General Discussion

Promoting this sort of helpless anxiety is deliberate, a means of controlling the masses that consume mass media.

If I'm at home watching television or doom scrolling social media on my phone I'm not getting into more effective sorts of trouble, even very minor sorts of good trouble as described by John Lewis. DU itself is ineffective if its not inspiring people to get into good trouble.

Here in the U.S.A. we're free to say damned near anything we like so long as it is ineffective.

As soon as a political movement becomes effective, especially one directed against the oligarchy and the inherently racist and misogynistic white patriarchy, all hell breaks loose.