I love to come here, I love to be among other leftists, but holy shit y'all have to stop posting over the top terrifying titles all the time for your posts. I'm lucky enough that I'm relatively stable in my employment and I can float by on anti anxiety medication and shit.

But when you post things like THE LEFT IS FUCKED and WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE on here, you are not helping people. That kind of thing can really fuck up someone's day or night or week, and you can put someone who's already pretty anxious on edge even further. And given that we're all a bunch of left-wing overly smart overly anxious people anyway, I can guarantee that ruins someone's day. And not in a good way, it can send them in a spiral of depression or anxiety, or can make it worse. And DOES make it worse.

Maybe you sincerely feel this way. I get it. I want to be able to support you and I want you to still be able to be heard and speak up. I want you to still post. I want you to post threads. But please think about what your title is first? Think about how it will impact other people? It really can make a huge difference.

  • ned_ludd [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Doomerism is kind of a fantasy anyway. I think people find comfort in the certainty of some kind of eschaton -- no more rigorous critique needed, no need to struggle, just wait for the end with your gun and your canned food or whatever. The reality is that there's plenty of historical precedent for catastrophe and civilizations bounce back, often without massive differences from what came before, even. It feels like the end of the world because of our constant (and voluntary) exposure to information about all these awful things. There's also the fact that Americans are simply not used to history happening to them, and now it is. Anyway, my point is that doomers are not at all the hard-nosed realists that they see themselves to be. Having a sober and grounded assessment of historical development in a time like this is difficult but ultimately more radical.