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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@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 $$$.
#Trump in particular with his old man, bigoted, dementia ways generated easy money like no other.
I'm sick of hearing about him and will often force myself to not even click something that mentions him. Some days that's harder to do than others. He's in so much of the news like a malignant skin rash.
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@clintruin @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
It's physically healthy to avoid any drug.
It's mentally a curse being consciously all the time though.
@grootinside @GezThePez @Remittancegirl
Fuck "consciousness". -
@NicelyManifest @_elena @Remittancegirl
It's the controversy that the social media discovered keeps us engaged. Engaged eyeballs makes them $$$.
#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
Fuck "consciousness". -
@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 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. -
@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.@grootinside Valium for the win. No wonder mothers stayed high on it all the way through the 50's @clintruin @GezThePez
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@grootinside Valium for the win. No wonder mothers stayed high on it all the way through the 50's @clintruin @GezThePez
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@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...
@danielsreichenbach I think that is very much the case for some of them. For some, he is everything they want to be. What a dark aspiration, right?
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@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.
@Ludiotic @Remittancegirl Same here... Instant calm.
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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 You're not alone.
That which is unsustainable tends, in the end, to be unsustained.
American bankruptcy is proceeding slowly still. It will accelerate. Iran will be what Suez was for the UK.
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@danielsreichenbach I think that is very much the case for some of them. For some, he is everything they want to be. What a dark aspiration, right?
@Remittancegirl yeah, it's frightening and absolutely nonsensical for me how one can even consider this. This is so not how American PR presents the country
I hope people will wake up. All over the world.
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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 think many of us are trying to vomit it up. -
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.
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@Remittancegirl it's ok, he will die soon.
That is, by the way, why i set up whatstupidshitdidhedotoday.com.
@the_turtle @Savvyhomestead @Remittancegirl Not soon enough.
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@Remittancegirl @jzb I remember thinking what a relief it was, after Biden was elected, to not have to be constantly hearing about US politics for a while. (As a non-American.) It dialed back down to only a 'normal' amount of news for a while.
(and then, of course, when the multi-year presidential election process started up again, it returned to the previous ridiculous levels.)
@benjamineskola after about a month…
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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.
I lived in NJ from 1978-1990. i've had to see and read about that fucker my entire adult life 🤬
