alt Hacker News>>Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be
I've been putting my pants on every morning for the last several years, had breakfast, gone to work, and come home without worrying about any current events in the USA and my life seems no different than 50 years ago except I have modern gadgets.
Social media is not the world. In fact, it's 10% of what the real world is like and how the real world thinks. It's why I ignore social media except for HN and one other but I only scan the headlines and rarely pop into comments like this.
And I'm happy.
EDIT: And the comments below are proof why you, too, should ignore all social media and why you, too, will be happier.
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Fixed this for you: "I haven’t been affected, so everyone else is overreacting."
> I only scan the headlines
Have you scanned any headlines about ICE lately? Maybe do a quick search for news about Minnesota?
(I'm pretty sure that if you'd been putting your pants on in Minnesota, you would not have written this comment.)
Well aren’t you just a special snowflake?
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If your eyes are closed, then things look the same whether you're in the middle of a calm meadow or on a highway about to be run over by a truck.
If you prefer not to look, maybe because you're convinced there's no truck, or you don't think it would help avoid the truck if there is one, fair enough. But the fact that your personal experience is unchanged is meaningless.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-nie...
Thousands of people have put their pants on, had breakfast, gone to work, and then been intercepted by militarized federal agents, thrown to the ground, locked up in prison camps, then deported overseas.
Glad things are comfy for you though.