• not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
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    That was the plan. Fill the stream with shit and over simulate the media until they tune out.

    All according to plan.

    It was a good run America, my country.

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      It was a good run America, my country.

      Native American genocide, Slavery, Jim Crow, today’s migrant labor exploitation, largest prison population on Earth because private profit, Only “developed” nation without universal healthcare because private profit, waged war and conducted extralegal operations around the world to topple prosocial, anticapitalist regimes to keep their resource markets open for our profiteers exploitation, heavy handed influence on other countries to prioritize GDP metastasis over their people’s wellbeing.

      No it fucking wasn’t. We talked a big game of benevolence, even might have veered towards a path of becoming benevolent in the wake of the capitalist created great depression, but that didn’t last long. We were shit all the way down, and a destructive force in this world to this day.

      North Korea, Russia, China, all bad actor authoritarians that only care about their own elite’s power at their people’s expense. That doesn’t make us a good actor, merely a better marketed/propagandized bad actor that belongs in their company.

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        I could do the listing of all-good things too, but I don’t want to put in that much effort because I don’t think it’d be received well anyway.

        There’s lots to fix; America is an ideal, we never get there, we always keep trying to make it better.

  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    When Trump won the first time, I cleared out any news or politics subs on reddit and took political news off my news feed. It helped my mental health tremendously even if I couldn’t ignore it completely.

    I know that it’s not great to be uninformed, but the stress news caused me was just getting overwhelming.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    Yeah everyone would love it more than anything if politicians shut the fuck up, and did their jobs diligently and quietly in a way that benefits us all. We have to tune into work everyday and shut the fuck up. We dont get to run a whole donation circus that dictates how others live, least you could do is stop being a shit clown with it.

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    I think we should have a rule for news subs (maybe I should make a sub with the rule…):

    It’s not news when it’s a controversial figure saying yet another controversial thing.

    As in, we should have action oriented news, posting stuff that has actually happened, like laws being passed instead of someone saying we should have this law.

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      im also getting increasingly frustrated with all the articles saying “this person said this other person committed a crime” and then nobody is ever prosecuted.

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    It’s only partly true. I am a bit exhausted but not as much as I am just done with the controlled-opposition bullshit propaganda.

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    Luckily they just chose a guy that’ll make it impossible to tune out any time the next 4 years. Good luck dodging that vomit comet.

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    which is why we have our president elect lined up who’s going to surprise his voters by doing all the dumb ass shit he said he would

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    I think people are just trying to catch their breath before the next presidential election cycle starts in a few months.