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>>Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be I've been putting my pants on every morning for the last several years, h
by assimpleaspossi 8mo ago
>>Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be
I've been putting my pants on every morning for the last several years, had breakfast, gone to work, and come home without worrying about any current events in the USA and my life seems no different than 50 years ago except I have modern gadgets.
Social media is not the world. In fact, it's 10% of what the real world is like and how the real world thinks. It's why I ignore social media except for HN and one other but I only scan the headlines and rarely pop into comments like this.
And I'm happy.
EDIT: And the comments below are proof why you, too, should ignore all social media and why you, too, will be happier.
- lostlogin 8mo ago[flagged]
- DauntingPear7 8mo ago[flagged]
- dc96 8mo agoFixed this for you: "I haven’t been affected, so everyone else is overreacting."
- pb7 8mo agoAlmost no one has been affected so yes.
- wredcoll 8mo ago[flagged]
- lo_zamoyski 8mo agoI never liked this quote, because it makes help a matter of anticipated reciprocal help rather than simply a good thing to do. Besides, memories are short.
- wredcoll 8mo agoHow much "good thing [we] do" is based on anticipated reward has been a topic of debate for roughly as long as we've had language, but I'll take anything that convinces people like that to actually care about people other than themselves.
- Verlyn139 8mo ago[dead]
- SturgeonsLaw 8mo agoThousands of people have put their pants on, had breakfast, gone to work, and then been intercepted by militarized federal agents, thrown to the ground, locked up in prison camps, then deported overseas. Glad things are comfy for you though.
- estearum 8mo agoOr just beaten, locked up, abused, then released, because after all they had never done anything wrong to begin with!
- wyclif 8mo agonever done anything wrong to begin with Except illegally migrate to the US without applying or engaging in human traffic and smuggling. You may not like it, but the USA is still a nation of laws. It's also a modern nation. Third world shitholes have lots of problems caused by illegal immigration because they don't do enough to enforce the law and restore order for their citizens. I'm rather glad that US culture hasn't yet turned into another Afghanistan or Pakistan.
- malnourish 8mo agoIt's not a crime to be an unauthorized resident of the United States; it's a civil offense. Knowingly hiring an ineligible worker is a crime, however. I'm curious why we aren't going after the employers attracting and hiring undocumented residents. Besides, people were being deported in significant numbers across multiple presidents in both parties without resorting to the strategy and tactics of the current administration.
- wyclif 8mo agoI know they were. But when Obama and Clinton were doing it, one of the big differences was that there were not all these Karens blowing whistles and interfering with those operations. The difference is that now there are far more deranged people who want to take the law into their own hands, and often these people are violently attacking law enforcement. I don't like having these conversations, and I don't consider myself a defender of the current ICE. It's far from a perfect organisation and it has a lot of problems. But it seems clear to me that the concept of law and an ordered society has taken a big hit. Trump Derangement Syndrome is not an excuse to allow that to evaporate in Minneapolis and all the other cities with extremely violent protests and attacks on law enforcement.
- wat10000 8mo agoIf your eyes are closed, then things look the same whether you're in the middle of a calm meadow or on a highway about to be run over by a truck. If you prefer not to look, maybe because you're convinced there's no truck, or you don't think it would help avoid the truck if there is one, fair enough. But the fact that your personal experience is unchanged is meaningless.
- account42 8mo agoIt is well known that news and social media is biased towards outrage. Most issues people get upset about are really not that big in reality and quickly forgotten once the public consciousness moves on to the next thing. If there is someone yelling "look out for the truck" all the time no matter what the rational choice is to ignore them.
- wat10000 8mo agoIgnoring them means not letting them influence your opinion either way. You should still allow yourself to reach the same opinion they're espousing by your own means, otherwise you're letting them control your opinions just as much as somebody who slavishly agrees with them. Ignore the boy crying wolf, but you should still watch for wolves. If you don't want to, fine, but "I don't look for wolves and my sheep are fine" is not a very good argument.
- zythyx 8mo ago[flagged]
- dfabulich 8mo ago> I only scan the headlines Have you scanned any headlines about ICE lately? Maybe do a quick search for news about Minnesota? (I'm pretty sure that if you'd been putting your pants on in Minnesota, you would not have written this comment.)
- assimpleaspossi 8mo agoAre you saying legal US citizens are having a tough time in Minnesota with ICE? My cousins and their families aren't. They're too busy leading their own normal, daily lives.
- estearum 8mo agoYes, two of them were just killed. Does that qualify as "having a tough time?"
- assimpleaspossi 8mo agoAnd how many people live in Minnesota? What were they doing when they were killed?
- estearum 8mo agoI don't get your point. What proportion of residents does an event need to negatively impact for you to believe that it's hassling people? Surely it can't be 100%, right? No event in any major city, even horrific events, actually affect everyone.
- assimpleaspossi 8mo agoHow many illegal aliens were killed in Minnesota?
- estearum 8mo agoHuh? Did you respond to the wrong comment?
- jocular 8mo agoIt's sad and pathetic to see such apathy.
- shevy-java 8mo agoThat is not a good analysis because it insinuates that everything stays the same. This is clearly not the case. Besides - no matter whether in a democracy or in a dictatorship, almost everyone puts on pants. It is also incorrect to confine this "merely" to social media. This is clearly government overreach. They want data from The People.
- computerthings 8mo ago[dead]
- bloqs 8mo agowhile there is nothing wrong with it, you are clearly in a stable section of a stable country