I keep going to reddit and youtube and just getting mad over zionists, how do I stop, I didn’t do this before this week aaaaaaa
I started working out because of this. I listen to the deprogram while I work out and it’s pretty comforting, they usually have a positive outlook on things or at least look towards how we can make a better future. They are also just funny yk.
Being aware of it is the first step. It’s the same rush you get from cursing when in pain, or punching a pillow/wall when you’re upset. The flood of anger, especially righteous anger, can be it’s own reinforcement. Stop giving yourself that stimulation. You’ll feel agitated and restless, but you need to break the habit. Substitute a different habit. Check out cute animal videos from The Dodo, or enjoy some Primitive Technology, or watch some Veg Village recipe videos.
Developing a happy outlook isn’t easy. It’s a skill that you need to practice and cultivate over time. Recognize that rage-bait and fascist content is stirring up unproductive emotions in you and that you do have some agency over which thoughts you choose to identify with and give attention to.
Read a little bit about stoicism if you’re unfamiliar with it.
its really just finding another outlet. at least for me.
Avoid Reddit. It has always been a hostile place for Arabs. Above all remember that many commercial online platforms are manipulated and don’t reflect the reality.
I usually feel better if I’m building something or doing some cool things with open source software. It can be frustrating, but you can eventually have a breakthrough that is satisfying.
I exorcise as much of the rage as I can by passing it back to them in the form of anticolonial communist messages I write on crosswalk poles
spend your time practicing a hobby instead of consuming crappy online content
I literally do the same thing, keep entering toxic comment sections on YouTube knowing that it will be toxic, keep coming back on reddit because of few good subs and then seeing bullshit by accident or by entering subs which everyone would assume are normal and then seeing bullshit. Not to mention visiting r/ShitLiberalsSay.
Yeah I’m definetely sadomasochist.
What’s with that sub? I haven’t been there but isn’t it supposed to be communist? Not that that word guarantees good politics these days, plenty of NATO leftists calling themselves communists for clout lately
It used to be a kind of socialist space, but I think the original mods lost power and it’s now little more than western chauvinist leftists. They were always there, as it was supposed to be a place to help educate them, but now they are the main userbase rather than guests, same problem with any socialist space on reddit, it either gets overwhelmed by western libs who think they’re the real communists™ or else it just gets quarantined if they can’t do that.
/r/sls : the liberals are calling from inside the house!
I just activated my youtube comment blocker to avoid doing that exact thing! Some of the channels I follow have really nice comments, but pretty much any time I’m browsing outside my usual wheelhouse it goes downhill real fast.
notice when you’ve gone back and consciously choose to notice how it’s making you feel in the moment and decide to do something else instead. you have to reprogram the dopamine hit from getting mad at assholes and redirect it towards something else that’s healthier. don’t get mad at yourself when you don’t succeed immediately. just keep doing it and you’ll rewire your brain really fast. source: many years of unmedicated ADHD
the general advice people have given here has been pretty good, but i want to share a couple things that have worked for me to disrupt these kinds of negative habits:
- remove the site from your browser history so it doesn’t autocomplete in the address bar
- log out of the site so you don’t get your “preferred” places to go recommended
- get a browser extension to block the site as a whole or the specific features that bother you
Don’t you find some of the things you read here engaging?
i’m talking about trying to break a habit that you find negative in your life, and some specific things that can help with that, not saying that you should do these things on this site.
I see what you mean. I just think that if you’re not angry, you’re either not well informed or have no empathy. It sucks, I know. I don’t know how to unknow what I do. Ignorance is bliss as they say. I think it’s better to find a way to deal with it than to avoid it altogether.
to go back to the original post, where she is getting angry at zionists (presumably about the genocide israel is doing), i care much more whether you are doing anything about it than what emotions you have about it. different people work differently. i’d rather someone contribute to a local org and be ignorant of global struggles instead of spending all of their time getting angry at people online so that they contribute nothing.
Abolish the Rage of Content🥁thanks folks, you’ve been a spectacular audience
I still get upset just knowing the things that are posted here are happening.
I just block or leave instances that post rage content. There are several here that I blocked because it was just all the front page. I think to instances are dangerous anyway because infiltrators and such will spam that garbage to just keep any meaningful content from showing up and all they really do is put at risk the mental health of the community when it’s ALL you see.
Other than that you just gotta not go looking for it.
