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Yeah, not in the foreseeable future.

Even if someone ran on a platform of “undoing everything Trump messed up”, a lot of the damage is irreparable.

The trouble is, I’m sure a bunch of us here on lemmy already do that.

To have an impact you need people who buy this shit every day to stop, indefinitely.

Serenity Prayer:

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

I’m not religious at all, but you can just kinda omit the first 3 words and the meaning is the same.

It’s pretty much the basis of Acceptance Commitment Therapy - which is an effective way to manage anxiety and depression.

Information doesn’t “want to be free” the companies that want my personal habits and interests have invested a whole lot of effort in acquiring it.

Sorry im struggling to understand whatever points youre trying to make.

In my opinion categorizing someone as categorically bad is reductive, lazy thinking.

I’m not saying you need to like pedophile rapists and murderous colonizers.

Merely that going through life categorizing the every day people you meet as good or bad is reductive, lazy thinking and frankly - the basis of undesirable cognitive habits like racism and prejudice.

The people you interact with each day are complex individuals with just as much going on internally as you do. None of them think of themselves as “bad”.

The fundamental attribution error explains why we perceive people to be good or bad.

I know you said to just downvote, but I really strongly believe the world would be a much better place if people tried to understand the motivations of others, rather than trying to categorise them as good or bad people.

I think im “addicted” to all of these things.

Although im not a complainer.

Also try not to be an asshole but im sure someone thinks i am.

Two years ago, when I was 16, my dad tried to set me up with one of his business partners.

Is no one gonna talk about this?