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Think I've got Havana syndrome.

No but seriously - the state of the world right now - feels like every contradiction inherent to capitalism has erupted in the past few days.

Climate. Imperialism. 'Democracy'. Media bullshit.

Maybe my life's personal stress is compounding it at the moment too, but fuck me. I am so mad at the moment.

I find myself typing like a milennial cringelord, my replies filled with 'fuck shit assfucker fucking come at me shitfucker' type posts. I find myself not bothered to put effort into responses when a rage filled uppunctuated mess feels so right.

I often tell people not the mald. It's easy to get stirred up about online crap. I recognised this habit, this feeling of enjoying being mad, but in an unproductive way, and I stopped doing it. I never do it with singular issues anymore. I don't get into internet debates. I let it ride.

But these last few days? Its making me insane. It's one thing to recognise it going down. It's another thing for society to make me feel like IM the one that's overreacting.

And to think, I voted for Kier fucking Starmer.

And next election, I'll be forced to do the same so that Tories don't get in. And I know, electoralism is a sham, but I don't think people comprehend just how bad Tories have been for Britain in the last 20 years. Especially for my sector. I do find Labour - even Starmer's Labour - a lot better in quite a few ways. But on key issues? I fucking hate them. I hate them with all my bile. Maybe I need to just move to Corbyn's borough so I can make sure he stomps some ghoul again.

Anyway. I'm fine.

But as I sit here anticipating the new wave of absolute garbage propaganda I'm going to be fed over the coming weeks, a vignette from a Chinese movie called A Touch Of Sin comes to mind, based on real events.

Dahai's corrupt boss screws him.

Over and over. [SPOILERS] So he shoots him.

He also shoots some guy who is abusing a horse. And some other relatively innocent bystanders.

Anyway. I don't mean this as a call to adventurism. I would never kill my local politician or anything, not only because my life so far means I would find it very difficult to take another human life, but also because it is totally counter productive. But as a concept? As a piece of art on screen? The ultimate expression of a 'dog-eat-dog' world turned towards those who like it that way, is certainly satisfying to watch. As are many tales of vigilante justice.

Anyway, here's another still:

I think the stills could be great emotes if it wasn't so on the nose to interpret uncharitably. Undoubtedly goes hard.

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[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, 100%, but I just constantly reference the Baldwin quote. Every morning, I wake up in a nation hostile to my very existence, moreso because I escaped both the pipelines intended for me, and have to trudge through a day where I'm not getting paid enough to save to leave, and have to live through crackers trying to deny every last bit of the parts of my existence that contribute to why I despise this society and those who run defense for it with every iota of my being.

No, it's totally not that they thumb their noses and actively uplift a systemic bias against my people, I'm just lazy. No, it's totally not that I have to hear about a pig killing another Black man, woman, or child literally every other week, I just have too much empathy for criminals. Speaking of criminals, no, it's totally not that Amerika is still a slave state and every person who's ever backed a "tough on crime" candidate is an overseer in that slave state; I'm just being dramatic.

agony-limitless

To be Black and relatively conscious in this nation is not to be in a state of rage anymore; props and love to Brother Baldwin. To be Black and even close to conscious is to be in a state of tacit, lucid fury, almost all of the time-- because rage is too unfocused, and too much of a liability in this day and age. The crackers are watching, waiting for you to slip up. It must be tranquil, lucid fury.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a white hot ball of seething rage with no outlet crammed deep into the body of a boring American research analyst. Every where I look I see the way things are structured to prevent real change, to stop people from doing anything meaningful with their lives and I'm supposed to be grateful for it? I'm supposed to be happy that we're speeding headlong for a cliff at 75 miles an hour instead of 80? (Except it is actually 80 and we have collectively agreed to pretend it's 75 and that's Doing Something).

Whatever happens in this dog-and-pony show of an election people are going to suffer and lives are going to be snuffed out but people - some of whom I used to respect and trust - are out there celebrating the possibility of being part-of-history

I'm a pile of joyless negativity and I hate it.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

meow-hug

I am also enraged. seeing the planet die while all the assholes with their stupid fucking Harris Walz cat yard signs around me keep their head down and turn the crank on the murder machine while pretending they aren't complicit

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

meow-hug Thanks, this site has been an oasis of sanity and I appreciate everyone here.

[–] 12022081631@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

tbh i stopped reading the news like two years ago and pretty much only listen to democracy now maybe every two or three weeks and its been a steady decline in my Mad At World rage

im in the states and other than an occasional municipal vote im p much done with electoralism

all i do is work & small hobbies & spend time with the fam. my emotional state is probably the most peaceful it has ever been but that is also partially a reflection of other work ive done to fix my messed up brain + heart

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah that sounds pretty blissful to be fair

does hexbear not count as news though?

And how did you make the switch? Just rawdogged that shit?

I'm being moron and watching Instagram reels at the moment which is not so much like me... think it's as you said also a heart and brain factor. An avoidance thing.

[–] 12022081631@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

i mean i don't run news RSS feeds and i quit any news media and media company podcasts and i dont open formal news aggregators or go to news media websites anymore

i only follow hexbear links to articles when im genuinely interested, and i wouldnt count morbid curiosity or any feelings of doom 'n dread as genuine interest. alot of the time when im commenting on here im being a

Bad User

and just making a garbage comment in response to the headline + info i already have (shocking admission i wont live down)

all of this is easier because i dont use social media either

no hexbear isnt social media. i have no proof im not just talking to CHINESE BOTS on here

re: rawdogging i guess i didnt. i used to use google news aggregator lol but i realized that was doin me head in. then i stopped going to big news media sites. then i stopped news media podcasts. then i unintentionally stopped going to actually good news blogs / global south and imperial periphery blogs, which i will get back to at some point

idk i guess the throughline to all of this is that i stopped eating up liberal moralization about consumption of news media and started prioritizing feeding my soul and giving myself a political education, and i started examining whether or not individual choices in my life were actually making my life better + helping me be better + making me happy

holy crap this is a long ass post what else should i write in here. drinking water and flossing my teeth has also been a freaking game changer and losing the ability to launch Steam has also been unexpectedly good

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I'm very angry lately but I've also been otherwise emotionally numb for the past year. I think this is mostly due to personal life stuff but it's compounded by the general state of things.

[–] MonsterRancher@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah, although it's a direct result of the people I'm forced to be around being even more angry, selfish, emotional, and stupid than usual. Not a coincidence it started happening exactly as people started pretending COVID was over.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes. I'm so angry it hurts, every day. Been that way a long time though. longer than it oughta. I don't know, maybe im breach baby in the ol commie birth canal. Wish I had advice but at least i can offer empathy

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

you are still here. and for the resistance, breathing is a victory

[–] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

yes

I find myself typing like a milennial cringelord, my replies filled with 'fuck shit assfucker fucking come at me shitfucker' type posts. I find myself not bothered to put effort into responses when a rage filled uppunctuated mess feels so right.

big mood

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I honestly came down a bit from my rage outbursts. Eventually exhaustion took over and for a stint I really just wanted to give up on caring and stuff. I just wanted to turn into another shitty liberal.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

I'm coming down from a rage and I can partly thank Iran for that.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No judgement re voting Labour — there are no good options, it's a matter of conscience etc — but imho they might even be worse than the Tories in their current form. It's exactly the same agenda, only Starmer's Labour have the discipline and lack of opposition to actually get things done.