What kind of heartless pedantic motherfucker would try to nitpick the exact sourcing of this narrative?

I know - how can anyone possibly hedge on their most basic humanity just to try to win more than everyone else, when they already have the most easy, comfortable lives in human history?

Putin will end up winning the Cold War after all, playing the long game.

Hey - I’m sorry for such a late reply, but I hope you’re hanging in ok. I know the feeling, hopelessness and all - but there are still simple pleasures and good people in the world. Especially now, we need all decent people to help combat this slide into autocracy and cruelty.

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face, forever.”

Yes. I know the exact feeling; Of seeing so many other people living in an alternate reality of stupidity and evil. I’ve seen glimpses of it before in people I’ve known, but could mostly comfort myself through some feeling that truth would prevail and society would progress.

I’m so thankful for people like you and your mom too, to be there for those poor kids. Ugh.

I’m so thankful for my dad, and others like yours. At least I know all upper middle class white men aren’t hateful monsters.

Thank you, honestly. You’re right.

You’re optimistic. That’s good, I really do admire it.

Yea. As others have said, it doesn’t help. Will try to kick my own ass out of it tmw.

You are very lucky not to have an alcoholic make-up. I wallow drunk and alone, staring helpless at the abyss.

Yes. They’re not all rural or working class, either.