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It's almost like we're watching a historical event where a large democratic nation is quickly turning into an oligarchal dictatorship. Almost like we're dealing with the consequences of anti intellectualism.
Also just because you don't live in America during all this doesn't mean your country is immune to right wing influence.
Dude, here in Europe half the nations are already beholden to some extreme right faction, and the other half are flirting with it.
Our situation is honestly just a hair better and could deteriorate very rapidly.
Like, for example, if Putin makes his move against the Baltics. If that happens we're equally megafucked.
It was oligarch for a while now.
I mean yeah but not to the point of openly ripping the govt apart.
Social media was probably the best thing to ever happen for fascists. Because everyone's online and not out there actually doing something about it.
And right now we mostly have clowns (Zuck, Musk) at the helms of, let's call them what they are, megapropagandamachines. Imagine what equally evil but much smarter players could do.
Like, say, Putin? I honestly have to wonder how much the rise of fascism over the last couple decades owes to him.
This
Of all the shit that comes with trump, this is the worst thing. For the next 4 years I cannot have a single fucking day without trump. It's going to be trump left, trump right, trump before, trump after, there is no escaping it. 4 years of 90% of the news being trump bullshit. kill me now.
Honestly, I think that's the top reason he went into politics. Narcissists need everyone to pay attention to them
That's a pretty interesting observation, i never considered that.
If that's the worst thing, then you are very privileged.
Or you aren't American
Right, because only America will be affected by all this, just like how only Germany was affected by the Holocaust.
Which reminds me, the worst thing about that Hitler fellow is how I have to keep hearing about him.
Unfortunately, no matter how the rest of the next four years go, I fear we'll be hearing "Trump-era" for the rest of our lives.
The funny thing is, I have Lemmy filtering out all posts with the word Trump in it, but it failed to get this one, the one complaining about too many people talking about Trump!
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to news networks. No more hard questions. No people planning positive rights legislation. Nothing but trump. The status quo is safe while he sucks all the air out of every public forum and media.
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to news networks
Or to single-letter social network sites.
I bet people said the same thing about Hitler both before and after he died. Awful people are typically quite often talked about.
Between November and now, I worked pretty diligently to create a wall around me to avoid these topics. Unfollowing, blocking, filtering.
Once the inauguration happened, I discovered that the concrete I used was faulty and full of holes. The black, fetid water of these lunatics seeped in from all directions.
Tech news, cultural news, arts, all possible other topics that I thought were safe within the walls I built are now covered with sludge.
I so tired of this shit. How did we let this happen?
[Describes working very hard to ignore problem]
How did it happen?
It can't be ignored forever.
Dude, I was up on the news and very diligent in many things.
You don’t know where I live, you don’t know what I’ve done up to November, nor where I’ve worked.
I spent literally the last few months of my entire fucking life trying to shut out this shit so it doesn’t tank my mental health to a degree that would likely kill me.
So please, spare me your fucking judgment.
I've been having this problem since 2016.
No matter how many filters you throw at it, there's always images, videos, and people self-censoring to get around them.
It's infected everyone and everything, like a virus.
Searching for a way out. I'm sure there's somewhere safe out there...
Honestly I'm surprised that "You won't have to hear about Trump again" wasn't motivation enough for people to get to the polls
This was 100% one of the most shocking things about all of this.
Probably because the impact is bigger now and affecting a lot of the things you mentioned. That's what happens when they get power I guess rather than just talk. I've been doing my best to avoid it as well though, it also makes me feel so negative. Good luck to you in this crazy world.
I'm in the same spot. Even made a Lemmy account just so I can block communities. Then I go to technology/linux/memes communities and guess what? It's american politics all over. And don't even get me started on Reddit, at that point subreddits don't even matter anymore. Even on the subreddit related to my own country in eastern Europe, every day I see a ton of pointless "Trump news". And mods justification is always "it's TOTALLY related to our country because US politics impacts the entire world". Like, what's the point anymore? We might as well talk about Trump and Musk in the plants or lego community.
We shall stop being anxious, and start to be outraged. Organize, fight back, even at small scale
seriously. if your answer is to jump off a building, then fuck you. you were never an ally. you shirked your duty as a human and would have been a liability anyway. cowards are just as bad as the sociopaths they enable.
Filters in the fediverse are so nice.
If only Lemmy had actual keyword filters :/
That would be nice!
Piefed has them and its awesome! https://piefed.social/user/settings/filters
Everyone's talking and nobody's doing anything.
The day he no longer exists will be a joyous day indeed.
This is why I wrote a script for Firefox that redacts pictures and mentions of Trump and Elon, haha
I feel this
Yeah, it means something bad is happening. People are talking about it because they don't want to do anything serious about it, which is somewhat good. It would be good to solve this problem with words only.
I hate how US centric lemmy.world is. Wish I could block all Americans.