I never paid attention to the newspapers, so I don’t know if it’s always like this.
All defending maximum murder or suffering (through genocide or global warming). What the hell is wrong with this country?
If these are the sources of information of a population it’s not hard to imagine the result. I am really hoping it’s just the rich playing with their toys (the newspapers) the way they like, but that it is not really effective in brainwashing the population. That they question what is fed to them.
Anyway, I just thought it amazing and to share my depression with more people. Maybe that’s just every day news and nothing unusual. I imagine it’s probably all owned by the same zionist or super villain or something.
Since the image can’t be read, the one on the left says that if Australia doesn’t support the international court on netanyahuhaha the country becomes terrorist. The second is the typical “people are not supporting my genocide, I’m being holocausted”. The third is asking for harsher punishment for those “fools” destroying the economy and wasting people’s time with imaginary environment issues that could lead to human extinction.
edit. I posted to lemmy.world by mistake. Lemmy is so confusing... edit2. Is the image showing? It didn't show the first try.
You have such a positive point of view. It's interesting seeing how different people can be. I would focus obsessively on the part of that money that goes to those fossil fuel billionaires. You are focusing on the part where it goes to community programs.
Though I don't know where it goes. I just assumed it goes to them, like a big part of my taxes that also go to fund the military.
About activism, I've done a fair bit and it affected my life a lot. I'm an old pessimist guy. I just try not to help to make the problem worse now (making sure I don't fund them as much as I can). These things affect me too much. If I had to pay a fine for the activism I did in the past I could end up doing something really bad like destroying my life or someone else's. I'm a little too radical and I end up turning people away from my causes because of it. Nowadays I try (and fail) to not even talk about to people because I end up making them hate the cause.
I posted it here because I think most of the community agrees with it. Circlejerk you could say. If it was on reddit it would just lead to endless meaningless fights and abuses.
Radical power is valid, and being angry is extremely understandable. It takes a lot of courage to be able to step back like you've done, I respect the absolute hell out of that.
Believe me I'm not all positive about things, I have my personal motivations and I've been through enough training to know where and when to focus my energy, that's all.
I've been in fights with people too and I'm easily drawn into them, I've honestly only been able to stop myself because I've been through a ton of therapy after some particularly traumatic experiences. I've spent many a night laying awake furious about what's happening in the world. Those subsidies are a particular point of pain for me and I hope to be able to do something about it one day, but participating in and organizing a campaign are very different things. For now, I'm on regen as I take some time to process the last week and spend time with my family.
I do really appreciate your post, it's been a good venting opportunity haha, and amazing to know how many allies there are in this community. ✊