• ALQ@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    He’s not even back in office yet and I’m already so. Fucking. Exhausted.

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      3 days ago

      Can someone please set up an AI to track everything he does and says, parse out the important bits, and give us the rundown? Then he can yell into the void all he wants and we can keep our sanity while staying informed.

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      3 days ago

      Get off of social media?

      If anything, these elections should teach us that we shouldn’t be putting our faith in the political process. This generation is learning from experience why previous generations didn’t care to discuss politics; it’s all crapshoot and we are better off focusing on things we can have substantial impact on.

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        3 days ago

        This should be teaching us to work at the local and state levels to change the political process.

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          3 days ago

          You’re right, to an extent.

          The problem is that small-town politics are usually red-dominated; it’ll be a big uphill battle to change their minds.

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            3 days ago

            This is true. It is all about social validation for them. Parroting Russian propaganda to TEAM PSYCHOCULT, flexing and intimidating to feel bad ass, screeching about quasi-racist epithet LIBERALS. Any attempt for “discussion” turns out exhausting and fruitless, as fascists dont give a shit about sincerity or even making sense.

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            3 days ago

            problem is that small-town politics are usually red-dominated

            That’s why more progressive people need to get involved at that level - to offset the MAGAts who are trying to insert their bullshit into school boards and municipal politics.

            It takes very few people to change things at the local level.

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        4 days ago

        He’s the fucking president elect, not some troll. You can’t ignore him and make him go away.

        • superkret@feddit.org
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          3 days ago

          You definitely can ignore [Trump quote of the day] and the 24h news cycle.

          Reading about what’s current once a week and otherwise just picking up stuff from conversations with your peers is enough.

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            3 days ago

            There are two parts to my statement. You can ignore him… BUT he doesn’t simply go away. He will be deciding us policy for the next two years.

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          3 days ago

          You definitely can, but you’ll have to uninstall Lemmy and all other social media for a while.

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            3 days ago

            There are two parts to my statement. You can ignore him… BUT he doesn’t simply go away. He will be deciding us policy for the next two years.

          • Mac@mander.xyz
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            3 days ago

            This is the one thing that’s better about that other site. It’s so big that you can ignore politics while still enjoying your communities.

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              3 days ago

              I’m really missing keyword filtering from Lemmy. I had it in Infinity. I filtered so many keywords, from American politicians, bitcoin, and others. It was blissful.

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                3 days ago

                Many of the Lemmy apps have keyword filtering. The one I know of is Thunder but I know there are others.

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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            3 days ago

            It’s not about “being offended”. This moron is going to be the most powerful person in the county. What he says and thinks effects markets and trade.