Yeah things are really bad! If "no dooming" is meant to preclude acknowledging as much, that's bonkers imo Not least because you can't change how bad things are if you don't first grapple with them
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That we are, in fact, doomed without monumental effort to change our fate should frankly go without saying at this point
aug 28, 2025, 12:56 am • 23 0 • view
I have been trying really, really hard to be generally positive as befits someone whose job it is to teach civics all day every day, but I somehow cajoled myself into watching Garland's Civil War again this evening and it has darkened my mind in ways I didn't think possible the first time I saw it.
aug 28, 2025, 1:52 am • 8 0 • view
Haven't seen it and don't plan to lol, but like People gotta realize that it's going to take serious work to push us off of the path to actual civil conflict
aug 28, 2025, 1:53 am • 8 0 • view
It's absolutely worth seeing despite the psychological damage it'll cause. I don't think there's a better film to point out the flimsiness protecting American exceptionalism from being Just Like Everywhere Else. But I agree that the path there is hopefully more distant than the film makes it seem.
aug 28, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
I’m getting increasingly discouraged by people using their followers to shout down or their pulpits to punch down on others for advocating being proactive rather than reactive in their thinking and approach. You need to be ahead of them and not behind them. You want to err on the side of caution.
aug 28, 2025, 9:38 am • 0 0 • view
Lol no
aug 28, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
(We're never doomed until we're all dead, and yes, there will be a lot of effort involved)
aug 28, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Even I who thinks that monumental effort is more likely to be forthcoming than at any other time in my life, I still don't think it's forgone and mechanistic.
aug 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 5 1 • view
Can you say more?
aug 28, 2025, 1:45 am • 1 0 • view
Democratic voters are madder then they've ever been in my memory.
aug 28, 2025, 1:54 am • 3 1 • view
Oh I thought you meant we might still be not doomed if we missed our shot
aug 28, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah I also kind of thought this
aug 28, 2025, 2:20 am • 1 0 • view
Our shot is still coming but it'll be bad if we miss it, I think
aug 28, 2025, 1:56 am • 2 0 • view
I mean of course not! Everybody’s still got to do all the stuff. Nothing’s automatic. I guess what I’d just say is the alternative to “everything getter better until perfect” is not and never is “doom”. Things are worse or they’re better and you aim to get to “better”.
aug 28, 2025, 1:47 am • 6 1 • view
“Doom” isn’t real, which is why we’re so ornery about the whole concept on here. DEATH is real but if yourself aren’t dead you’re also not doomed, and neither is your country.
aug 28, 2025, 1:47 am • 6 1 • view
It's one of those irregular verbs, init? They doom, you recognise badness, I do current state analyses.
aug 28, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view