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submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 
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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 24 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I cheered up when a man shouted "death to the idf" to a jubilant crowd but apparently the media and politicians think this is anti semantic and the murder of babies continues unabated.

Never heard of Bob Vylan until that moment and now I’m a fan, lots of politically charged music.

The Streisand effect in action people.

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 12 hours ago

Maybe we need to face up to world events. Find some way to resist, if you hate it you might as well find a small way to fight back.

[–] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Me every time I queue up a legal eagle video

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

For me, it's Last Week Tonight and this past week was my last episode. Not because it's not good. But because it makes me sad to have these facts thrown at me during a time when things are only getting worse.

I haven't resigned to giving up. I just need to pace myself.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Chris Tidus' Armageddon Update is my weekly go-to at this point. At least he has perfected the "middle aged guy losing his damn mind" style of rant. Lets me know that I'm not actually crazy, but the world certainly is.

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 9 points 8 hours ago

Legal Eagle is like the hopeful positive side of discourse though. That dude is very confident about being able to save America from all this

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 10 points 10 hours ago

Feeling it also. I am in a bubble figuring how I rebel. Small acts from me.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I simply avoid actively educating myself on current affairs now. It still seeps to me through internet and casual socializing osmosis. I let the news come to me.

I'm done being the guy in the office/cafe/bar who brings up politics unless I'm really desperate for a topic of conversation.

That said, people do seem to bring up politics to me now, which has been fairly disarming. I was always the initiator before November 5th. Normies are reacting now that shit is negatively effecting them. I've still not encountered any anti-Harris lefties IRL only online. Fucking cowards.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

In theory the majority, to all, of anti Harris leftists are bots. If you're running into the other people IRL, but not anti Harris people, that seems to be a decent indicator of bot shenanigans. I can confirm a similar experience of never meeting one of these people IRL

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Possible if not likely, but also being an anti-Harris leftist indicates the sort of person who doesn't touch grass anyway.

Though, I had seen handmade anti-Harris sign in Chicago once shortly before the election. "A vote for Harris is a vote for genocide" is what it said. I suspect that if there are some of those people do touch grass at all, they are aware of how incredibly unpopular they'd be in most progressive spaces if they openly stated they advocated against and refused to vote for Harris and would keep very quiet. Thus cowards.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 9 hours ago

Add to that hopeless personal circumstances...

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It helps when you start turning the sadness into rage

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

That's just making me smoke more.....

[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

What is your function?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 hours ago

A good rule of thumb is just to go by geography. The closer something is to the place you live in the more important it is to you. Both in direct impact and being actionable. You will not do any good, when you are depressed. That is what they want to do.

If something is really important to your life, then you are going to hear of it pretty quickly, even if you do not activly follow the news. So if you are depressed from local news, then just do not read, watch or listen to anything activly.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz -2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I just don't personally feel much about the things that aren't affecting me much if at all

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

until they do and now you are out of options...

the "fuck you, got mine" mentality brought all of us here

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes worrying about those things that I can't do nothing about is a much better option lol.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

another american bravely giving up before even trying

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why did you assume I'm an American..?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

because of your "rugged individualism" and later your "bravely sitting down" attitude

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I'm not sure what that means but it's a swing and a miss this time, friend