I see your centrist attitude is more advanced that other centrists’, so much so that it no longer enables fascism, unlike every other centrist! wow, you are so smart, i am totally in awe of you.

I can see you already got told multiple times in these comments. But then again, I think, most can also see you don’t actually know anything you are talking about, OR don’t care to know because you are a right-wing fucknut. So, uh.

i’m pretty sure the idea with anticapitalist sentiment isn’t to go backwards anymore, you know?

first-class example of whataboutism, favourite of useful idiots worlwide!

I actually saw “Don’t Look Up” last year for the first time and let me tell ya, it was too real.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se, you hear me? THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE

i don’t know of anyone having built an actual working relationship from an on-off situation like that. examples of such might exist, but generally i doubt that it’s even possible.

I can assure you you aren’t alone in this.

It seems in fact that your girlfriend is right there with you, but like it was already said here I feel you need to communicate it to her in a way that she actually understands that you are trying to limit your news intake because of your mental well-being. Maybe advice her for you and her to try to do it together or something? Like that neither of you would read as much (political/economical) news so that she wouldn’t even feel the need to try to alleviate her panic by sharing it with you, as I’m assuming that’s the reason she’s sharing her panic with you. Then maybe try to spread this “ideology” of sorts to your immediate surroundings, if all you hear there as well is just the doom and gloom of late-stage capitalism. Rather talk about good things, like the inherent beauty of ever-present life if all else fails.

Things that have helped me in the past with my personal mental health problems was to not push myself too hard to achieve beyond my current capabilities. If you feel worn down by everyday life too much maybe you can reduce the amount of physical activity at the moment? Don’t get me wrong running AND exercising 3 to 5 times a week is amazing, especially for a retired person and something I have never been able to achieve, but I still think it’s worth making adjustments as needed. But that’s up to you to decide if you feel that’s something you want to keep up.

Another thing could be community work. Current situation in the world seems hopeless on a grander scheme, but I have personally found much joy in volunteer community work, in my immediate community. I don’t know where you are or what is available to you, but I suggest looking into something like that.

And of course, as you know already, stop doomscrolling. I removed my social media accounts some time ago, but still find myself occasionally mindlessly scrolling the feeds on youtube and lemmy. Which is still just doomscrolling. The short-form video is one of the worst – if not straight-up the worst – drug I have ever tried (and I’ve tried several) for ease of relapse. Maybe look into private DNS providers and internet content blockers if you haven’t already to help you with avoiding the shit that’s out there.

I’m guessing there will be many people in the comments who share your predicament and will have other ways of alleviating, here are some of mine. Good luck!

now you’'re just doubling down on the bullshit

nah, more like jumping on the bandwagon to shit on anyone conforming our presupposed biases. but sure, whatever

there seem to be a lot of typical .world sheep in these comments

Has a strange colour: ✅

oddly enough, Lovecraft’s Colour out of Space kinda mirrors the effects of radiation sickness (with “kinda” doing some very heavy lifting there)

don’t know for sure, was born after it’s collapse so never had a chance to visit. Never been to China, DPRK, Laos, Vietnam or Cuba either because travelling is expensive (thanks capitalism!), but doubt that the people there would bother with shit like that tbh

I am suddenly reminded of an ad for a restaurant in some local city that was something along the lines of: “come sample the taste of the USSR which, unlike their inspirations, actually exist!” Communism is when no food, huh?

Not quite yet, though I wouldn’t wait on leaving the country if I were there and of any personae non gratae

AIN’T THAT RIGHT, BROTHER rips off shirt

But yeah, sounds like a valid plan. That is if you believe things will ever change by voting, or that Trump & Goons LLC will be ready to release their power come 2028. A fool’s hope, certainly, but a hope nonetheless.

You best start believing in corporate dystopia stories, Ms. Turner… You’re in one!

Yes, capitalism can only serve the capitalists, and maintain a (highly relative) peaceful environment (not counting the subjugated peoples and areas in the global south atm) in only the most auspicious of times. And even then the system will inevitably shit itself and die every few years or so and must be resurrected by national intervention using said nation’s taxpayers’ (=working class) money. So the system is fundamentally flawed, which has never and will never “work” insofar as the working class is regarded.

Indeed the US is in quite dire straits, having replaced its national industrial capacity for outsourcing to countries with cheap labor, and also positioning the US dollar as the world currency, thus having the leverage to force dissenting nations to either go bankrupt or accept its imperialism. Now there is no industrial capacity in the US and its populace (completely understandably) not wanting to do two or three full-time jobs just to afford housing and groceries, neverminding everything else you need to live in there (like health insurance, so you best hope you don’t get sick ever), just to bring the industrial capacity back at minimum wage. And now the administration is driving out the only ones willing to do the manual labor at minimum wage, the immigrants; while being willfully ignorant to the fact that the entire nation’s history is that of immigrants, as most of the natives died on the Trail of Tears or were otherwise killed off and cordoned to reservations.

It seems that there are only bad tidings afoot for the USian worker, having also been brainwashed since birth into the impossibility of communism. Doom and gloom.

Social security and pensions I think.