saying this half-jokingly, but if the rest of the nation had the same levels of news exposure as a lot of us on here, most of them would go insane within a week

April 05, 2026 - 18:08 UTC

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They do tho. Except is far right AI slop short form video or talk radio or Fox News.
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The reply here is pretty obvious, innit?
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saying this half-jokingly, but most of them already are
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👍
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I do wonder sometimes if the scar tissue on my brain would be visible to the right kind of scan
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Too late
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I'm pretty sure that this is something documented. If you didn't grow up paying attention in social studies and language arts and all of the sudden as an adult spend a few minutes learning about (gestures hands wildly) then it can cause a lot of painful dissonance. Humans are great at avoiding that.
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Ok, this explains some things for me.
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or they might just stop electing Republicans
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A. Bold of you to assume insanity isn’t already the default, har de har
B. I’m already quite clear that my neurodivergent brain loves absorbing information at levels that would melt many NT brains, tyvm. Introvert to people, extrovert to data!
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Or at the very least, they’d be packing on 10 extra pounds like I am.
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No joke. I've been to mental inpatient like 3 times over this stuff lol
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it's like looking into the time vortex with some of these feeds
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i am completely immune to this, of course,
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a lot of them look at our news because american imperialism looms over them like a sword
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Absolute facts
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Yeah that's proof of how powerful my mind is
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Don’t worry mate! Everyone is quietly pivoting towards China.

See ya there! Xx
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I am high a lot
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Perhaps we have... <sounds of mad laughter, followed by tinkling glass>
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aaand that's a reminder for me to log off /gen
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Madness is a negotiable condition.
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Pretty sure it’s pushing me to the edge.
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Are you saying we are all insane?
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lucky we're built different
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You’re not wrong.
I figured it was safe to go out in social media today because it’s Easter & we’re all supposed to be thinking about rebirth & forgiveness.

I was wrong.
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i mean maybe not because if they had 2024 might have gone differently
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Yeah, I can take about 20-30 minutes of doomscrolling Bluesky before I have to go back to Cocodoodle or something.
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Is that why I’m now insane?
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I'm, non-jokingly, often am highlighting that desire of some circles to post and re-post non-stop gruesome gore from Gаzа (mixed with images from Syria and generated images ascribed to be Gаza) is a way of turning people into bulbs of traumatic hatred ready to explode against others or oneself.
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How can you expect me to focus on the basketball brackets AND the news?
Oh, there's the destination wedding too. And I have yet to catch up on that SLC Housewife. I have priorities, ya know.
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It is all by design.
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I truly never thought the mainstream response to an insane fascist takeover would be to mostly ignore it. I guess it is a defense mechanism or something.
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If the traditional press didn't sanitize and sanewash Trump to the extent they do, some of them would even without the same levels of exposure
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Maybe they should!
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good thing we are totally immune hahahahahahahahahahahaha woooooooooo
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Yeah, much as it feels like the news media’s complicit with constant sanewashing and bothsidesing I’ve also wondered if it’s just straight up “we don’t want to be responsible for mass panic and rioting” rationalization from the few remaining editors who want to cling to a sense of ethical journalism
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say this half-jokingly, but i have the same levels of news exposure as a lot of people on here, and i am going insane
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There is literally a cognitively-failing, racist half-wit presently and personally deciding whether human history is going to change dramatically this week. It’s not good.
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Being exposed to this since the age of 14 really did a number on me
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I’m so sorry
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i don't know, man, i talked to the guy over at the old orchard yesterday whom I hadn't seen since the fall, he was furious because the war was because of the president's friend netanyahu and his peach tree fertilizer is up 30% and my face
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This is the drinking-from-the-hose they failed to mention
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I have thought that too. If you are paying attention, you voted for sure and you are exhausted furious and scared. But no depair not an option even still
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Agreed.
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I tried to explain the commodity cliff to my SIL & she thinks I’m just going on about something abstract & irrelevant again.
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Everyone rn: Sisyphus was just a lil bitch, surely I could get the Boulder up that hill before Hades noticed me.
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Yes. It’s a core reason why the NY Times writes the headlines it does. Honest headlines now drive readers away.
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Bold of you to assume I’m not going insane
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I've been insane for years
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I want to be ignorant.

Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.
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I did!
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This is so real
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If they suddenly got morals
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If they had a quarter of it they would make better choices.
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I spent years exposing myself to news to build up an immunity. The problem is, over the years, the news has become much more potent.
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I guess this is where the adults live.
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i fear the effects of my having been on (1) tumblr in 2010-early 2020s and (2) twitter in like 2016-when it rebranded as x as an adolescent to young adult should be studied 🤠
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Ah man, you beat me to it. Exactly what I was thinking
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Well yeah, you have to build a tolerance for the horrors.

Still working on that part, tbh.
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correct
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Heh, the account activity labeller feels like it’s inadvertently adding a citation to your reply.
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or they would go sane
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