Yeah, I think it’s important to keep an eye on the US but the 24 hour news and outrage cycle built around it is just too much. I feel like in most other countries, they vote every 4 or 5 years and those occasions are the only times that politicians are clogging up the news daily, and we mostly go on with our lives in between. But the US side of it just never fkn stops. Trump has made it especially tiresome because it’s been like 10 years straight of his particular clown show now. Every day.
I don’t even mean just their politicians and whatnot. Not just the “newsworthy” stuff (according to billionaire-owned news organizations). I mean their entire victim culture (left and right) that makes them look at everything with an electron microscope for any hint of something they can take offence at. I mean their insistence that their social issues are universal, but others’ social issues are localized and unimportant. I mean their insistence that their understanding of how to do things is how everything should be done (something which set the pretty fantastic gains the Chinese LGBT movement had made in two decades of careful diplomacy back about … two decades).
Just talk about anything except FUCKING AMERICAN POLITICS. PLEASE!
edited to add
For a hint of what I’m talking about, look at this:
Just positively going over everything with a fine-toothed comb to pick out any opportunity to take offence.
Yeah, I think it’s important to keep an eye on the US but the 24 hour news and outrage cycle built around it is just too much. I feel like in most other countries, they vote every 4 or 5 years and those occasions are the only times that politicians are clogging up the news daily, and we mostly go on with our lives in between. But the US side of it just never fkn stops. Trump has made it especially tiresome because it’s been like 10 years straight of his particular clown show now. Every day.
I don’t even mean just their politicians and whatnot. Not just the “newsworthy” stuff (according to billionaire-owned news organizations). I mean their entire victim culture (left and right) that makes them look at everything with an electron microscope for any hint of something they can take offence at. I mean their insistence that their social issues are universal, but others’ social issues are localized and unimportant. I mean their insistence that their understanding of how to do things is how everything should be done (something which set the pretty fantastic gains the Chinese LGBT movement had made in two decades of careful diplomacy back about … two decades).
Just talk about anything except FUCKING AMERICAN POLITICS. PLEASE!
edited to add
For a hint of what I’m talking about, look at this:
Just positively going over everything with a fine-toothed comb to pick out any opportunity to take offence.