The comments on Lemmy are sooooo bleak. I don't blame people for being negative, that would be ridiculous, but it does get to me, bit by bit, chipping away at what I think of as an essential store of hope that's necessary if we're going to be able to bring about a less awful future.

Here's where I wanted to post the meme of Marge Simpson asking her kids to lighten up but I gave up and typed this sentence instead.

[–] aesviation@lemmings.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Ignorance is bliss. They don't want us to be upset because then we might do something about it.

I'm glad people are waking up from this toxic positivity and starting to see things for what they are.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Needing hopeium to keep resisting is an essential vulnerability, and a major tell. It tells me you think these fuckers can be compromised with, it tells me you think we still have a planet if we don't resist, it tells me you don't actually care about what's happening.

And if you aren't reading military theory, it tells me you don't even care about winning. It's just vibes.

Everyone always says the kids will save us. Fuck that. I remember being one of the kids, struggling for my fucking life in an impossibly cruel fucked up world, and hearing that dhit felt fucked. Fuck you. They can help. Helping is a privilege they're entitled to, and I appreciate when they do; love to see it. But fixing this is our responsibility, and you're a piece of fucking shit if you pawn that off on them-like everyone who did that shit to us.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Huh.

Go fuck yourself.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago) (1 children)

I just always feel to need to correct inaccuracies when I see claims about X group of people. Ignoring the MAGA lean of Gen Z males will not help us.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's fair. And maybe part of why I felt the need to leave that comment is because Christmas makes me feel awful and lonely. And maybe it's unrealistic of me to want people to be careful with their tone because of sensitive people like myself.

But the tone of Lemmy and of people in general is making it so hard for me to stay engaged. And I doubt I'm alone in this.

You're certainly not wrong, it just seems like every single time I click on a post with an optimistic tone, that optimism is absolutely shattered by the comments. I watch Last Week Tonight because the writers of that show understand how bleak their stories are and inject them with silly humor to balance it out. But even the places on Lemmy which are supposed to be silly are flooded with negative political posts. There's just no escaping it.

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