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US Politics 1w

cheese_of_the_world_unite

 It really sucks how the news cycle pushes important ongoing shit under the rug. Ever since the WHCD shooting, I’ve seen considerably less conversation around the Iran War and its effects. We’ve gotten used to the effects, and now we don’t talk about it.
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Anonymous 1w

Honestly that’s why unless you’re boots-on-the-ground type organizing for the “big day,” yknow, it’s best to just take keynotes and move on with your day. Like yes it’s important to know what is going on but what is most important is ensuring your ability to function and still try to find the moments that make you feel some sort of happy. We already know the truths of this country and system

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Anonymous 1w

If the Iran War isn’t dominating the coverage you’re seeing, what’s the main topic?

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 1w

Those truths won’t change. Each new horror is just another brick in the wall and the news understands it can weaponize constant coverage to make us feel scared and beaten down and give up before anything even happens. It’s a way to instill pre-compliance and normalize everything. We already know it’s all fake and not normal, yknow

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 1w

Everything is just one big distraction

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 1w

ALL IN ALL IT WAS ALL JUST BRICKS IN THE WALL!

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

now I gotta go listen to The Wall straight through, wish I hadn’t left my copy of the movie at my folks’ house smh

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 1w

Anyways, to respond to your actual point, I know this is how it is in this bitch of a country, but when something is so obviously an opportunity for me to win hearts and minds to my perspective, and it’s in EVERYONE around me’s consciousness already, that’s something I want people talking about. The Iran War discussion was just that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

The financial news I’ve read is mainly focused on the war, but that has recently taken a back seat to the Fed decision and a number of earnings reports in the last week. Pretty absurd that the market just ignores the high oil prices rn

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Financial news is talking about the Iran War, for sure. But it’s no longer front-page in the general news. That’s shifted to the shooting at the dinner and the recent Supreme Court ruling to completely defang the VRA. And I completely understand why defanging the VRA is now the front page, it just annoys me that the current government does so much dumb shit in a day that it’s hard to even formulate effective lines against them before they move on to the next batshit evil move.

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

And I’m aware that it’s a conscious strategy on their part of flooding the zone, as well as cramming the craziest stuff they can into the current moment because they’re most likely going to lose their majorities in the legislature. And it is admittedly a difficult one to deal with because to change minds you have to have basically the same conversation multiple times, and their zone-flooding does not allow for consistency of rhetoric like that.

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

Ahhhh you’re right, definitely the VRA. Lowkey it should take the front page for a bit, but the Iran war should come forward soon. The 60 day deadline before congressional approval is approaching

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

Well as Steve Bannon said “flood the zone”

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