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Parking the question of who is right or wrong, it is a perfect microcosm of the way that we have all been divided into tribes by the people with hands on the levers of power in recent years. Brexit is the most obvious example here, but there are loads more, and it's very evidently a deliberate ploy to divide populations into things they disagree about rather than unite on the things they agree on. The USA over the last decade is obviously another good example.
I try my hardest not to get sucked in, but it's becoming increasingly hard to just ignore stuff that I find almost upsetting at times.
Think im going to go football only on here for a bit. Which is a shame, as I do value seeing different views to challenge my world view.
Appreciate that this is a bit of a look at me post, but wanted to be able to vent a bit.
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I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
This place is fooking awful at the moment on 21:07 - Sep 17 by reusersfreekicks
No it isn't
Although very depressing how many would vote Reform. It’s pretty clear those who are racist/ racist adjacent and listening to these far right grifters are feeling more empowered by things like this weekend.
Coming on here, stepping out of their bubbles and their views not being the norm seems to a big cause of it doesn’t it?
This place is fooking awful at the moment on 21:18 - Sep 17 by Mullet
Although very depressing how many would vote Reform. It’s pretty clear those who are racist/ racist adjacent and listening to these far right grifters are feeling more empowered by things like this weekend.
Coming on here, stepping out of their bubbles and their views not being the norm seems to a big cause of it doesn’t it?
I’ll guess a few of our ‘comedians’ just dabbed Reform for sh*ts and giggles..
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I’ll be completely honest here, I don’t have the first fcuking clue about politics. I couldn’t tell you a single thing about Gaza/Israel or far right/far left. There’s a part of me that thinks I could really do with educating myself on it all, but then I come across threads on here which just turn in to sh!t shows and think what’s the point?
Not only that, but I’m a 33 year old with a wife and 2 young kids with a busy job and genuinely don’t know at what point during a day I would remotely have time to educate myself on it all, and even as I post this at 9.26pm, I’m about an hour past my bedtime!
This place is fooking awful at the moment on 21:27 - Sep 17 by Kieran_Knows
I’ll be completely honest here, I don’t have the first fcuking clue about politics. I couldn’t tell you a single thing about Gaza/Israel or far right/far left. There’s a part of me that thinks I could really do with educating myself on it all, but then I come across threads on here which just turn in to sh!t shows and think what’s the point?
Not only that, but I’m a 33 year old with a wife and 2 young kids with a busy job and genuinely don’t know at what point during a day I would remotely have time to educate myself on it all, and even as I post this at 9.26pm, I’m about an hour past my bedtime!
This place is fooking awful at the moment on 22:09 - Sep 17 by J2BLUE
Spot on again about the left and right.
The left's new hero Bob Vylan get a mention.
Why the need for the second comment? I would consider myself firmly on the left from an economic perspective, but I think Vylan's comments at Glastonbury were pretty disgusting.
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This place is fooking awful at the moment on 23:04 - Sep 17 by Clapham_Junction
Why the need for the second comment? I would consider myself firmly on the left from an economic perspective, but I think Vylan's comments at Glastonbury were pretty disgusting.
The left are of course homogeneous!
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This place is fooking awful at the moment on 22:38 - Sep 17 by The_Flashing_Smile
You're 33 and you go to bed at 8.30pm?!?
Tbf it’s entirely possible he could get into bed for 8:30 and that be when he’s off his phone.
I envy people that have the ability to avoid doom-scrolling. I myself spend more time on TWTD between the hours of midnight and 4am than any other period in the day.
This place is fooking awful at the moment on 00:58 - Sep 18 by The_Romford_Blue
Tbf it’s entirely possible he could get into bed for 8:30 and that be when he’s off his phone.
I envy people that have the ability to avoid doom-scrolling. I myself spend more time on TWTD between the hours of midnight and 4am than any other period in the day.
Same. I’m literally switching between this and Reddit whilst I tell myself I should have been asleep 3 hours ago.
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This place is fooking awful at the moment on 01:09 - Sep 18 by Swailsey
Same. I’m literally switching between this and Reddit whilst I tell myself I should have been asleep 3 hours ago.
I love a bit of Reddit too. It’s weird in the sense that it’s the only seemingly non-serious social media site that i actually feel benefits me intellectually after reading. I don’t think it’d a total waste of time basically.
- TWTD (is that social media somewhat?) - very heavy on debates sometimes. Political usually. Obviously has a plus of a great community on the whole. Good for advice and in a crisis too. - Twitter - a cesspit of the far right. Musk has allowed it to go that way. - Instagram - I’ve a long term view that 99.9% of instagram is people just simply portraying a fake lifestyle to show people the life they pretend they’re living. - Facebook - 90% of people on their are grandmas or Middle Aged Karen’s - TikTok - arguably is too chilled. Easy to doomscroll but it’s all nonsense on there. I think I lose brain cells by watching it. - Reddit - that perfect blend of having some genuinely interesting info, enough clever people to gain knowledge from but also being chilled enough not to make you leave feeling more depressed than you started.
This place is fooking awful at the moment on 23:04 - Sep 17 by Clapham_Junction
Why the need for the second comment? I would consider myself firmly on the left from an economic perspective, but I think Vylan's comments at Glastonbury were pretty disgusting.
It does seem a bit unfair to tar the perhaps 15 million left-wing people in this country with the same brush.
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This place is fooking awful at the moment on 01:30 - Sep 18 by The_Romford_Blue
I love a bit of Reddit too. It’s weird in the sense that it’s the only seemingly non-serious social media site that i actually feel benefits me intellectually after reading. I don’t think it’d a total waste of time basically.
- TWTD (is that social media somewhat?) - very heavy on debates sometimes. Political usually. Obviously has a plus of a great community on the whole. Good for advice and in a crisis too. - Twitter - a cesspit of the far right. Musk has allowed it to go that way. - Instagram - I’ve a long term view that 99.9% of instagram is people just simply portraying a fake lifestyle to show people the life they pretend they’re living. - Facebook - 90% of people on their are grandmas or Middle Aged Karen’s - TikTok - arguably is too chilled. Easy to doomscroll but it’s all nonsense on there. I think I lose brain cells by watching it. - Reddit - that perfect blend of having some genuinely interesting info, enough clever people to gain knowledge from but also being chilled enough not to make you leave feeling more depressed than you started.
I’d imagine watching the Teletubbies and Lego benefits you intellectually. Only joking! Actually I used to like Lego.
Good summary of social media.
I rarely venture on to any of it these days, but Reddit is certainly the most informative. I actually joined Facebook in its early days but soon realised how numbingly pointless it was. Instagram and TikTok - desperate.
Twitter/X is interesting in that I think it a total waste of time. Full of fantasists, weirds and people with nothing better to do.
Mrs C likes it and spends a lot of time on it, mostly for cat stuff and crafting. She likes to show me stuff on her tablet and I of course lie and say ‘that’s interesting’ whilst praying for the moment to end. Not sure she’d be happy with the response in my head that goes ‘look, if I was that interested I’d be looking at it in the first place!’.
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