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Just do your best to check out from news for the next 4 years. Don’t let that orange fucker win.
Ignorance is not the solution.
There's a balance. You need to stay informed, but you need to keep yourself from spiraling.
Edit: To be clear, I'm not suggesting anyone totally tune out forever. Just take breaks as you need and get back in.
Seems to be becoming less and less possible.
And I fear that it will just allow things to escalate and become so much worse because people are deciding to "check out" because their privilege allows them to (at least at that moment).
I feel you with regards to the privilege aspect, and it's definitely been something I've been conscious of in this (being white, straight passing, cis ish male). But it's important to remember that it's not all or nothing. If it's too much, tune out for a bit, take a breather, then tune back in. It's not like you have to permanently tune out forever or commit to stay engaged 24/7/365.
If you're actively having like anxiety/panic attacks or sobbing about things there's nothing you can do in that moment to help people. It's sort of like the spoons metaphor thing. You're just totally out of spoons. Take some time to fill your spoons back up and get back in.
I'll edit my other comment to make my point a little more clear that I'm not advocating a "lay down and rot" type of response.
Is for me. I can’t listen to that fool for four more years.