I wouldn’t take it lightly tbh. One event that you ought to be on the lookout for is the night of the long knives. When Hitler rose to power, there was a night where a ton of his political opponents got murdered. If trump pulls that off then that’s full nazi and the camps will follow shortly after
I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it?
Submitted 4 days ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
scytale@lemm.ee 4 days ago
You can tune out the noise. Just keep yourself informed at the minimum so you know what’s happening around you.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m off the opinion that knowledge is always power. You can always ignore what you’ve learned to stay sane.
CandleTiger@programming.dev 4 days ago
Not so easy to Ignore what you know.
Knowledge is power, but ignorance is bliss.
I follow the news until I can’t take it any more, and take a break until I can again.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, actually sounds like what I do. It can get depressing, but I try not to stay away too long. I don’t want to be blindsided by something that might affect me.
A good example is when I got rid of cable TV, I didn’t get a lot of local news and wasn’t aware until late that a hurricane was heading my way.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Depends on what you can realistically influence.
Might be worth it to tune to protest news, and also changes in your local area, if there are any.
Doomscrolling the feed will just make you continuously more obsessed with what ultimately screws your mental health to no benefit.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Plenty of good responses. I assume you are foreigner and I will give you one suggestion. Make sure your passport is valid just in case you need to flee the incoming disaster.
EABOD25@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Pay attention, but take it with a grain of salt. If you’re in a bottom tax bracket, no one in power in govt cares about you. And that’s with both major parties and the minor parties
BigMacHole@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Ignore it! Especially when a Disaster hits your Area and FEMA doesnt Exist!
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
It’s important to be aware of what happens and to act when and how you feel led.
However, caring for your mental health is most important. Even on this platform I have a filter on for a single word – Trump. For how long, I don’t know. I still get US news, but I just needed to decrease it for a time in relation to that man.
nifty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Deportations have happened under other presidents as well, so from what I can tell this is all being covered in great detail as part of some media campaign.
cato.org/…/deportation-rates-historical-perspecti…
The anti-DEI motivation seems thoughtless at first, but then when you look at it really it seems the politicians don’t like the CRT and Neo-Marxist ideology associated with DEI. Makes sense, America has never been about Marxism or Socialism.
newdiscourses.com/…/marxist-roots-of-dei-workshop…
I mean, people should have some resource for legal immigration, but a nation is allowed sovereign control over their immigration policies.
So, the whole reaction on the left seems a tad alarmist maybe, but as others have said keep paying attn but don’t let it consume your life or senses.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Oh, hey, look, a misinformed idiot/Nazi supporter!
nifty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
lol how? Anti-immigration is not inherently racism. All countries have some sort of immigration control.
TheBeege@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You assume the actors in the system act in good faith and that the system’s incentives are well designed. It is not.
What kinds of people want to join the organization responsible for keeping foreigners out? How many of those groups are racists that don’t actually care about the citizenship part? How do you measure the success of this organization?
When you start asking these kinds of questions, you start to see the cracks. Additionally, when you look at US immigration policies compared to other developed countries, they’re quite harsh. I emigrated to Korea. It’s quite easy if I have a college education and some work experience. I benefit Korea’s economy. My Korean friends who want to go to the US have a totally different experience.
Additionally, you need to look at the US’s history with regards to race. See the Japanese internment camps of WW2 or the fire bombing of Tulsa, OK. We don’t necessarily distinguish between actual citizens and foreigners.
You can also look at how illegal immigration is managed in the US. Look at Ron DeSantis in Florida. He spooked illegal immigrants in Florida with his crackdown on immigration. The orange farmers started panicking because there were no workers. The oranges were rotting. Did DeSantis prop up the orange industry and encourage them to hire Americans? The good faith act? Fuck no! He rolled back the crackdown, and the illegal immigrants continued to be used for basically slave labor. America doesn’t want legal immigration. They just want a group with no rights to beat the shit out of when they’re feeling bad and to use for labor that citizens don’t want to do.
Your argument of people behaving in good faith with regards to immigration doesn’t have a lot of evidence to support it when looking at history.
The right thing to do would be to pursue immigration reform first, give time for current illegal immigrants to become legal, crackdown on the employers of illegal immigrants, and then start enforcing immigration law more strongly. But surprise! It ain’t happening.
Of course, my comment assumes you’re trying to argue in good faith, which also may be naive. Let’s see
nifty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Please, how many non-Korean politicians are in their congress? Korea is also so ethically homogeneous, so it’s not even fair to ask that question. I care about civil rights and liberties of minorities, my problem is that America is constantly getting fucked by one type of propaganda or another because it has an actual democracy (in at least the blue and purple states).
Yes, some American southern states actually do systemic racism type things, that’s undeniable if you objectively look at their policies. America, however, is not a monolith.
DrWorm@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you ain’t doing politics, politics is gonna do you.
BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world 4 days ago
While we are all on the same ride to hell, your ride to hell is your’s, and your’s alone. Do what you feel like doing and try not to worry overly much.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Also a great YouTube channel to keep up with the news but is short and puts things in context and if needed what you can do to help is belle of the fifth column.
Also good rule of thumb if the article starts off with X said this vs X did this skip the article. Focus on what people in power do vs what they say as shitty journalists will write an article about a tweet that 9 times out of 10 is a distraction vs real journalism talking about the actions. Propublica is one of the few journalistic outfits that do that.
sh00g@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
My wife and I had the realization this past week that we have both been in a near constant state of seething anger since the election. We decided that we both need to pump the brakes on reading news for our collective mental health. That doesn’t mean we’re ignoring things, but it does mean we plan to remind each other to take a breather when we’re caught doomscrolling.
We cannot afford to become complacent or ignore things, but we have found that redirecting our anger to productive activities has been helpful. Every time we read a negative article it is a reminder to reach out to our friends who are parts of communities which are currently under attack to see what we can do to help or offer companionship. We also regularly look for local opportunities to connect with marginalized communities in our area, volunteer, and generally make a show of our support.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 days ago
Just cross check souces before acting.
And write down who said what. Then you can check later and eliminate the bad sources.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 days ago
You do you. Just keep up the fight for the good. I'd say it's also fine to plant a few sunflowers next to the local playground and clean up the litter, or make your community a better place for the people. In turn you'd ignore national level politics and world news. I don't think everyone needs to do that kind of politics. Just do something nice, you're good at and it'll be alright and help someone.
JoshuaBrusque@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This thread is everything I needed to convince me to leave instead of fight.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not sure how you mean “I am in the US” but based on a bunch of assumptions, my advice would be to tune it out as much as possible and focus on being a good person making your friends and famliy happy.
This trump administration will very likely follow the last in that it will be a storm of incompetence and reversing-of-decisions such that whatever actual evil they are able to implement will show up somewhere you’d likely see it in your day-to-day life.
You’ll get a lot of stress and anxiety watching the news / social media about it because those things will include all the “might happens” and "said they would"s and so on. Forget that stuff. Just make some good food you like and make someone close to you smile today and that’s the best you can do. (And it’s not bad!)
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think that you can and should tune it out when it feels overwhelming. You terrifying yourself about things you can’t change isn’t helpful. What’s helpful is that, whether you’ve watched the news today or not, possessing a willingness to do small bits of good in your immediate neighborhood.
Be willing to hold a door open for someone, or push a car out of an icy parking space, or shovel someone’s sidewalk for free, etc. etc. etc.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
RBWells@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That is not a stupid question. It’s no good to cause yourself crippling anxiety, you are less useful to yourself and to others then. And yes the news will always be presented in a way designed to cause outrage and fear, to keep you coming back.
That is not to say there is no reason to worry. But good to put a "budget " for news consumption and work on what you can personally change, rather than worrying about all the stuff you can’t. Being happy and helpful and not a bigot is a form of resistance too, and is a general thing you can do regardless of your current event knowledge.
Yipper46@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Tune it out. Nothing ever changes by a change in political leaders alone. People are just going crazy because the terminally online lost the election.
lowside@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s a wild take. Everything is subject to change when you change political leaders. A single person, the president, can’t do THAT much on their own. But when they have a large portion of the government in their pocket and a huge number or rabid fans, then yes. Everything can change.
Yipper46@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well some things might change but I’m just saying people overestimate how much will change.
sumguyonline@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You get used to a specific tone, and if you hear that tone, based on previous experience, you recognize it is probably bullshit. Then you start to tune out the bullshit, sometimes you might still miss something important, but that happens anyways. Check out what people are saying, if it’s actually true, you can decide if it actually should be a concern to you as an individual. Don’t believe “immigrants are destroying the country” without working with some as equals at a job. Same with other rage bait.