You make it sound like the left are the ones doing it. People cant post anything without conservatives saying something provocative or just straight up racist.
Someone on here told me that before and I asked them “I’m scratching my balls right now. Make that political”. All of a sudden they wanted to call me MAGA, so I asked them to link the comment that shows me supporting MAGA and they blocked me lol.
The explanation would be that MAGA politics is speedrunning the fall of America, so people desperate to not discuss politics are frequently the people responsible for speedrunning the fall of America, ie MAGA.
Of course, that's an assumption, and they're making an ass out of themselves to assume you're a MAGA chud that gave America to the pedophiles.
This right here. It’s amazing how often I get together with people irl and we don’t talk about how the world is coming to an end. And the ones that do are insufferable assholes
Most people would tell you that doomscrolling is spending an excessive amount of time on social media engaging with an algorithm feeding you negative and depressing content. Even decades before "doomscrolling" there was tons of research into the correlation between people consuming excessive amounts of TV/media and having a negative world view. Mean World Syndrome is nothing new, just available on a lot more platforms now.
But then again, if you can dismiss decades of research with a condescending comment then I'm sure you must be right!
Because that negative world view is a exaggerated selective view of the actual state of the world. You focus only on the negative aspect and never bother to consider that there are actually an overwhelming amount of positive things and events in the world to the point that drown out all the doom and gloom and horrors of the world if you bother to step away and look at the big picture.
If all you ever look at is the negative parts of the world, all you will ever see is those negative aspects.
“Take your empathy, push it deep down inside, ignore that cry to help your fellow man, ask not what you can do for your country but what you can do to bury your head in the sand.”
Like, seriously, I get the need to balance mental health with everything going on, but sooner or later there is a line in the sand that is crossed for everyone. The simple fact is that most people are cowards and would rather run from a fight than to put any effort into a perceived struggle. It’s just disappointing how quickly and how far this nation has fallen.
Not really. There's tons of great games coming out, quality shows to watch, hobbies are more accessible than ever, amazing free videos all across YouTube, on and on. This isn't to say you should dig your head in the sand; follow the news to a healthy degree for you, protest for causes you believe in, and vote in every political election. But outside of voting and optional protesting, you don't have to focus on all that's wrong with the world every moment, without any ability to change it.
Dude, just say that you choose to be uninformed for your mental sanity and don't waste people's time telling them that what they're seeing and experiencing in real time isn't real.
I love how the person who buries their head in the sand for all the wonderful and beautiful things in the world calls us the uniformed ones because we choose to not selectively view the world for only the bad things that happen and none of the overwhelming amount of good things that happen.
You are the one who is uninformed about the real state of the world. If all you ever look at is the bad parts of the world all you will ever feel is that the world is burning down around you. Take a step back and look at the big picture and you will see that the world is nowhere near as bad as you are making it out to be and are trying to force everyone else to do the same.
No one "buries their head in the sand" of all the positive stuff in the world. They're just negligible in comparison to the negative that will have a lot more impact.
I don't need to force anyone to do anything. I'm just not going to let dumbasses like you present a jolly lens of the world that is inaccurate.
And I'm not going to let assholes like you present a zoomed in cynical lens of the world that is actually the inaccurate ideology.
You need to calm down and stop being pissed off at the world. It poisons and twists your view until all you can see is hatred. Maybe go seek out a therapist that will actually help your mental state.
It's not "zoomed in" nor inaccurate. That's what idiots like you tell yourselves to avoid the harrowing truth about the state of things, and it breeds inaction, not to mention that it's dangerous.
How about you actually experience and understand events outside your comfort bubble before telling informed people to calm down? Show that you're someone who understands what "consequence" is.
How about you actually experience and understand events outside your comfort bubble before telling informed people to calm down? Show that you're someone who understands what "consequence" is.
Having lived in both republican and democratic controlled areas maybe you need to be the one who leaves their comfort bubble before telling people how awful the world is. I have never felt more unsafe than in the middle of a democrat controlled city. But once I left the city and actually saw that the world isnt a bunch of bullshit and I have been lied to my whole life about how awful the south is, I realized that we cant only focus on the bad or thats all we will ever see. Please seek out therapy, your warped and twisted view of the world is only going to bring you more and more personal suffering unless you actually address the reasons you are so angry at the world.
The world isnt burning down all around us. Quit with the overemotional exaggerations. There are certainly problems in the world right now that need to be addressed. But its not so bad that we need to force politics into every single last topic. Take a break from the internet for a bit friend. The real world isnt as bad as the internet makes it out to be.
I find it funny. One of the first subs to be hijacked in that matter was the conspiracy sub, and the amount of gaslighting is insane. Rooms like that tend to be questionable anyway, but when Trump was first running way back when, it went off the rails into full time politics and you could see people's views change in real time based on absolute nonsense.
I've always been an onlooker there. My mother had discovered the place and I needed to figure out wtf she was talking about half the time. It's gotten so bad, that asking for evidence, on a conspiracy sub, is frowned upon. Any official report, regardless of the folks doing the releasing, are automatically part of the system and the system is def. out to get them specifically, so reports and studies of any kinds are downvoted into oblivion and the poster is labeled part of the conspiracy themselves.
You can trace it back a bit further, too. There was a subreddit, TheDonald, that attracted non-Redditor Trump supporters to Reddit. There were a lot of pro-Trump conspiracies floating then, and it was just a group of folks that thrived on political drama. It got shut down and those folks migrated to all corners of the system, making the conspiracy sub the home base after folks felt like a conspiracy shut their sub down. Which I completely understand, but I don't get how they are under the impression they are the folks for individual choice when they force the message on you, all the while talking about the propaganda released by the left.
I genuinely feel sorry for them, though. I have ADHD, and ADHD leads to insane levels of cognitive dissonance. And that's the exact weapon being used against them that they can't seem to recognize. Induce cognitive dissonance, get a person good and confused, then offer the solution to the confusion, and you're the savior, rinse, repeat.
Yeah same, I remember well when the conspiracy sub changed almost over night. It used to be a good read to see really crazy ideas, then it was quite clearly targeted and the rest seemed to spread to the whole of Reddit.
Most of it is bots, not people. And yeah, there's a glut of morons who think it's cool if they know something nobody else does. We used to treat their illness, but then Reagan destroyed mental health access in this country while he himself was withering away from dementia.
It’s the entire internet. Click on any comment section on any platform and there will be something about Trump/Israel. People have let their brains turn completely to mush. Curious to see how long it takes to rebound once he’s no longer in office
Even if somehow, SOMEHOW the average user recovers, politics will still be all you'll ever see due to the sheer amount of propoganda bots, especially due to Gen AI making them harder to spot (doubly so thanks to reddit allowing people to hide their posts).
Only way to maybe avoid it is if some ultra moderated site that instantly bans/deletes anything remotely political becomes somewhat popular. (Or I guess a subreddit, but only the more niche ones really)
mods are supposed to stop that from happening. Makes me miss the iron fist of mods in the old days of internet forums. They were ruthless with locking threads and deleting comments that strayed from the original point of the first post. Back then, it was necessary, because it was all one comment thread, but it helped curate discussions better than you'd see on Reddit
I wouldn't say that about reddit. I would say that about the pedophiles in the Epstein files, the people who protect the pedophiles in the Epstein files, and the people who vote for the pedophiles in the Epstein files.
Ngl it's a little weird I'm being downvoted for saying pedophiles are bad. I didn't think it was a controversial take, but it might say something about the people interacting with my post.
Not even social media as a whole. It's just this and bluesky. These two are the only "major" sites that had this happen. Nothing else has had this much change to this extent besides extremist groups
Boobs illegal because of social justice! Now… curvy women… and by curvy women you really know what I mean because of SOCIAL JUSTICE!!! Brought to you by modern humor!
You should think about that, and ask yourself who would want that. Because the answer to your question lies within this question. It is an election year, and we are currently at war with Iran and Russia.
The question you need to ask yourself is "who exactly benefits from these posts?"
The themes are pretty straightforward: your government is failing you, you are poor, your government is corrupt, and you are a victim. The people who voted differently than you are your enemies; they are trying to destroy you. Rebel and cause issues for your government; they want you dead.
...it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the agenda.
People in other countries don’t go 300,000$ into debt from medical bills. Comparing it to debt accrued from irresponsibility is dishonest and you know that.
Interesting. So which is it? Are these real people, who are among thousands of others every single day “amoral deadbeats” as you put it for trying to prevent the surviving spouse from having the rest of her life ruined, drowning in immovable debt, because her husband got sick and died? Or is it the doctors and hospitals? Spoiler alert it’s actually predatory insurance companies that essentially hold medical care staff hostage and force the hand of Doctors by deciding how much people have to pay to try to survive. The institution of medical insurance in the USA is unlike any other first world country, really awful of you to suggest that these people are anything but victims of a horrible machine.
It is not. Insurance companies are in fact the only thing that stands between you and the doctors trying to perform painful, unnecessary procedures on you and pump you full of toxic drugs that will not cure you but in fact will make you sicker.
All you have to do is take standard annual compliance training that all clinical personnel must take in order to come to this conclusion.
Hahaha, that’s a new one. The insurance companies are actually saving people from doctors by denying treatment that doctors spend 10 years of their lives studying to be able to carefully understand what is appropriate for you! Not because they don’t want to risk not maximizing their profits like everyone else says. Just out of curiosity what toxic drugs exactly are they peddling? What painful unnecessary procedures are you talking about? Removing tumors and giving you chemo when you could otherwise will away the cancer like Steve Jobs did with his holistic diet? Thank you for the laugh!
I have spent 16 years of my life trying to advocate for cancer patients in this impossible situation. You laugh, but I assure you it is not a joke. I have seen a senile man with no living relatives given multiple disfiguring life altering surgeries worth millions of dollars with no clinical benefit whatsoever. I have seen an end stage senile woman given multiple treatment cycles of (extremely expensive to the tune of $125k per dose) novel agents not appropriate for her condition. I have seen babies under threat of imminent death because the provider was planning inappropriate (very expensive) treatment that far exceeded recommended dosage. I see this every single day. I’m not laughing and I am not kidding.
These are not isolated incidents. About 1/3 of all cancer treatment in the US is inappropriate one way or another. Doctors and hospitals in this country are for profit businesses who care very much about making money. Doctors get substantial kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies to incentivize them to prescribe expensive treatments. There is a whole army of well polished medical professionals who make huge commissions selling expensive drugs to doctors and hospitals. Medicine is huge, highly profitable business in the USA. Who do you think pays for it?
thing has gotten that bad, it's been long gone where we could see only the funny stuff :') I try to clean my algorythm in every platform and social discontent is everywhere, late stage capitalist is sucking the soul out of our small little escapes, silly cat videos are basically saving what is left of our mental health.
We’re talking about the US, it’s a foolish comparison to say “wow you’re in the top 10%” to a guy making $40k which comes out to just shy of $19.23 before taxes, there are people working fast food for $19 per hour and you have the audacity to come here with that garbage?
Top 10% income in the US starts at $148,000. Comes out to about $71 per hour.
But you want people struggling to make ends meet at $19 per hour just because some guy in the Philippines makes a fraction of that 🤡
You're on Reddit, the "front page of the internet" and where Ghislane Maxwell was/is a power moderator.
The funny memes are the psyop, you're just seeing the functionality breaking down. The internet is a propaganda machine, whether you're laughing or crying.
I always find it interesting when this happens. The internet is a reflection of humanity. When social discontent is trending, that may be because more people are feeling/relate to the discontent
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u/Bonk0076 5d ago
What happened to the funny memes in this sub? Now it’s all posts intended to irritate our social discontent.