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Hey little man I don't know if you're aware but the attitudes that I am yelling about that have led to the crumbling of the United States over the past several decades is literally happening in your backyard right now.
Y'all liberals will come around to how wrong just ignoring things is as a strategy to improve your life in a few years once all those social programs you have left are stripped away just like us.
Mmmmm yes daddy billionaire business mogul, feed me more headlines, tell me what to think! Seed and manipulate my entire worldview harder! I love it when you twist my point of view! Twist it harder! Oh, you've brought vague state-sponsored talking points to double team me? Yes. Yes! Make me your sloppy anxiety ridden mess daddy! Let me slurp up your scum! Make me forget about how innacurate articles about my field of expertise are while I swallow every other article you give me! Fill me with your news daddy! ❤️
Dropping the shitposting though? (Not that you really deserve it with the blatant patronizing)
There are so many better targets for your effort than people choosing to not be led around by corporate interests through intentionally emotionally charged news.
There are fucking 20 year old studies that show that over exposure to news media causes people to overestimate crime rates to a ridiculous degree, and even more so with violent crime rates. The news has only become significantly more polarizing and emotionally charged in the many years since.
Save your efforts for careful organization and planning locally. Understand that 90% of the news will have no impact on you and those around you and is only meant for shifting public opinions. Not for actually informing. Shut the fuck up online and stop painting a target on your back. Practice fucking OPSEC if you have absolutely any seriousness about this, otherwise admit to yourself that you're just larping or not going to take any action yourself.
I sure as hell aren't taking any action that could put the people I care about at risk before shtf. It's not a judgement or impugnment of your character, it's just that you should stop being so damn openly judgemental if that's the case for you.
Most importantly, as I called out in my first fucking sentence of my last comment responding to you, it's a massive fucking false dichotomy. It is entirely possible to stay informed and up to date on events without fucking wallowing in the nonstop deluge of "sky is falling" headlines.
And even if this black and white dichotomy was in any way valid, your insistence that only "duh libruls" do it is even more absurd. Get outside and meet people. I'm fairly introverted and I still regularly meet and see people from all across the political ~~spectrum~~ multidimensionalhypercompass showing the full variation of news awareness from "What do you mean ICE has built a Guantanamo on US soil for illegal immigrants?" to "I read every headline from 6 different news sources and cross reference each article". Yes, that means I see fucking MAGATs that are absurdly tapped into the vein of fresh news but somehow still deluding themselves into MAGA. One is a relative of mine unfortunately.
Hey man I'm not reading all that but thanks for playing
Go ahead back to .ml's China comm. Your blatant attempts to keep people fighting amongst each other instead of doing anything better with their time won't be missed.