The older I get, the more I think the propaganda machine was to get people really riled up about very niche issues so as to stop the progressive left from being able to enact real, meaningful change.

If I'm an oil exec, a sweatshop owner or anyone exploiting the third world, I'd be thanking jesus for modern first world social justice. Instead of implementing broadly popular policies to save millions of lives, we're screaming online about whether a tiny fraction of some of the richest people who have ever lived should play sports in high school or not.

Okay but I’m still miserable and can’t change anything.

It's working. I switch off now when I hear the words genocide, republican and trump. Sometimes all together.

This just feels like I took that red pill in the matrix and now I get to live in that desolate wasteland ruled by the machines, but without the orgies.

I think the trillion-dollar propaganda machine has two components.

The first part convinces people not to care.

The second part targets people who do care and convinces them not to act, because the problem is so big and the difference you can make is so small and there's no hope of changing the inevitable and so on and so forth.

And too many good-hearted people who overcome the first part fall for the second.

So for anybody who needs to hear it:

You matter. You matter because you care about the problem. And you do have the power to contribute to the solution. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

That does make me feel better.

Thanks comrade :')

Got it. A trillion dollars and some.of the world's most intelligent and motivated people can't cure my crippling depression

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Yes it did

He’s not heavy. He’s my brother.

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I'd rather feel numb