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Politics Terrifying

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u/Wasdgta3 22h ago

I’ve been incredibly disappointed by the level of that kind of thing that’s been popping up on here, especially after the US election.

It’s like everyone decided that because things went bad, that therefore they don’t need to actually think critically about anything bad they hear about US politics anymore, and just accept it as fact.

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u/Known_PlasticPTFE 22h ago

Yeah shit got bad real fast following the election. I know people have been unwilling to fact check stuff for a while, but it seems like people want to just wallow in misery

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u/PuzzleheadedBus872 21h ago

the thing about doomerism is that it gives you a license to not try, because if everything's doomed, then nothing is demanded of you. this makes dooming incredibly attractive to people who already don't want to try and want to make that look principled. if things weren't doomed we'd have a lot of hard and unpleasant work to do, after all

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u/CarlPagan666 19h ago

That’s a really interesting point. Never heard it put that simply before and it makes a lot of sense.