Gotta love living in a timeline where ignorance helps fascism spread but paying attention takes a toll on your health and well-being.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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You have to find a balance. Set yourself a weekly limit of how much news you consume and take some time for a hobby or family or something to balance it out.
There is no use reading the 3rd article a day about why Palantyr is a techno fascist nightmare that dooms us all. You got it the first time, right?
There is only so much we can take on the regular. Maybe instead of consuming it, we spend some more time fixing things. Which is hard of course but much more rewarding.
100% this.
A person who knows nothing and does nothing is, in practice, identical to someone who knows and sees everything on the daily but is too demoralized to do anything about it.
my sanity saving hobbies are creative. i make music and i make food. they keep me alive, both literally and figuratively.
find small ways to inject joy into the things you do. similar to playing whammageddon at christmas. find tiny ways to rebel against the regime that chafes you. you know all those krasnov stickers you see vandalizing public property? carry around a sharpie and draw hitler mustaches on them. idk. you do you. the tiny acts of rebellion will spark life into your soul.
I try to focus on my spheres of influence and use the logic from power mapping to make sure the bulk of my attention and efforts on impactful things that I can actually change but even still it's simply impossible to even exist in those spaces without being bombarded by well everything that's happening. It is painful to have to 'filter out' human suffering just to be able to focus on other human suffering.
As with anything, a positive state is maintained only by constant maintenance. Vigilance is the price of societal progress, and our society has been insufficiently vigilant for too long. I agree that each person should only do what they can to stay vigilant, but it is also a societal duty to be informed and educated. If it helps to know that there are people keeping track of the US bullshit (even though they're nominally satirists, but all of the actual journalists have been bought out or replaced), here:
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I want off Mr. Bones wild ride
Let's NOT give in into reactionary doom and gloom. Instead, let's embrace revolutionary optimism. Seriously!
i am an absurdist. I posit that optimism is rebellion in the face of so much oppressive fascism.
Can we also reject divisive rhetoric as well? I'm convinced it's a ruasian psyop at this point
Edit: I mean like political labeling liberal/leftist/conservative
Please explain
You know divisive rhetoric like “masked goons disappearing people off the streets is bad” and “human rights are good actually”.
No should have been more clear I meant like political labeling like lib/leftists in particular and to a lesser degree conservative. The points you mentioned should very much cross political divides
Hope you're staying informed on what your local community is doing to fight back against this, and then joining them. Just watching it all unfold by yourself is going to destroy your mental health. Taking action with friends and community will help both the country and your own well-being.
We need socialism
we need a state that actually cares for the people, i'd say. whether you call that socialism or something else is up to you.
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Gotta be the worst thing I can do for my mental health
You know that dream where you're in a gas station, and ICE comes in and starts arresting people, and you start filming it, and they suddenly get right up in your face? And you wake up from the dream literally screaming at them? Yeah I had that this morning.
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Sorry, but I'm posting a lot of news today.
What are all of these? Are they good movies?
I recognize bottom right as true detective which is a series and was fantastic.
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Up-left is probably Marriage Story. Decent movie.
It's only been 2 weeks and I'm already fucking tired :(
I feel like it's been like this for about a decade for me
Feels like every year which has passed since about 2015 has left us (as a species) in a worse place than we started. On top of that, so many of the choices we made along the way to make things categorically worse, were very clearly going to go the way they did... and we did them anyway.
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Like danish prime minister said, this might be a good time to start drinking.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs said it.
'It's time to start drinking': EU's top diplomat makes surprise remark ...
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas told leaders of political groups in the European Parliament that the current global
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It sucks.
While I love Bale sucking that cig like its his last meal crack pipe in most meme formats, this might be my favorite.
I dont even smoke cigs.
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