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.
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.
I’m def the one on the left rn I barely know how to use this app
Ignore it all you like, sadly it will affect you too
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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
Guy on the right is smiling at a nuclear sunrise (he doesn't know)
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
honestly i use lemmy explicitly for the politics , helps me remain sane
I think a strong understanding of Marxism helps seed the revolutionary optimism that makes watching the news more bearable than for liberals who see the world as a scary swirl of chaos and no way out. Lenin says it well:
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
This fits the liberal nihilism to a T.
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
You could also choose an instance like programming.dev that hides political communities by default
I didn't even realise my instance did this (I didn't do research)
But if this is it minimised, I don't want to see the full amount
Unfortunately feels like it's my responsibility to be paying attention at this point no matter how noisy and brutal it gets
Ignoring the world definitely makes you good global citizens and not problems to work around. Good job. Way to go.
And then there’s no content :(
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
The rest of the world is just sunshine and roses right now.
I don't subscribe to political communities at all. If I want to see politics I switch to the All tab. Most of the time I go through Subscribed or Local though.
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
Regretfully this is my local news so sticking my head in the sand probably won't help.
