• Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
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          The footprints of our shoes were already there
          You stole even the cat's food
          And you're still licking the plate
          Super pissed off with this ungrateful bunch
          Today I hit the drums hard
          Until they accuse me of mistreatment
          If you don't understand the fact
          Well, I throw it at you as cumbia, bossa nova, tango or vallеnato
          As calabó or bamboo, highly defiant
          With hot blood as Timbuktu
          We're insidе the menu
          2Pac is called 2Pac, because of Túpac Amaru of Peru
          America isn't only the USA, pal
          This is from Tierra del Fuego to Canada
          You have to be so stupid, such an airhead
          It's like saying that Africa is only Morocco
          These scoundrels forgot that the calendar they use
          Was invented by the Mayans
          With the pre-Columbian Valdivia for a long time, uh
          This continent walks
          But even with all the marines
          They can't get the peasant plague out off the showcase
          This goes for the boss of the company
          The machete isn't just for cutting cane
          It's also for cutting heads
          
          Here we are, we always are
          We haven't left, we won't leave
          Here we are, so that you remember
          If you want it, my machete bites
          
          The paramilitaries, the guerrillas
          The children of the conflict, the gangs
          The blacklists, the false positives
          The murdered journalists, the disappeared
          The narco-governments, everything they stole
          Those who manifest and those who were forgotten
          The persecutions, the coups
          The bankrupt country, the exiles
          The devalued peso
          The drug trafficking, the cartels
          The invasions, the immigrants without papers
          Five presidents in eleven days
          Close range shooting at the hands of the police
          More than a hundred years of torture
          The Nova Trova singing in the midst of a dictatorship
          We are the blood that blows
          The atmospheric pressure
          Gambino, my brother, this really is America```
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    First mass shooting in the US.

    Unfortunately Montenegro beat us to the punch this year with a mass shooting killing 10 earlier yesterday.

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      But anything outside the US doesn’t count, maybe even doesn’t exist, according to a majority of US citizens.
      It’s truly disturbing how common it is for 'Muricans to just forget and/or not care about anything outside the US. And even for things within the US, they forget timezones are a thing even though their own country has several.

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    12am Happy new year! 1am Friend an hour back: Now it’s new years Me: well, I’ve been in 2025 an hour and it seems uneventful, probably a good sign

    I’m sorry for jinxing it, everyone

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    None of which happened in most people’s local areas. Stop reading national news on a regular basis. Focus on your small little life, your family, your neighborhood, your little area.

    Of course when you cast a wide net nationally or globally, there will always be negative things happening, and then if you mainly focus on those events, you’ll act as if negative things are the only things.

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          I think he is wrong because being informed and aware of what has happened in the world does not equate to “mentally masturbating to disaster porn”. We do have a real problem with sensationalized media, but the solution is not to just be uninformed…

          I sometimes hear similar logic as an argument against things like funding science research: “Why spend money and time on a deep space observatory? We can never get to those places in space anyway”

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        Therefore I must pay attention to everything? People were not designed to be globally concerned constantly.

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          By this logic, every war is safer today than in all of human history, so who fucking cares.

          /s

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          I mean, I get it, but this is the same logic that is sometimes used for school shootings. It’s abhorrent to ignore a large increase compared to other places just because it is still a small chance, and therefore do nothing.

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            I like making these less likely, but I know my government’s just gonna pump more money into cops and surveillance rather than do anything effective like making people less disenfranchised and desperate.

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      tbh i have been doing this since the election was done with in november ‘24 & i haven’t felt better! my feed is just tech & other interests w no national/global news & keyword filters for the bs the news pushes pretty heavy: trump, musk, bezos, israel, etc. it’s definitely helped me regain some of my sanity.

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        I learn most major news nowadays BECAUSE it’s a meme in an unrelated forum. There’s no point worrying about mega and sometimes global news events that you could literally do nothing about and often might not even affect you.

        Just enjoy your life best you can and minimize that stress.

        Good for you.

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    series name is Community btw. great series i watched when it was just out