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Yesterday I blocked politics, worldnews, and similar. Feed was becoming nasty, depressing, everyone arguing, complaining, criticizing, trolls, strawmen. Literally people saying it all sucks, nothing matters, everybody's a liar, there is no point, why bother...
Since blocking, way better experience on lemmy.
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I hate having to choose between being informed and being depressed
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The solution to that is fixing the problems we have. It's not like we can all just close our eyes and hope they go away.
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Yeah but it's not like I can fix any of them. I vote and occasionally donate to causes and hope that's enough. Fuck, does it really matter if you're informed when really there's no direct impact you can have on the situation
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The reality is, change comes through violence. There's a reason the iconic image of the French revolution is a guillotine. So the main reason to stay engaged is so that when things start to get really bad, we are all on the same page about the problems. Also, simply being against the bad things your country does matter in a democracy. The legitimacy of the government hinges on them actually having the support of the public.
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