this is our world

[harborshore]

What the fuck are we doing to it?

Horrific racist riots in Moscow, and there was just a suicide bombing in Stockholm. The guy doing it died, but no one else, which is practically a fucking miracle considering the season and that it's Saturday night and that it happened in central Stockholm. I cannot deal. I cannot fucking deal.





This I want: I want people to think for themselves. It makes it harder to believe the easy answers.

Actually, I want two more things as well: give love, when you can. Stay alive, and give love.

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[desfinado.livejournal.com]

Stay alive, and give love

AGREED

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

*holds tight*

[sinuous-curve.livejournal.com]

D: D: D:

take care of yourself, bb.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I can't--I don't know how to react to any of these things. At least my city is relatively calm, I suppose--Moscow is, it's so bad.

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Love you. ♥

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

*clings*

[iamsupernova.livejournal.com]

What was the bombing meant to be about?

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Allegedly Muslim extremist. Apparently there's an email.

[kickingrad.livejournal.com]

I can't even.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I just--please, world, stop.

[anoneknewmoose.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥ ♥

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Love.

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry, bb. what a day.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I am so--I can't even. *hugs you tight* ETA: It's just--hatred, you know? It's terrifying. The riots in Moscow are in many ways more upsetting, but I can't take the hatred inherent in both these acts.

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

yes. did you see the young girls in the photos? the young boys? hatred, and stupidity, and - there's a story on both sides, and somebody on the top stirring and heating it. and maybe tomorrow there will be retaliation, too, and it will be also horrific. and nobody ever learns anything, nobody. and i'm just - what to do? what do you do not to be a part of it? i have no idea.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

As much as I want to stand on top of something with a very loud megaphone and yell until people listen, I can't see a way to make it happen. It's like Candide said: you tend your garden, meaning you make your part of life on earth a good one, you care for people, you speak up against prejudice. It's--it feels so paltry, especially today, like empty words, but if we can get enough people to not stand idly by, enough people who don't perpetuate this cycle, I think that's the best chance we have. The only chance. I love you, my darling. Hate terrifies me so much, but there are people who learn, there are.

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

so much hate. :(

♥ to you, bb.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Too much.

And you, dear.

[starongie.livejournal.com]

this is why i don't watch the news anymore. (& then i do.)
all the nice things people do for each other pales in all the fucking hurt they cause.

It's just. It's history & dogma & family & friends & ignorance & religion & so much. I mean. I don't think people know how to get rid of hate. :(

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

It goes both ways, I think--sometimes I am stunned by the human capacity for love, and sometimes their capacity for hate makes me so sad.

The only way to stop hate is to teach people how to think for themselves, how to understand why something happens and why they react a certain way. And empathy. Empathy for a stranger is essential. But none of it is easy.

[halflinen.livejournal.com]

I wish I still believed that thinking for yourself was the way to a better world, but the events of the last few months have taught me that nothing could be further from the truth. That said, all this hate everywhere just makes me so so sad and hopeless, and I didn't know about the bombing in Stockholm, but I'm so glad that you're okay that my hands are all shaky.