• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Assuming one is looking at the world from the a U.S. perspective:

    I heard someone say “With everything else that conservatism has already taken from us, and will continue to try to take, it’s important that we don’t let them steal our happiness, too. Ordinary people still have weddings in North Korea and birthday parties in Russia.”

    Being trapped in an inhumane totalitarian state means it’s even more important than ever to hang on to our humanity. Fight, feel sadness and anger and all of the other dark emotions that this time calls for, but feel happiness, too, because there are forces at work that are going to tell you that you don’t deserve happiness, and those forces must be defeated using every weapon at our disposal.