MOTIVATED. DETERMINED. RESILIENT. CONFIDENT. MENTALLY UNTOUCHABLE.

I think a lot of people are probably tired of being accused of being all doomery since it can come off as detached and dismissive, but I don't think it is hard to see why such a thing is said so often since, even with the most petty (or even flat out wrong) things, it takes approximately 0.83 seconds for people to get either conspiratorial or to spiral drastically.

It is a great thing that society is collectively understanding mental illness and conditions more and more, but I do not think that letting ourselves go unchecked is all that great either. I have never really been apolitical and have always found people thinking you can opt out to be misguided, but there is a reason so many communities institute a no politics/religion rule since it can spiral out of control quickly without oversight.

And to be honest, there has always been this issue of flames being stoked even before the orange duck got reelected. It doesn't matter how likely or unlikely the odds of what he is saying will actually happen, people whipping themselves into a frenzy with little else to the conversation doesn't take long to be the main tone of the post.

And I know it can be tempting to snark at the expense of Americans who quite literally didn't vote for him or to theorize about a speed run collapse of the nation, but come on. Even the collapse of the USSR didn't mean that everything related to it went away or whatever. Take a second, take a deep breath, and relax sometimes.