• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    As an American, let me assure you that having campaign seasons of something between 7 months and 3 years is absolutely sanity-destroying. It’s fucking awful and I hate it.

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      3 months ago

      This as well ^^

      There is such a thing as political exhaustion, and the US gets this kind of bullshit inflicted on them CONSTANTLY.

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        3 months ago

        It is also pretty crucial to acknowledge that the general mental/outrage fatigue is at this point entirely intentional and by-design, as far as I can tell.