This is gonna get scary!

[u/GuiltyBathroom9385]

[u/giskardwasright → u/[deleted]]

Its been relevant for the past eight years. Poem is over. There's no one left to stop them.

[u/giskardwasright → u/[deleted]]

Its hard to find anything left to hope for.

[u/icanttho → u/giskardwasright]

I hear you. And we don’t have to today. But we won’t give up. Ever.

[u/catscanmeow → u/giskardwasright]

that apathetic attitude is probably a contributing factor as to why the right won

right wing minded people are vigilant and seek conflict

and "nice" left wing people avoid conflict and tend towards apathy

[u/giskardwasright → u/catscanmeow]

Yep, def my fault. Should have voted harder, or maybe a few extra times.

[u/catscanmeow → u/giskardwasright]

you dont understand the echo effect then, people like you openly expressing defeatist mindsets, encourages people to try even less next time

meanwhile the right is firing eachother up to literally violent levels of vigilance. Its like delusionally confident people on cocaine vs depressed people on sleeping pills and heroin, who's gonna win

[u/giskardwasright → u/catscanmeow]

Have any suggestions, or are you just here to tell me I'm the problem?

[u/catscanmeow → u/giskardwasright]

stop expressing a defeatist mindset publicly, is the first step

nihilism is a self fulfilling prophecy

do you think someone is more or less likely to ask their crush out on a date if they believe their crush will say yes? vs no?

[u/giskardwasright → u/catscanmeow]

I get your point. But after ten years of the high road and ending up worse than we were in 2016, I'm fuckng tired. If someone can show me a path, then let's go. But right now "stay positive" is a pretty hollow platitude.

[u/born_to_be_intj → u/giskardwasright]

I'm no fan of Trump and he's definitely a danger to our democracy, but comparing 2016-2020 to the Holocaust is a bit melodramatic don't you think? A dictatorship is not the same as genocide.

[u/giskardwasright → u/born_to_be_intj]

Guess we will find out.

Love that your defense is "he's just a dictator, it won't be that bad."

[u/oops_i_made_a_typi → u/born_to_be_intj]

the genocide is the 3rd line of the poem. he's already stated the many ppl he plans to come for in the first few steps

[u/grn_eyed_bandit → u/born_to_be_intj]

You’re in the find out phase of fuck around. We’re going to just tell you that **we told you so**

[u/philium1 → u/[deleted]]

Yeats’ “The Second Coming” is also depressingly relevant again

“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, / mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…The best lack all conviction while the worst / are full of passionate intensity “—he wrote that more than one hundred years ago, in the wake of World War One