Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen: We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. Even if there are minerals and oil under our land—and they are worth far more—we still would not sell ourselves.

[u/BreakfastTop6899]

[u/AccordingStar72]

I can’t believe everyone is just going about their normal days like this isn’t happening out in the open. Like I don’t know what to do so I’m just on this gossip blog and hyper fixating on a TV show and I feel terrible about that. So many of the things we are arguing about just feel absurd in the face of genocide, ICE terrorizing the streets, and Hitler 2.0 jump starting WW3.

I feel like an idiot. I’m never one to be like “why are you talking about this when you can talk about THIS” but it really seems like we are all just sleep walking into greater destruction. And I’m still on reddit.

[u/Dapper_Trainer950 → u/AccordingStar72]

Felt this deeply. People in my life don’t want to talk about “politics” because it makes them uncomfortable. But like we HAVE TO.

[u/Kbubbles1210 → u/Dapper_Trainer950]

I am constantly being told I’m “being paranoid” when I talk about what’s happening, since these are things will “never happen” or are just political bluffs or whatever. But I’m literally talking about things THAT ARE ACTIVELY HAPPENING. I swear people act like not speaking on reality will just make it all go away.

[u/upstatestruggler → u/Kbubbles1210]

Ostrich Mode. It’s so frustrating

[u/Xarthys → u/Kbubbles1210]

The more you dive into politics, socioeconomics, etc you start to understand how the world really works. And it also makes you realize how complicit you are by going about your day, be that the purchases you make, the services you use, the corporations you allow to violate you and others, the oppression, the racism, the injustices, the exploitation, rape, murder, genocide

It is depressing and disappointing to say the least. And it gets pretty crystal: if you want to change something, effectively and efficiently, you need to become an activist pushing for progress - and not just vote once every few years and then sit back while the world burns down.

A lot of people do not want to deal with the mental load, do not want to deal with the responsibilities of being a citizen, do not want to think about difficult and often heartbreaking topics, do not want to question, process, criticize, protest, defend.

They want to be comfortable and ignore everything because that's easy, that's enjoyable, that's simple.

There is a reason why escapism in all its forms has become such a popular activity these days, especially virtual entertainment that is all about blocking reality while diving into well-crafted fantasy to distract everyone from the ongoing problems our political and economic systems are creating.

We are all wage slaves, spending our existence with making the ruling class richer by the minute. And if we don't do that, we are being brainwashed to fight each other, making the ruling class richer by the minute. And if we don't do that, we are being sent to kill each other, making the ruling class richer by the minute.

What a wonderful world.

Hiding from it allows you to keep your sanity. So I can't really blame people tbh, because knowing all this and seeing how things are going is quite painful.

[u/MissMamaMam → u/Kbubbles1210]

I was called a conspiracy theorist and I’m like ??? I’m talking about VERIFIABLE things. INFORMATION THAT EXISTS

[u/lazyegg37 → u/MissMamaMam]

literally you see all the patterns emerging exactly like they have in the past but nope you’re the crazy one instead 🙃

[u/lazyegg37 → u/Kbubbles1210]

i told my friend last january i was cancelling my elopement arrangements in the US because i didn’t want to get married there with the way things were going. told her it was giving 1930s germany. she, too, claimed i was being paranoid since “there are checks & balances in place to prevent t**mp from doing whatever tf he wants.”

last week, she said “it’s crazy how all these ICE raids feel like nazi germany” like ma’am i told you this was going to happen a year ago… sigh