as someone whose family immigrated from a communist/dictatorial country i promise it feels worse rn than it really is i’m not saying what’s happening isn’t bad, it is, but at least from my family’s perspective and their experiences in our homeland, it truly is oftentimes the media inflating the severity of certain situations. the things that happened in our homeland were much MUCH worse than what’s happening here esp in terms of censorship

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Whatever happens, America is genuinely too big to go full handmaids tale. Even if half of the country are insane racist facists there’s still a normal half who will rise to defend their rights when needed

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the rat bastard has already surpassed the average life expectancy in the US. the time is probably coming

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people are resilient. look at history. time and time again, even in this country, the people have fought and won. when i feel hopeless i look at all the activists and fighters that came before me and i remember that we are continuing their struggles and successes. it makes me hopeful. we’ve done it before, we can do it again

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