• silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t say it’s about being lucky, so much as realizing that if you simply stew in your own gloominess, you get nothing done. It takes actively going out there and changing the world.

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      11 months ago

      This. Who else is going to do it? There are lots of ways to contribute.

      No matter how bleak things seem, if it is still possible to turn things around, we need to keep fighting.

      Here are some pretty amazing comebacks from US football:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_comebacks_in_NFL_games

      This coming year is a major election year in the US. If all of us in the US give it everything we’ve got, we could really ramp up turning this around. Let’s treat 2024-11-05 with the same seriousness as d-day.