Anyone else feel like they're just walking through soup? Watching people going about their business, pretending that this shit isn't happening or it's "not that bad"? I'm a trained psychologist with 16 years of experience to help me "cope" and "reframe" and all that shit, and I don't even know what to do with myself half the time.
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@tayfonay since forever
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@tayfonay personally vacillating between "it's fine" and "I quit"
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@tayfonay I feel defeated to be honest with you. Like we had our chances to "fix this" but those in the best position to do so fucked things up royally or didn't really give a fuck enough to try hard enough, and now we are just stuck hoping a bunch of old dinosaur democrats will save us while a whole generation of young democratic leaders got benched and are now completely out of the lineup to do anything meaningful to help us.
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@tayfonay Chuck Schumer and Dick Blumenthal to the rescue!
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@CoachMark :coolstorybob:
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@CoachMark @tayfonay I have a recurring dream where Gavin Newsom and DJT are in a helicopter surveying the wild fires below, and without warning, Gavin heaves Orange Jesus out the open helicopter door into the flames.
I wake up happy. Sometimes with... ahem... wood.
Am I maladjusted or appropriately weird, given current world events?
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@SlatsGrobnik @tayfonay that's a great dream
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@CoachMark @tayfonay so true and well stated. this hurt my bones.
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@CoachMark "this is a nation run by oligarchs" yet we didn't do a goddamn thing the last 4 years to stop them, rather we just kept on with our insider trading. If you haven't listened to it, AOC on Jon Stewart's podcast last week is good.
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@tayfonay I haven't but will.
Did the Rebel Alliance ever beat the Empire, or did the Emperor and the Siths win in the end or do we not know the outcome yet?
Where's our Luke and Leia?
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@CoachMark @tayfonay
"How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause..." -Sophie Scholl
There weren't enough people in the White Rose. Luke and Leia would have been guillotined just like Sophie Scholl.
I know from experience that no matter how urgent the cause, or how much people pretend to care about it, or how much you are willing to give up, it doesn't matter because there aren't enough others.
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@CoachMark @tayfonay
And look at the fates of everybody who was brave enough to really do something: the Vindmans are out of the Army for defending the Constitution, Marie Yovanovitch is out of the State Department for being everything a diplomat should be, even Mike Pence lost his political career for his one act of courage. Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney get endless death threats. Dr. Fauci. AOC.
The Rebellion in Star Wars wasn't just four or five people or it would have failed.
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@tayfonay
Yeah. And those of us outside the States are held hostage by a rogue administration over which we had no choice and over which we have no influence. All we can do is to stare, in open-mouthed horror, at what's going on in the country that still thinks of itself as the world's policeman.
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@CppGuy
I guess the MAGAgs probably think that. Damn sure nobody in my circle does. @tayfonay
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@tayfonay
Coincidentally I came across this woman talking about hyper normalization. I heard about this mass socialogic "thing" that happens a few years ago.
I guess it happened in 1933 Germany and other times during history where war and mass upheaval happens.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DEhR7_Rge95/
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@WrenArcher @tayfonay The feeling in the pit of my stomach after watching this tells me it's real. 😣
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@lydialurch
I can't help but think just eight days after the inauguration that shit is going to be as bad as so many of us on the left said it was going to be.
They tried to gaslight us into thinking we were crazy for saying a year ago all this shit was going to happen.
@tayfonay
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@WrenArcher @tayfonay We were not overreacting. We were paying attention and connecting the dots, which is not something most people care enough to do. We screamed out loud about it but there was enough noise to drown us out and now we're all in deep trouble.
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@tayfonay It has been an extremely dissociative time in the world (perhaps particularly in the USA) for at least the last 15 years. I feel we’ve been trained to accept worsening conditions over time.
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@photovotary @tayfonay @scream
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@photovotary
The proverbial Frog in Boiling Water Syndrome.
I've said this a few times recently about what's going on that there are enough people who are just comfortable enough and entertained just enough that they wouldn't give to squirts of piss to save our democracy.
I mentioned Project 2025 to my biz partner JUST today regarding exec orders Trump is flooding us with and his response... "what's that?"
He likes watching and keeping up with the sports ball and making sure his portfolio is gaining.
@tayfonay
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@photovotary @tayfonay The elders who remember when it was different, i.e. one job was enough, everyone hated Nazis, etc., were called expendable during pre-vax Covid times. I'm not into conspiracies but it seems like losing so many of them worked in favor of the normalization of what we're seeing now. If that makes sense.
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@tayfonay
So it's not just me. I have to be very deliberate with my attention right now. My brain keeps tossing me nightmare scenarios, and I can only keep myself distracted for so long.
Last night I had to talk myself down so that I could relax enough to go to sleep.
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@tayfonay Yeah, trying to give some sense to everything but everyday honestly the only thing to do would be go back to bed and hide under the blankets.
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@tayfonay nope.
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@tayfonay
I can’t decide which path to take: whether to jump in with donations, activism, rage phoning Congress, beating my fingers raw creating memes & toots — or crawling even farther into my self-made hermitage where I’ve huddled since April, 2020.
How much good can one old lady do against a fascist train barreling through all the stops, especially when #Democratic leaders appear as indecisive & stymied as I?
What’s the point of making myself crazy knowing every time 47 burps a new inhumane action if I (or nobody) can stop him? What good is social media doing now when we couldn’t even get out the blue vote to prevent this disaster?
I remember as a small child seeing newsreels of the liberation of Holocaust camp survivors then wondering years later how ordinary people ALLOWED those crimes.
Are we them? WTF do we do to halt what may be the inevitable?
[#]WeAreSoFucked
[#]CrueltyIsThePolicy
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@tayfonay
Yes, I feel the same. Working for 45 years in psychiatry help me to cope and understand people but still I get angry and unreasonable in my reactions. I feel so frustrated.
[#]trump
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@tayfonay Hugs. Empathy is a real bitch sometimes, but I'm glad you have it.
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@tayfonay 👋 Yes
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@tayfonay Yes, definitely. Each passing day feels more surreal than the last in ways that are rarely positive.
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@tayfonay I am stunned daily. I expected it to be bad, but hadn't imagined that it could be this bad -- and this fast. We don't dare give up. Donating to organizations that are mounting legal challenges to the administration's doing seems like one route. Heather Cox Richardson urges finding groups that align with one's highest-priority issues and working with them. I try to take a daily action, but sometimes I'm just too exhausted.
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@tayfonay 💯💯💯
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@tayfonay no I definitely have the same experience
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@tayfonay oh my goodness yes, and thank you for posting this. how people are just ... gliding through ... all of it i just cannot fathom.
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@tayfonay
They are brainwashed. They no longer have functioning frontal mirror neurons. They no longer know how to analyse and think.
This is what happens when people watch Fox.
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@SpaceLifeForm PLENTY of folks who DON't watch 'faux newz'
are the same
stop it with the stupid tribalism
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@spamned
Not ruling that out. But I watched my mum watch Fox. It is the worst.
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@spamned
Fox has it down to a science.
If you never watched Fox, then you would not be able to observe the pychological conditioning being inflicted upon their viewers.
But you can observe it by watching someone watch Fox in realtime.
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@tayfonay
Also, s/soup/soap/. They are living in their own bubble.
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@tayfonay@beige.party walking thought soup, not good soup tho
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@fdrc_ff The worst soup. Like cream of durian or something
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@tayfonay Me... I tried getting angry and yelling at strangers and running on shock at norms violations 24/7 last time.
I literally do not have that in me this time. Instead, I have a recognition that all my rage ultimately didn't avoid this outcome, so clearly it wasn't well-targeted.
I'm keeping my head down, my focus closer, and an eye on opportunities to do something that's actually something in the local community. Because I can't, ultimately, stop ICE in Chicago from a timezone away... But I can keep an eye on my backyard.
This time around, it's all about zone defense.
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@tayfonay YES! I feel that way too. An old song comes to mind - How Can We Sleep When Our Beds are Burning?
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@tayfonay I have a lifetime of trauma & struggle that gives me experience to cope in times like these. Which makes me extremely worried for people that haven’t. 😔 Sadly, I think most marginalized have been experiencing stuff like this the whole time.
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@tayfonay
Yes
The 1st time thru this bullshit, I was depressed the first year, then started to get involved.
Maybe I'm a different type of depressed this time, but I have the added worry of feeling alone in it. I believed I wasn't alone the first time. Knew I was in the majority, but this time, the data told me I'm in the minority and I feel confused by that.
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@Waitnwallflower @tayfonay Being in the right is far more important than being in the majority. Besides, Electoral College majority (if that’s what you meant) isn’t at all the same as a majority. More of a technicality.
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@tantramar @tayfonay
He won the popular vote this time, too, though. Yes, I could try to slice the pie and say 'among voters', but those that didn't vote sent an even worse message to me: they couldn't be bothered to care enough about others.
(That's what behaviors during covid told me, too, so...)
Ugh.
Maybe I am just a different depressed.
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@Waitnwallflower
The Republicans and their "mandate" has turned out to be a sham.
Turns out Trump had less than 50%... our fucked up system which includes the electoral college showed him winning. However from votes cast, he had 49.8% to Harris' 48.3%
Source: The Cook Political Report
https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college
The difference is 1.9% which I assume came from people who voted 3rd party?
Either way, he got close 50 but it sure as hell isn't a mandate from the people. We're a divided nation, almost exactly in half.
@tayfonay
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@tayfonay
Telling the truth here helps!
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@tayfonay I’m not even in US. Just watching this shit go down for you is making me tired already!
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@tayfonay I feel pretty dissociated for last 5 years. Incredibly hard. It is just what it is.
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@tayfonay USians are mostly delusional. The delusions are born from entitlement. The entitlement is born from nationalist propaganda. The nationalist propaganda has been delivered by both the news and entertainment media since both existed.
I've been watching the posts/articles since the orange shitgibbon won the election and they were nearly all talking about things the way they have always been. Blithe assumptions of nasty, but still NORMAL.
They're in for some VERY horrific surprises.
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@tayfonay I would like 1 (one) mental health, please
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