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?
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.