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I know I’ll get downvoted for this, but…Lemmy and related are an “echo-chamber” of sorts. You’ll find that a vast amount of people “in the real world” don’t share this sort of imminently apocalyptic mentality. I really mean no offense in my phrasing and I’m not trying to shit on anyone here. It’s just the way things are.

I remember being almost surprised at how “normal” life was when I first moved to a place that had polar opposite political views than me. Life went on…in mostly the same way it did when I was surrounded by people who mostly shared my ideologies. Life goes on…especially in the western world. Even in different parts of the US, it’s a far cry from some place like Somalia or Iran or Israel or North Korea.

Idk. Sorry I got a bit rambly. Suffice to say that I don’t think you’re ever going to find what you seek.

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some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Your fellow countrymen are rounding up people of colour and putting them in concentration camps and you’re right that, for you, life goes on.

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MrLLM@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I know I’ll get downvoted for this, but…Lemmy and related are an “echo-chamber” of sorts. You’ll find that a vast amount of people “in the real world” don’t share this sort of imminently apocalyptic mentality.

Not really sure about the echo-chamber thing though, but I feel like most people outside the Fediverse only doomscroll brain-rot content on social media.

Politics, climate change, science, Star Wars/Trek, programming, GNU/Linux, etc, are such niche topics that don’t drive that much interest, unless it’s rage-bait.

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moncharleskey@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I don’t think that’s entirely accurate. I try to talk to people every day about the greed of billionaires, the invasion of our privacy, the fascist takeover of the US government and the actions of ICE, and the horrible state of our climate. And I’ve yet to have anyone argue against me in real life. If anything, it’s worse on lemmy. We can do something about this, but we have to do it together, and that doesn’t happen without talking to people face to face. So many people know the situation is terrible, but feel completely helpless. We have to support each other so they see they aren’t alone.

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MrOtingocni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
For real. I have to travel often for work, which means driving through big cities, little towns and the countryside. If someone never got on the Internet, they’d never think things are like they sound online. Especially in the rural areas. Houses are all within 50 years of age, all the cars and trucks are new. People seem just fine.

There’s definitely a corrosion in the fabric of society but when people wonder how “the other side” can vote the way they do, especially in light of xyz, they don’t realize that for many folks their perception of the current state of events is reinforced by their day to day living with things being just fine.

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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Life goes on…

… until it doesn’t.

or, one could say life goes on even in mad max world

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