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Because misery loves company and it's even more painful to deal with that pain on your own? At least that's my thought.

Misery doesn’t love company, misery loves *miserable* company.

Have to admit to feeling defeated. I am a retired woman living in a very red state. I’m just hoping all this blows over with minimal damage.

It's like, yes, shit's fucked. But also wallowing in doom and gloom just becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I think those people are still just in the early parts of the grief cycle. Most will eventually stiffen their upper lip to focus on resistance. I mean, they are halfway right. Things are going to be awful. We need to prepare.

Maybe this will help?

I don't even understand that mindset! You're alive, yes? You care a lot about what you're about to lose, yes? So why not actually try to do something to save it?

*Taps the sign bsky.app/profile/base...

Republicans thrive of fear and loathing. they couldn’t get anything done in his first admin, the house couldn’t get anything done the last 2 years since taking over. Reps can’t govern and this group of ragtag halfwits won’t get anything done either. Be worried but don’t live in fear.

Passive nihilism; nothing matters, everything sucks, just give up. Active nihilism; nothing matters, so you might as well say 'fuck it' and try to change the world for the better.

Way I see it, I now live in a country where some people actively opposed the Nazis, some people actively helped the Nazis, but most people just tried to get by. We remember the names of the first group because there weren't that many, but they're the ones we admire. Everyone's got choices.

If ppl are allowed to doomspread, I'm allowed to hopespread

Yes, patience is necessary. Kindness is necessary. But listening to people in crisis can be exhausting and you can’t do it if their crisis begins to get to you.

I have the Doom and Beyond attitude. Don’t have any cute aphorisms for it. Just face it and go.

Ughhh. Yes.

Good number of people could use a watch of Gurren Lagann which has 2 overall messages 1) Fight the power until you die 2) an even bigger drill would fix me

I have blocked every single person doing this, because it is infuriating and aggravating

I can't worry, at this point, about my own discomfort. The people have decided our immediate fate. So be it. The seeds we plant now will not bear fruit in this generation. This is not pessimism. This is reality. I will still smile and laugh after 1/20/25. I smile, knowing that my people persist.

His cabinet is not filled yet. One of his candidates has already been rejected so hard that he gave up. That's a beginning.

I was ready to fight after the incredibly improbable election results, but there was no one in the Democratic Party standing up to lead. Russians were calling in bomb threats to polling places yet everyone conceded democracy instead of fighting like he!! to preserve it. It was NOT a normal election

I think this place, as much as we love it, is the center of the universe for this kind of dooming. There are also a TON of people (from Bouie on down) pushing back against it. I naively thought it might have calmed down a bit by now. But I guess we just have to keep pushing.

Comment more when I feel the fight in me, ask for kitty cat pictures when I don't might be my new attempt ❤️

Because the propaganda has taken root? That has been my working theory.

It’s weird because politics is my job so I understand the vitality of not rolling over. I’m exhausted and a bit emotionally dead inside from the burnout and the situation but I’m not waving a white flag and certainly not publicly. Nuance is a lost art among the masses!!!

I think nihilism is cheap, easy, and so corrosive to empathy that it compels those that drink deeply and happily at the well to demand everyone else become as isolated and nihilistic as they are, and if you don't you're a moron. But I'd rather be a moron than filled with disdain and hate.

Some people want it to be doomed because then their absolved of responsibility.

I feel like I'm having to remind people constantly lately, of how effectively despair can be weaponised, and that it's a trick they shouldn't fall for. The enemies of liberty and human rights want us to be miserable, despondent, hopeless. We should not afford them that victory, that submission.

People dont like change because of the fear of the unknown. Just ignore it and move on.. control what you can.

You can even do small resistance things and help democracy. Cowering in a corner helps noone but Trump and his flunkies.

I have a pretty robust feeling of doom/“we’re cooked” in my heart but not only does it feel counterproductive to spread that feeling but my personal temperament is exceedingly hostile both to giving up and other people who do. Even if the odds are very long it’s never over until it’s actually over.

I think they're trying to reinforce their belief system by convincing others its correct. The fierceness and irrationality of the pursuit underlies the desperate need motivating the communication.

What I desperately want is something to do, people to work with, operations that can counter what is coming.

Being doomed is a bad argument for doing/not doing something anyway. Fully a non sequitur even if you agree

It took Orban decades to get to the point of his last election. And Poland managed to overthrow a similar. So this model is not insuperable.

I think it also highlights how much of Twitter’s problem is bluecheck reply promotion

reminds me of this:

They feel sorry for you, in a slightly condescending way, because you are still capable of belief in your own agency.

Misery loves company. If you despair it, share it!

I have been reading a good but hefty biography of Grant and the troubles he faced during Reconstruction were not dissimilar to ours now. We will get through this.

In a recent WiTH podcast by Chris Hayes, he strolled down memory lane to the re-election of George W Bush. Bush seemed invincible, but then it all fell apart and his 2nd term was a failure. Events & opposition can really change things. (The podcast guest was Anna Galland)

I must not doom. Doom is the mind killer. The little death that brings total obliteration.

People lived in Nazi Germany and the USSR. People live in Russia and Hungary today. They have parties and cook and make art and they do things for others. It’s going to suck but after you get through all the bargaining and denial, what’s left is a choice: lay down and die or get up and fight.