Dirty_DemSoc
Registered Demoncrat
Most likely actually a SocDem rather than a DemSoc.
User ID: 3648
Dirty_DemSoc
Registered Demoncrat
10mo ago
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Well, you’re not wrong.
It’s a tricky proposition, though. I rarely have the will to actually bother engaging here, and the pushback I’d doubtlessly get from pushing unpopular talking points creates a very real risk that I’d burn out shortly after making the initial post (which, on a related note, is why I still have 29 other responses from my last post that I really should have responded to)- and since dropping top-line drive-by posts is bad form, I typically figure that not commenting at all is the least-bad option available.
Anyone got any tips for alleviating psycho-spiritual damage?
Been in a pre-existing sour state for a while, but having just watched a guy walking around a local art museum taking pictures of Brueghel the Younger paintings and loudly asking ChatGPT to explain to him over speakerphone what the artworks were and how he should feel about them seems to have taken a chunk out of my soul that I didn’t realize I still had.
It’s only a “slow news cycle” because most of the other going-ons look bad for Trump, and posting anything that looks bad for Trump is tactically unsound for the right-leaning posters here; assuming it’s even crossed their new feeds.
Guess I could be too cynical about it, but I assume that’s why there’s been minimal discussion about other happenings, like the sweeping new steel & aluminum tariff expansions, Trump attempting to get his fingers into Samsung, administration staffers drawing up an “enemies list” of “woke corporations” to target for being insufficiently supportive of the OBBB, Oklahoma’s groundbreaking innovation in PragerU-based loyalty tests, the administration’s latest attempts to purge the Federal Reserve and install loyalists, the ongoing D.C. takeover that the administration has been looking at expanding to other Democratic cities, the escalating gerrymandering feud and mail-in-ballot targeting signifying the GOP’s looming attempt to try and ‘steal’ the midterms, and the much-vaunted Alaska summit amounting to a big fat nothing, etc.
Though TBF I guess there is an ongoing discussion about the continued fallout of the MAGA movement’s attempts to dismantle the country’s institutions up in the Terrence Tao subthread, so there’s that, I suppose.
Well, it’s a solution!
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