his victims etc., or believe it but decided his bullshit economy promises were worth everything else, or are among those who actually benefit from his crap (aka other rich arseholes) and are happy to buy into the lies. And there are so many other people in his circle who are just as vile but actually have enough of a functioning brain to really do lasting damage.
And that's the root of the issue for me because it just makes me lose hope that the world is ever going to really get better. I've tried looking for the fucking helpers but there's never enough people capable of being fucking decent human beings, all over the world, to change enough of anything, legal changes take too long and I've lost hope that humans are ever going to stop being bigoted and narrow-minded and selfish. It doesn't matter how many try to change things because the ones with power will always be the ones who benefit (mostly financially) from, or just dont care about, union busting and poverty and people dying because they can't afford medication, and cutting off access to abortion and education, and fossil fuels and pollution, and the police being able to do whatever the hell they want and every other fucking thing. (And sure, maybe in four years time enough people will get fed up and vote for the other party but that always happens, just like with the UK, it's like hardly anyone actually thinks especially when the economy feels off.) They'll always find the right lies to tell just to avoid basic shit like paying workers properly. And enough people will always be stupid or uncaring enough to believe them, and we'll always be treating each other like shit, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.
Sure, I can donate to wherever and people can protest and everything else. But we've been doing that for ages and yet the world is still a shithole. With a few beautiful places which haven't been destroyed or polluted - yet.
I wish I could do what the right seem to love so much, and only look out for myself and believe the lies about marginalised groups and not care so fucking much about all the suffering that I can do absolutely fuck all to change. It'd be so much easier. But I can't, so it's not, and it feels like there's no point in trying any more.
Sorry for the length and rambling and if this is on the wrong board. I guess I didn't realise how sad and angry I was until I started writing.
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I was hoping Kamala would have won with a landslide because I was hoping some changes would finally come to the us. I also got a lot of online friends from the USA who would be deeply impacted by his actions as well. I can't imagine how terrifying it must be right now having him as president for the second time. Im not suprised really with how big his rallys and campaigns are. Like there was even a singer from a band I liked and I think he's a trump supporter and im like I cant listen to the songs (maybe I can still can but i dont know). I know exactly how your feeling right now @RainbowPenguin and its understandable to feeling this way too. You also dont need to apologise about venting on here because this is your space too to talk about anything on your mind right now
Hope it's OK for me to share a link now because I keep playing this video Elizabeth Warren made, and it's like my candle right now:
Also this Lord of the Rings quote I saw: "there's some good in this world [...] and it's worth fighting for."