@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems You know, over the course of the last few years I've been greeted on the regular by people who believe (or profess to believe) that Things Aren't That Bad, that At Least It's Not a Genocide, that Surely It Won't Get Worse. There's a name for those supposed reassurances, those false claims that the world isn't trying to murder us. Gaslighting is that name. If anyone has established any measure of trust with me, the fastest way to break it at this juncture is to tell me than I'm hysterical, that plans are not moving forward to kill our brothers and sisters and niblings. And especially don't do that while offering a hopeful article which claims that the March of the Jackboots has been rebuffed by a single step for 5 seconds. We cling to any positive stories like that because they offer a possible floatation device in a typhoon. Not because they're happy and feel-good, but some days it's all the hope we have.