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More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety

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126 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 12:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mschuster91 ◴[07 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45158175[source]▶
Ignorance is bliss, eh? But don't come and pull off the "we didn't know anything" excuse that the Germans used in droves after 1945.

And no, that's not exclusive to Trump and what ICE has been up to, vanishing people into deportation camps. Climate change, the increasing frequency of pandemics, PFAS/forever chemicals, the list of stuff being swept under the rug instead of being acted against grows longer by the day.

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1. petesergeant ◴[07 Sep 25 14:39 UTC] No.45158548[source]▶
> But don't come and pull off the "we didn't know anything" excuse that the Germans used in droves after 1945.

I have met quite a large number of people who seem to think living in a state of constant outrage is somehow making a difference. I give the money I can to the charities and causes I care about, and I’m entirely unclear on how being perpetually hyper-fixated on the latest horrors would add to that. Either do something, or don’t, but obsessively reading the news doesn’t cause any change to occur.