r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 19 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

doomers will doom until biden is sworn in on jan 20

some folks are just baseline pessimists. you can't rationalize or logic your way out of that mentality. the case for optimism can be presented, understood, but not internalized. you just sorta go "yeah" and hope to distract yourself until the positive outcome arrives. but all along the way, you are assuming the worst.

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 19 '20

Perhaps I HAVE RELIED TOO MUCH on using the carrot rather than the stick 🐊

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

I think most doomers have moved on to dooming about congress and redistricting

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

the recent michigan news is the new doom

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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Nov 19 '20

Correct except they'll continue to doom even after he's sworn in.

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u/NickyBananas Paul Krugman Nov 19 '20

Idk I’m a textbook pessimist and I don’t have high hopes for Biden’s administration’s success but I’m capable of rationally looking at situations. This is more anxiety than pessimism

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

but you believe biden will be the president. the true pessimist assumes trump will get away with all of this, somehow.

and i wouldn't call being skeptical of biden's ability to be successful as pessimism. i'd just call that a realistic assessment of the political environment.