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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 102 points 2 months 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 34 points 2 months 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.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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 2 months 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 2 months ago (3 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.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I want off Mr. Bones wild ride

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Boooo (take the up vote)

[–] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I feel this way everyday

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Start your own micronation like Molossia

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

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months 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.

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months 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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[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago
[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago
[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What are all of these? Are they good movies?

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 2 months ago

Up-left is probably Marriage Story. Decent movie.

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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago
[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Time to invest in nicotine.

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 2 months 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 months ago

Right. I stand corrected.

[–] thesdev@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Inb4 "How is it still January?"

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