• damdy@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. - Burke.

    Yes it’s miserable, and I’m not sure if I’m doing anything at all, but turning away seems worse.

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      24 days ago

      I don’t think it’s right to assume that people who block political online content are doing nothing. Hell, I think it’s more likely that people who consume a lot of political content feel that they’re doing something when they aren’t.

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      24 days ago

      Doomscrolling can decrease the motivation to act, contribute to anxiety and analysis paralysis.

      Banning communities can be helpful to avoid those that fuel doomscrolling rather than action.

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      24 days ago

      I tried. Prior to the election i was doing everything possible to change peoples minds. To get people together and ready for what needed to be done. Back then I was “overreacting”

      Now that trump is in office we no longer have a winning strategy. People suddenly want to pretend like they care when it’s all virtue signalling. Just like climate change, now that its too late to do anything, its ok to acknowledge that it exists.

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      24 days ago

      This. So many left-leaning folks that I’ve talked to basically have this attitude, and present it to me like they are winning at life.

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    24 days ago

    Guy on the right is smiling at a nuclear sunrise (he doesn’t know)

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    24 days ago

    The people in this thread acting like you need to be tuned in to everything all the time with no filter baffle me. You can block all politics on Lemmy and get your political news elsewhere. People are more than entitled to cultivate the spaces they inhabit and use.

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      In the defence of some of us, like myself for instance, I live in a country where we can do literally jack shit to affect American political bullcrap, because it’s nowhere near America. I’m pretty sure Europeans are excused from having to stay up to date every moment, unless we can force the rest of the world to be continuously in the loop about… idk, whatever crap Geert Wilders is up to right now…

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      24 days ago

      For people outside the US, it has been a brutal dictatorship for a long time. The people whos countries you destroy certainly don’t get a vote

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    25 days ago

    Unfortunately feels like it’s my responsibility to be paying attention at this point no matter how noisy and brutal it gets

  • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    I remember I said I did this once and the amount of people who came of the woodwork saying “yOuRE pARt of ThE ProBlEM!!1!” Was insane

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      24 days ago

      They are right though. How does sticking your head in the sand and pretending the problem doesn’t exist work?

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          23 days ago

          And your answer is…?
          People like you vote. Or should vote?! But should they if they just choose to be ignorant?!
          You’re a living argument against democracy 🥲

      • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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        Thing is, a lot of information about the current state of political affairs is blasting through all channels. Some people just want to use Lemmy to shitpost, hang out in CasualConversation, or look a funnies from Stamets.

        I think that’s a fair use case, and doesn’t necessarily mean someone who does this is sticking their head in the sand about the current political order going to shit.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    I don’t subscribe to political communities at all. If I want to see politics I switch to the All tab. Most of the time I go through Subscribed or Local though.

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      I didn’t even realise my instance did this (I didn’t do research)

      But if this is it minimised, I don’t want to see the full amount