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I didn't say "advance my political views", I said make a positive impact. Help people in your community. Give your extra time and resources to aid others who ne

• everdrive 1y ago
  I agree with you, and I think that helping people around you, volunteering, and generally just being a good neighbor are some of the biggest impacts individuals can make. I'm not sure that heavily engaging with the news really helps you here. We might just be speaking from different frames of reference. If I say "disengage from the news" and someone hears "put your head in the sand and give up," then I agree that's not a great move. On the other hand, if someone is glued to an outrage feed, and "disengagement" still means that they have a good general sense of what's going on, then I'd say that's a positive move.
  • johnnyanmac 1y ago
    There's definitely a spectrum, but to be fair I do see a lot more "put your head in the sand" than "being too engaged and doomer" . Or rather, it varies from community to community. This one is a lot of the former. Ones I see on Reddit are probably a bit too much of the latter everytime I see stuff like "it's too late to vote in 2026" or "protests aren't doing anything, we need more". Saying that just ignores all the lawyers and judges who are in fact slapping such attempts away in real time.
    • everdrive 1y ago
      That's a really fair point, and frame of reference can skew a lot of conversations about what people _should_ be doing. If you talk about parenting advice and "just letting kids be themselves" the advice lands quite differently if you're speaking to an 1800s German family vs. a hippie commune in the 1960s. One may desperately need the advice, and another might need to be reined in a bit.