It's time I stop reading the news for the next 4 years. It's going to be nothing but absolutely infuriating.
Trump gets away with everything and the people trying to uphold some sense of justice immediately get the hammer.
I hate people so much.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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Not reading the news isn't going to make the situation better or worse. I understand the sentiment, but don't understand why saying it is useful. Hiding your head in the sand doesn't mean your body won't be harmed.
There are better ways to cope with the emotional onslaught of this change. Focusing on your community, finding new digital communities, learning to cope in general, finding validating ways to feel liberated... In other words actions. Small perhaps, but beyond this notion of burying our heads in the sand.
I think that's their point. Reading it doesn't help, it'll just stress you out and cause worry. For most people there's nothing we can do, so ignoring it might be the healthiest option.
If I keep reading it I'm eventually going to go buy a 9mm and eat some lead . Sometimes not participating IS the best option.
I'm with you on that brother
Look, yes avoidance is a valid behavior. We have it, we need it, and it's useful at times, but like any behavior it can become a dependence. Wholly depending on an attitude of avoidance to deal with the outside world doesn't build resilience. Desensitizing to the trauma and being able to face it, and act in spite of seems like a better goal.
It's a screwed up depressing world and I empathize with the horror, disgust, disillusionment, disenfranchised nature of the world.
I struggle with it constantly, and maybe we should create a support group or a sub for this alone, as we need to find ways to cope with this, as it's not going to get fixed in a vacuum. Yet we can't fix it if we are overwhelmed and emotionally shutdown...
I'm not sure becoming desensitised to trauma is an effective strategy either. That suggests that we stop caring about what's going on.
I'm in the same situation, 2016-2020 was a stressful time. Constantly trying to keep up with each horrible new development, about which I could do nothing but despair, became an unhealthy obsession. I don't want to do that again. I'm not a political scientist, and I neglected my own personal growth and development becoming an armchair expert in politics because I could see what was happening. This time I'm going to focus on myself and the people around me because that's all I can do. The world will keep turning. If I have the opportunity to do something positive, I'll take it.
Dude, get organized
This is the worst part of it all. Trump will serve 4 more years (and hopefully not a day longer) and retire blissfully. He's getting away with everything scot-free.
With his health I doubt he will live that long.
Oh, perfect, President Vance.
Mostly nazis.
Yes the response to stopping them was shit on several fronts. But all of that added together multiplied by three is less than nazi republican badness.
They don't seem to be getting destroyed, though...
All republicans who refused to fall in line with MAGAtism at pretty much all levels of public representation have been beyond destroyed politically.
Look at all of trumps "enemies" and those he calls "traitors" to see the ones eliminated based on his word.
The "we" turned into "everybody"
"yet" is one of the few things keeping me going.
he sold his soul long before that. Several times.
Fight on, Jack!
But it's understandable if you choose not to.
He must carry on
For a little while at least.
Sheesh, I wish Biden would take a cue from the Supreme Court and just have a few of these people arrested, including Graham and call it a Presidential action.
Then let the lower courts decide.
Show them what "lawfare" really is, LOL. Lawfare, FFS, these assholes don't have an original bone in their bodies. They get one of their thought leaders braying out something like "lawfare" and they just endlessly parrot it for EVERYTHING.