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Originally Posted by M. Steng
Like, you actually, physically feel less safe when you go outside every day? Or do you mean from a philosophical perspective?
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Mostly philosophically. In the philosophical sense, Trump and his brand of politics just feel like a complete and total assault on my ideas, my values, things that matter to me. It's fucking exhausting. It seems like almost every morning, I wake up to another headline I don't like, from varying degrees of "Ugh, seriously?" to
Farnsworth.
But I do feel physically less safe as well. I think Trump has fomented (or exposed) a lot of hate and anger domestically and internationally, from the spike in hate crimes in America to Kim Jong-un's ceaseless rocket-waving contest.
Him emboldening hateful attitudes was one of the biggest things I dreaded about him winning. That and him making zero progress on climate change, which I take as a sort of existential threat physically and philosophically to us all.