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The short answer is our legal system was not designed to withstand the stress the ultra rich can put on it as a result a lot of laws were over turned.

Im on mobile so it's hard to type and explain in more depth.

And that's only one facet.

But there are good things in the world too. And there are people fighting for what's right. It's easy to slip into despair but as mr rogers use to say

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping

You see what you want to see.

Things aren’t great but not “everything is shit.”

Greed and self interest.

It isn't. Yes there's lots of bad stuff, but there's also lots of good stuff too

Why do you delete your posts? Or is an admin/mod deleting them?

because your eyes are covered in them

The second law of thermodynamics.

Capitalism/greed, religion/racism & hate, selfishness/shortsightedness

Either greed or hate, depends on the thing that is shit.

Not everything is shit. It's just not as good as it used to be

It's designed that way so that your work goes to others. That's the base of all of the world's problems.

Because of “conservatives”.

https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk

I see everything as a risk, since I'm living a double life. It is often that the road for me to leave as an apostate is narrow, and chances of me being free is close to none. But I don't stop there. I remind myself that I have friends who looked after me, and I mourn those who passed away from terminal illnesses. Grief seems to talk to me not in stages, but as a constant companion. I balance everything with the good and the meditative. It doesn't always work, but I like to try them everyday anyway. Good luck buddy.

We had a huge population of genuinely evil people who were locked away in the rural south so they could only abuse black people around them.

Then social media gave these people a voice and politicians realized they could pander to the trash with funding from the billionaires and that's enough to keep them in power indefinitely.

The decisions being made regarding how to deploy and operate the Internet appear, to me, to betray a fundamental lack of understanding regarding just how incredibly complex the information environment within a healthy society actually is, and how much people depend upon it to maintain the basic functions of human life.

It feels to me as though early man discovered fire and immediately decided to burn down every single forest they encountered so dangerous beasts wouldn't have anywhere to hide.

Because you're inside a septic tank

The United States Supreme Court decided everything should go to shit on December 12, 2000.

If everything I see in the news all the time makes me feel like the world is shit, well that's just unhealthy.

So I've subscribed to some good news channels on YouTube, and I try to limit the amount of bad news that I digest.

Staying informed of what's going on in the world is great, but not if it comes at the price of your sanity.

So read some good news, write a list of things you're grateful for, take a walk in a park, meditate in the sun a bit, and remember that overall people are kind (free open source software exists, volunteering exists, food banks exist, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law