Current affairs

I cheered up when a man shouted "death to the idf" to a jubilant crowd but apparently the media and politicians think this is anti semantic and the murder of babies continues unabated.

Never heard of Bob Vylan until that moment and now I’m a fan, lots of politically charged music.
The Streisand effect in action people.
- Oh that’s awesome! They’re great!

Unplug.

Do drugs.

I was very close to taking mushrooms and watching the Kamala Vs Trump election results come in. I figured it would be a very difficult trip if he won, but that the experience would absolutely be once in a lifetime
I talked myself out of it and probably (most likely) for the better, but I'll always wonder what that experience would've been like. Awful, yes... but wildly unique, also yes. Maybe I woulda transcended or some shit if I could've hacked it lmao
- I watched the Some More News livestream of the election night on shrooms. Warmbo singing happily and then descending into madness as more and more red states colored in was the peak of my existence.
I'm having quite the bad time these days on even light doses of cannabis. I don't know how people manage it.
- Can't speak for everyone, but I exercise and drink a lot of chamomile tea.
- You gotta work up that tolerance, I'm kinda like you if I'm not on my daily dosage but once the tolerance starts kicking in it's smooth sailing.

Cries in AuDHD with audio processing issues*
I physically cannot pay attention to a podcast and retain any of the information that is being said.
- Do you retain much information from doom scrolling?
RSS feeds are the way to go to keep in touch with events, but only when you want to and in a not addictive manner. Also, my philosophy is that some news is really really important only if somebody from my inner circle personally tells me something about it. Otherwise is just noise from media

Maybe we need to face up to world events. Find some way to resist, if you hate it you might as well find a small way to fight back.

Me every time I queue up a legal eagle video

For me, it's Last Week Tonight and this past week was my last episode. Not because it's not good. But because it makes me sad to have these facts thrown at me during a time when things are only getting worse.
I haven't resigned to giving up. I just need to pace myself.
- Chris Tidus' Armageddon Update is my weekly go-to at this point. At least he has perfected the "middle aged guy losing his damn mind" style of rant. Lets me know that I'm not actually crazy, but the world certainly is.
Legal Eagle is like the hopeful positive side of discourse though. That dude is very confident about being able to save America from all this
- I do appreciate the 'adult in the room' vibes he gives off in his content despite the political climate. It does ease the anxiety.

It helps when you start turning the sadness into rage

That's just making me smoke more.....
The depth and heat of the rage inside me is impossible to adequately describe in any language. It could best be described with a series of scenes of extreme gore and viscera being flung against a wall or smashed with a hammer. Add in some very loud death metal.
It also helps to maybe join a local group that demands political change for the people.
I joined one a few months ago, and it does wonders for me. Connecting to like-minded people is truly amazing. And also, it might give you a few ideas for effective actions, somehow.

Feeling it also. I am in a bubble figuring how I rebel. Small acts from me.

I simply avoid actively educating myself on current affairs now. It still seeps to me through internet and casual socializing osmosis. I let the news come to me.

I'm done being the guy in the office/cafe/bar who brings up politics unless I'm really desperate for a topic of conversation.

That said, people do seem to bring up politics to me now, which has been fairly disarming. I was always the initiator before November 5th. Normies are reacting now that shit is negatively effecting them. I've still not encountered any anti-Harris lefties IRL only online. Fucking cowards.

In theory the majority, to all, of anti Harris leftists are bots. If you're running into the other people IRL, but not anti Harris people, that seems to be a decent indicator of bot shenanigans. I can confirm a similar experience of never meeting one of these people IRL
- Possible if not likely, but also being an anti-Harris leftist indicates the sort of person who doesn't touch grass anyway.
  Though, I had seen handmade anti-Harris sign in Chicago once shortly before the election. "A vote for Harris is a vote for genocide" is what it said. I suspect that if there are some of those people do touch grass at all, they are aware of how incredibly unpopular they'd be in most progressive spaces if they openly stated they advocated against and refused to vote for Harris and would keep very quiet. Thus cowards.

Add to that hopeless personal circumstances...

vibe

A good rule of thumb is just to go by geography. The closer something is to the place you live in the more important it is to you. Both in direct impact and being actionable. You will not do any good, when you are depressed. That is what they want to do.

If something is really important to your life, then you are going to hear of it pretty quickly, even if you do not activly follow the news. So if you are depressed from local news, then just do not read, watch or listen to anything activly.

I just don't personally feel much about the things that aren't affecting me much if at all

until they do and now you are out of options...
the "fuck you, got mine" mentality brought all of us here
- Yes worrying about those things that I can't do nothing about is a much better option lol.
I just don’t personally feel much about the things that aren’t affecting me much if at all
If I could boil down the cancer that has infected the US for the past 3+ decades into one sentence, I could not have come up with anything better.
What a fucking joke.
- This is under a post about people being so emotionally invested into news that they get so debilitatingly sad.
  Sorry I don't get too emotionally invested over every single thing lol

This meme is having the same effecy :(

What is your function?

Participating in the capitalist machine with enough output such that I maintain housing and sustenance.
- But maybe we could squeeze in "violent opposition to fascism" in there somewhere?