MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoOpinion: Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it's not 'better than this.'www.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square135fedilinkarrow-up1606arrow-down110
arrow-up1596arrow-down1external-linkOpinion: Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it's not 'better than this.'www.usatoday.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square135fedilink
minus-squareWrenFeathers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-27 days agoI used to naively believe that sometimes things need to get bad before they can get good. Like, sometimes someone needs to lie in the gutter first before they are able to look up at the stars… It seems there’s no floor to how bad things can get. It’s mostly just all gutter now.
minus-squareLovableSidekick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·7 days agoAnd the gutter is just a rest stop before the sewer.
I used to naively believe that sometimes things need to get bad before they can get good. Like, sometimes someone needs to lie in the gutter first before they are able to look up at the stars…
It seems there’s no floor to how bad things can get.
It’s mostly just all gutter now.
And the gutter is just a rest stop before the sewer.
Well said.