No judgement re voting Labour — there are no good options, it’s a matter of conscience etc — but imho they might even be worse than the Tories in their current form. It’s exactly the same agenda, only Starmer’s Labour have the discipline and lack of opposition to actually get things done.

Oh, 100%, but I just constantly reference the Baldwin quote. Every morning, I wake up in a nation hostile to my very existence, moreso because I escaped both the pipelines intended for me, and have to trudge through a day where I’m not getting paid enough to save to leave, and have to live through crackers trying to deny every last bit of the parts of my existence that contribute to why I despise this society and those who run defense for it with every iota of my being.

No, it’s totally not that they thumb their noses and actively uplift a systemic bias against my people, I’m just lazy. No, it’s totally not that I have to hear about a pig killing another Black man, woman, or child literally every other week, I just have too much empathy for criminals. Speaking of criminals, no, it’s totally not that Amerika is still a slave state and every person who’s ever backed a “tough on crime” candidate is an overseer in that slave state; I’m just being dramatic.

To be Black and relatively conscious in this nation is not to be in a state of rage anymore; props and love to Brother Baldwin. To be Black and even close to conscious is to be in a state of tacit, lucid fury, almost all of the time-- because rage is too unfocused, and too much of a liability in this day and age. The crackers are watching, waiting for you to slip up. It must be tranquil, lucid fury.

I’m a white hot ball of seething rage with no outlet crammed deep into the body of a boring American research analyst. Every where I look I see the way things are structured to prevent real change, to stop people from doing anything meaningful with their lives and I’m supposed to be grateful for it? I’m supposed to be happy that we’re speeding headlong for a cliff at 75 miles an hour instead of 80? (Except it is actually 80 and we have collectively agreed to pretend it’s 75 and that’s Doing Something).

Whatever happens in this dog-and-pony show of an election people are going to suffer and lives are going to be snuffed out but people - some of whom I used to respect and trust - are out there celebrating the possibility of being

I’m a pile of joyless negativity and I hate it.

I’m very angry lately but I’ve also been otherwise emotionally numb for the past year. I think this is mostly due to personal life stuff but it’s compounded by the general state of things.

yes

I find myself typing like a milennial cringelord, my replies filled with ‘fuck shit assfucker fucking come at me shitfucker’ type posts. I find myself not bothered to put effort into responses when a rage filled uppunctuated mess feels so right.

big mood

Yeah, although it’s a direct result of the people I’m forced to be around being even more angry, selfish, emotional, and stupid than usual. Not a coincidence it started happening exactly as people started pretending COVID was over.

Yes. I’m so angry it hurts, every day. Been that way a long time though. longer than it oughta. I don’t know, maybe im breach baby in the ol commie birth canal. Wish I had advice but at least i can offer empathy

I honestly came down a bit from my rage outbursts. Eventually exhaustion took over and for a stint I really just wanted to give up on caring and stuff. I just wanted to turn into another shitty liberal.

tbh i stopped reading the news like two years ago and pretty much only listen to democracy now maybe every two or three weeks and its been a steady decline in my Mad At World rage

im in the states and other than an occasional municipal vote im p much done with electoralism

all i do is work & small hobbies & spend time with the fam. my emotional state is probably the most peaceful it has ever been but that is also partially a reflection of other work ive done to fix my messed up brain + heart

I’m coming down from a rage and I can partly thank Iran for that.