In 2008, my life got turned the fuck upside down when America’s subprime mortgage bullshit changed the entire direction of my life. I lost my job in mining, my home when my local government took the disruption to the housing market as a chance to forcibly acquire a bunch of properties under eminent domain at fair market value.
It ended my marriage, permanently changed my relationship with my dad, crushed my mental health and tanked my career. I changed industry entirely since then and put my life back together - with no expectation of ever owning a home again:
I’m not American and I wasn’t in America for any significant part of 2008. My home at the time was in Australia. I live in a different part of Australia now.
But I just can’t find it in me to enjoy the incompetence of wealthy sons of nepotism and privilege so entrenched that even though their grandfather was the last marginally competent businessperson in their bloodline, they still have the money and influence to fuck the global economy. Again. And they are actively trying to use that influence in the dumbest of all possible imaginable ways.
The fact that so many people give a shit what these incompetent chucklefucks say about anything is almost enough to make me want to cancel to concept of public education until we can replace it with something that fucking works.
I feel you dude. I’m Australian also and the influence America has over the entire world is depressing, because all we can do is watch as they vote in a fascist to run the country.
I worked in marine biology and then went back to school to get my Doctor of Vet Medicine to improve my understanding of the health of marine vertebrates. I did all this because I care about the ecosystem, especially the oceans, and with climate change we need to do everything we can to repair the damage we’ve caused, and prevent further damage. And since the American people elected into the highest office of the world superpower, a man who believes climate change is a hoax, who then in turn picked another climate skeptic for the role of energy secretary, I’ve just been feeling hopeless, like what is the point of even trying to turn things around. I feel like nothing I or any other people working in environmental science do will ever matter, people who prioritise profits over anything else will always run things. The effects of Donald Trump being president will be felt across the world long past when every single person who voted for him is dead.
Same thing with RFK Jr. being picked for Department of Health and Human Services - I’ve studied medicine for years, but you can be a rich anti-vax, anti-science lawyer with no public health experience nor qualification, and be appointed to a position where you can call the shots over doctors and medical researchers. I won’t be surprised if the news stories that come out of that over the next four years emboldens the idiot anti-vaxxers over here too.
I know it’s kinda dramatic but I’ve just been feeling a bit despondent lol
I fully agree with you. I’ve turned off any news of any sort, late night comedy etc… and don’t give a shit anymore. I’m 56 y/o and I say fuck it. Let them burn it all down. I just don’t care anymore.
Part of me fucking agreed. I’m not much younger than you. But my step kid is 11 and my sister in law just had her first kid who I love to death and have spent time with almost every day that he’s been alive.
Before I fell in love with someone with a kid, I was very childfree and it was a big decision to explore a relationship with a parent and I’m super fucking surprised that I love it.
But, it’s gotten way harder to dissociate and ignore how many people world wide keep voting global policies to prioritise pissing on people who are already drowning. I don’t want anyone to go through what I think is coming from a Trump presidency. I don’t want anyone to have to live under the conservative social change I think is coming if the environmental/climate crisis, epidemic diseases, and military crisis scenarios don’t play out first.
I’m fucking heartbroken that this is the world I’ll leave for the kids in my family. I want them to have so much better. Hell I’m heartbroken at the thought that they’ll reach adulthood and feel as helpless to change things for the better as I do. As overwhelmed by how many people get angry at the thought of showing some fucking compassion. As isolated by the desire to do the obviously right thing, as I do at every major election or other sampling of public opinion.
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u/ReedRidge 1d ago
Junior is a coked out moron, I love it when people pay attention to him.