I used to be in a bad space, getting off the internet more and living life more helps a lot, I am not trying to dismiss your concerns, but I think you will find the real world to be much less extreme than what’s on the internet.

I mostly stopped following politics, the amount of injustice make me angry and unable to function, but I came to the realization that I am not the kind of person who is going to devote his quite literally limited time on earth to trying to fix other people’s stupidity, I go out and vote in elections, then I live my life, that’s it.

Being online and reading people bitching about stuff and saying how bad it’s gonna be doesn’t really get you anywhere only into a bad space mentally, so why read it? I have curated a homepage on lemmy thats almost completely politics free, what’s politics is mostly satire to make me laugh, I feel better, and I focus on being a better me.

I just bought a car that consumes a lot more fuel than my previous one, but I won’t have kids, so not even cycling vegans can compete with my carbon footprint reduction, only the childless ones.

This is what happens when someone can’t put themselves into their user’s shoes and then wonder why a product isn’t doing as well as it is.

They proclaim the product is great, it’s everyone else that’s the problem

Something something, nose, spider face

I knew it, that sick motherfucker switched to Windows 11 voluntarily didn’t he?

A ton of parts of what you are driving, all your maga hats, a ton of stuff that’s in your house

On the other hand I am going to see Jimmy Carr live for like 30-40 euros.

I think that actually has a value, concerts I find to be meh, it’s the same music you listen to anyway just very expensive, worse quality and surrounded by sweat, alcohol and too many people.

I prefer going to a festival and then maybe there is a band like and maybe I discover some new ones.

But not this one?

Is that typical?

Jimmy Carr joke should hit home https://youtube.com/shorts/mUTjyzOOccA

The duty to vote in Belgium belongs to all adult Belgians. EU citizens can vote in European and municipal elections. Other foreigners have local voting rights when they have lived in the country for more than five years. Attendance is compulsory for Belgians in Belgium, not doing so results in a fine, 3 fines equals the loss of civil rights.

It can be done, but I was also part of an election oversight or whatever committee, we counted votes and stuff. One of the things we did was we took a vote urn to the local retirement home and well I witnessed what happened when voting is mandatory. In the past It was mandatory in our country as it was part of the eastern bloc and this man just took the first paper, not even reading which party he voted for and just put it in the envelope and voted that way.

So there are definitely downsides to trying to encourage voting too.

Because any sort of goodwill attempt to eliminate people from voting will just increase the chance of it being abused by said nazis, well fascists, because nazis were the fascists from germany.

Also fun fact, like many things IQ tests have a history rooted in racism, so if your plan was to use that then bad luck.

Fun fact number #2 the likes of Trump, Orbán (HUN), Fico (SVK) almost always win because of a low voter turnout.

The previous US election had what, 20 million more voters and surprise surprise, Trump lost.

Extremists are always a passionate vocal minority the more you restrict who can vote the easier time they have to take over the election.

If anything suggesting fines for not voting is a far less dumb idea than the shit you just said.

Facts are that Hillary and Kamala lost against trump and Biden won.

Wonder what’s the biggest difference between them

There is only really Noel Deyzel from social media as a positive role model

But, Trump got less votes than in 2020 didjnt he? This theory doesn’t hold up, there wasnt some surprising mass turn put by the republicans democrats didn’t turn up to vote and there are two big reasosns for that, woman and poc.

Well you go on a vacation and then sort of just not return.

Trump won because the DNC underestimated the sexists, racists and the idiot woke who think they somehow did something with this for palestine.

Editorial note:

i know woke is a poisoned word but I like to use to describe idiots who think they are so smart and better than others that they would rather let trump elected than admit that voting for the lesser evil is the right thing to do

Not only that, but they also contribute to climate change per capita way more than any other country and the climate don’t care about imaginary lines painted on maps

I think being a “her” and not being white took away more votes from her than anyone would like to admit.

Bruh, people are dying from lack of abortion access, thats already a cause of the first trump term. Excess deaths from mishandling covid by the trump administration is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands