Nothing anyone says will change my vote. Not paying attention will save my sanity. Especially because I’m in a swing state and they’ve already started calling me.
I tend to agree but it’s important to push back against right-wing trolls, family, and friends. Not necessarily to convince them, but to ensure they don’t sway the apathetic who go with the currents (what these right-wing operatives refer to as normies).
There will be calls to apathy and defeatism and muddying of the waters and there must be some rebuke to the onslaught of right-wing propaganda both on and offline.
Get others out to register and vote and make sure your crazy uncle’s rants don’t go unchecked.
I am more attached to my mental well-being than I am to democracy. Plus I don’t have a crazy racist uncle and if I did I wouldn’t see his posts because I don’t use Facebook.
Unless you’re saying I should further endanger my sanity by using that cesspool again, in which case I will decline more vehemently
I posit the end of Democracy may just be a greater threat to one’s sanity than merely partaking in news and having conversations. Just a thought. Especially when we know these conversations and pushing back against trolls matter; and that inaction can lead to mold festering unchecked.
Well I can’t deny someone’s concern for their own mental health but I hope I can show them the investment might save them misery down the road… Either way, my target audience is always the bystanders on the fence reading these threads.
Fair, but I think there is a measure of difference between being concerned with one’s mental health vs prioritizing it over the health of society around you. Sticking your head in the sand isn’t getting us out of this mess, voting blue no matter who won’t change that. It is merely the first step to fixing things.
I get speaking to the peanut gallery. I think, whether the posters are aware of the guidance or not, the lurkers guide internet discussion.
I get it. I avoided the national spectacle of the 2016 election, and avoided most political news for most of the Trump presidency. I voted blue every chance I got and went about my life trying to ignore the MAGA corruption.
But the 2020 election and subsequent insurrection attempt woke me the fuck up. Our democracy, and really US politics for the foreseeable future, are at stake. We need to Republicans to be absolutely neutered, or this blight is going to continue until something breaks.
We have to be angry. We have to shut these fascist fucks down hard so they slink back into the shadows.
Yelling at people on the Internet until I get an anuerysm is not “shutting the fascist fucks down.” Wasting my time trying to debunk some gish galloper or sea lion when I have other shit to do is not “shutting the fascist fucks down.” Hearing every stupid word that comes out of that giant orange anal cysts mouth will not change anyone’s mind and will only make me miserable.
Nothing anyone says will change my vote. Not paying attention will save my sanity. Especially because I’m in a swing state and they’ve already started calling me.
I tend to agree but it’s important to push back against right-wing trolls, family, and friends. Not necessarily to convince them, but to ensure they don’t sway the apathetic who go with the currents (what these right-wing operatives refer to as normies).
There will be calls to apathy and defeatism and muddying of the waters and there must be some rebuke to the onslaught of right-wing propaganda both on and offline.
Get others out to register and vote and make sure your crazy uncle’s rants don’t go unchecked.
I am more attached to my mental well-being than I am to democracy. Plus I don’t have a crazy racist uncle and if I did I wouldn’t see his posts because I don’t use Facebook.
Unless you’re saying I should further endanger my sanity by using that cesspool again, in which case I will decline more vehemently
I posit the end of Democracy may just be a greater threat to one’s sanity than merely partaking in news and having conversations. Just a thought. Especially when we know these conversations and pushing back against trolls matter; and that inaction can lead to mold festering unchecked.
But of course, you do you.
You’re speaking to someone that is clearly self centered.
Kudos, but you waste your time on people like this.
Well I can’t deny someone’s concern for their own mental health but I hope I can show them the investment might save them misery down the road… Either way, my target audience is always the bystanders on the fence reading these threads.
Fair, but I think there is a measure of difference between being concerned with one’s mental health vs prioritizing it over the health of society around you. Sticking your head in the sand isn’t getting us out of this mess, voting blue no matter who won’t change that. It is merely the first step to fixing things.
I get speaking to the peanut gallery. I think, whether the posters are aware of the guidance or not, the lurkers guide internet discussion.
I get it. I avoided the national spectacle of the 2016 election, and avoided most political news for most of the Trump presidency. I voted blue every chance I got and went about my life trying to ignore the MAGA corruption.
But the 2020 election and subsequent insurrection attempt woke me the fuck up. Our democracy, and really US politics for the foreseeable future, are at stake. We need to Republicans to be absolutely neutered, or this blight is going to continue until something breaks.
We have to be angry. We have to shut these fascist fucks down hard so they slink back into the shadows.
Yelling at people on the Internet until I get an anuerysm is not “shutting the fascist fucks down.” Wasting my time trying to debunk some gish galloper or sea lion when I have other shit to do is not “shutting the fascist fucks down.” Hearing every stupid word that comes out of that giant orange anal cysts mouth will not change anyone’s mind and will only make me miserable.