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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Yea I guess but my mom was destroyed by our cruel and heartless system. She’s gone now but painting this helped me reconnect with the glimmer of hope we all felt for a moment after this happened. It also helped process the trauma I myself went through as her caregiver not being able to access what she needed

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am so, so sorry about your loss. I'm glad to hear that you were able to feel a beacon of hope last year, and that this painting was a way for you to cling on to it and feel it a little longer. I hope you find a way to keep holding on to it, and through that hope find the courage to not give up and try to support change instead whenever you can and have the strength and energy to do so. But I can't even imagine how hard that must be. And most of all, carry the love you had for your mom in your heart despite the grief, and the disgust and hate for the system that led to her demise quicker than it had to be.

I hope you don't mind if I save that picture of yours.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Thank you for the kind words yes no problem

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Symbols are powerful things. I'm not an American, but something that surprised me with Mangione was how people on the left and the right seemed to support him. It was a rare case of example of political unity amongst regular people.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah I noticed this too

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

It was incredible how right wing pundits were so disconnected from their audience, trying to promote outrage while their audience would have been popping champaign of they could afford it