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  • millie@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.orgThe End of Eric Adams
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    22 hours ago

    Posts like this make me question the wisdom of being on Lemmy. The more I look at the kind of messaging I see on this platform, the more I think maybe it isn’t great. It’s a lot of demotivating, depression-inducing, defeatist gloom and doom and far fewer calls to action than I remember seeing on other platforms in previous conservative administrations.

    I’m starting to feel like having a particularly leftist environment where the most frequent message is “we’re fucked the there’s nothing we can do about it” mostly just works to prevent the people who might actually get together and do something from doing anything at all.

    I’m also not really sure where else to go for content aside from YouTube and Ground News though, at this point. Maybe we would benefit from considering the impact of the kind of things we’re signalling to the rest of the left, though. Because I’m not sure this is helping at all, and it may be actively making the situation worse.

    We have ample reason to be discouraged, but I’m not sure targeting the only block of voters and potential activists who might actually both give a shit and be educated enough to get something to budge in order to inflict depression is a good strategy.


  • millie@beehaw.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzCatalyst
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    3 days ago

    Only the reactants ever change their clothes, and reactant 1 only changes after leaving the catalyst.

    That man stinky.

    Also there’s a bridesmaid in the back covering some guy’s face out of crab in a bucket distress at not being in the picture.