US Politics Thread

[Ocelot]

Please, world, blow up America at this point.

[OrangeRibbon]

Yup, we deserve it right now.

[Skynet]

y'all are fucked. Why couldn't the US just be a nobody that we didn't have to hear about all day long?

[ian]

I don't want the U.S. to be blown up... Today I saw some people on Facebook talking about not deadnaming the Gulf of America and the whole conversation and indeed concept was honestly quite fucking hilarious.

I mean of course I feel bad you're all getting fucked over particularly hard right now, and I suspect a lot of the participants wouldn't give a shit about deadnaming real actual human beings with thoughts and feelings... But Jesus Christ do you guys have a great sense of humor in the face of unspeakable horrors.

Love all y'all who aren't shit sticks! Keep your chin up! I specifically used Y'all and spelled humour wrong as a sign of my great love and appreciation of your culture, because I'd never do either of those things ordinarily.
Train wrecks are hard to look away from though.

[Bandit]

https://x.com/smubpublius/status/1895626995675120063

[melancholy]

I’ve never had depression before, but apparently my family has noticed change with me lately. I wasn’t sure why, I got a new awesome job, I got a $6000 pay raise, I have far less stress at work, and I’ve lost a little weight because I actually have a job that lets me take lunches. What could I possibly be depressed about?

But then after yesterday’s events, I realized that with a less stressful job, I’m on my phone a lot more. And a habit I have is swiping to the left so I can see my Apple News widget for the top stories. When I worked at my old job where I’d put my phone down at 9am and not pick it up again until 7pm, I’d only see the news in the morning and at night. But now I’m glancing at it every half hour and I realized being reminded of the downfall of our government was constantly making me angry.

So I deleted the Apple News app, I deleted Twitter, and I’m thinking of putting an app limit timer on BlueSky. I will get my news in my 30 minute morning commute to work from NPR and that’s all I’m going to expose myself to it. I hate to have my head in the sand from all the terrible things going on, but goddamn, people can’t stay sane from fixating on it.

[Bandit]

https://x.com/Konraddin/status/1895688978189386208

[OrangeRibbon]

I’ve never had depression before, but apparently my family has noticed change with me lately. I wasn’t sure why, I got a new awesome job, I got a $6000 pay raise, I have far less stress at work, and I’ve lost a little weight because I actually have a job that lets me take lunches. What could I possibly be depressed about?

But then after yesterday’s events, I realized that with a less stressful job, I’m on my phone a lot more. And a habit I have is swiping to the left so I can see my Apple News widget for the top stories. When I worked at my old job where I’d put my phone down at 9am and not pick it up again until 7pm, I’d only see the news in the morning and at night. But now I’m glancing at it every half hour and I realized being reminded of the downfall of our government was constantly making me angry.

So I deleted the Apple News app, I deleted Twitter, and I’m thinking of putting an app limit timer on BlueSky. I will get my news in my 30 minute morning commute to work from NPR and that’s all I’m going to expose myself to it. I hate to have my head in the sand from all the terrible things going on, but goddamn, people can’t stay sane from fixating on it.

Yeah I have been trying to do the same and limit my news intake since it has been so damn bleak.

[ian]

I’ve never had depression before, but apparently my family has noticed change with me lately. I wasn’t sure why, I got a new awesome job, I got a $6000 pay raise, I have far less stress at work, and I’ve lost a little weight because I actually have a job that lets me take lunches. What could I possibly be depressed about?

But then after yesterday’s events, I realized that with a less stressful job, I’m on my phone a lot more. And a habit I have is swiping to the left so I can see my Apple News widget for the top stories. When I worked at my old job where I’d put my phone down at 9am and not pick it up again until 7pm, I’d only see the news in the morning and at night. But now I’m glancing at it every half hour and I realized being reminded of the downfall of our government was constantly making me angry.

So I deleted the Apple News app, I deleted Twitter, and I’m thinking of putting an app limit timer on BlueSky. I will get my news in my 30 minute morning commute to work from NPR and that’s all I’m going to expose myself to it. I hate to have my head in the sand from all the terrible things going on, but goddamn, people can’t stay sane from fixating on it.

I hope you're ok, and don't get too caught up in it. It's good you've taken measures to try and help even if you yourself haven't noticed a change. Usually it is people you spend the most time with that notice the degradation of a mental state.
(For me the first time was my boss noticed me sighing a lot out of nowhere after 8 months of work and said that even though my physical performance wasn't affected, my dealing with other people was)

Now that you mention it, I live in my own little world for the most part except for a quick Reddit browse before bed, and quick check of Facebook (including feed, marketplace and messages) in the morning, or whenever I wake up.

Usually I get about I'd guess on average 30 minutes odd before I've had enough and start or end my day, but in the past kinda 4ish months that's probably come down to about 10 minutes give or take and by then I've decided I've had enough and move on with trying to be productive or sleep.

I don't know if it's exclusively related to what's going on over there, or if it's just in general things seem to be getting worse everywhere but I have noticed a huge decrease in the amount of time I spend learning what's happening with people on those 2 platforms.

But the bright side is, anytime I start to think or people tell me that the world is getting worse and going to hell, I have to remind them and myself that it's only getting worse if you conveniently ignore all of recorded history. :olol: it's always been a shit hole, and people have always been cunts, it's just we haven't been alive long enough, and aren't in enough locations to have seen most of it.

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I’ve never had depression before, but apparently my family has noticed change with me lately. I wasn’t sure why, I got a new awesome job, I got a $6000 pay raise, I have far less stress at work, and I’ve lost a little weight because I actually have a job that lets me take lunches. What could I possibly be depressed about?

But then after yesterday’s events, I realized that with a less stressful job, I’m on my phone a lot more. And a habit I have is swiping to the left so I can see my Apple News widget for the top stories. When I worked at my old job where I’d put my phone down at 9am and not pick it up again until 7pm, I’d only see the news in the morning and at night. But now I’m glancing at it every half hour and I realized being reminded of the downfall of our government was constantly making me angry.

So I deleted the Apple News app, I deleted Twitter, and I’m thinking of putting an app limit timer on BlueSky. I will get my news in my 30 minute morning commute to work from NPR and that’s all I’m going to expose myself to it. I hate to have my head in the sand from all the terrible things going on, but goddamn, people can’t stay sane from fixating on it.

Yeah I have been trying to do the same and limit my news intake since it has been so damn bleak.

Same here, depression is tough. I had some other stuff going on and a couple therapy sessions were nice. I have a problem where I don't have an outlet to talk about problems and the therapist was a good way to clear my head. Getting Twitter off my phone really helped. I was scrolling Bluesky way too much while I had the flu, it definitely made me feel more sick. :olol:

There's only so much we can process, especially with how little we can do. Some of my friends and coworkers are getting involved in local movements.

[Bandit]

The way I look at life here is America has been fucked since 2001. I was depressed with it back then because I was about to get out of high school and everything looked so sweet in the 90s. I expected that was going to go on forever and could not wait to get through college and get a job so I can buy cool shit. But then there was the Dot Com Bubble burst and the real estate bubble burst and 9/11 that made being 18 trying to get into a good job not nearly as fun.

So I look at everything cynically and just expect our politicians to be assholes who suck at their job.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/china-rejects-additional-us-tariffs-vows-to-take-countermeasures.html

Key Points

• China announced Tuesday it would impose additional tariffs of up to 15% on some U.S. goods from March 10 and restrict exports to 15 U.S. companies.
• The retaliatory measures from China's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce came just as additional U.S. tariffs took effect on Chinese goods.
• After the first round of new U.S. tariffs in February, China's retaliatory measures included raising duties on certain U.S. energy imports and putting two U.S. companies on an unreliable entities list that could restrict their ability to do business in the Asian country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLjIcr-GsCI

[Bandit]

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1897628523625406559

[Dr. Zoidberg]

That's cringy as fuck.

[Bandit]

That's cringy as fuck.

Oh the cringe has been very deep for Democrats this month

https://x.com/AlexisWilkins/status/1897864536239075797

[Roofus]

That's cringy as fuck.

Oh the cringe has been very deep for Democrats this month

https://x.com/AlexisWilkins/status/1897864536239075797

With very few exceptions, the Democrats have been nothing but a bunch of fascist collaborators

[Roofus]

It's illegal to boycott Tesla now

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Thank goodness we can still boycott beer, butter, syrup, ice cream, French fries, cereal, Target, baseball, soft drinks, and Starbucks like a conservative would.

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[pixel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1 ... _on_tesla/

This gives off strong "My dad told you to stop" vibes.

[melancholy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1 ... _on_tesla/

This gives off strong "My dad told you to stop" vibes.

“I stuck up for the NFL, I stuck up for a lot of American companies. And other companies, but American companies. I did…I did big favors for the NFL…I do favors for…um…”

He can only think of one company he ever helped, and it’s not even a company.