People here will literally tell you “I don’t want to hear about it” but then complain about the gas prices. It feels like a total Don’t Look Up moment.
Well I’m not complaining about gas prices, but personally it’s something I can’t do anything about and it just makes it even harder for me to get the energy to do the things I can do.
It won’t motivate me further to hear about it. It’ll only lead to despair.
It doesn’t matter, people will hear about it anyways.
It’s not a ‘Don’t Look Up’ moment.
People don’t want to hear about it because they’re working 2-3 jobs and 100 hours a week to afford rent on a roach-infested studio and food is becoming cost-prohibitive, on top of education, health care, and yes, fuel too. Both parties have gaslit them about it within the last two years to try and get elected.
And they don’t have any power to do anything about it.
I’ll read the news about it, I’ll go protest about it, but I don’t want to hear some shitkicker complaining about it — especially if I didn’t see that fucker at the protests.
Congrats, now you know the situation in Russia regarding the Ukraine war.
People feel powerless, are swamped by trying to make a living (which is by design), and at the same time feel like this is all wrong and someone ought to do something about it, which leads to a sense of guilt and shame.
So they shield themselves from it and wait for it to pass.It’s been a long decade, I’m tired, boss… what’s that? WHAT? It’s only been just over a year? You’re shitting me? Get the fuck out of here…
As someone looking from outside, it feels like a lot of this could be minimized if the US fixed their electoral system.
It’s an arcane system that makes the votes of the middle states more valuable than the outer states. Which means deeply conservative states get to say who runs the country.
So you end up with a religion driven police state, fueled by technofeudalism. Not unlike the regimes you keep overthrowing.
it feels like a lot of this could be minimized if the US fixed their electoral system
Yup, which is why they fight so hard to prevent any change to this system!
In Russia there’s long been a sort of “social contract” between the oligarch elites and the general population. As long as the general population “stayed out of politics” and let the oligarchs stay rich and powerful, the oligarchs wouldn’t interfere with their lives. The classic bread-and-circuses thing.
I guess the US could have a similar dynamic developing.
The “We don’t want to think about politics until they knock in our doors.” reason.
People often don’t wanna hear about their fuck-ups.
Fatigue. There’s just been so much and it’s kinda fucking draining if you stay plugged in to it all. It’s not like doomscrolling will make the situation any better either.
Also like, that was kind of the point of Don’t Look Up. People do just shut these things out. If you understood the movie you should know the answer to your question.
Actually doing something would make the situation better, but most people can’t be bothered. I’m sorry, if you didn’t vote or go to demonstrations (unless you have a very good reason) , I’m not feeling sorry for you. You’re obviously not bothered enough.
What kind of ‘something’ do you want me to do?
they are in denial and don’t want to admit they made a mistake voting for trump.
As a foreigner witnessing my own people voting for some representatives that spread nothing but a desire to destroy all they can, here in France, the real question is: knowing what’s happening and if given a chance to travel back in time to change their vote, how many of them would still vote for the same candidate because they hate the other side more than they hate hurting themselves?
Too many, is the answer.
Base instincts to hurt others are just too strong.
If people are emotionally hurt, they abuse themself (throw themselves into work etc). What do you think would stop people from hurting/abusing others?
Or that it was fine to not vote
I mean, who are you talking to…? The ones I talk to are going to protests. But also, I’m not hearing much about it because people are busy with their lives and are generally not very interested in talking about things they cant do anything about. Instead we talk about each others lives and goals, relationships, jobs, projects, hobbies, music.
If somebody came up to me and started trying to get me riled up about Iran, I would say “Yep, sure does suck. Can’t wait til somebody assassinates that sumbitch.” And that would be the end of the conversation.
Apathy is a powerful tool for fascist regimes. The same happened in Italy and Germany back in the day
no, you’re a Nazi!
They cannot cope with real daily life, and seek their salvation in religion. Usually these people are easy to influence, taco plays this game, and yet he starts losing. People are visibly blind because of all the events.
Stay strong and take care of your family ,
Greatings from Belgium
because they can’t do anything about it.
Stop talking , revolt now
Brave!
