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Not sure why you had to make this political and include “lefty” in that. Right leaning social media is just as alarmist. At the height of the BLM protests you
by enumjorge 6y ago
Not sure why you had to make this political and include “lefty” in that. Right leaning social media is just as alarmist.
At the height of the BLM protests you would have thought Seattle and Portland were anarchist war zones based on coverage by conservative news outlets. That wasn’t the case at all.
- roflc0ptic 6y agoI live in a lefty bubble. I can (literally) only imagine how terrible right leaning social media is, but I don't personally experience it. I don't mean it politically so much as culturally: I am of the left, and I'm so tired of and saddened by watching people I care about celebrate traumatizing themselves as a moral imperative.
- enumjorge 6y agoI understand. It's tough. On the one hand I don't want to stick my head in the sand and disconnect from what's happening in the world, but I also need to consider my mental health. I really hope we can ratchet back the insanity some after the election.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoIt's not sticking the head in the sand. As mentioned above the info has to be actionable to be useful. Endless discussing in circles with persons of different opinion in your peer group is a waste of energy. Either they come to similar, or at least less controversial opinions as time passes, because of their own experience(es), or they don't. If they, or in reverse you in their position just agree to be left alone, nothing is won.