Maybe I'm just numb to it all, maybe I just consider it all partial truths or outright lies, but I don't have any emotional reaction to anything I hear on the news or a podcast (or secondhand reports from others from what they heard on the news).
Tariffs, deportations, wars, debt crises, domestic terrorism, conspiracies, hacks, violations of rights, crypto rugpulls, corruption, blackmail, price moves in BTC, or whatever.
My give-a-fuck meter for any of that is at zero.
are we supposed to have emotions about those things? 🤪
Same. It's exhausting staying up to date with that which I have no interest in and more importantly have no say in.
The worst offenders of the system are the ones who want you to "stay informed."
That's the thing. I have to be directly involved in something to actually have to have a valid opinion about it. And I apply that to everyone. Which makes a lot of peoples' opinions not worth considering.
probably because it has been normalised, or the decades of conditioning has worked that gives them kind of a permission to do so or that it doesn’t directly affect you?
It's empathy hacking, guilt tripping, manipulation, etc. to control behavior.
I mean, all those things are real, but I want to form my own opinions about then based on my own experience rather than an emotion-driven narrative.
i do not like a lot of what’s happening. as long as i can still define what’s right from wrong instead of it being normal despite not being able to change any of it. i can assure myself that i would never go out there to participate in the madness other people created.
I’m pretty numb at this point too. The deportation of an admittedly innocent man and defying a court order to bring him back caught my attention.
A man gets deported unfairly under a regime that is set on deporting everyone who was freely let in for years, and the news media blows up about that, but not all the atrocities that preceded it to make it possible in the first place.
You can't denounce the effect without denouncing the cause, imo.
For me, it’s not about the legality or illegality of the immigrant. It’s the absolute power being wielded to deport someone without due process and not bringing them back when ordered by the judicial branch. If it’s allowed to stand, the deportations could affect anyone no matter citizenship status.
