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submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 
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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 35 points 16 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.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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

Oh that’s awesome! They’re great!

Truly, lyrically and musically.

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 18 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 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Me every time I queue up a legal eagle video

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 14 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 9 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 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I do appreciate the 'adult in the room' vibes he gives off in his content despite the political climate. It does ease the anxiety.

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 3 points 2 hours ago

right? I admit his channel did become almost entirely DJT content this year but at least he actually seems to be fighting IRL as much as he is talking on youtube. to me that is the exact opposite of a doompost.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 5 points 2 hours ago

I was very close to taking mushrooms and watching the Kamala Vs Trump election results come in. I figured it would be a very difficult trip if he won, but that the experience would absolutely be once in a lifetime

I talked myself out of it and probably (most likely) for the better, but I'll always wonder what that experience would've been like. Awful, yes... but wildly unique, also yes. Maybe I woulda transcended or some shit if I could've hacked it lmao

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 10 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 9 points 2 hours ago

Turn your doom scrolling into doom walking by switching to podcasts.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

It helps when you start turning the sadness into rage

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The depth and heat of the rage inside me is impossible to adequately describe in any language. It could best be described with a series of scenes of extreme gore and viscera being flung against a wall or smashed with a hammer. Add in some very loud death metal.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 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 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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 9 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 16 hours ago

Add to that hopeless personal circumstances...

[–] lemmyuser68@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago
[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] na_th_an@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Participating in the capitalist machine with enough output such that I maintain housing and sustenance.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

But maybe we could squeeze in "violent opposition to fascism" in there somewhere?

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net -1 points 10 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.