These times are difficult for most of us.
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The long view actually gives me a lot of hope. I see what's going on in the US today as the last gasp of the old confederacy. What gives me hope is an understanding of the penduluming nature of leadership in a first-past-the-post electoral system. We just gotta get through the last of the shit and we can start working collectively to solve the polycrisis.
What gives me hope is the future. Yeah, it's a US-centric perspective, but even being run by a bunch of useless fucksticks we're still crashing the world on three fronts--hormuz, the ai economic bubble, and kessler syndrome. We look like clowns, but we're still very, very powerful clowns. Put good leadership back in charge and the US can contribute a lot to righting this spaceship earth.
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Honestly, small human moments still give me hope. People helping strangers, meaningful conversations, creativity, resilience, and the fact that even in difficult times, many people still choose kindness over cruelty. -
@Em0nM4stodon fruit vendors. dirty streets where people greet each other. rain. makeshift cargo bikes.
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@Em0nM4stodon fruit vendors. dirty streets where people greet each other. rain. makeshift cargo bikes.
@Em0nM4stodon coffee. free wifi signs. imaginative architecture. improvisation.
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@Em0nM4stodon almost nothing, especially seeing the people at power. Seeing all the activism against everything wrong in the world makes me hopeful, but that hope is often crushed by how they are treated by people at power in different parts of the world.
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@Em0nM4stodon while some people on the internet have been awful, very few people are awful in real life. On average, I teach about 100 students per term at my university, and average one openly awful student per year. That means that either awful people are a tiny by noisy minority, or awful people still feel enough shame to recognise that bring bigoted towards the person who marks their assignments isn't a good idea. Either way, it's a small win.
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Toots like yours.Because there will be more good toots underneath.
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@Em0nM4stodon the fact that hopefully most of the current regime leaders will be dead soon. The hope that good people will make a stand against these fascists and technocrats soon.
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@Em0nM4stodon the booing of AI by grads
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@Em0nM4stodon i am still alive, have people that i love and all this tech leaders is a fad. outside the bubble the world is still beautiful... but not always. it was never supposed to be easy, or fair... life is still a mistery to enjoy... while we breathe.
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@Em0nM4stodon My friends and colleagues.
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Knowing that the majority of people on this planet recognize what is happening to them and do not want what is being shoved down their throats. There will be a reckoning.
@noondlyt @Em0nM4stodon Reminds me of Westworld.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. (Marcus Aurelius)
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@Em0nM4stodon The large and accelerating switch to renewable energy (will be seen as Trump's greatest achievement). The defeat of Orban. The resilence of Ukraine and of the EU. European and other democracies decoupling from American capitalism (see House of El YouTube channel). The growing demands for proportional representation in the UK and US (aka ranked choice voting). China lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty in my lifetime. Open source software winning: Linux, Mastodon, Ghost etc.
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People. Heroic ppL.
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R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
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Personally? The community we're growing of folk building #agency in these times. Making things somewhat better than they would otherwise be, and finding solidarity and succour in that.It's not going to save the world, but it sure means a lot to me:
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@Em0nM4stodon spending what time is my family and doing cool projects with cool people.
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Honestly, small human moments still give me hope. People helping strangers, meaningful conversations, creativity, resilience, and the fact that even in difficult times, many people still choose kindness over cruelty.@MagnusIdode @Em0nM4stodon yes, exactly that
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@Em0nM4stodon cool art made by humans and everyone making cool and varied art from different types of brains, bodies and from many different origins, and sharing with each other.
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@Em0nM4stodon I can see change happening with every seed potato and pack of food seeds given away
