How do you cope with the state of the world today?

posted 10 months ago

Everything just seems so out of control. The US seems to be tearing itself apart. The world is on fire. We seem to be going backwards when it comes to freedom and human rights. We’ve turned our backs on each other. How do you cope with all this without just giving up?

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Pohl@lemmy.world

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10 months ago

There were at least 2 other genocides in progress the last October when this mess started. You only care about this one because you have been told to.

Neoliberalism is really an economic philosophy. It doesn’t really have a lot to say about how a nation ought to position itself toward foreign wars. It’s not an all purpose slur for people who disagree with you.

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intensely_human@lemm.ee

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10 months ago

Which ones are those? What?

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Pohl@lemmy.world

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10 months ago

The darfuri people in Sudan and the uyghur people in china were what I had in mind. But honestly, war that disproportionately impacts one ethnic group or another is a fairly common sort of war.

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