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A four-panel political meme in the style of a vintage Soviet propaganda poster.
The top-left panel shows a silhouette of a person in a worker’s cap and a skeleton in a thought bubble wielding hammers with the caption “succumbing to doomerism”
The top-right panel shows porky with the caption “Makes Porky very happy”
The bottom-left panel shows the worker silhouette now holding a rifle and standing in defiance with the caption “Embracing the fight for a better world”
The bottom-right panel shows porky again woth the caption “Makes Porky scared!”
Its very hard to not succumb to doomerism 🙁
optimism & hope are skills to practice, and they do get easier over time!
on a bad day, i’m optimistic out of sheer spite because i know being pessimistic only helps my enemies & not me, but it’s also a lot easier to practice optimism when regularly meeting with groups of like-minded people.
if you don’t have any groups nearby you (or online) like zine makers / queer sheds / leftist book clubs / privacy activists / maker spaces / community supported agriculture / whatever it is that floats your boat, you might be surprised by how many people are willing to sign up if you get the ball rolling! 💪
I like your mindset! Thank you ❤️
It is, however, take note of your newsfeed (whatever your daily input of information is) if you don’t see ANY good news in there (and like, genuine wholesome good news, not AI puppies on a bike) you do have to put in the effort of steering your feed to include good uplifting news. Because how we view the world through our scroll machines often doesn’t match our actual surroundings.
Finally I hope you’re safe and sound and get through this. You got this soldier, for Kyle Reese!
Thank you ❤️