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thenwethrowitonthefire · 29 days ago

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Our previous-prime-minister-now-head-of-navo currently keeps saying that we should prepare for war which might break out between now and the next 5 years.

#don't know how to feel about this. did it feel like it's been coming for years? yes #did this guy seem to help matters at all in the 11 years we had him as pm? no #did he do pretty awful things in order to be able to become head of the navo? yes #is the leader of our current biggest party getting called 'the trump of Europe'? yes #has that guy been a popular politician in the last 10+ years? yes #did that guy become pm? no because he never wanted that so now our pm is someone no one elected (wasn't on the ballot)#our current pm used to be the head of secret services and is he a problematic man who is racist and did some awful things? yes #they're taking away €1.200.000.000 from education to put that money into weapons #every single year they have been cutting into arts education healthcare and other things that contribute to wellbeing #and it's all going to a) big polluting corporations and ceo's and b) warfare #so yeah am I supposed to be surprised?#because I don't think I am. I'm not even sure I feel as sad as I should. I've paid attention the last 10 years. things have been going here.#I don't remember a time I wasn't feeling depressed about the state of the world and the state of this country.#what sucks though is that many people don't seem to realise things have been this bad for a while #(potentially because we've got a government that perpetually (falsely) blames immigrants.)#about to celebrate a birthday in a moment though like things are so normal.#you ever just sit there and think about how nothing has really changed.#white people and the global north still profit of everyone else in this world. white people as a whole still largely racist #Nazism still alive. colonialism still a daily reality. slavery still exists even though it may look a little different in places #I find it really fucked up that poor people in the global north/the 'western' world work their asses of to stay afloat #and our tax money goes to funding war and making the rich richer #and still... as a poor white person barely scraping by we're still profiting of poorer people of colour elsewhere #who always get to deal with war and climate change first.#and we're all so busy staying afloat that no one has the time or energy to organise or to change things.#this is how the system was designed. and it works for the rich to make them richer. but everything else is on fire.#so yeah. war you say. ffs. the violence never ends.

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