There’s no room left for doubt. Americans are braindead stupid and our media is an international joke. After the election I stopped watching anything political. Made the jump from Reddit to Lemmy. And I’m only seeing this post because I was browsing ALL.
On inauguration day I plan on only browsing my local subs going forward. I don’t need to be more ashamed of being American or know what clown car bullshit Donald Trump and his enablers have done that day to embarrass us on the world stage.
We’ve committed as a society to a degradation of our nation and that’s what we’re going to get. I don’t need to watch that process under a microscope.
I’m in this camp as well. I followed the news closely the entire Trump administration and through the Biden administration, and despite knowing everything this prick had done the American electorate either shrugged it all off or didn’t follow any of it and reelected his ass.
Nothing positive came of me knowing about Trump’s every bowel movement via crappy media posts. Many voters didn’t even know Biden had dropped out of the race.
I don’t think the “Trump is good for ratings” media outlets anticipated this reaction of ours, but the nightmare scenario of a second Trump term has already arrived and the media – if they had any effect – aided him in his return to power. I’m through with clicking on the bait and pretending that “democracy dies in darkness” and subscribing to the same newspapers that help push right-wing narratives in an effort to appear unbiased.
Edit: I am, however, subscribed to a number of things via RSS to stay informed without being part of their clickbait games. I cannot recommend enough people going back to RSS.
Sounds like you are fed up of the poor quality circus coverage that passes for mainstream media news.
Perhaps you can find some better quality news and consume it at a time and place of your choosing? Maybe limit it to 10 minutes a day or a week?
It is understandable that you might turn to apathy having the news equivalent of highly processed, poor quality fast food shovelled into your face all the time; especially given how powerless to change these things we can feel. But you may be able to take back some control of your media diet.
It’s not the quality of the content. I’m responsible when it comes to my sources. It’s the sheer volume of legitimate depressing news making it crystal clear that our society is amoral and uneducated and that I’m probably not going to see too much progress in my lifetime and will probably struggle as much, or more, than I currently am until I’m dead. I could be getting my news from the absolute best, most unbiased sources and still be getting overwhelmed by utterly depressing developments that add up to a really grim outlook for the future.
Same here, I was already using Lemmy but I deleted the Reddit app the day of the election, and I actively avoid political news on any social media. I’m super done with it all and just focusing on myself.
Focusing on yourself is pretty much all you can do. If a society chooses to enter a downward spiral, then there’s not much an individual can do to change that. We’re just gonna have to spiral until we hit rock bottom and then hope Americans have what it takes to piece it all back together. Probably gonna be a lot of suffering and death before that happens though.
Yup.
I’m done.
There’s no room left for doubt. Americans are braindead stupid and our media is an international joke. After the election I stopped watching anything political. Made the jump from Reddit to Lemmy. And I’m only seeing this post because I was browsing ALL.
On inauguration day I plan on only browsing my local subs going forward. I don’t need to be more ashamed of being American or know what clown car bullshit Donald Trump and his enablers have done that day to embarrass us on the world stage.
We’ve committed as a society to a degradation of our nation and that’s what we’re going to get. I don’t need to watch that process under a microscope.
I’m in this camp as well. I followed the news closely the entire Trump administration and through the Biden administration, and despite knowing everything this prick had done the American electorate either shrugged it all off or didn’t follow any of it and reelected his ass.
Nothing positive came of me knowing about Trump’s every bowel movement via crappy media posts. Many voters didn’t even know Biden had dropped out of the race.
I don’t think the “Trump is good for ratings” media outlets anticipated this reaction of ours, but the nightmare scenario of a second Trump term has already arrived and the media – if they had any effect – aided him in his return to power. I’m through with clicking on the bait and pretending that “democracy dies in darkness” and subscribing to the same newspapers that help push right-wing narratives in an effort to appear unbiased.
Edit: I am, however, subscribed to a number of things via RSS to stay informed without being part of their clickbait games. I cannot recommend enough people going back to RSS.
Sounds like you are fed up of the poor quality circus coverage that passes for mainstream media news.
Perhaps you can find some better quality news and consume it at a time and place of your choosing? Maybe limit it to 10 minutes a day or a week?
It is understandable that you might turn to apathy having the news equivalent of highly processed, poor quality fast food shovelled into your face all the time; especially given how powerless to change these things we can feel. But you may be able to take back some control of your media diet.
It’s not the quality of the content. I’m responsible when it comes to my sources. It’s the sheer volume of legitimate depressing news making it crystal clear that our society is amoral and uneducated and that I’m probably not going to see too much progress in my lifetime and will probably struggle as much, or more, than I currently am until I’m dead. I could be getting my news from the absolute best, most unbiased sources and still be getting overwhelmed by utterly depressing developments that add up to a really grim outlook for the future.
Same here, I was already using Lemmy but I deleted the Reddit app the day of the election, and I actively avoid political news on any social media. I’m super done with it all and just focusing on myself.
Focusing on yourself is pretty much all you can do. If a society chooses to enter a downward spiral, then there’s not much an individual can do to change that. We’re just gonna have to spiral until we hit rock bottom and then hope Americans have what it takes to piece it all back together. Probably gonna be a lot of suffering and death before that happens though.