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i love how no matter what i say... i get attacked from every extremist side.
you could say 'i like that the sky is blue today' in a political post and have people telling you you're a nazi, a shitlib, or you're a brainwashed by progaganda. they don't even seem to read what you write so much as just make up stuff in their heads that what you said is some dog-whistle about 'who you really are'.
it's hilarious but aslo bafflingly sad to see how many warped people are so clodued by their blind rage and hate or self-righteousness they can't even take innocuous facts of the matter as some sort of political progaganda.
Lol I was just saying this the other day about the last time I bothered checking replies. A simple question I asked started a civil war in the comments, and I couldn't believe how strongly people were personally attacking each other based on the random comment of some stranger that they decided to imbue with all these extra meanings.
It's just a bunch of angry people looking for outlets for their emotions, the actual meanings behind the words don't matter.
I just try to stay informed of what's going on, but I don't sweat the global or national news anymore. I try to see how I can help my friends and coworkers and my neighborhood more instead. Those are issues I can chip away at and see progress with.
I feel the ones being the loudest in these communities aren't actually doing much in real life or they'd be a little more constructive in what they say here. People interested in making society better, I'd think, would have to take a bit more of an open arms approach when dealing with people they don't really know or you're hurting your movement more than helping it. With the world getting worse rather quickly, I don't have time for talkers like that.
totally. I have been political active since I was a teen, I've worked on campaigns, I've worked with and in city government etc. It's mind-blowing to me how people are totally ignorant of the good they can do... because they just want to sit around and day-dream about the world magically getting better and being angry at other people who don't agree with their dreams. Like going and volunteering at a polling place... is too 'lowbrow' for them but a simple thing they could do to actively make their life and the world around them better.
The world really isn't getting worse, it's just that people selectively ignore good news and exaggerate bad news, and completely lack comparative context, or totally reject it. They WANT to sit around and get-off on being doomers. The world and societies are complex, they don't follow the neat little highly simplified narratives people want it to and they throw tantrums that it doesn't, rather than try and realize how limited their understanding of it is. The people who rant and rave typically are ignorant of the most basic facts and structures of what they are ranting about.
I think it's hard seeing the actions and misdeeds of our leaders becoming more transparent. Like you said, I don't think the world is worse, but it feels more in our face. Before we had real time communication across the world, we'd never know a thing about all these things all over. I don't think I can devote that much time to stuff on that scale. It feels good focusing on the microcosm around me.
I want to continue to look for things close to me I can work with. Someone's got to worry about things in a national or global scale, but it doesn't need to be me, and I'm ok with that.