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A place for optimism, relentless positivity, anti-doomerism, and snuggle sessions.

We're all in this together, and a better world is possible!

This is now also a space for organizing tips for our collective survival as we confront climate change and everything else. Still no doom-posting. We're here to work together, support each other, and boldly face the future.

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No doom, no gloom, only bloom. There's plenty of room for doomerism elsewhere. This community is solely for having a positive outlook on the future and spreading good vibes.
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Comment of the day, from @ShimmeringKoi (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This comment made my day, just felt it was something more people should see. Thank you, @[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah it sometimes feels like summer 2020 again, just less intense and more of a spread out discontent feeling. I know times are different and the conditions are different, but I try to remember that the Communist Party of China was founded with 50 memebers in July of 1921. By 1949 they had complete control of the country. The Cuban party was even smaller at its outset, only around a dozen people, and only something like 150 members during the mid 1950s when they were actively fighting an insurgency.

Something's gotta give eventually. I know there were other times in US history like this. Anarchists kidnapping wealthy people in the 1890s, the coal wars, Haymarket, the weather underground, giant antiwar protests against the Vietnam war then again against Iraq.

But my disco elysium style Shivers skill keeps activating. I keep hearing whispers there's something going on, or something's gonna break soon. No idea what. Maybe I'm still young and naive but I smell something