It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
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@GezThePez @Remittancegirl
"Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness."
- Thomas Ligotti
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@Remittancegirl sadly I think most media companies facilitated his rise (and never questioned anything he did, criminal activities included)... because in this brave new world "engagement" is king and "normal" (read: measured, traditional) politicians don't generate as many clicks or outrage or attention as that abomination. In my little corner all I can do is teach (and encourage in) my child critical thinking. le sigh.
@_elena @Remittancegirl All the wrong things being normalised fodder for herds of humans. It continues to drive me to despair to see all around me people clinging tightly to their phones with thick headphones on their ears and scant consequential regard for environment or others.
Most people turn corners without slowing down even when not on their phones as modern life is oblivious to strangers - no preempting, no sense of a shared of the public space. No care.
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It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl Ditto!
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It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl McDonald Trump
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@GezThePez @Remittancegirl
"Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness."
- Thomas Ligotti️ ️
#doomed #worsttimeline@clintruin @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
It's physically healthy to avoid any drug.
It's mentally a curse being consciously all the time though.
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@Remittancegirl I check the Yahoo finance page every weekday to see what's going on with the markets. I dread it because I know there's a 98% chance I'll see that clown's face attached to multiple news stories.
@DukeDuke @Remittancegirl There's a browser extension for that! Make America Kittens Again!
https://tomroyal.com/make-america-kittens-again-faq/ -
It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl What will they talk about when he's gone? They will still be talking about him for 10 more years! Your only recourse is to change the channel, and tell the network why you're doing it. Tell everyone else, too. When it starts to cost them money, they will change.
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It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl god I remember when Biden got into office and it seemed like things calmed down so much, almost instantly. Even here in the UK the change was palpable.
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It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl I spent ten years warning people to not enable or elect him. Yet the most common American reply I am getting is: "he is one of us". That seems to be the creepy sentiment shared throughout society.
I worry, people enable him because they want to be like him...
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It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl I agree 100%. The irony of me being so frustrated by this is that I have just read and responded to comment about him, thereby promoting exactly what frustrates me and brought him to power.
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@davidbraze @Remittancegirl Don't forget the owners of those media outlets have been eating their own editorial slop for *decades*. They double-down on the right-wing bullshit because they're indoctrinating themselves, via their own newsrooms. Which IN TURN contributes to the failure of news as a business model. It's a series of viciously self-reinforcing failure modes.
@davidbraze @cstross @Remittancegirl
This. Remember when Drudge started becoming the instigator of news? It’s only escalated from there.
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It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl it's ok, he will die soon.
That is, by the way, why i set up whatstupidshitdidhedotoday.com.
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@_elena @Remittancegirl All the wrong things being normalised fodder for herds of humans. It continues to drive me to despair to see all around me people clinging tightly to their phones with thick headphones on their ears and scant consequential regard for environment or others.
Most people turn corners without slowing down even when not on their phones as modern life is oblivious to strangers - no preempting, no sense of a shared of the public space. No care.
@NicelyManifest @_elena @Remittancegirl
It's the controversy that the social media discovered keeps us engaged. Engaged eyeballs makes them $$$.
#Trump in particular with his old man, bigoted, dementia ways generated easy money like no other.
I'm sick of hearing about him and will often force myself to not even click something that mentions him. Some days that's harder to do than others. He's in so much of the news like a malignant skin rash.
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@clintruin @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
It's physically healthy to avoid any drug.
It's mentally a curse being consciously all the time though.@grootinside @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
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@NicelyManifest @_elena @Remittancegirl
It's the controversy that the social media discovered keeps us engaged. Engaged eyeballs makes them $$$.
#Trump in particular with his old man, bigoted, dementia ways generated easy money like no other.
I'm sick of hearing about him and will often force myself to not even click something that mentions him. Some days that's harder to do than others. He's in so much of the news like a malignant skin rash.
@MyWoolyMastadon @_elena @Remittancegirl To me it is the combination of endless fraud by Trump - mega-insidertrading - and the enabling of that by a political system that almost entirely fails to hold him to account on any matter.
The whole system stinks.
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@grootinside @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
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@Remittancegirl the thought that scares me a bit is that this might very well not be the last time that social media catapulted someone this unqualified to such a consequential position
@mkoek @Remittancegirl
Nor is it the first.. -
It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl
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It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@Remittancegirl I am frustrated by it daily. There are people alive, reaching adulthood, who have never known mental peace because of him. This is the answer: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116312131511600504
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@grootinside @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
Fuck "consciousness".@clintruin @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
Yeah. It's really shit if one doesn't like the taste of alcohol or smoking (and cookies only make tired)
It's like (see pic) all the time.
