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I wish it were that easy. If I blocked everything that popped political news, and everyone who brought up politics, I may as well just not go online.
I can't even avoid engaging in it myself. But it's much harder these days to tune it out. I find I have to avoid all news, lest one item be about more treachery, and I don't want that.
Yeah I can't do it either. I took a break after the election, but here I am again. lol I do find it hard to empathize with people that just don't care about anything.
The problem is that I care too much. It's not good for my mental health. I'm angry all the time - you know, I notice it in my Lemmy interactions. I'm much more aggressive and antagonistic if I've been using attention to the news; I'm just not as nice a person. And honestly, I'm equally an ass to people who deserve it, as people who don't. It's awful, and I hate who it makes me.
It's not all news; just the current, recent crop. I can deal with the usual autocrat billionaires, most of the time; there's just a limit to how much I can handle before I displace onto folks who don't deserve my ire.
Yeah I know what you mean. It's tough, because being aware is one of the first steps for fighting back, but you can't fight back as effectively if it all demoralizes you too much. It's like there's a really fine line somewhere between involved and too much, and where that line is fluctuates over time.
For myself, while I am consuming news again, my overall consumption is still down from where it was pre-election. I remember I did this during Trump's first term as well, where it just started getting to me too much. I feel like I have a good amount of endurance for this stuff too. I wish there was a better answer, but it really is kinda a catch-22. Rock and a hard place.