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"To Be Truly Radical is To Make Hope Possible Rather Than Despair Convincing.." [1]
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Date: 2025-01-25
One does not need much “convincing” to be despairing these days, nonetheless, if we are to take our country back, we cannot quit. Or as the late great Dr. John once sang: “Quitters Never Win, and Winners Never Quit.”
(Which reminds me, to stay sane, please read and encourage more diaries from the GNN folks. They are the best!)
The news is full of dreadful stories about the imperialist administration of our rotting syphilitic yam. I don’t need to tell you that there will be many challenging days ahead; nevertheless, we need not follow the rest of the useless media algorithms into the black hole of monetized apathy and nihilism.
My reticence to report on every sinister fart emitted by the Ochre Ogre ( which is unfortunately a popular thing around here), is not about ignoring obvious critical news-- it is about asking ourselves “who exactly do our stories serve?” Beyond merely headlines though, the purpose and focus of our stories should be about how to thwart the GOP and Trump, right? We should be trying to do more stories on the people who are fighting these bastards, and how to get plugged into that burgeoning movement.
Following all the uncut Dump noise is only going to get us depressed and confused--which is, incidentally, part of the plan. They want us to give up hope, to cede our will to the autocracy with no questions.
Please don’t feed that impulse by bringing reactionary stories that demoralize us, that sow more despair than necessary...
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