#living in the states - scary times

[hauntingjasper]

We are all afraid of something...

I wonder what Prince Gumball's biggest fear would be?

There's an episode (Five short tables I think) where it shows that he's afraid of dying alone/his own mortality to some extent. I imagine that because he's long-lived and most likely has watched many people die before him, he's scared that there won't be anyone else by *his* side when it's his turn. There's no way of knowing when or how, he wouldn't be ready for it, so that's probably double scarier for him. He's an anxious fella

[francisforever2014]

most of the time i feel like it really just Is Not That Serious and really truly believe that everything just works out and sometimes i’ll be hit by a fear of the future so debilitating i actually wanna throw up

[solace-seekers]

screaming into the void <3

[shitty-check-please-aus]

what if I become a single-issue voter but my single issue is high-speed train service (& the associated infrastructure needed for it) between cities in the US

[astriiformes]

Someone put a curse on my family this year for real I am holding my head in my hands I have no idea how to fix any of this anymore

[lazyblogposter]

So glad that Vita Carnis is not real. My ass would be dead at this point.

[whoslaurapalmer]

best friend and I are thinking about visiting some museums so I've been looking at the one that's one state over (one of the closest) and look. I have never been to a museum. but it's so big!!!!!!!!!!! they have so many things!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so many galleries, so much art!!!!!!!!!!!! they have!!!! a restaurant!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so intrigued. I am so overwhelmed. we must go!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[a-walking-fandom-reference]

so my 85 year old gramma has been sick and she already is like on the verge of dementia but when she’s in the hospital or rehab she gets really lost and confused it’s happened for the past few years it’s literally a medical thing that can happen especially with older people but my aunt the other day was like i think it’s because of all the medicine she’s on… i’ve never seen someone on so much medicine (keep in mind my gramma has been on a lot of meds at least since i’ve known her because she has mental illness and is disabled) and my mom just looked at my aunt and laughed and said i know someone and then looked at me… like people that aren’t around disabled people a lot will literally be like it’s all those damn medicines and not the fact that those medicines are usually keeping them alive….

[apollo-zero-one]

I'm fine now dw

[ahurumustdie]

growing up and maturing is the weirdest shit ever

"I think somewhere inside me I'm still like seven years old and waiting to call my dad on skype. But i'm also 14 and mad that my dad does drugs (because weed is so bad) and makes bad decisions so I don't want to see him.

But you know what? Mostly I'm just 20, and I just want to get coffee with you." - quote from the letter i wrote my dad, who i haven't spoken to directly for several years

[overlyemotionalbreakfastcereal]

fuck.

[arctic-hands]

Have I ever addressed in therapy that the reason I'm obsessed with the news stems from nine eleven?

[nomaishuttle]

seattle is to video essayists as la is to influencers

[draconicace]

shaking my brain like a maraca you don't have to feel anxious after every single social interaction You're Fine. everything is Fine. calm down.

[deadpresidents]

"What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 millions people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn't carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn't paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen."

-- "How Far Would He Go", TIME Magazine's interviews with Donald Trump, April 30, 2024.

I know we're saturated in coverage of Trump and it's easy (and probably better for our mental health) to usually ignore most of the articles when we see them, especially since he's so full of shit and infuriating. But it's also important to recognize that he is going to be the Republican nominee for President and he could absolutely be elected in November, and if you thought his first term was scary and dangerous, you need to understand that in a second term he's going to have people around him that are better prepared and VERY willing to do the crazy shit that he wants to do to this country. They aren't even hiding the fact that they are seeking vengeance against political opponents whom they feel have wronged them, and are ready to fundamentally dismantle the democratic foundations that are barely holding this country together after nearly 250 years.

Just look at what Trump says about the people who he incited to attack the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election and halt the peaceful transfer of power that has happened every four years since 1789:

"Trump has sought to recast an insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. 'I call them the J-6 patriots,' he say. When I ask whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says, 'Yes, absolutely.' As Trump faces dozens of felony charges, including for election interference, conspiracy to defraud the United States, willful retention of national-security secrets, and falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments, he has tried to turn legal peril into a badge of honor."

Oh, and please note that Trump -- a former President of the United States and possible future President of the United States -- said on the record in these interviews with TIME: "There is a definite antiwhite feeling in the country and that can't be allowed either." We are at a point where political leaders are outright saying that in this country again, and it's because of Donald Trump.

So, take the time to recognize that Trump is straight-up telling us the country we're going to be living in if he wins again in November. And understand that your vote matters -- and WHO you vote for matters -- because, as I've been saying for years now, ELECTIONS HAVE FUCKING CONSEQUENCES.

[sera-wasnever]

People who latch onto ai as a buzzword thing to hate are both a) buying into the marketing of everything called 'ai' being the same magic artificial intelligence technology and b) entirely limiting their idea of what it is to how it personally affects/might affect them. You will not stick it to the exploitation of artists by loudly condemning like... Sci-fi that explores the concept of artificial nonhuman sentience just cause they refer to it as artificial intelligence.