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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago

"Bad news" is not the issue. "The ongoing deterioration of both my rights and my standard of living" is the issue!

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup. It seems the news is like 90% bad news, 5% weather, and 5% sports.

Take the sports however you will, but the weather is getting even worse lately, so that's basically 95% bad news.

[–] jballs 19 points 1 year ago

and 5% sports

I am a Broncos fan, so we're sitting at a solid 100% bad news.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh there’s always some chucklefuck punching his girlfriend or driving his Lambo 200 mph through a school zone so it’s probably more like 97-98% tbh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We need to revive that word.. chucklefuck...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I’m right on the edge of disconnecting from any kind of news completely. I’m helpless to do anything and it’s all bad, I just want blissful ignorance. I spent 2 weeks hiking Canadian Rockies with basically no phone service and it was the happiest I’ve been in years. Fucking climate is going down the toilet, trump is still allowed to breathe air, the far and alt right are gaining traction everywhere in the world, Putin is a shit stain, the Supreme Court are a bunch of crooks, etc etc etc, everything is eroding to shit.

[–] Lucidlethargy 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the world goes dark, sometimes we have to become lights. We may be dim by ourselves, but enough of us can change things.

We may not be able to fix a dying government, or a world that's largely forgotten the horrors of war, but we can help today in our community, and locally.

It may not be enough, but it's something. Maybe those of us aware enough to be frozen in frustration, disappointnent, and even fear by today's events need this the most. Become a light to someone, some people, or many.

I guess this is a journey of a thousand steps sort of thing, which aims to avoid the death by a thousand cuts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

the world we live in seems unfixably fucked, but our ancestors lived through feudalism and kings for way longer and even made it through the black death without society crumbling to pieces, things even got better afterward!

The united workers of the 1920's gave us this absolute gem of a verse:

"In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,  
Greater than the might of armies, multiplied a thousand-fold.  
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old  
For the union makes us strong."  
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't read or watched the news for almost a decade now. I recommend it.

I do hate when people put the news in memes though, that ruins my streak.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -J. Krishnamurti

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Use a goddamned question mark.

[–] Zapp 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At this point it's not so much a question as it is a statement

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Invert the subject and verb and my response woulda just been a nod

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Which god are you invoking, though

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago
[–] Ghyste 23 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw this post sandwiched between an article about the supreme court ruling and an article about how the far right is likely to get a majority in France.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the difference is France will go crazy and actually start cutting heads off until they are not the majority.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Por que no los dos?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Glad we're no longer calling it "empathy fatigue" that's just one facet of it. "Burn out" is much closer to what it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've literally never heard that term in my life.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Despair and having no time to even improve your own life due to endless grind to survive.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Obsessing about all those bad things, instead of the things you can change, is not helpful, though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Do not go gentle into that good night.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Is there a difference?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Despair seems like a reasonable reaction to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Did you guys actually think you could make a difference before?? That is so sweet 🥹

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have ADHD. The answer is both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do nothing about? Wat :| I do not understand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Isnt that kinda the definition of burn out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If your psyche cannot handle that neverending barrage yes, you are burned out