It’s just so fucking bleak, like you can’t even use the “first as tragedy, then as farce” line because the first time was a farce! I dunno man, this might be as far as it goes in terms of war but who knows, the dumbest thing always seems to happen and the Democrats will do nothing to even take a coherent position. This shit combined with everything about AI just makes me feel so grim about the future, the knowledge that everyone in power hates everything that makes life worthwhile - art, nature, beauty, culture, empathy, caring for the less fortunate - and are trying to kill it. Like I sound like a hysteric I’m sure but like, I’m a social worker, this Big Beautiful Bill is designed to kill a decent amount of the people I work with, because they’re not considered useful contributors and the money going to them should go to people creating important things like cryptocurrencies. I genuinely want to tell my clients to, y’know, do something. If my life fell apart, if my family died and I lost my job, I have no idea if I’d have the courage to try to get rid of any fascists, but it would probably be something I’d think about literally every day. And I’m a stable guy who has had decent mental health all my life and doesn’t own a gun, there are a lot of people out there swimming in this same soup who couldn’t say the same.

Sorry, that is not helpful, I will probably adjust myself to everything being worse for the hundredth time soon. I hope you get some sleep.