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Trump says he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, in latest deployment to US cities (www.pressdemocrat.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

I'm not ragging on this particular post - this one's obviously important - but I'll be honest, I really wish I could spend less time hearing about what Trump is doing and more time hearing about what's being done about it.

Getting constant doom-o-grams about the current administration's latest horror-show is particularly exhausting when you almost never hear about people working to fix it, and frankly I doubt I'm alone in that. It's pretty counterproductive for us to be spending so much time fixating on what the fascists are doing. Helps them a lot more than us.

I just wish this site had a healthier evil-to-good-news mix, you know? Prevents doomerism.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I totally feel this. I'm constantly really exhausted and often feeling really hopeless. Fwiw I only posted this particular one as I'm in Seattle and it being this close to home is very alarming to me. I try not to post much to these communities.

    It's a weird thing where I agree and want to see a better ratio but the situation does often feel that dire

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The Ralph Nader Radio Hour Podcast. They talk about a ton of people and orgs doing things.

    My problem is I WANT to fight back. But I don't know where to go as many of the orgs are lawyers, consumer rights, or environmental. I'm an academic who fled and desperately want to do something - form a research institute or think tank that helps inform. Where to start, though...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    No shade, I would mute or unsub from the Politics community in that case; there really hasn't been much good news on the Politics front domestically in the US. That's not Doomerism, it's just the honest situation we're in.

    We had a good number of articles recently about countries recognizing Palestine, at least, which is where I've been getting my hope from.

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