That’s what a lot of Germans did back then: ignoring what’s going on.
In the defence of some of us, like myself for instance, I live in a country where we can do literally jack shit to affect American political bullcrap, because it’s nowhere near America. I’m pretty sure Europeans are excused from having to stay up to date every moment, unless we can force the rest of the world to be continuously in the loop about… idk, whatever crap Geert Wilders is up to right now…
I also don’t live anywhere near the US. Do I feel like I can’t do anything? Not at all.
I deleted my PayPal account
I deleted my Amazon account
I deleted my Instagram account
I switched to a Linux distribution which is mainly developed in Europe
I deleted my Google account
I deleted my WhatsApp account
I try to boycott as many American products (physical or digital) as possible.
Well, you still have to predict nazi takeover of your country.
Nobody can prevent the future.
Well, then we at least know to fuck off at the right time. Well, I’ll be the first minority in camps anyway.
prevention is better than cure, because if you have to cure it you already have the disease. the future isn’t set in stone (theoretically).
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. - Burke.
Yes it’s miserable, and I’m not sure if I’m doing anything at all, but turning away seems worse.
Implying Lemmy is the best/only place to get political news. :/
Some of us come here for fun and get our doom elsewhere.
Where do you get yours from?
I don’t think it’s right to assume that people who block political online content are doing nothing. Hell, I think it’s more likely that people who consume a lot of political content feel that they’re doing something when they aren’t.
This. So many left-leaning folks that I’ve talked to basically have this attitude, and present it to me like they are winning at life.
Doomscrolling can decrease the motivation to act, contribute to anxiety and analysis paralysis.
Banning communities can be helpful to avoid those that fuel doomscrolling rather than action.
I tried. Prior to the election i was doing everything possible to change peoples minds. To get people together and ready for what needed to be done. Back then I was “overreacting”
Now that trump is in office we no longer have a winning strategy. People suddenly want to pretend like they care when it’s all virtue signalling. Just like climate change, now that its too late to do anything, its ok to acknowledge that it exists.
The winning strategy has always been worker organizing, and it certainly isn’t too late to mitigate the damage of Climate Change. Handcuffing yourself because we have no way of acting within the rules set out by the system is the exact type of nihilism the system is designed to instill, even Climate Doomerism is a tool of the oil barons to demoralize activists and organizers. We can change, and it takes organizing and overthrow of the present state of things, not playing a game created by the House to only ever allow them to win.
But thats what im saying. People simply dont want to organize. Americans would literally rather just lay down and die than actually fix anything. I mean a US senator literally got assassinated today and yet we are not storming the capitol right now. Anything short of putting an end to this bullshit is acceptance of it
The DNC and GOP are not hostile factions, but different wings of Capital. Organizing goes a lot further than random collective actions, but the tedious work of building organized structures, party building, doing the groundwork. We need to study former successful revolutions like the Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, etc and adapt what we can apply to our revolution. Parties like PSL in the US are already doing that, and are rapidly growing because they are at the forefront of resistance movements.
The people in this thread acting like you need to be tuned in to everything all the time with no filter baffle me. You can block all politics on Lemmy and get your political news elsewhere. People are more than entitled to cultivate the spaces they inhabit and use.
Guy on the right is smiling at a nuclear sunrise (he doesn’t know)
Really? The collapse of a superpower isn’t fascinating to you?
I enjoy watching slow motion train crashes as much as the next guy, but everyone needs a break sometimes, you know?
Have you tried closing the app? That’s what I do when I’ve had enough.
That’s a pretty blatant false dichotomy
Ignorance to current events isn’t joy.
No, but drowning in political events doesn’t make for a positive experience either
I’m actually having a great time seeing my comrades on the streets
I don’t block it because I want to start up to date with the Nazi regime
I also want to view more than 20 different posts a day…
Please be patient with us while we struggle with trying to stop a burgeoning dictatorship.
For people outside the US, it has been a brutal dictatorship for a long time. The people whos countries you destroy certainly don’t get a vote
Sorry for the country destruction, that was my bad
Unfortunately feels like it’s my responsibility to be paying attention at this point no matter how noisy and brutal it gets
And then there’s no content :(
Nah, there’s plenty of Linux and Star Trek
That’s the best part
oh you must be somehow dodging the countless anime and furry communities that are alive and “well”
Idk who the fuck Moe is but this cartoon gal has quite an imaginative and loyal following
Aber es gibt so viel Inhalt!
In der Tat. Ü
I live here! If I chose to be willfully ignorant I’d be no better than all those on the right I’ve been talking about being willingly ignorant for decades
I’m no hypocrite
Ignoring the world definitely makes you good global citizens and not problems to work around. Good job. Way to go.
I remember I said I did this once and the amount of people who came of the woodwork saying “yOuRE pARt of ThE ProBlEM!!1!” Was insane
They are right though. How does sticking your head in the sand and pretending the problem doesn’t exist work?
Oh look, exhibit a 🙄
And your answer is…?
People like you vote. Or should vote?! But should they if they just choose to be ignorant?!
You’re a living argument against democracy 🥲My answer is if you keep worrying about what others are doing you’ve got no chance to stay sane on the Internet Mister B
Thing is, a lot of information about the current state of political affairs is blasting through all channels. Some people just want to use Lemmy to shitpost, hang out in CasualConversation, or look a funnies from Stamets.
I think that’s a fair use case, and doesn’t necessarily mean someone who does this is sticking their head in the sand about the current political order going to shit.
The rest of the world is just sunshine and roses right now.
I mean @Sunshine does post a lot but I wouldn’t say she makes up the rest of the world.
Honestly all political discussions here are so cursed. Its just people yelling. Fuck that.
That might be because you actively go around yelling at people for not supporting Israel
