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Sometimes when it gets overwhelming I don't do any news or social media at all for a few weeks. It seems to help my mental health, particularly when every bit of news suggests that everything is going to shit.
when you stick your hand on a hot stove and feel pain, it's so you know to do something about it. you don't want to shut that off.
Yeah that's a fair point. Thing is, I don't know what to do about this shit (Gestures to world). I used to get involved in a lot of direct action when I was younger but I'm a bit old for that now. And I can't really say that all the times I got battered by the police, arrested on airbases, shit like that - I'm not sure I made any difference at all. Some of those actions made headlines but those were mostly negative. And I know people say "Vote!" - but I do, and that doesn't seem to help either.
So yeah, sometimes I just don't use the stove for a while. I just feel a bit fuckin defeated.
if you got nothing left to lose, take some bad guys with you
if you're too old to fight, help organize a local leftist militia.
if you don't want to get involved directly, help amplify the message that we have to take the fight to them.
if you don't want to end up on a list, help develop and distribute forms of encrypted communication software.
if you can't do any of that, i don't know, go live in the woods or something.
just please, please stop participating in these online circle jerks where we pacify ourselves with meaningless platitudes. these are the antithesis of helpful to the cause.