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If you're in the US, how are you preparing for the election and dealing with the stress? (slrpnk.net)

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I’ve already mailed in my ballot, and I volunteered to be a poll worker (though they haven’t gotten in touch). With a week (maybe two) to go before we get the result, I feel caught in a limbo. It feels more important to me to be copying my important documents and organizing go-bags to be ready for a crisis than it does to do anything at work. I also recognize that that is probably a reaction to stress and anxiety and isn’t helping me. That said, I’m part of many groups that the right-wing hates and is openly threatening, so feeling unsafe doesn’t feel unreasonable either.

How are you all holding up out there? And tips for me to deal with this better?

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[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm just going to do what I've always done in all the other elections I've partaken in.

I'm going to mark my choices, I'm gonna submit the ballot, I'm going to resume life as normal. Then when election day comes, I'm just going to go to sleep. I don't want to be up to see the polls.

If Harris wins, then great, because that just means that we're not going to have another nightmare circus for 4 more years.

If Trump somehow wins, then I will mute myself from the world almost like I did for the 4 years we had with him. It was just a blur.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Bold of you to think it'll only be 4 years of Drumpf, or his appointed successor.

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