I'm in a +50 Harris neighborhood btw, they were blasting fireworks and honking their cars, all night long... I not sure how they can just be so happy... 🤷♂️
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
215 points (90.6% liked)
Political Memes
6059 readers
3767 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Celebrating your sports team win isn't any less productive than doom scrolling
"Doomscrolling" is infinitely more productive. At least then you're staying up to date and getting information that actually matters about the place you live and the planet you're on. Ignoring it and calling it "Doomscrolling" is exactly how they're hoping you'll react. But whatever you want to do dude if you think memorizing facts about our society and planet is less productive than knowing the history or stats of some sports team where they trade players regularly no amount of conversation will convince you.
If you think getting excited for a week about something fun that happened is the problem then idk what to say
This right here, this is why so much of the initial reaction to Trump winning was resignment. You can't have the pedal all the way down 24/7 for NINE FUCKING YEARS and not experience burnout. Not to mention, how doomscrolling can delude you into thinking it's doing something. It's not, and unlike doomscrollers, football fans (REGARDLESS of which "football" it is) know damn well it does nothing about world problems.
What did anyone accomplish in the last 8 years by being “informed” via spending hours a day scrolling through every horrible thing that’s happening?
If you diminished that to, say, 30 minutes of doomscrolling a day, how much less “productive” would anyone be?
Doomscrolling is a substitute for action, not action. A general that studies maps for years while the enemy moves is informed of nothing but the exact way they’re dying by a thousand cuts.