I keep it together because a lot of young people are around me. But on the inside I’ve kind of given up on anything good and dread the next fucking crazy thing to come up.

I'm sure the people in ICE concentration camps, and the LGBTQ+ population, and people of color, and people who can't afford health insurance, and women, and the Ukranians, and our allies, and people who oppose triggering the battle of Armageddon, and scientists, and environmentalists, and starving Africans are all happy that your conscience is clear.

I do know one group that's genuinely happy, though - the billionaires who funded the Trump campaign and convinced you that the only way to fight evil was not to vote. So good job, chump.

Shouldn't have decided that supporting genocide was more important than the election. Also lol at trying to justify it by essentially complaining "But now it's happening to actual humans, not just non-westerners!"

Let go of the penny

Traumatize them back

I'm in the Twin Cities, I'm guessing the person you're responding to is in a first or second ring suburb (and I'm not dismissing their experience for that - ICE never left Minnesota, they're just operating in the suburbs now where it's harder to build a response against them so they're seeing some shit right now), but concealed carry permit requests are way up right now in the twin cities proper. People here are buying guns in response to the gestapo. I don't know anyone personally who has purchased a firearm, but I've seen the local news articles about the phenomenon.

Look at American history. This really is business as usual, sad as it might be.

We are all one people

Why am I paying rent all by myself then?

Lemmy is social media.

The complaints about sex-trafficking were never real or about sex-trafficking. They were the equivalent of today's internet age gate laws that are popping up all over. It was about control then as it is now.

Am American/USian/Yankee what does "crashing out" mean?

Why are we paying rent at all?

The oil prices have not hit the average consumer hard yet. They are releasing oil reserves and taking other measures to artificially reduce the price increase. It will probably take a month or two before things really starts to go down. (or up in this case)

Yeah gas prices (about the only commodity that normies interact with) have only gone up by like 30-40 cents per gallon, about the same price they were 6-12 months ago. Normies only wake up once it gets to around $4/gallon or about a full dollar per gallon more than usual.

The last time gas prices went over $4 a gallon I heard many drivers of excessively large gas guzzling SUVs and Trucks complaining that they couldn't fully fill their tanks due to the $100 limit on most gas pumps.

The $4 mark was also when people started actually making choices to drive less (and voicing these choices) and if it was sustained they seemed likely to choose to replace their vehicles with something more efficient

Latest jobs report showed a reduction in total jobs in the economy of 80k. The recession that's been trying to happen for years is finally about to happen.

It's really hilarious because economic indicators were all looking super good going into the 2024 election, and even jobs were starting to show some growth after being a bit slow following the insanity of 2021-22. Trump could simply walked in and went to sleep and the economy would be in brilliant shape right now but instead we have this

I couldn’t get them to engage much. Now they call me, sobbing. Overwhelmed. It was all real. It was all true. It’s all over for us. We can’t come back from this without a lot more hardship.

I think people still haven’t accepted that last one.

I know exactly one other person in my life who has accepted this and that's mostly cause hes just as, if not more rabidly commie, than me. We both know this is coming and know what that means but I don't think we can know if we were really ready until after it's over.

It feels fucking awful.

Here's American right now

At this point, many of us are numb to the impending whatever. There is always 6 things happening that shouldn't be happening (that we know about) and that could upend our lives. And usually there is very little we can do besides yell on the internet.

Same boat. I work with small kids, oblivious to politics, full of hope for the future because that’s how they should feel. I clock in and lose myself in their version of the world for 8 hours a day. It’s no wonder why I’m actually happier at work than at home these days.

You're a fucking coward.

From pedantic to pedantic, yeah it is social media but is it not predatory like every commercial social media (meta, tiktok, twitter)

I would dare to say doomscrolling in lemmy is impossible

The reality is none of this insanity has directly effected me. So day to day life, working, raising kids, etc. is completely normal for me. However, keeping up with news. Feeling empathy for people being effected now, and worrying about when the other shoe is going to drop on me and my family stresses me out. I don't like being stressed out and avoid stress as much as possible, so I find myself just trying to stay distracted with hobbies, video games, etc. Then I feel guilty about distracting myself. If I can't do much about the situation, I should at least inform myself about it. But then there comes the stress again...

So yeah, in a way add me to the crashing out list I guess.

Glad I’m not alone, but also sad

I got off everything other than Lemmy after Trump won. It definitely has helped, but we're not deleting Facebook or deGoogling our way out of world collapse. ...well, at least short term anyway. Most people I know cannot even connect their everyday habits with the consequences they experience.

This is exactly me. Fired up the Xbox to play my favorite title, unfortunately its the Battlefield series. So there i am clawing at it in an oil field on fire or some middle Eastern city streets thinking about dead school girls and nothing I can do about it.

Your personal impressions based on either your consumption of social science papers, rumors, or gathered by hearsay and lived experience.

I would dare to say doomscrolling in lemmy is impossible

Could just be my ADHD but I'd like to contest this. Maybe we need to be really careful about the communities we follow, but besides Linux stuff and some other niche group there's a lot of politics on Lemmy, and while there's a lot of insightful discussion there's a high concentration of unhinged doomerism.

I sometimes feel like I'm addicted, not because of the algorithm but because of the feedback loop that I need to know what's going on, and I want to reach out and communicate...

Just in time for the summer travel season!

Maybe the Epstein files changed something... Maybe? But it seems there is always a new thing coming up to distract the masses.

Take everything I will say as informal bullshit but I get it, I have both autism and ADHD and I'm addicted to getting new info on currents events but at this point I'm not sure of I'm just letting myself go into doomerism or things have really gone crazy since COVID and I'm just trying to cope by gathering all the info I can to make informed decisions and discuss recent events

You could say this is a kind of OCD, just me trying to think of an answer to this right now it's taking me into a loop because there is no right answer

IDK based on all my conversations lately (admittedly my contacts are mostly suburbanites and anarchists on the rim of society) they're pinning that on Israel and Russia and nobody is showing signs of a reckoning with the exposed wires of imperialism

I feel powerless. Since there's nothing I feel I can do, it's pretty much business as usual.