We haven’t even made it to January 20 (Trump inauguration). We already have major fires in our second largest city, terrorist attacks, talk of invading Greenland/Panama/Canada. almost no one talking about what we really need to do to cut carbon. Hospitals are full in my area and people talk about washing hands, but not about masking. I am already so weary. I don’t know what is going to happen after January 21.
I find it extremely amusing what Trump is saying already. 2025 gonna be spicy AF IMO.
Entertaining, if nothing else.
To my recollection, this feeling happens every January. I’ve seen posts like this for years and years. January is known as the most depressing month. Many people fast from alcohol in January. Maybe fast from media til 1st Feb? I don’t know if it’ll make you feel good. It might make you feel less bad?
Well, I’ve had a bad case of the flu. It slow-walked through my family over the entirety of winter break, but I got it last and it’s mostly down to sniffles and a hoarse voice.
…. But somehow it turned into a relaxing time, letting me recharge. I still had nowhere near enough sick time to take but I spent the last week working from home and mostly taking it easy. I even got enough sleep some of those nights
I found it a lot more peaceful once I started filtering out certain word combinations that indicate a ragebait bullshit headline. I considered just filtering out “trump”, but I want actual news to come through, so here’s the list:
Trump wants
Trump says
Trump will
Trump hints
Trump demands
Trump indicates
Trump claims
Trump considering
Trump tells…and repeat the list for Musk and Vance. Those verbs target the nothingburger headlines only meant to attract clicks.
I’ve been growing my keyword filter list. Do you have any other suggestions?
I just filter trump and Elon entirely and read the news once a day. If the news is that big it should hit my local paper.
slams
blastsThose are prime candidates too, I just haven’t seen them yet. I add them as I see them.
Is it possible for everyone to stop saying this?
My apologies if you happen to be a SLAMS/BLASTS/BREAKS HIS SILENCE bot and are just following your programming. It’s just beyond tiresome because we know. We fucking know. It’s a lazy and hyperbolic headline filler. But now we have lazy headline writing followed up with a lazy comment pointing out that the former is lazy.
And it’s starting to break my mind in the same way “This” did on Reddit.
One more apology for me being bitchy tonight. It’s not so much this comment, but every single identical one that came before it.
I’m sorry it bothers you. It was my coping mechanism for when I see that crap. I can see your perspective though.
Thanks for understanding. I think I was having a Norman Bates moment there: “we all go a little mad sometimes.”
I couldn’t be bothered anymore, and a revolution isn’t getting organised in a Lemmy comment section under a Trump article
You forgot:
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slams
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decimates
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goes to war with
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blasts
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fires back
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drops a bombshell
Add in “succinctly explains” too. That’s shorthand for “reduces complex issue to a paragraph”.
Paragraph? This is Trump we’re talking about. He can’t hold a thought for longer than two sentences, max.
“Goes to war with” might not be a great idea to filter on, because that fuckin imbecile will very probably start an actual war with a country that can hit back, now that he’s emptying out all of the career + nonpolitical people in the state department, DoD, and alphabet agencies who stopped him from doing that last time.
Probably, but the headline will start with "US invades“ or "US demands“ or something along the line. Filtering out anything that starts with “Trump” is safe
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You’re not alone ❤️
Hop off the web and you’ll see things are actually pretty alright
Chronically online people cannot grasp just how “normal” most every day of their lives will continue to be regardless of who is sitting in the oval office.
Obviously I know there will be effects on many people, but for the grand majority of Americans their daily life will continue on without much change as it did through the first Trump term and the Biden term.
The Republicans cried that Obama was going to ruin the nation both terms. The Democrats are terrified Trump will somehow end this country this time around when they lived through his first term just fine.
Basically whichever party loses acts like a cat that can suddenly see the bottom of their food bowl and they think they are gonna die.
Well, how normal the days under him will be is dependent on whether you’re in a group being directly targeted by the administration.
Oh get over yourself you fuckin baby. Noone’s life is guna be easier. That’s the point of the fuckin prayer, you dolt.
I’ll just tell all the other trans people not to worry then, because life is hard for everyone, and it’ll be fine if you just utter this religious text. 🙄
Super duper duper not a religious person but one of my favorite pieces of literature is the serenity prayer. You cut out the last like 6 lines and it doesn’t even mention shit about God but the rest perfectly outlines my approach to politics, everyday idiots, and not kicking little kids in the chest when they act like shitbags. (Discussion for another time but as of this comment I am batting 1000 for correcting child misbehaviors via swift kick to the chest vs kids who were given timeout after misbehaving lol /s)
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;
Its a horrible truth but life has not, is not and never will be fair. You will be beat down, fucked over, robbed, disrespected and overwhelmingly discouraged by what life throws at you. Life is a battle and victory is having the strength to continue fighting. When life is at its darkest, that is when you must be at your best.
Wonderful point ✊
“My god, I’m exhausted! Aren’t you tired of always caring about everything?”
“No, Jinkx. I’m tired of other people NOT caring about everything.”
I am usually up on news and I had a political conversation with someone who isn’t. The person I was speaking with said talking to me was depressing.
Well, the subject matter, politics, is currently quite depressing.
Gotta focus on what you personally have control over. We can’t directly influence the way other people behave, especially those we don’t know. Refocus on how you can help (and be helped by) people in your own community and you will feel much better.
If you’re not sure where to start just do an internet search for “mutual aid [your city/region]” and show up to an in-person event. That should get the ball rolling.
Trump is going to be the greatest thing that happened to the planet. It has been promised that he will plunge the US into another series of crisises, estrange the US’ closest geopolitical allies, and help the world wake up to the fact that the US is not #1. That the US is dangerous and shouldn’t be a template to copy. That new alliances have to be forged and the US monetary hegemony broken.
With any luck, it’ll rattle the lazy corpses in that country to finally do something to fix their broken system. Maybe people will realise that Bernie’s words weren’t just addle-brained mutterings from a communist-infested mind, but that he and many others speak the truth. Maybe enough people will want to rewrite the constitution and get rid of “winner takes all” vote counting, reduce the power of the president, add an age limit to governmental jobs, and so much more.
Things have to get worse before they get better for people to learn, because unless they aren’t affected, they have a hard time understanding.
Trump is going to be the greatest thing that happened to the planet.
Climate change has entered the chat
As if the US was trying really hard before…
Don’t read too much bad news, it’s bad for the general mood. But still expect everything to go to hell, because it absolutely will, and sooner than anticipated. But you can still enjoy some amount of non-hellish time. And then make some preparations for an upcoming fascist government, rising crime/vandalism, and for climate change hitting everywhere with full force. Existing systems might not stay functional. Start building up local communities to support each other. Make the best of any situation and make forward-looking decisions. Don’t despair, but also don’t have false hopes. It will get much worse before it will get any better.
Once that inauguration is through, I am not going to pay a lick of attention to media. I’d like to not hear about Trump, I will skim over his name and to give anyone an idea as to how much I avoid Trump, I mute any video/audio before a word is uttered from that shitty mouth of his.
People need to understand that they don’t control everything and everything is out of their control in some cases, like the wildfires. It’s a tragic event, yes, but things are going about as they can be in such a time.
If I get too wrapped up in everything going around me that I have no control in and how the media loves to shove a particular individual or a group of corrupted individuals down my throat, life will look ten times miserable.
Be sure to whitelist words like “assassin” just in case we actually get some good news - you won’t want to miss it!
Fuuuuck yes.
Focus on what you can control is pretty cliche advice, but it really is all you can do in situations like this. Something I’ve started doing is a “news diet” where I sit down on Monday and basically skim through the last week of political news. Then I just try and ignore political news as much as possible until the next Monday. It’s not a perfect system, but it helps deal with the fire hose style news coverage the media gives to Trump.
This should be taught honestly. You can be a good person and want positive change without making everything your concern. It’s called compassion fatigue.
2025 has been pretty good so far. Helps not to be an American.
At least it won’t be as bad as 2026.
