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[citrakayah]

Well, this isn't the morning, though to be fair what just happened last night... well, it was rather dramatic. To those of you living under a rock, A) Trump won and B) can I join you?

In any event, over the past few months I've increasingly realized that, should I accomplish my dream and become a scientist, many of the species and communities I study will become extinct. I am, therefore, faced with the certainty that segments of the subject I've devoted my life to will disappear before my eyes.

This realization drove me into a funk I still haven't gotten out of completely, so if I'm coming across as way more misanthropic than normal, that's one of the main reasons why. It's hard to like humanity as a whole when it does things like that, and it's hard to like yourself when you're complicit in it.

On the plus side, I've managed to remain on top of my school work--mostly. Aside from normal classes, I'm currently still working on that fish study from the summer. I'm also taking a ceramics class and trying to fold zoology into the work I'm doing for that.

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[feralkiss]

Congrats on keeping up with the schoolwork!

I'm sorry about the election results; our country's elections are next year and it's going to be the same fucking mess, I can empathize.

[citrakayah]

Yeesh--who's your version of Trump, Marine Le Pen?

The election has continued to churn out surprises after it's over. I already had one person who considers himself "left-wing" claim I was being as immature as Rush Limbaugh was for saying I wanted Trump to fail as a president.

It kind of feels like people are backpedaling because they don't want to be accused of being "disruptive." So before the election we had people saying Trump was going to start a nuclear war. Afterwards we have people saying that we should slow down and "give him a chance."

There aren't any anti-Trump protests in the area, unfortunately. Guess Carbondale is just too small.

[feralkiss]

Yeah Marine Le Pen is the main one, but we have a few others who are just barely any better.

[jewelfox]

I feel like human supremacy, male supremacy, and white supremacy are entrenched, even in a lot of people and populations we thought of as "progressive" or at least "liberal." Take a look at this essay about "elite white feminism;" I feel like it explains a lot about how many white people aren't particularly concerned by what just happened.

Cards Against Humanity was doing a thing where people donated to fund them livestream digging a hole with construction vehicles. It feels, to me, like a "fuck you" to everyone who's now in danger, by people whose feelings are so much More Important Than Yours that they need to spend $30,000+ on nothing but their own grief.

Sort of like the Democrats who raised $13,000+ to rebuild the (probably insured) campaign offices of people who want POCs and LGBTQIAs+ to die.

[citrakayah]

Yeah, that's definitely true. It reminds me of all the people who say, "Oh, I'm a liberal, but..." and then go into a rant about identity politics are horrible or how the evil cultural Marxists are ruining America. At one time I would have assumed they were just lying through their teeth, but the bar of "liberal" has been set so low that maybe they actually did consider themselves liberal. A lot of those people seem to be atheists, so maybe the only reason they ever self-identified as liberal was because "conservatives" were associated with Christianity.

I hadn't heard about the hole. It's horrible that they're wasting so much money.

[jewelfox]

What they call "identity politics" I call "civil rights." >_<

Of course, arguing for their rights is never identity politics, even if it only benefits them. (Speaking of Point & Clickbait, they did an awesome satirical news story about the "Holiday Hole.")

And I find that fedora atheist, silicon valley tech bros tend to either be "brocialists" or libertarians who claim to be liberal.