• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Every single one of these headlines would be better phrased as, “x does y and yet there will be no consequences and nothing will change”, because that’s the fucking reality.

    Example:

    Pam Bondi acts like a petulant toddler in front of Congress and yet there will be no consequences and nothing will change

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      2 hours ago

      “The media should only feed people hopelessness so that they will accept their lot in life and shut up about it.”

      -You

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        1 hour ago

        Nah more like if we stop pretending through headlines that something is being done, we can wake up from this coma we seem to be in and actually take any action.

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          33 minutes ago

          If that’s your goal, you may want to study which communication methods have proven to be effectively inspiring in past political movements. Because I’m pretty sure “there’s no winning” is not among them.

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            8 minutes ago

            Dude, it’s lemmy alright, I don’t think I’m exactly starting a political movement here.

            I guess my point is more that cope-y articles like this one help people be complacent because they think that somehow the Trump fever will break on its own despite a decade of evidence to the contrary.