If possible at all, of course.
its all about setting your boundaries being able to say thats enough for today. being able to ask yourself if what you are listening to is new facts being relayed to you or is it speculation to fill air and stop listening if it’s the latter.
It helps a lot that the assholes are not doing well. The Epstein thing has made it easier to breathe.
Going to protests helps too. The energy of the crowd really feels good and assures me that the people are on my side.
Because there’s always a possible path out of the forest…
Sometimes the path gets dark, sometimes it changes directions.
But there’s always a path thru it.
Sometimes you need an up-armored Komatsu D355A to cut that path through the forest.
Oh yeah, the Heemeyer variant model. Solid choice. Really solid choice.
That tracks
Activism, contributing to your community, making the world a better place. The crazy-making part is that you know it’s crap, and that you feel like you have no agency to make it better, right? Well, doing something to make the world better makes it feel more tolerable, even if the bit that you’re working on isn’t related to the specific badness that you’re paying attention to on the news right now.
And yeah, there’s always the possibility that what you’re doing backfires, or has no effect, but if you don’t do anything at all, then there’s no possibility of having a good effect. Also, obviously no one normal person can fix everything, you just pick a bit that seems suited for you and work on that.
I’m not. Homeless, trans, old, disabled. I am the fuckin news. I take my meds and do my best to keep an even keel but sanity is long gone. LOL @ DOOMSCROLLING wtf eat good and enjoy your pillow and hug your friends if you still got any. its not your fault. i love you. be safe everybody.
It’s tough. Stick to AP, Reuters if you can afford it. The entire news environment is pretty crazy right now though. I think once the US gets through Trump the rest of the world might calm down some and we can all relax a little bit.
Thing is I look at start of obama to end and how long it takes to get back to where we could be and at this point it takes much longer than how long things were degrading. Biden did a crazy amount of stuff in his term and it still did not get through what trump messed up in his first term. Then take the lighning fast pace of destruction with all the federal agencies. Getting those to where they were is not going to be easy. So muhc lost institutional knowledge. Unless the right loses so much support it becomes completely inconsequential and we have a decade or more of relatively sensible policies I just don’t see a relaxation point.
Yes, 100%
But we have to get through it or the biggest power left in the world becomes a shithole country. We can’t get him out and just have to endure.
I’ll be here after Trump and I hope you are too.
One day at a time and knowing that at some point I will no longer exist.
I’m not sane I take my meds I only pay attention to non sensational news (Reuters,NPR,AP) I spend time with loved ones I have no interest in associating with conservatives.
I used my indignation as fuel to do good around me. The more I read sad news the more I want to contribute to positive projects.
What good does being in a constant state of fear, anger, shock etc do for the events causing the fear, anger, shock etc? Most of us exist in a torturous state where we have no control over the goings on of the events around us. We scroll and consume and dig ourselves deeper and deeper into despair all the while children are being killed, people are being raped, villains are running the world etc regardless of whether we as individuals keep ourselves informed. As good as we want to be or as active in a solution as we want to be, none of us are making a difference. Maybe suffering in our inaction is some kind of atonement.
Sometimes its ok to skip a day off news. If I’m feeling beat up just from my normal day I might not have the endurance to take in the news too. So I skip it on those days.
I made filters with uBlock Origin that block out from Lemmy (and some other sites) any post containing one of the words “Trump”, “Elon”, “Musk”, “RFK Jr”, “maga”, or “nazi”.
You still stay mostly up-to-date because that shit has a way of filtering through anyways, but you cut out 90% of the redundant fluff. I originally set the filters up in November when I was feeling very similar to how I imagine you felt when you made this post.
