That's a very good point you bring up! I totally see what you mean and agree!
We have the power to fight back! Contact politicians in your country and demand a faster transition to renewable energy. The economic harms caused by climate change are far greater than the cost of switching to renewable energy.
One possible idea I had is to take advantage of global anti-Trump sentiment and urge countries especially those hit hard by Trump's tariffs to fight back by buying less fossil fuels especially less fossil fuels from the U.S. I'm not sure if people from other countries understand just how influential the U.S. fossil fuel industry is in electing Trump and Republicans. It's similar to how people are (unfortunately too slowly it seems) moving away from buying Russian fossil fuels.
So when you boycott fossil fuels you're stopping authoritarian regimes and saving the planet.
I see this article as being step one or maybe I'd say step zero for people. You're healing from the abuse caused by Trump. I think even if people only did what this article suggested and nothing else it would make a fairly big different, I don't think it would completely stop him. The advice in the article applies to everyone including those in the media who are enabling Trump.
For those who's mental health is hurt following these steps will allow them to have more energy and focus for combating Trump.
If you want some actionable items I would suggest helping people boycott the biggest donors to the GOP. Boycott Elon Musk by boycotting Twitter and Boycotting Tesla, this is most important boycott since he was the biggest donor. There are initial signs the boycotts are starting to work, if we keep the pressure up we can defeat the highest donor to the GOP. Then we can move on to other high donors to the GOP such as Uline. I would also recommend in parallel start working towards building more political will for moving away from fossil fuels, since they're hurting the planet and also because they donate tons of money to the GOP.
This article is relying on anecdotal evidence citing only a few random Reddit and Bluesky posts and some of the claims in the article are not backed by any evidence. Also note that the Reddit links I clicked on are all heavily downvoted.
Denise is a person that's been long involved in trust and safety analyzed a lot of the Gaza accounts and found that https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3lpxyoe4efk26 only 18% of Gazans were actually posting in Gaza time. Of course she didn't publish hard data so this claim isn't 100% scientific either but the poster is pretty reputable I feel.
Note later as a counterargument to this I did find one person who claimed they have a 4 AM morning prayer. I don't know how many Gazans take part in that. https://bsky.app/profile/anothersmd.bsky.social/post/3lpyetkltys2y I did verify that some websites say they have a prayer at around 4 AM.
Also if you've ever used Bluesky before it used to be that you'd get random replies and mentions asking for money, recently they've gotten this much better under control.
So I think what is really happening is people post unsolicited requests for money on posts that are unrelated and they get correctly marked as spam.
Should be mandatory reading before anyone tries to visit the U.S.
Until we fix this please do not come here.
The so-called birthrate crisis is manufactured by morons like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk who clearly didn't pay attention in science class and didn't learn about logistic population growth https://www.britannica.com/science/population-ecology/Logistic-population-growth and those who see a line going down and assume it will keep going down at the same rate forever.
I hate him so much that I'm telling everyone I can to boycott Tesla, sell your Tesla stocks and boycott Twitter.
Thank you for that! I didn't know he owned so many. I wish News Corp called themselves News Corpse because News Corp is where honest news and integrity go to die. (Note that these publications are actually owned by News UK but one of his other companies is called News Corp)
I heard that Sky News got sold and I think since improved but you're right that there are a lot of non-Murdoch bad publications like The Daily Mail.
Is there a different Murdoch-owned new station or newspaper I don't know about in the U.K.?
Reminds me of this far-right antivaxer who suggested being exposed to a weakened version of the virus to build immunity instead of vaccines.
https://old.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/q82lqj/_/
If for some reason you or anyone you know is still using Twitter now is the time to take advantage of the outage and urge people to leave Twitter permanently. Tell your friends about alternatives to Twitter such as Bluesky and Mastodon.
That's a huge shame. I wonder if the issue is the articles about what's happening with Trump are in English and not making it to Portugal.