Burnout isn’t a bug—it’s the feature. The 24/7 propaganda machinery wants you oscillating between outrage fatigue and performative panic. Bannon’s “flood the zone” isn’t some novel psyop—it’s Mussolini’s playbook photocopied by every regime that figured out chaos is the exhaust fume of control.

But let’s not pretend this is a red-hat exclusive. Blue checkmarks and algorithmic doomscroll peddlers profit from the same emotional hijacking. Your attention isn’t just monetized—it’s militarized.

The antidote? Stop mistaking retweets for resistance. Real defiance is logging off to build parallel systems that render their circus obsolete. Feed your community, not the timeline. Sovereignty begins when you stop letting their clowns dictate your cortisol levels.

I'm super glad that lemmy is here to help with this as much as possible

So did these shitheads forget how many legal shitstorms they were in during the past four years after they were voted out last time after all those shits? Yeah fuck around now and find out later.

You know exactly what AOC wants? For the rail corporation to not have to worry about any union strikes.

I'm sure they appreciated your enthusiastic support AOC.

I've started only reacting to the latest shit he does if it isn't blocked by a court order within 5 days

Donald Trump divides, Luigi Mangione unites, even in such tense times. Not because of violence, because of class war stuff.

Donald Trump, somehow, is the ultimate distraction from the class war. Every time he does something awful, he's reminding you about the class war he's trying to distract you from.

Yeah. But I've felt burned out by the news for a while already. So this is nothing!

I just now found out Peanut Butter glows in the dark....I don't have time for this shit!

So my trick is to only care when people actually do something instead of dead catting.

Threatens Canada? That’s not a thing, let me know when they put a bill.

Praises Bibi? We all know how they feel, not news, let me know when more funding has been approved.

Threatens tariffs? Okay let me know when they start taking effect, cause last time it was a bluff.

Kind of same thing here, AOC (whom I’m a big fan of) isn’t proposing a bill or asking for people to show up on a certain date to protest, not really news.

It works cause news organizations’ whole purpose is to report news, actual events, but they haven’t been doing their job cause they are chasing clicks.

I used to get a lot of news off Instagram, but lately I've noticed that a lot of radical stuff like protests have basically disappeared off my feed, and other people I've talked to have said that this is happening with Twitter as well. Now it's mostly just fear-mongering headlines with no reporting on defensive actions, despite there being tons of protests all over the place in the past few days. The 50501 protests were a lot bigger than I thought they'd be, and the fact that there's barely any reporting on them is extremely concerning and I think is intentional. Meanwhile I've seen an increasing amount of radical stuff pop up on RedNote, like protests and pro-Luigi stuff, while at the same time somehow maintaining a calmer and more unifying vibe (also no ads), so it definitely seems like a better platform (compared to other options that are algorithm-driven) and I've been browsing it more instead of Instagram lately. Also, I'm trying to look for ways to connect with more people IRL, which I think is one of the most important things people can do right now to fight the isolating and divisive design of capitalism.

Here is an interview with PBS Frontline where Bannon describes the strategy of overwhelming the media: (at 1:26:19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5xxlajTW0&t=5179s

You know why I'm burnt out? Because I don't see hardly any Democrats pushing the fuck back.

I see a bunch of Democrat voting for Republican bills knowing they're fucking horrible. I see and hear a bunch of Democrats voting for his unqualified nominees and then taking about bipartisanship. I see Fetterman slobbing all over Trump's toadstool supporting ethnic cleansing all fucking day long with not a single move to kick his stroked ass out. I don't see Democrats doing fuck all.

I can handle bad news, I can't stand the spinless, enabling Democrats.

Great, now I'm burnt out and feeling guilty about it.

I just saw someone on Lemmy say the other day something along the lines of "he's only been in there a month"

Hell, at that point it was barely 2 WEEKS.

I'm usually pretty good at being able to follow multiple threads of events at once, and even I'm getting overwhelmed. I've had to step away from the news somewhat, simply because I know there's only so much I can do at this point. Trump, Elon, and their minions are going on their romp around the federal government and the best anyone else can do is throw a few lawsuits at them.

Yeah, we had a class of independent professionals that delivered verified news directly from sauce to the pleb, all on a fixed wage as not to have financial stimulation that would affect the quality or contents of said reporting.

It's constant dead cats on the table.

I'm glad to hear it coming from her.

Because it is burning me out fast. I need to take a break, especially right now because of so much on my plate. But then I can re engage.