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[karanguni]

If anyone wants to just talk/vent/talk-vent about other things, feel free to just... come into the comments and say hi and stuff. I'm finding that even if I'm mentally coming around to things, I'm community-starved right now. So, yeah. Open invitation, even if you're just randomly drifting by.

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[yhlee]

Hey. I'm more numb than anything right now, which is how I deal with things. I expect to wake up and be truly horrified in two weeks, not (just) because we'll maybe start to see how things will go, but because my reactions sometimes operate on a time delay.

I wonder if my husband could get a job in Europe or even Japan, but we've got a kid. That complicates things.

[karanguni]

numb was useful. i wish i still had numb.

[sarasa_cat]

Gotta admit that every time today I see random white parole, my brain wonders if they are some of those people who voted Repub. I am not coming around to things today or even this week and I fear this will be one of those life changing moments... I have other things to say about seeing this coming for 12 years, about art & writng but right now I am not ready to say anything much at all (also at work.)

[karanguni]

reading this (http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days) just made me sick and want to throw up so yes. yup. yay. whoo.

[sarasa_cat]

Laughing at my iPhone for changing white people to white parole

Yeah

Community.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey K, I'm reading that you are community-starved. Please remember you have a community on tumblr! :D Crim's going to let Americans stay at his apartment (he will ask for rent) (you might get away with paying none as long as you wite tehehee.) Oh and we're hugging each other a lot, and making USA/Brexit parallel jokes. Please stop by someday! No pressure. Please stay safe! <3
~Aisha/Sephiroth

[extrapenguin]

*drifts through*

Trump's election filled me with unease, since, well, Competent Woman Loses to Incompetent Asshole, plus the whole "right-wing populist rises to power" thing. I'm having uneasy recollections of 1930s history.

As for what to do, well. Place one foot in front of another. Form networks of people who wish to protest, and mobilize for the midterms. Whatever you do, don't give up.

[karanguni]

/hugs tight

I'm not American, but yeah, a lot of feels about organising just community and social level things from my friends group and out - to help people have people and to make sure I've got a buffer of sanity for myself.

Yeah. A lot of the vitriol and ground-level hate that's coming up is just... yeah.

[extrapenguin]

I'm fortunately insulated by the Atlantic, though that does mean that a few people I know are doing the whole fallacy of the middle ground thing, alas. (No "yay Trump" people, thankfully.)

I'm trying to turn up and help a local left-wing party, as part of stopping the right-wing wave. Political activism has really gone down over the decades, and I honestly think it should be reversed. The political parties here, though capable of compromise and consensus, do advocate for different things and focus on different means. A lot of people seem to just Not Get that and think they're all the same. Well, no. They all agree on keeping the welfare state, but some are way more lax than others, and attitudes to climate and the economy are way different. I have experienced a political awakening, and I seek to make the world a better place.