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Their wordsFalling into an outrage/despair cycle hurts only me and has no effect on what is going on around me.
Our reading
What the US faced in 2025 was not political disagreement but an intent to cause suffering.
Their wordsWhat we are dealing with is not political disagreement but intent to cause suffering. Framing the situation in that way matters.
Their wordsIt isn’t stupid to be grateful and it isn’t callous to seek joy in moments or hours or days or weeks or years of our finite lives.
Their wordsWe don’t help people who are suffering by being miserable ourselves, and specifically not when our misery doesn’t do a single thing to alter their suffering.
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