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49 minutes agoi just filter out the larger news instances and go about my day. it’s been pleasant besides the occasional “NINE MILLION PEOPLE WERE TELEPORTED INSTANTLY TO A VOLCANO” level of insanity stories like this one. least that’s one easy thing that reddit can’t do.
The United States is not going to magically get better because one singular person in Florida disagrees with everything.
every peaceful protest against this is illegally broken up and police regularly beat protesters half to death with zero repercussions, the current president calls protesters terrorists and regularly muses about having judges thrown in jail, the supreme court has pretty much admitted they can do whatever they want and every single one of them is public about them being bought out.
the original comment was saying how depressing the news cycle is and I commented how I deal with it. this isn’t a lala land where people can suddenly change everything. this is exactly how the government is going to be for the next four years so I don’t understand the point of pretending anyone, let alone a lower middle class person living psycheck to psycheck has any effect over it.