I do at least 2-3 hours a day and it's beginning to feel like a crack addiction.
I am also realizing I get mad at the news so much, but at the end of the day if I don't use this information for some sort of praxis, what is even the point of just regularly getting mad?
Hahaha imagine "reading the news"
if a news story is actually important it'll show up on hexshrekneeded.chat where i'll get to see people with the correct opinion dunk on it
almost zero, ever since I realized that bourgeois electoralism is a busy box. it's a lot less stressful.
I read the occasional news but nowadays I mostly just see the jokes people make about it here
uh what? literally everything that is happening in the world is bourgeois electoralism? you don't need to know anything about what is going on outside your room?
the biggest problem with online leftists is they don't actually understand anything about how power works in the real world so they look like absolute fools outside safe spaces
I seem to remember one thread in particular a few months ago where you, /u/emizeko, wound up defending the Thai monarchy and military because you found a single article on a right-wing conspiracy website and believed every word because you don't know dick about anything
most of the time I looked at news it was US political machinations, which is what I was talking about. spectacle crap
but go ahead and make up maximalist shit to get mad about
I seem to remember
eat my shorts
eat my shorts
Lol you edited this from "link or shove it up your ass"
here's the link. you even got downvoted, remember those?
https://hexbear.net/post/52990
wound up defending the Thai monarchy and military
this is your characterization of pointing out that the protests were backed by exiled billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra and NED? pathetic
lol "even got downvoted", get fucked reddit brain
pointing out that the protests were backed by exiled billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra and NED?
It's very clear you don't actually know who this person is or what the protests are about.
haha okay kavila. talk more smack about downvotes when you got banned
I got a reputation at work for being the guy that actually knows what the hell is going on and so a lot of people ask me if anything important is happening. (Especially after I predicted to a bunch of lib customers fairly accurately when and what would happen at the capitol in January and I think I blew a bunch of people's minds).
Now I kinda feel obligated to bare the burden of spending hours a day looking at news feeds pouring over protest footage (and in rare cases to force myself to watch body camera footage to make sure I'm drawing my own conclusions, and not making flawed arguments) because someone's gotta radicalize people, or at least convince people who aren't really capable of participating in any sort of popular uprising not to fall prey to the deluge of propaganda they are showered in. I've gotten a few people totally hooked on Citations Needed this way too.
Predicted a few major things, too. Then my parent just ignores that and acts as if everything is so random. No! People are plan-full actors, they aren't all Tele Tubbies who cuddle with each other. Doesn't mean all the decisions taken are good, but if you get the motives, the structures and such a lot is explainable and understandable.
You gotta put in work to teach them about the long historical arc of American fascism, I think my success came from spending years beforehand trying to teach people on this subject and contemporary parallels to other past fascist movements, that way I could illustrate that I was not just being alarmist, or accused of being a conspiracy theorist, because it wasn't some shadowy secret concocted in back rooms it was in plane site weeks in advance if you were very online enough and payed attention to fringe right wing message boards and social media like Parler and That donald dot win site.
Isn't it nice not having to check the news every day to see what the Cheeto did now?!
In all seriousness, I have been reading the news less. But for the exact opposite reason. It still makes me angry but I know there's nothing I can do about it. I keep up to date on things through twitter and other random headlines, but I don't stay glued to it like I used to. It's definitely not healthy to overdue it. It trains your brain in some weird ways. Everyone I know who's either an absolute brainwashed lib or conservative watches several hours of news media that confirms their biases every day.
uhhh I think you would gain way more reading actual books. Any major news stories pop up here or twitter. And half of the articles you are reading are literally just propaganda :chomsky-yes-honey:
I phase in and out like a sine wave. Recently the only things I've been following are space news but I know I'll get pulled in again to reading 20ish articles a day.
if by "news" you mean twitter then like 4 hours a day lmao I'm dying
I’ll scroll through headlines and read story’s that seem interesting but all in all about 15-20 min a day. Most news just makes me angry or depressed so I can’t really spend too much time looking at it.
I love reading news and history and literature and theory all the time only for libs to say “but human nature.” I also live in a very rural place so doing praxis is so hard.
probably same amount of time, the thing is I dont get mad. I just detach myself from whats being described. Its the only healthy way of processing the news if ur a leftist news junkie
A few hours and it's probably terrible for my mental health (like most of my internet usage)
Less than 10 minutes a day besides random headlines that get retweeted enough by ppl I follow or here. I don't follow any news besides local and NYT but I hardly read the articles anymore unless it's something I might actually give a shit about. I'll read the Jacobin sometimes if it's a cool topic. Kinda just checked out of most news cycles, I like it this way
reality is more important than theory. gather information, make predictions about how events will unfold and see how you do. the better you are at predicting the future the better you will do in life.
check your sources, keep your skepticism gland healthy, but fucking pay attention
Theory isn’t something that exists in opposition to reality; it’s a framework for interpreting it.
Unless you’re a truly exceptional thinker who already understands history and systems deeply, reading fragments of information in the bourgeois press will not elevate you above a fragmented understanding of the world. Theory is a way of training yourself to know why and whether new information (“reality”) is important.
The things that get reported on as news were selected during the historical development of the press, and they’re not something that can be input as information to understand the world; otherwise MSNBC addicts would be able to outthink any of us.
Theory isn’t something that exists in opposition to reality; it’s a framework for interpreting it.
Correct, but theory without a solid grounding in reality is less productive than the opposite. This thread seems to be a referendum about whether you should pay attention to the world around you.
otherwise MSNBC addicts would be able to outthink any of us
If you can't pick your sources better than an MSNBC addict then I'm afraid they will be able to outthink you.
I used to read news regularly when I was in college but I felt like shit, so I stopped altogether. Since the rona started, I started reading news twice a week. I feel like that's enough to stay informed without wanting to swerve into oncoming traffic.
It's not like I'm missing anything, we live at the end of history so all news is basically "everything is still shit, except worse."
