Wikipedia’s current events portal covers current events and conflicts with links to plenty of background info.
I don't think about it. I'm not rich enough to influence it.
I mean, sure, I feel sad about the middle east, but there's also Ukraine, also human trafficking in Southeast Asia and around the world, human rights violation and cultural genocide in Xinjiang and Tibet, also dictators around the world, + every other problem in the world. The fuck can I do? I'm just some broke ass peasant with severe depression.
The moment I read more news is the moment I'd just breakdown in tears about the suffering around the world and wanna swallow a bottle of pills... so I can't. I don't even have the guts to watch Schrinder's list, because the trailer is already too depressing for me.
Memes are enough, make fun of autocrats as stress-relief...
It’s not going to be updated with daily events, but simple Wikipedia has background and fairly up to date info on major conflicts. Regular Wikipedia is more frequently updated, but simple will give you the basics without over complicating and is a quick read.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Palestine_conflict
Frankly, I would like to know the secret to the opposite. 🤢🥹
Lots of time.
I'd highly recommend starting by searching and sorting sources into categories by trust and quality then work from there.
I get most of my news from Seth Meyers. I operate on the Robinhood men in tights theory of receiving bad news in a funny way so it's easier to take.
Then, why do you watch Seth Myers?
I like readtangle.com
It's an independent newsletter that tackles a major US news item each day, compiling views from across the political spectrum, without engaging in click bait or hyperbole. Every newsletter ends with a feel-good story.
When you start a new job at a big company, you feel really incompetent and self-conscious because everybody else has been there so much longer, yet little old you know nothing about how any of it works or what’s going on.
But then you go walking around talking to people, and you realize nobody actually knows what the hell is going on, and they just pretend they do.
It’s kinda like that.
But sometimes you meet some really competent and knowledgeable people who seem to have a better grasp and perspective on things. It’s good to not just listen to these people, but to bounce questions off of them. They don’t judge, because they know.
I don’t. I deliberately avoid news of any kind. It’s either too depressing or none of my business. I do not take sides. I neither condemn nor condone, I merely acknowledge that someone or something exists or that some event is occurring.
It’s not necessarily that I don’t have opinions on what I do learn through osmosis, just that I realize they’re futile or unlikely to be convincing so there’s no use discussing them. I merely exist and the rest of the world happens around me whether I like it or not.
Unhealthy? Probably, but this is the only way I have found a measure of peace.
What do you say to people who tell you "But everything is political!! You're participating in politics by not participating!" or "Wow such privilege, being able to just ignore "?
I just shrug and say you're probably right. I can't find the exact quote but it's something like "Pacifists only exist because others do violence on their behalf" and I think it's applicable here as well. But, look, I barely have agency over my own affairs, so I'm not going to waste energy futilely worrying about the affairs of others.
I think that reflects the biggest conspiracy of the modern age tbh. As long as everyone's focused on specific aspects of American politics (as they do worldwide) they aren't focused on areas of their own lives where they can make positive change, political or otherwise. And here in the US, our political leaders actually love it that everyone's obsessed with one person in one branch of our government because it's the politics that affects their lives the least and they can do the least about. It's actually smarter to focus on yourself and managing your own affairs.
Yeah there's nothing we can do in politics, its all rigged by billionaires. What you can do is organize in your community. This at least helps somewhat.
I educate myself.
Please don't lump me in with yourself in your laziness and apathy. It's complex, yes, but not "too complex".
Ah, a pompous ass appears? Shiny.
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