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i don't hate religious people. i fear them. i have studied history. what we're experiencing is indeed an authentic revolt of the religious leadership in the united states.

i fully expect for religious fascism to be normalized in the USA by 2035. people forget quickly. because people are largely influenced by their environment. buckminster fuller was right all along.

trying to resist this flow of time and mind is important, however difficult.

unfortunately, my existence is everything the fundamentalists hate about themselves. i am not a christian. and as people are already beginning to embrace the rise of christianity, many of the fundamentals i depend on are disappearing. facts.

this isn't just true for people like me, but millions of americans.

i know i can't live in their world without being completely removed from it. does that make sense? going outside is dangerous now.

actual troops in the streets.

i hope i'm paranoid and wrong about everything. i hope the world isn't ending. but there are omens, stark omens screaming for me to hide and to STFU.

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[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

I'm a trans woman, I am white and I'm not disabled so I have those details as advantages, but I've still been internalizing for months that I probably won't get to make it to my 35th birthday (in about 4 years). Only things keeping me going are the same things that always kept me going, looking forward to incomplete media (anime/manga that have more seasons/releases to come, and video games that aren't released yet or haven't finished their update/content cycle) and wanting to finally physically be with my long-distance boyfriend. But I'm so tired and so wary of all the shit happening and I worry myself sick about all the worst possibilities. Fuck everyone responsible for the way the world has gone. Every rich person and every power-mad narcissist. The fires of hell and eternal damnation are too cold and too lenient a punishment for any of them.