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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 105 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Gotta love living in a timeline where ignorance helps fascism spread but paying attention takes a toll on your health and well-being.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (4 children)

You have to find a balance. Set yourself a weekly limit of how much news you consume and take some time for a hobby or family or something to balance it out.

There is no use reading the 3rd article a day about why Palantyr is a techno fascist nightmare that dooms us all. You got it the first time, right?

There is only so much we can take on the regular. Maybe instead of consuming it, we spend some more time fixing things. Which is hard of course but much more rewarding.

100% this.

A person who knows nothing and does nothing is, in practice, identical to someone who knows and sees everything on the daily but is too demoralized to do anything about it.

my sanity saving hobbies are creative. i make music and i make food. they keep me alive, both literally and figuratively.

find small ways to inject joy into the things you do. similar to playing whammageddon at christmas. find tiny ways to rebel against the regime that chafes you. you know all those krasnov stickers you see vandalizing public property? carry around a sharpie and draw hitler mustaches on them. idk. you do you. the tiny acts of rebellion will spark life into your soul.

I try to focus on my spheres of influence and use the logic from power mapping to make sure the bulk of my attention and efforts on impactful things that I can actually change but even still it's simply impossible to even exist in those spaces without being bombarded by well everything that's happening. It is painful to have to 'filter out' human suffering just to be able to focus on other human suffering.

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As with anything, a positive state is maintained only by constant maintenance. Vigilance is the price of societal progress, and our society has been insufficiently vigilant for too long. I agree that each person should only do what they can to stay vigilant, but it is also a societal duty to be informed and educated. If it helps to know that there are people keeping track of the US bullshit (even though they're nominally satirists, but all of the actual journalists have been bought out or replaced), here:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't overextend yourself, concentrate on things that you actually can have impact on, and maybe even among them pick most important issue to you and act on it.

ICE turning into gestapo is immediate issue that we can do something about.

Greenland for example, what can we do about it? I personally think he is using Iceland as a distraction from Epstein (of course Denmark and rest of Europe should take this seriously).

After he removed Maduro noticed that they threw names of several countries, Iceland produced highest outrage, so they went with it.

I am actually thinking that the main goal is turning US into dictatorship, but to keep power they need an army inside of the country (gestapo). ICE is being used for that. But to keep them loyal he needs money. The problem is that traditionally Congress controls money and can cut it. This is where tariffs and Venezuela comes from. Notice that this revenue is outside if control of the Congress.

Epstein might have been a distraction from this, but actually was hurting him. He was struggling to change narrative, and finally with Greenland everyone stopped talking about it.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I agree, don't bother. Not really much we can do. It's not like we can do what the right wing did with covid. Or what they did with the border wall. Or what they did with podcast. Or what they did with comedy. Or what they did with left wing voice. Or what they did with Venezuela, twice. We can't do any thing. Don't over do it delete most of your accounts online. Or at least don't ever comment on anything or create any content. Just draw everything you want to say on a piece of cardboard and go stand on 24th and Bloomington with it and then thar will change minds

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok, let me clarify it better

I'm saying if you didn't conserve yourself you will end up with psychiatric ward. Find one or two issues where you can have an impact and concentrate on them. There are more people so someone else will concentrate on others.

I never said to ignore everything.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yea i saw the same about elections too. I try to tell people I'm with that if you pay attention to current events it's just icky. Life is much better even you don't bother to stay present and aware or bother voting. Let every one else worry about democratic participation. Someone else will do it. Worry about yourself. Self care is important

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 25 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I want off Mr. Bones wild ride

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Boooo (take the up vote)

[–] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I feel this way everyday

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Let's NOT give in into reactionary doom and gloom. Instead, let's embrace revolutionary optimism. Seriously!

i am an absurdist. I posit that optimism is rebellion in the face of so much oppressive fascism.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

Can we also reject divisive rhetoric as well? I'm convinced it's a ruasian psyop at this point

Edit: I mean like political labeling liberal/leftist/conservative

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Too real this shit is fucking dystopian. Hope you're also staying informed on what your local community is doing to fight back against this, and then joining them. Just watching it all unfold by yourself is going to destroy your mental health. Taking action with friends and community will help both the country and your own well-being.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Like danish prime minister said, this might be a good time to start drinking.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs said it.

'It's time to start drinking': EU's top diplomat makes surprise remark ...

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas told leaders of political groups in the European Parliament that the current global

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Right. I stand corrected.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You know that dream where you're in a gas station, and ICE comes in and starts arresting people, and you start filming it, and they suddenly get right up in your face? And you wake up from the dream literally screaming at them? Yeah I had that this morning.

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

My wife just had the same but at the airport.

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

we need a state that actually cares for the people, i'd say. whether you call that socialism or something else is up to you.

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Gotta be the worst thing I can do for my mental health

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 9 points 5 days ago
[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Time to invest in nicotine.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What if I'm already hopelessly addicted to it?

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I followed your advice, I put my life savings on disposable vapes. I hope it pays off.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 5 days ago

Sorry, but I'm posting a lot of news today.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I feel like it's been like this for about a decade for me

Feels like every year which has passed since about 2015 has left us (as a species) in a worse place than we started. On top of that, so many of the choices we made along the way to make things categorically worse, were very clearly going to go the way they did... and we did them anyway.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

It's only been 2 weeks and I'm already fucking tired :(

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 5 days ago (4 children)

What are all of these? Are they good movies?

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I recognize bottom right as true detective which is a series and was fantastic.

[–] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Actually, bottom right is Dallas buyers club. Great movie.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Damn I swear he made that face in True Detective but you’re probably right and both of those performances were amazing.

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[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago
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