Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
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Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#2Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#3Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
Have you considered whether the way you feel reading the news is by design?
Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#4Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
Have you considered whether the way you feel reading the news is by design?
Have you considered the underlying actions were designed to solicit an emotional reaction via news channels, I.e. trump is trolling to own the libs, at the cost of watching the country burn (literally here in CA).
Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#5Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
I generally try to avoid bringing my political opinions to Hacker News. I think a general attitude in this community is that this is a refuge from politics. I also try to keep my politics out of the work place. That said, we're living in a world where even wearing a mask is political! Now the post office is political! I almost can't check my politics at the door any more; I too.... feel like I'm about to explode. You're not alone, but hang in there! (the 'hang in there' part is just as much me talking to myself as it is to you ;-) )
Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you considered whether the way you feel reading the news is by design?
Have you considered the underlying actions were designed to solicit an emotional reaction via news channels, I.e. trump is trolling to own the libs, at the cost of watching the country burn (literally here in CA).
Trump is responsible for the fires in California?
Edit: seriously people? He’s a monster but let’s accuse him of the things he’s actually done. To make stuff up is not helpful.
Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#7Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
I don't know, but at this point its not really "politics". We have a malicious actor in the whitehouse and his cronies ruining the country. There is nothing political about this, its just a fact. Whether a person chooses to believe (or cannot understand) this doesn't invalidate this fact. You don't have to subscribe to a particular political party to be upset with what is happening.
Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#8Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
Have you considered whether the way you feel reading the news is by design?
Not mutually exclusive. The news heavily optimizes for pageviews and one way of doing that is to optimize for anger. (Other than awe, which is hard to generate, anger has been shown in studies to be the most viral emotion.) However, they wouldn't have any raw materials for this if certain folks in government weren't routinely doing stuff worthy of anger.
Trump and the mainstream news media exist in this unhealthy symbiosis, where they create this toxic emotional environment for a whole country because both of them would fade away into nothingness if they didn't.
Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#9Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
Have you considered whether the way you feel reading the news is by design?
The thought behind your comment seems to be "Trump is no different than other recent Presidents, just he's treated differently" without saying it in so many words. Is that indeed what you think?
Republicans have long complained about the media being mean to right-wing presidents (or, sometimes, remembering Clinton and Carter, to white presidents, where Obama is considered a PC outlier), but this sort of non-defense is a convenient dodge in terms of having to actually defend Trump's specific actions...
The irony here, too, is that it also ignores right-leaning media's long history of fear-based politicking.
Re: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
#10Anyone else read this and feel rage bubbling over about Trump and his enablers? I'm not trolling, either. I used to not get _that_ emotional about politics, but lately I feel like I'm about to explode.
Have you considered whether the way you feel reading the news is by design?
Politics and reporting are scummy, biased games, but none of what is happening now is business as usual.
If the stories about what is currently happening in the Post Office were reported in a completely factual, completely neutral way, they would still be enraging.