I went sad posting on a small support group cause I keep having depressing thoughts at night. Like I don’t wanna kill myself, but life is so shitty with no end in sight. It feels wrong that I grew up with all this fanfare and optimism about the future… all for this. For a future we hate. Obviously I get by and I try to make the world better in little tiny ways but it gets to me more and more lately.
Anyway my post received varying levels of “same” and then someone writes this long ass comment commiserating and then telling me to “help in tiny ways wherever I can but remember to fucking VOTE” because sitting and being sad about it doesn’t help anyone"
I’m in Puerto Rico.
I just…
Wow lol
As a mainlander, I’ve had some success getting through to libs like that by saying “well, they should be either made a state or they should get independence with massive reparations, and they should be able to choose which one for themselves”.
Obviously the context is different when you yourself are actually living in PR, but I find that they tend to respond slightly better to an argument like “well, we’ll rhetorically keep your dumbass idea on the table, but also here’s a better idea, and it’s not up to mainlanders to make that decision for people actually living on PR”
