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The leftist behavior of forcefeeding you Bad News alongside the orders "stay mad" starts losing my trust when it's less involved in restorative justice and more about getting people bigger followings and getting money into the pockets of "creatives" and "organizers".
like at what point are we going to acknowledge that every social tragedy for years now has been co-opted into making people money and getting people social power and that the use of constant exposure to stress keeps the people theyre exploiting strung out and thus vulnerable?
You think it's any coincidence these accounts RISE to success constantly parroting hashtags and retweeting Bad News, looking like they REALLY care, thus making them deserving of attention, only to get an audience and start selling things or linking gofundmes?
The "Pissed Off Good Person" mentality is exploited constantly. Look in any far-right's replies for familiar faces, look at those people's pages and look at how often they're selling something or asking for money between Angry Left Tweets. it's happening to our spaces too.
Look at how often the "Angry because I Care" popular accounts talk in a way that demands you, the reader, follow their advice, do as they're told, because you are inherently complicit in other's misery and Doing As You're Told is a means of freeing yourself from that badness.
Purposely and repeatedly exposing someone to stress via Bad News instills a sense of powerlessness, thus leaving a person vulnerable to being controlled. Accompany this with "you are complicit in violence if you do not do as i say" to instill shame and you're in control.
You can do good without someone else's approval. You can find your own ways to do good. And i want you to ask yourself, if your "goodness" is constantly giving money and followers to "creatives" and "organizers", or just "people who told you to", are you REALLY doing good?
Politics, leftism especially, has instilled this fear in people that are goodness is in the hands of others, that we are only good if we are TOLD we're good. And i promise you: if you want to do good, you can do good on your own. You do not need someone's approval to be good.
In closing, my best advice: focus your energy into something you directly can change. Don't lose yourself in feeling powerless. You always hold the power to do good in the conversations you have every day, and the way you can help people immediately around you.
One last thing: don't be afraid to disagree. Despite what the internet will tell you, agreeing to disagree politically is okay. I promise. It's a good way to prevent those you love from being groomed into radicalism. People's decisions change based on those who care for them.
