This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC. - ThreadSky

mrose.ink • 76 days ago

This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.

Reposted from Zandek

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

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naturerulesus.bsky.social•75 days ago

📌

beihai.bsky.social•76 days ago

but it is braindead, that is like setting fire to your own house, your place of business, your kids schools under assumption that they can't put out all the fires but the end result is a lot of things will burn down.
all but the Magaiest of Maga won't understand who the arson is.

johngage1.bsky.social•76 days ago

1/ “The extent that propaganda is based on current news, it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. A man caught up in the news must remain on the surface of the event; he is carried along in the current, and can at no time take a respite to judge and appreciate; he can never stop to reflect.

johngage1.bsky.social•76 days ago

2/ We already have mentioned man's inability to consider several facts or events simultaneously and to make a synthesis of them in order to face or to oppose them. One thought drives away another; old facts are chased by new ones.

johngage1.bsky.social•76 days ago

3/ Under these conditions there can be no thought. And, in fact, modern man does not think about current problems; he feels them. He reacts, but be does not understand them any more than he takes responsibility for them. He is even less capable of spotting any inconsistency between successive facts;

johngage1.bsky.social•76 days ago

4/ man's capacity to forget is unlimited. This is one of the most important and useful points for the propagandist, who can always be sure that a particular propaganda theme, statement, or event will be forgotten within a few weeks”

- Jacques Ellul

mrjuicy.bsky.social•76 days ago

📌

madammem.bsky.social•75 days ago

Another option is not protesting specific agenda items but the entirety of government actions in general.

Protest the chaos that is being caused internally in the US and aimed at your allies.

There are many ways to fight back against a corrupt government.

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•76 days ago

I’m just a random person. It doesn’t matter if I’m overloaded. The problem is that our representatives seem to be overloaded and flailing.

ypsidoodle.bsky.social•76 days ago

The advice is great, but the analysis before it is nonsense. Trump is not engaging in a "strategic exploitation of cognitive limits": he doesn't know what those words mean. None of these guys are that sophisticated. It's pure hatred and revenge, nothing more.

staidwinnow.bsky.social•75 days ago

He's doing little, but the Project 2025 guys are meticulous.

ypsidoodle.bsky.social•75 days ago

True. He was never going to be the problem, his lackeys were.

And while the 2025 folks have no conception of how peopled things work, they don't care so long as they have someone under their boot.

acornalley.bsky.social•75 days ago

My Key Issue - WHY ARE OUR ELECTED DEMOCRATS VOTING WITH THE REPUBLICANS?
Literally QUIT THAT 💩 - MAKES YOU LOOK like you’ve been bought $$$ and PAID FOR!!
Repost please!
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/31-senate-democrats-vote-to-advance-trump-nominee-who-voted-to-invalidate-the-2020-election/

vintageadventure.bsky.social•76 days ago

thank you

deloebrenti.bsky.social•76 days ago

One problem is we've been overloaded for five years.

milesew.bsky.social•76 days ago

I'm focused on writing about the intersection of law and transgender existence! I'm a lawyer and trans and can write OK, so I feel this is my most effective place. It definitely helps to not stare at all this: *sweeping arm gestures*

maryvvmahon.bsky.social•76 days ago

That was a follow

mrose.ink•76 days ago

I’m also a lawyer and I work in tech policy. My fall-back has always been “if I’m not getting paid to focus on it, and I can’t immediately impact it, tune it out.”

staidwinnow.bsky.social•75 days ago

What to do when one is not paid for any of it and can not impact any of it for the foreseeable future?

Stay off the news?

weezieweaver.bsky.social•76 days ago

📌

alicehuzar.bsky.social•76 days ago

The urgent clouds the important is so good to remember

mukhayoga.bsky.social•76 days ago

So true - listen to AOC, Adam Kinzinger, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence, Jon Stewart, Pete buttigieg these people give a better understanding and calmness. If you get over welmed take a break - don't listen to the noise. Stay calm

splitdecision.bsky.social•76 days ago

Wish I would have seen this before I ordered a shit ton of my favorite Colombian coffee beans. 😂. Anyway. It is good advise.

mrose.ink•76 days ago

I mean, nothing bad about having extra coffee on hand!

mmorgenschoen.bsky.social•76 days ago

worked perfectly on dems in congress

lazyruralgentleman.bsky.social•76 days ago

Do not comply

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