Don’t you think it’s quite ironic that the subject I’m trying to avoid is being discussed in this post?

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I do this on my YouTube feed to keep politics out of my gaming and flat earth content I typically like to watch.

  • THCDenton@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I’ve never really used Twitter. The only exposure I get to it is through reddit and now here. Even that is too much.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s easier to not care. It’s selfish, a bit cruel, it’s literally the least you can do to carry a basic awareness of ongoing truth, but it is easier I imagine to pretend it isn’t happening and just fixate on what’s left when you remove all of that from Lemmy… So just, oops all Linux memes?

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I think it’s the opposite. All the outrage on social media just feeds back into itself. It’s an engine fueling disillusionment, not productive change.

  • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Nope. I’ve had a script with upwards of 100 regex’s that automatically blacklisted upwards of 200 people every time I opened Twitter. Two years in and upwards of 300.000 accounts in the blacklist, I realized that it didn’t even make a dent in dealing with all of the spam I was seeing, and just deleted my account. Best decision ever. I advice you too, to try it out.

  • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It’s perfectly on form for a modern citizen of a Western country to confuse denial and avoidance as inner peace.

    • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      It’s undeniably better for you to not worry, but also the ability to not worry is undeniably privileged since it means you’re not personally affected.

      Also i just don’t think it’s true that we can separate our issues from the third world’s issues, they are connected, and the very uncomfortable fact is that the connection often is our benefitting from their exploitation. That’s not as true as it once was, colonialism is different now, but it’s still true, i own countless cheap items thatwere manufactured by exploited workers in other countries.

      • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I didn’t even reference “this person”, it’s a simple comment on Western culture, just like it purports to be.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    i have a bunch of these too. i like politics, just not the us vs them US bullshit.

    good on you for making lemmy more bearable on US election season.