I still see people posting pictures on Facebook of their various pricey vacations, partying on boats on lakes, etc.
I feel insane sometimes looking at them, seeing no one seemingly paying attention to anything outside their immediate social groups. Makes me feel like I'm stuck with the "They Live" glasses on 😎 :stalin-stressed:
"Holy shit, did you guys know that we invaded Iraq? I had no idea!"
My mom blames Trump for everything and is holding out hope that once he gets out of office in November everything will get better, my dad who was always right wing to some degree is going increasingly further right, angry about BLM, covid regulations, ranting about how "the left has gone insane." I can't and don't talk to him anymore. Many of my friends were moving left once the protests started, but now they're all grillpilled and have completely checked out. At least a couple of them actually did move left and will listen to my ranting, except I don't think they'd actually call themselves leftists, but at least they're sympathetic. But also a bunch of friends have gone full reactionary because they haven't been able to go to the gym in months.
Honestly though except for my dad who's completely lost touch with reality, most people I know are pretty much that meme with the dog sitting in a house on fire saying "this is fine."
Yeah that's what I do with my mom, she's got enough on her plate right now anyway without me yelling about possible collapse. but honestly I have no idea how to talk to people anymore without turning into a crank anymore. I care about these people and I want them to be able to process current events, but I don't know how to do it without talking completely over their heads or risk making them feel more hopeless and powerless than they already do.
My parents have gone full on fash "I would live in an authoritarian state if it meant I was taken care of and people were nicer to me as a white boomer“ my super lib friend had a panic attack when she heard RGB died and is now in a state of legit shock where she is bascially giving up. My other friend has just confined herself to beleiving Biden is the best we will ever get. My extended family is now all gone full hard right and hate black people even more then they use to.
Fun times over here
It sounds like your first friend might be ready to listen, and your second friend might soon be.
Nah I do that too. I just mix it in with memes and discussion Schitt’s Creek and just being a good listener.
Also the DSA, I would be very lonely without joining the DSA And IWW.
First idk, she’s a historian major Who works for the Smithsonian and is still very much a “I believe in the system, we can fix it” kind of person (she canvassed first Pete)
The later is more or less there. But Bernie being so fucked has made her skipped right past the leftism and gone straight towards the doomer. I think I’m pulling her back, Got her to buy Blackshirts and Reds and she apparently loved the graphic novel I gave her about Rosa Luxemburg (Red Rosa it’s amazing) So I have hope.
A relative of mine posts about a different person she knows dying seemingly every other day. Today it was a dude who had blue lives matter shit on his profile. Looks like it was a suicide, as far as I can tell. He himself was an extremely distant relative of mine through several eighth marriages. Never knew he existed (until he didn’t). And yes, this is unusual.
Nothing's happening. My parents are still going to work, my brothers are doing remote school and are looking forward to seeing their friends in school in person, but are holding off due to the virus. They still go out for errands and leisure (with masks of course). We've been doing a lot of projects around the house. The protests have had no effect here. We're just sort of still waiting for the virus to pass.
my dad blames the president of mexico for everything, yet its his goverment programs that give him jobs to do, my mom really like AMLO and doesnt like when me and my sister criticize him, as for the US everyone in my family thinks Biden is gonna fuck up and give the election to trump
You two are right to criticize him, he absolutely deserves it, even if your mom doesn't like to hear it. Though your dad is a little extreme, since AMLO has done a lot of stupid and neolib shit, but some things precede him for sure.
Honestly, I have been remarkably fortunate. I think my friends who have it the hardest are the ones who are in school, either as university students or as teachers, but they seem to be holding up.
Partly this is because I live in BC, Canada -- I know that it's such a cliche for Canadians to be smug about being better than the US, but this is a case where I think Canadian government has done a demonstrably better job of taking care of people than the US has. (Not perfect, though -- there have been evictions happening in Vancouver. And as always, the government is still being shitty to indigenous people.)
My dad has been posting right-wing stuff about how we need to get society back to normal and how COVID isn't as dangerous as everyone says -- which sucks, but I'll take that over conspiracy theories about how COVID was invented by the Chinese or that it's a hoax altogether, and at least he still wears a mask in public places.
Everyone around me is on some kind of anti-psychotic or anti-depressant but somehow I'm the crazy one. It's like, guys, you're literally on drugs designed to make you perceive reality differently.
Everyone I know on lexapro or zoloft has doubled their dose. The parents I know are losing their minds.
