That’s what a lot of Germans did back then: ignoring what’s going on.
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In the defence of some of us, like myself for instance, I live in a country where we can do literally jack shit to affect American political bullcrap, because it's nowhere near America. I'm pretty sure Europeans are excused from having to stay up to date every moment, unless we can force the rest of the world to be continuously in the loop about... idk, whatever crap Geert Wilders is up to right now...
I also don’t live anywhere near the US. Do I feel like I can’t do anything? Not at all.
I deleted my PayPal account
I deleted my Amazon account
I deleted my Instagram account
I switched to a Linux distribution which is mainly developed in Europe
I deleted my Google account
I deleted my WhatsApp account
I try to boycott as many American products (physical or digital) as possible.
Well, you still have to predict nazi takeover of your country
Nobody can prevent the future.
Well, then we at least know to fuck off at the right time. Well, I'll be the first minority in camps anyway.
prevention is better than cure, because if you have to cure it you already have the disease. the future isn't set in stone (theoretically).
The people in this thread acting like you need to be tuned in to everything all the time with no filter baffle me. You can block all politics on Lemmy and get your political news elsewhere. People are more than entitled to cultivate the spaces they inhabit and use.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. - Burke.
Yes it's miserable, and I'm not sure if I'm doing anything at all, but turning away seems worse.
I don't think it's right to assume that people who block political online content are doing nothing. Hell, I think it's more likely that people who consume a lot of political content feel that they're doing something when they aren't.
Doomscrolling can decrease the motivation to act, contribute to anxiety and analysis paralysis.
Banning communities can be helpful to avoid those that fuel doomscrolling rather than action.
Implying Lemmy is the best/only place to get political news. :/
Some of us come here for fun and get our doom elsewhere.
Where do you get yours from?
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Really? The collapse of a superpower isn't fascinating to you?
I enjoy watching slow motion train crashes as much as the next guy, but everyone needs a break sometimes, you know?
Have you tried closing the app? That's what I do when I've had enough.
That's a pretty blatant false dichotomy
Guy on the right is smiling at a nuclear sunrise (he doesn't know)
Ignorance to current events isn’t joy.
No, but drowning in political events doesn't make for a positive experience either
I'm actually having a great time seeing my comrades on the streets
Ignore it all you like, sadly it will affect you too
I don't block it because I want to start up to date with the Nazi regime
I also want to view more than 20 different posts a day...
Please be patient with us while we struggle with trying to stop a burgeoning dictatorship.
For people outside the US, it has been a brutal dictatorship for a long time. The people whos countries you destroy certainly don't get a vote
Sorry for the country destruction, that was my bad
I’m def the one on the left rn I barely know how to use this app
honestly i use lemmy explicitly for the politics , helps me remain sane
I think a strong understanding of Marxism helps seed the revolutionary optimism that makes watching the news more bearable than for liberals who see the world as a scary swirl of chaos and no way out. Lenin says it well:
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
This fits the liberal nihilism to a T.
Unfortunately feels like it's my responsibility to be paying attention at this point no matter how noisy and brutal it gets
And then there’s no content :(
oh you must be somehow dodging the countless anime and furry communities that are alive and "well"
Idk who the fuck Moe is but this cartoon gal has quite an imaginative and loyal following
I live here! If I chose to be willfully ignorant I’d be no better than all those on the right I’ve been talking about being willingly ignorant for decades
I’m no hypocrite
Ignoring the world definitely makes you good global citizens and not problems to work around. Good job. Way to go.
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You could also choose an instance like programming.dev that hides political communities by default
I didn't even realise my instance did this (I didn't do research)
But if this is it minimised, I don't want to see the full amount
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