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Did they just forget about change of administation last month? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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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... 🤷‍♂️

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Celebrating your sports team win isn't any less productive than doom scrolling

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    "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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Right, so because things are bad right now, I should ignore anything that I enjoy?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Is that what I said? Ignore anything you enjoy? I was pretty specific. Nice reaction though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    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."

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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.

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