• Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Being humorous about overwhelming things is how the fuck cheetolini got his first term.

    How about we stop being humorous and acknowledge that the U.S. going fascist is literally the worst thing that could happen to the planet since the last meteor-driven mass extinction.

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      3 months ago

      i don’t mind the humor, because good lord it’s so damn depressing otherwise.

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        3 months ago

        I absolutely DO mind the humor because I am acutely aware of how it kills activism.

        I know how dangerous it is because I saw it cripple an entire generation through apathy, sarcasm, and ‘being above it’. I saw the groundwork of today’s fascist rise it the absolute detachment and knee-jerk memery that everyone of my generation responded to literally any threat with.

        And it made us (GenX) absolutely irrelevant in politics and human rights to this fucking day.

        So, no, humor isn’t harmless, and it isn’t a good cope, but it’s great for convincing everyone to do nothing but doomscroll and meme.

        Which is exactly what the fascists want us to do.