Or in not cynical terms: if your dog loves a toy to death, buy some replacements

Or work for the government if you’re in the US

I always imagined the cheek, but now I don’t know …

I’m saying that their moment to moment is being influenced by being bombarded with nothing except negative news.

That leads to an “everything is awful” mentality that bleeds into one’s personal life.

How do I cope?

The media sells the idea the world is on fire. By a lot of measures, humanity is the best it’s ever been:

Things do seem bad, things do need fixing. My advice is to pick one singular part of the world you want to improve and figure out how to fix it. Something like abolishing prison labor or environmentalism. It needs to be something you can make a noticeable dent in, where you can see your own contribution to the effort.

Don’t change tack every time something new like Isreal-Hamas or the scuffle at the US-Mexico border happens. You picked that one thing to fix, remember? And unless you plan on going down to the border with a gun, how do you plan on making a real difference? If you can’t make a difference, why let it bother you?

Look how the military treated people in Iraq

Better than the police treats people in the US?

I also recommend It Could Happen Here

I do love a bird that yells its own name

Damn AI anyways for making me dismiss the photo as fake

That first one sounds easier, I’ll give it a try