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I think what has helped me is watching John Green/ Hank Green’s YouTube channels. The fact is bad news happens fast, but good news happens slow.
A maternity ward was built in Sierra Leone thanks to the coordinated effort of thousands of people across the world. Patents for Tuberculosis tests and treatments have been released in the countries that need it the most. This is a disease that takes millions of lives every year, not because we don’t have the technology, but because people don’t have access to the treatments. Of course this was something that should have been taken care of decades ago, but the fact we can pressure pharmaceutical companies to release their patents for the good of humanity must mean something.
Despair is seductive, it asks nothing but to feel sad, and you can always find reasons to despair. But the correct answer to consciousness is hope.
I work in Chicago with non profits that are dedicated to building safe communities, to saving local and global ecosystems, to public health access, to helping house the homeless.
I fully believe that there isn’t anything wrong with the world that can’t be solved with what is right with the world. And when I feel despair, which I am oft to do, I look at my friends, my community, those that roll up their sleeves, shake hands, and do what they can with what they have.
No. Shut the fuck up.
The door of political violence in this election has just been opened and we are looking at innocent people dying.
We are already on the precipice of a civil war. Civil wars are the deadliest wars.
Supreme vs. Ratman. Jekyll vs. Hyde. Professor X vs. Magnito. Mario vs. Wario. Connor vs. McGregor. Scott Pilgrim vs. The world. Morse vs Frederick. The city of New York vs. Homer Simpson.
A tale as old as time.
You kidding? Book stores are full of right wing books.
Because they can’t sell them.
“The home you own” I’m gonna stop ya right there bud