Respectfully: If you're on Bluesky right now screaming that Pride Month will be abolished, Trump will be declared king, America is forever ruined:
Log off.
You are entitled to your feelings, and it's better to let them out than not. But *Do Not Do Death Magic On The Emotional Contagion App.*
Doomer shit is un-American as fuck. Sorry. Factual.
This country didn't even consider me a fucking person for half its existence, and the Supreme Court declared Black ppl didn't qualify as US citizens TWICE.
As a student of human history, I know two things. One calms me, and one makes me sad.
1st: "this too shall pass." There is always "the next thing" and if you look at the arc of human history, things to arc toward "getting better."
2nd: it may not get better in my lifetime.
"It is night in Moscow already. Soon, it will be dark here. Do you think we'll ever see the dawn in our lifetime?"
- attributed to Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger in the HBO Movie "Conspiracy." Kritzinger was the only attendee of the Wannsee Conference to testify at Nuremberg
