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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Simple, I don't get knee deep into politics and whatever everyone else is doom scrolling on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

you've heard about global warming though, right? You don't exactly need to doomscroll to at least have an intellectual understanding of what kind of situation we're in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Key word here being "intellectual". It's important to recognize the issues and think of how we can affect the solution, but this is not what media at large provides or induces. It sews panic, doom, and ultimately loss of agency.