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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 is a marathon not a sprint. Don't burn yourself out emotionally.
Right? We're only on Week 7 out of 52, of Year 1.
The year 1 thing implies there’s a ready end to it, but…
The little silver lining is: It might be less than four years. Don’t know where things will go…
The administration has floated monarchy laws to let him continue beyond 4 years
I would really like to know more about this. Not calling you a liar or anything, so much shit has been going on it's hard to keep up
I mean people are allowed to enjoy the things that make them happy especially when shits real bad my brother.
It’s important to find joy where you can in tough times even more than the good times. Take some solace in the fact that some Trump allies in the Chiefs locker room a fat L last night.
GO BIRDS
Two things can be true at once. Let people enjoy their moment of happiness.
Moral is a battleground and a blue blue city just beat the team from very red Missouri.
Oh, the other team is from a red area? Cool, I guess this celebration kinda makes sense. (I'm not a sports fan and I have zero clue lol 😅)
Pat Mahomes is a Trump guy IIRC, as is Harrison Butker. You probably saw Butker’s “get back to the kitchen, ladies” graduation commencement speech he gave last May. The good guys won
well Trump certainly won’t be inviting them over for the finest in cold stale hamberders
Bread & Circus
You can enjoy the bread & circus and still fight the good fight as long as you don't forget about the fight. The bread & circus is still needed for most to prevent burnout
For sure, but can we find a circus that's less of a consumerist nightmare?
We live within a consumerist nightmare society. So probably not right now, no.
Trump wanted KC to win. This is a far greater victory for the "resistance" than anything we've seen from the democrats.
The NFL and superbowl certainly still plays its role well. Colosseum bread and circus still very much works. Distract, pacify, forget, worry about this other thing that has perceptive stakes you could identify with and back and feel the illusory risk of none real consequences if you align with one of the teams. Lost the political one with the real actual consequences that have more or less destroyed the country you grew up in possibly forever? Maybe a sports victory will help placate you, feel the rush of this victory ignore how you and your family in fact lost it all.
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.
Right, so because things are bad right now, I should ignore anything that I enjoy?
Is that what I said? Ignore anything you enjoy? I was pretty specific. Nice reaction though.
Well, whats the difference in watching a football game vs playing a video game? I'm equally "distracted, pacified, and worried about the other thing with stakes."
For one your video game hobby doesn't involve states subsidizing stadiums to be built moving money from public services and education amongst other things so that a new flashy stadium can be built whenever they decide the old one's no longer good. It's so bad it's even done at high school's foregoing science and other education programs but will definitely be getting those flashier stadium and sport facilities. It's morbidly hilarious. It happens across the entire country. And if you're going to try and say "but it creates jobs" let me just say, lmao, and if you think its an adequate trade check out the recent test score data and reading aptitude nation wide. We are going to have to live amongst these people that can barely read and write eventually. But at least we got that cool stadium that one time.
This. Decades ago when I was in college as an education major, the county voted down a .25% sales tax on infrastructure. The following year, after the new owner of the Tampa Bay Bucs threatened to move the team without a new stadium, suddenly the tax passed, with 100% going to the new stadium for the first five years. “Community Investment Tax”. Pissed me off as a budding educator where the priorities were.
What does any of that have to do with your original point? Moving the goal posts to make sure you're more morally correct?
Lol.
so which part was confusing, the bread or the circus?
The part where I didn't get any bread and had to shoplift it while having to sneak into the circus because the tickets were too expensive.
Panem et circenses. Ad infinitum.
Look at it this way. there is very little that you can do about it at the time being. It makes zero sense to hard focus on the bad things in life, even more-so when they are out of your control.
Enjoy the small things, and when the possibility to make the change you want arises again, then you can focus on the bad. Until then cheer up, live a little. Don't let the cloud saturate your personality or mind.
Thanks for popping my bubble. Every year I try to see how long I can go before finding out who won. My record is four days.