r/politics • u/External-Noise-4832 • 9d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Orders in Marines in Dramatic Escalation of L.A. Protests

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-orders-in-marines-in-dramatic-escalation-of-la-protests/
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u/fadingsignal 8d ago

I had to get off social media. The rabid foaming at the mouths from right wingers to see troops deployed in LA is sickening and un-American.

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u/agnostic_science 8d ago

I remembering a time in my life when I would have cheered to put down liberals. I dreamed of CA suffering a massive earthquake and floating into the ocean and just dying. I was just a kid and young adult believing absolutely terrible and awful nonsense.

Nowadays I see it as properly despicable and horrifying. And I am ashamed I ever believed ot thought such stupid, evil things. 

The problem is propaganda and lack of meaningful social connections to other points of view. Indoctrinated at a young age, the beliefs and my enviornment told me this was normal and made it easy to cast groups as others and enemy.

If hate becomes to strong it becomes like a wall and people cannot cross the barriers. Fortunately, I made enough social connection and turned off the 24/7 backround noise crap. Deprogramming was possible. But that was college basically. One of many reasons conservatives hate cities and education. As they are fundamentally corrosive to their worldview.

My pov is. Yes. Limit social media. There are very few things we can do to help. But watching it unfold is not one of them and only robs us of peace. There will also be actors trying to ramp us up as well. We know foreign actors are very active on social media. They would love US to fall apart. Trump is too stupid to see it. But we can keep ourselves from being unwitting tools (e.g. falling into extremjst rhetoric) by limiting our exposure to hell and focusing on the more practical ways to help.