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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guy on the right is smiling at a nuclear sunrise (he doesn’t know)
I don’t block it because I want to start up to date with the Nazi regime
I also want to view more than 20 different posts a day…
And then there’s no content :(
Nah, there’s plenty of Linux and Star Trek
That’s the best part
oh you must be somehow dodging the countless anime and furry communities that are alive and “well”
Idk who the fuck Moe is but this cartoon gal has quite an imaginative and loyal following
Ignorance to current events isn’t joy.
No, but drowning in political events doesn’t make for a positive experience either
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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Well, you still have to predict nazi takeover of your country.
Nobody can prevent the future.
Well, then we at least know to fuck off at the right time. Well, I’ll be the first minority in camps anyway.
Please be patient with us while we struggle with trying to stop a burgeoning dictatorship.
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
Sorry for the country destruction, that was my bad
Plus word filter
There are word filters for Lemmy?
Some Clients such as Voyager have it
If you use boost I know there is
Unfortunately feels like it’s my responsibility to be paying attention at this point no matter how noisy and brutal it gets
The rest of the world is just sunshine and roses right now.
I mean @Sunshine does post a lot but I wouldn’t say she makes up the rest of the world.
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
They are right though. How does sticking your head in the sand and pretending the problem doesn’t exist work?
Oh look, exhibit a 🙄
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 🥲My answer is if you keep worrying about what others are doing you’ve got no chance to stay sane on the Internet Mister B
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.
Regretfully this is my local news so sticking my head in the sand probably won’t help.
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.
You could also choose an instance like programming.dev that hides political communities by default
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
