JUST END IT ALL
Sydney’s skies are currently cloudless and beautifully blue but all Mia Freedman can see is a terrible roiling darkness.
Sydney’s skies are currently cloudless and beautifully blue but all Mia Freedman can see is a terrible roiling darkness.
The Mamamia founder just cannot believe what has happened:
I thought people like me – who cared about equality and tolerance and social justice and fairness – were the majority. I thought there were more of us than them. It turns out there isn’t. Or if there is (I’m clinging onto this), the fact that voting isn’t compulsory in the US means the angry people were more motivated to come out and vote. It turns out hate Trumps love …
Children are scared.
The whole piece is absolutely hilarious. And Mia closes it with a suicide warning:
Reach out. Ask a friend how they're doing. I'm not remotely kidding. I know so many of us are struggling with this and it's OK to feel upset and traumatised. The important part is to reach out and share how you're feeling. Don't suffer in silence, OK? Self-care is paramount.
If you are struggling, Mamamia urges you to contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 for 24 hour support.
Seriously.
UPDATE. Let the self-harm begin:
Check on your friends.
— Drillary Clinton (@yosoymichael) November 9, 2016
Especially your queer friends.
Especially your POC friends.
Especially your woman friends.
Make sure people are okay.
UPDATE II. Peter van Onselen despairs:
I am beyond disgusted at the American public, on the verge in fact of tearing up my US passport ...
Go ahead, kid.
UPDATE III. The NYT’s Paul Krugman:
What we do know is that people like me, and probably like most readers of The New York Times, truly didn’t understand the country we live in. We thought that our fellow citizens would not, in the end, vote for a candidate so manifestly unqualified for high office, so temperamentally unsound, so scary yet ludicrous.
We thought that the nation, while far from having transcended racial prejudice and misogyny, had become vastly more open and tolerant over time.
We thought that the great majority of Americans valued democratic norms and the rule of law.
It turns out that we were wrong …
I don’t know how we go forward from here.
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