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When national politics goes to hell, think about your local community. If you and many of the people around you can do okay in your lives, that's not so bad.
Another thing is to consider the comparison point. How are you doing compared with the average person living in Mali or Vietnam or Switzerland? Billions of people all over the world survive in situations that are definitely not ideal, and many of them are happy with their lives some of the time.
I beat the factorio DLC, right now that's all I got and I'm clinging to that bad boy
I have to provide for my family. they must survive because without them, I am nothing.
And nothing is more dangerous than a person with nothing to lose.
That there's no evidence of the existence of an afterlife. It'll be like that time I had eye surgery but without having to wake up afterwards - merciful oblivion.
The fact that my family would be upset if I stopped living. That's literally it.
Once my older family members are gone I can finally go too. I have no interest in seeing how terrible the future will be as a perpetually single factory worker schmuck with no income potential to keep up with the exploitation of our economic system.
The alternative is certain death. If I were satisfied with that outcome, I'd already be dead.
Honestly, the fear of screwing up suicide and destroying any opportunity of improving my life. It's the only reason I'm alive today :/ if only I could just sign some papers, go to sleep, and never wake up.
So now I try so many money making schemes so I could rent an apartment without roommates who insist on doing chores in the dumbest way possible and blaming me for being unable to do anything other than housework after work.
Tone down social media use and do a little prepping. Learn how to use mylar bags and properly store away rice, beans, lentils, pastas, etc.
Prep as if the internet is going down for a prolonged time, maybe even electricity in general.
You can stress about things after you've gotten your shit together for a prolonged emergency.
Understand that this isn't the end of the world, just the end of the world as we know it. Humans are notoriously lazy and selfish, it will take a worldwide calamity before we get our collective shit together and do what's right.
The people in charge have failed us for their own selfish interests. There's nothing else to do except prep and make a better tomorrow.
Fuck doomerism.