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[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Between November and now, I worked pretty diligently to create a wall around me to avoid these topics. Unfollowing, blocking, filtering.

Once the inauguration happened, I discovered that the concrete I used was faulty and full of holes. The black, fetid water of these lunatics seeped in from all directions.

Tech news, cultural news, arts, all possible other topics that I thought were safe within the walls I built are now covered with sludge.

I so tired of this shit. How did we let this happen?

[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[Describes working very hard to ignore problem]

How did it happen?

It can't be ignored forever.

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude, I was up on the news and very diligent in many things.

You don’t know where I live, you don’t know what I’ve done up to November, nor where I’ve worked.

I spent literally the last few months of my entire fucking life trying to shut out this shit so it doesn’t tank my mental health to a degree that would likely kill me.

So please, spare me your fucking judgment.

[–] fury@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been having this problem since 2016.

No matter how many filters you throw at it, there's always images, videos, and people self-censoring to get around them.

It's infected everyone and everything, like a virus.

Searching for a way out. I'm sure there's somewhere safe out there...

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Ironically, for all that I'm sick of hearing about AI AI AI AI AI AI AI everywhere, maybe a really good prompt could plug the few remaining holes..

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm surprised that "You won't have to hear about Trump again" wasn't motivation enough for people to get to the polls

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

This was 100% one of the most shocking things about all of this.

[–] LinuxEnjoyer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm in the same spot. Even made a Lemmy account just so I can block communities. Then I go to technology/linux/memes communities and guess what? It's american politics all over. And don't even get me started on Reddit, at that point subreddits don't even matter anymore. Even on the subreddit related to my own country in eastern Europe, every day I see a ton of pointless "Trump news". And mods justification is always "it's TOTALLY related to our country because US politics impacts the entire world". Like, what's the point anymore? We might as well talk about Trump and Musk in the plants or lego community.

[–] sh__@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Probably because the impact is bigger now and affecting a lot of the things you mentioned. That's what happens when they get power I guess rather than just talk. I've been doing my best to avoid it as well though, it also makes me feel so negative. Good luck to you in this crazy world.