"„Wenn ich wüsste, dass morgen die Welt unterginge, würde ich heute noch ein Apfelbäumchen pflanzen.“"

(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luthers_Apfelb%C3%A4umchen)

"Keep Calm and Carry On"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On

Both originated during the 2.nd World War, one on the german side, the other on the british.

good

keep up the warning

maybe more people will see the thread and how much you don't get the stakes here

hope is important. hope is right

hope is not mutually exclusive with anger

fascism is rising in europe. i am a warning from the usa

you don't like anger?

then you're not going to defeat fascism

and if you try to change the topic from the one you introduced to a controlling desire to tone police, that's just more demonstration you don't get the stakes

finally this is an open public social media forum

people introduce topics and discuss them

this is not an intimate conversation

if it were, i would be wrong

but it isn't, so i'm not

in fact i consider it rather controlling to treat a public comment as if it were wrong on the basis of the lie that it should abide by the standards of a private conversation between friends

there's no friends here, that's for damn sure

i think that people who are not angry are the problem. and i will target them

i despise "polite society"

i consider "polite society" to be part of the problem

"polite society" will sit and smile while the most vile lie is said serenely. because it's polite

then clutch their pearls in horror when someone says "fuck you!" appropriately in response

this helps #fascism

fuck polite society

fuck everyone who is more concerned with decorum than the stakes we are facing

Sure, you're angry. There's a lot to be angry about. But you won't achieve anything if you just spread that anger around at random. You need to identify a target and focus your anger on that.

I think we are talking about different things - there certainly is fighting even without hope for some. But this does not mean that we, as a society, do not need the kind of hope (or however one can call it) that makes one stand up and fight right now (I'm also not sure you are familiar with German politics that triggered that post and very much defines the "we" in this context).

you've encountered a reply guy

me

you had a nice post and i hijacked it

i was completely aware of the faux pas before i did so

i did it anyway

i do not fucking care

because i'm angry as hell

anger is as important as hope, and is not mutually exclusive

positivity and hope alone will not beat fascism

people need to get fucking angry

i assert that as a message just as important as your own

you do not have to like my addendum and how you handle it is entirely up to you

#vote

especially you american assholes

#fascism doesn't want you to vote

and, in your mindless #cynicism and loser #perfectionism, you give them exactly what they want

why?

fucking pathetic

of course you don't *only* vote

because this is a war, and a vote is just one small tactic on one small battlefield

but to ignore something so easy is just unfathomably stupid

because you think a vote is some holy thing that reflects on your soul?

that's SO DUMB

it's just tactics

you're Great.
dont let yourself be convinced otherwise.
many will benefit from leading those they feed off of (i.e. me, looks like you too) to believe they are weak.
it simply isnt so.
your Origins are Cosmic!
you're literally part star!
this is not pithy self help jargon.
there is real Power in those who can See It.

Instead of pure automatic reaction, we need more thoughtful action. We can become an echo chamber for the resisters, the people working for democracy, the 'good ones'.

(Eventually I do not reach the right people here.)