• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
    51·
    1 day ago

    Oh yeah there’s only two bad things in the world, neither of which affect me directly surely that’s the only thing impeding my mental health?

    This is like “you don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism” but the other way around

  • freewheel@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 day ago

    Right, because everything was magically perfect before Trump. We’re going to completely ignore McConnell’s platform of obstructionism or the 40 some attempts at repealing the ACA, or really any Republican platform since the 1950s.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    2 days ago

    Yes, but also I’m depressed too.

    Still, it would be nice to focus on my own mental health without having to juggle awareness of a dozen new atrocities every fucking month. Like, one or two per month was my mental limit.

    • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      You are a most kind soul, @PugJesus@lemmy.world . Your posts and comments inspire me. It’s only coming to light for me that you have your own challenges and I feel really bad about that.

      I know this is small consolation - if any at all - but even though we do not know each other, rest assured: I’m a huge fan of yours. I do not exaggerate.

      Please take good care.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Thank you! And don’t feel bad! I’ve had decades to make coping mechanisms, insurance that covers mental healthcare (for now, at least), and a very supportive family. It sucks to slog through, but these depressive episodes are only temporary. I’ll survive.

        I hope I continue to entertain in the months and years to come! 🙏

        • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Awesome stuff!

          And you’re very modest for how much you contribute. More than entertain, you inspire and educate. And I could testify to that in a court of law.

          Keep on rockin’.

    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
      112·
      2 days ago

      Sorry for the rant, but this is something that sometimes really gets to me. Its like people can only focus on 2-3 things at once. And those 2-3 things WILL be forced into every single conversation online. Locally, there was an article about some company that was scamming and threatening people. And so many comments under that article are people going “FREE PALESTINE!” And i get it. Yes, free Palestine. 100%. But do we have to focus on this in every single fucking conversation?

      Or they will go “Are you gonna write an article about Gaza!?” While that writer literally wrote a huge article about it the day before. But they don’t give a shit. They just want to yell it at people and

      And again, i get it. The genocide in gaza is EXTREMELY important. But can we for the love of fuck also talk about other things without some comment activist yelling at people about it at every opportunity? Just a LITTLE bit of space to talk about other issues? It feels a bit like the opposite of Zionists. Where in every opportunity they yell “DID YOU CONDEMN HAMAS YET TODAY!?”

      A year ago, people wrote SLAVA UKRAINI! under every fucking thing. Now its FREE PALESTINE!.

      And both of these things are incredibly important. Please don’t think i don’t think they are. But can we also talk about other problems? Or about happy things?

      Can we have conversations about specific things? Instead of throwing a bunch of shit in a room and running back out?

      The amount of horrific photos and videos of dead Palestinian kids i have had shoved into my face is not okay.

      • cheloxin@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 day ago

        This is one of the big reasons I finally left Facebook and reddit and all the mainstream shit. And I’m starting to see it’s just a social (media) problem and not something I can escape by switching platforms. At least not easily, and I imagine if I start going on a block run now it’ll only end up consuming nearly all my time soon enough and just no. I guess the only thing left is to only browse specific communities that actively moderate those sorts of comments, or just give up being social online entirely. Kinda sucks when you have social anxiety and these online spaces are the one place you feel least constrained by it.

      • Stabbitha@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 days ago

        Lemmy is especially bad for this I’ve noticed. Virtually every comment section devolves into Israel vs Palestine

  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk
    331·
    2 days ago

    I also want the racist genocidal colony of Israel to be dismantled and its leaders sent to the Hague.

    • cheloxin@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 day ago

      And this is why people feel like they constantly need to validate their opinions by repeating them, so people like you don’t think everyone suddenly doesn’t care.