DO NOT GIVE UP
"it's fucked, its hopeless, we're all going to die, what the hell do I do now". sums up what i've heard all day. so here's what you're going to do, here's what I want you to do.
organise. collaborate. hold on. It is easy, I know, to resign yourself to hopelessness. I am not a naturally optimistic person. I choose ruthless radical persistence because survival is rebellion.
do not catastrophise, do not engage in doomerism, and DO NOT GIVE UP. Take the time to grieve, and then pick your friends up, and keep going. We will PROTECT people at risk, we will DISRUPT the plans of those who would harm us, and we will BUILD connections with other people to help pave our way to better times.
It isn't over. It hasn't even begun. Generations haven't loved and laughed and fought and survived just for you to give up. it is unfair. it makes me so deeply angry that a man like that can be elected. but there are people all over, working with me, organising among themselves, or who have had plans in place for years. there is always a solution to a problem. ask for help when you need, offer help when you can. you are not alone.
community will get us through. sing dance shout scream laugh in the face of everything. cry if you need but never fucking give up. at your most scared, act strong.
keep loving. keep fighting.
How? I by no means disagree but sometimes it feels like anything that I can do is so inconsequential as to be pointless. I don’t want to give in to despair but I just don’t know how to make a difference
I know how it feels, but try and understand that nothing you do is inconsequential when it comes to surviving. There is strength in numbers, strength in community. If you are alive you are making a difference.
For practical things to do, scroll through this blog a bit - there's plenty of lists made by myself and others of practical things you can do rn so to not give in to doomerism

















