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It Could Happen Here Weekly 12

Behind the Bastards

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Building a Capacity for Optimism

i think it its important to talk about this, both to acknowledge like it's a thing that happens and we all have our moments of overwhelming despair over what's happening. And i think it's good to build a capacity for optimismy, building yor pu, a sense of agency and power by by doing shit that helps. A toxic optimism would be like reading an article about some new carbon capture technology and being like, oh, cool. Well, i don't need to worry a but most optimism, i think, is is positive u.

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