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Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

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Thank you. This is very useful advice!
That is such sage advice that I'm breaking my Sunday Silence to say...

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yes, outrage fatigue has been used as a weapon by the right when they gain power. Trump certainly used it before, and so did GWB. That's one reason they're so sadistic, because it wears us out. Great advice!
BTW did you know that you share a flowery surname with Leopold Bloom's father?

Going past flower shops in Budapest always gives me a kick.
That's actually my middle name :) Zalka is the family name, we put that first
Apologies for my ignorance about Hungarian name order.

I still love the word Virag.
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Great advice...
Especially about the fatigue.
I have been trying to tell my friends not to burn out , take a rest and then come back stronger.
That extended adrenaline rush isn't healthy.
Thanks for posting this!!
"I notice few of you are using your spines, should I adjust?" - Evolution

There is no longer a need to separate the men from the boys
I’m focusing on fighting disinformation. https://indivisible.org/indivisible-trainings has a few different things.
good advice, goes for all of us :blobcathearthug:
Yes. The last Trump administration was nonstop daily chaos. We need to stabilize and care for ourselves as best we can, and pick a manageable lane or two.
Some time ago I read that propaganda acts by overloading you, until you surrender your right of critical thinking and start just taking in their message. That is why propaganda isn't really afraid of being self-contradictory, as its recipients aren't examining its message critically.
Overloading works really well through outrage, of course.
Overloading also works for making you doubt everything you read and everything anyone says. The goal is not to believe "immigrants are eating dogs". The goal is to doubt everything everywhere until you give up.
Do you also think it is better to attack to win new rights, than fight defensively to protect the ones we've got?
I am not an expert by any means, but I'd say protect. Rights have been consistently whittled down over here and it is much harder to ever get them back.
That's very good advice since we're all overwhelmed right now and don't know how to focus at all. All the more since some media tend to report every fart that comes out of Donald's butt directly after breakfast. To decide what's worth noticing and what's not will definitely be one of the biggest challenges.
The world needs to learn what you have learned. Thank you for this.
Thanks for the advice. Mutual aid and clever humorous projects help with pacing. Liberation is a process of multiple approaches. Despite sadistic pleasures of the oppressors, they wouldn’t be trying so hard if #BLM hadn’t been so in their faces. Remember, plumbing and sewers require maintenance.
#avoidburnout
"the most joyful music ever heard was born right here by slaves forced to work, overseen by whips, chains and bullets" - Something to Remember when faced with the unimaginable
And I'll add to this an equally critical piece. The thing you are fighting and others are not isn't more important than their fight. We are parallel fighting, not working at crossed purposes.

The Gaza protests proved this point. People protesting those were so single focused they blamed the rest of us for supporting the "genocide" because we weren't equally upset by it.

Wrong, we were fighting other fights of equal import.
Thank you! This was my strategy during part of Trump's first stay in the White House. This time around I'm not wasting time on outrage (probably - that's my resolve, anyway).
Actually I am noticing this trend on my social media. Last time, there was much more shock and despair. This time it is *here we go again* *girding of loins*
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I love this post. Not just for the USA, but clearly very pertinent for them right now.
Environmentalism is my main cause.
Check out The Shock Doctrine. That's what they are doing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg3tl5yDb1E
Outrage fatigue pretty much sums the situation up.
Typically Hungarian to ignore the rest of Europe
Yep but I see greed/money pretty much the root cause of all the sickness here and around the world.

“outrage fatigue”. Never heard of this term before. Now I need to find a German translation for that. Maybe Empörungsmüde?
I intend to take this to heart.
speaking from the experience of watching protests in Russia fizzle out after 2011-2012 — this is exactly true.
To prevent outrage fatigue, I would like a news filter that only tells me actionable information about the fascists. I only need to know if I can write a letter to an agency, attend a demonstration, or get out of the way of some violence they're planning.

My background is related to information theory. Communicating a certain event transmits no information. An account of Trump saying something offensive or fascistic isn't really news or information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content
this is such an important message. I feel like we’ve developed a habit of criticizing people when they’re not sufficiently invested in *our* thing. But from now on, sounds like we should thank them for covering something else.
I would argue work out a system of R&R to rotate out of the field.

But this pick a cause and stick with it? Miss me with that.
R&R is vital too.
I didn't mean only care about one cause. Care about and support everything you can. I also donate to a bunch of things and attend events, but I only actively work for one field (namely, the crumbling child protection system). I do that full time, though.
this is why I recently had to part ways with someone who demanded I have the same energy for all her issues as issues closest to my heart. Even after explaining I was reserving my productive energies for my own causes, she couldn't accept that my progressive priorities were different.
It's so true.
Same feeling here in France, it's becoming difficult to choose the cause to fight for.
👍⬆️👍⬆️ good advice 👍⬆️👍⬆️
I live in the United States. I believe we wear out so quickly because that cult of the family cocoon we call The American Dream has kept us in such a narrow range of life, that everything outside this bubble is a major threat. No wonder we grow up without the skills to deal with the changes that will come, whether we like it or not.
This makes perfect sense, thanks for the reminder. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Already feeling the outrage fatigue. 😞
I think this is the kind of advice that everyone will easily agree with, and yet everyone will continue to do it.
This is also why reducing working hours is so important, it can lead to many other advances
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