They really do.
The constant doom and gloom on this platform is kinda sad actually. Nothing good ever happens.
I can’t remember the last time Ive read actual good news at this point. Anything slightly less terrifying in the news feels like finding a foothold in solo tug-of-war against a crowd.
There are communities for good news. e.g. !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social
I am subscribed to several of them, but even there I am at the point now where I never even dare trying to read the comments. It’s always either “oh you thought this was a good thing but actually here’s an in depth explanation of how it makes thing worse actually” or “well this is too little too late, we’re all fucked regardless”.
If you have to ignore context for news to be good, then it isn’t really good news, is it?
I can guilty of this for sure. I try not to, but it’s hard sometimes. It’s just too easy to see the orphan crushing machine.
I should really go back to therapy, come to think of it
I mean, we all have bad days. I’m talking more of the ones that pretty much never have anything constructive to say, only point out minor faults or say it’s not good enough, and apparently saying nothing at all just doesn’t seem like an option.
I think I know exactly the comment that inspired this post.
Well it’s mostly because the good news is meaningless, and once you recognize it as such, it becomes almost an insult.
Imagine a massive fire that’s wiping out your city. Imagine all the reports coming out about the death and destruction. And then comes along some article saying something like “local group studies fire and concludes it feels really bad about it’s actions and is worried it might be put out soon”. That’s it. That’s the good news. And people holding it up and going “See? It’s not all bad!” are deluding themselves.
Look at the “good news” articles in the US these days. All are meaningless posturing that offer no real resistance towards the horrors that are happening. Take the Disney banning Kimmel thing. So many articles about how people are up in arms and are canceling their subscriptions and how Disney is really worried… And then you look and their source is like 5 random people’s tweets and pure speculation that Disney feels bad.
Sorry, I’m not going to latch my hope onto drivel that isn’t even reflective of reality. False positivity isn’t real positivity.
Not sure about the news but…
https://piefed.social/f/wholesome
Hope you all take care of your brain today.
I’m probably one of those and I apologize for it. I try to refrain from pointing out the flaw in some of those “uplifting news” but sometimes, people are missing some information that makes these not so uplifting after all.
Like, I recently commented on that community about the Pacific plastic patch on its way to be cleaned. It’s good news, IF you don’t consider the fact that there are four other patches.
Maybe I should block those communities and let them be. “Ignorance is bliss” after all. Them and me.
It’s good news, IF you don’t consider the fact that there are four other patches.
Those garbage patches have been there for years though. It’s not like the plastic in the Pacific patch is just getting shuttled to the other patches.
The existence of other plastic patches doesn’t detract from the positive impact of cleaning up the Pacific patch
That’s definitely an example of the attitude I’m talking about.
Even considering there are four others, the fact that one is getting cleaned should mean there is hope for the others.
How does the fact that there are 5 patches make it not good news that we’re getting started on one of them?
I have my doubts about whether they’ll actually get the funding to get it off the ground, but that’s a different matter.
How it feels seeing @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone post ;)
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I think of good news during times like these like I’d think of finding $10 on the ground while watching my house burn down. We’re losing so, so much more than we’re gaining day after day. Sure, take some time to rest when you need it, but never take your eyes off the prize - we need to start truly preparing to physically fight back against the rise of fascism around the world, and we need to do it yesterday. Allow yourself a minute or two to be happy about good news if it helps, but don’t let it distract you.
True, true. A lot of them, maybe most of them, are trolls. I know their schedule.
If they are, and if their goal is to keep us angry, then:
- Bad news: They’re succeeding
- Good News: I’m angry at them rather than whatever they’re aiming for.
I also feel there’s an equal chance they’re just perpetually online buzzkills / Debbie Downers.
Again, I know their schedule. Here are their priorities right now that’s probably pretty to close to the correct order:
- Promote anything kirk that they can to keep that the conversation and not the nazi shit the admin is doing or the epstein connections for trump
- Serial downvote anyone, posts or comments, they think isn’t promoting what they want.
- “Discuss” things in huge diatribes that really don’t say anything and look like AI wrote, to hide genuine people’s opinions.
- Try and get anything positive or fun downvoted by themselves, brigading or convince others to for “reasons.”
- Cause a general vibe of anger on the front page.
I feel like the Epstein thing keeps getting brought up rather than ignored like you are suggesting. There be a new article about some bad and how it completely undermines democracy and breaks multiple amendments and laws and they’ll just be like, “That’s a distraction from Epstein”
Don’t ignore one thing that is CURRENTLY happening for another thing that you care about. Nevermind that an argument can be made that the Epstein files likely won’t change any votes.
It’s a balance. Someone brought up the pacific garbage patch. Nitpicking about the existence of the other garbage patches does not detract from the fact that one is being cleaned. Hurrah. However, if the clean up efforts were simultaneously releasing sea-life killing chemicals into the water, then yes that might be something worth bringing up. Understanding what is actually context for any given issue is great. Fluff news in the vein of !orphancrushing@lemmy.world are deservedly picked on. Legitimately good news don’t need the have shadows cast on them from issues that aren’t relevant. And even if something is somewhat relevant (like the existence of other garbage patches) one can frame it in a way that isn’t shitting on the first bit of good news. Like “oh, great, I’m glad to hear this garbage patch is getting cleaned, hope this success inspires efforts to clean up the others too” as opposed to “who cares, there’s more”.
There are these bell curve people who have surface scratch information about a million things because they spend so much time online, yet they lack the wisdom to know how and when to connect bits of information together.
