{"id":5148,"date":"2025-02-03T03:19:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2025-02-03T03:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:19:31","slug":"democracy-under-attack-fuck-a-nba-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2025\/02\/democracy-under-attack-fuck-a-nba-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy under attack fuck a NBA trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pattern is this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Something fucking insane is happening, like the US government under attack by a dude not in the fucking government.<\/li>\n<li>You jump on social media.<\/li>\n<li>You saturate the fuck out of your mind with takes from the most hilarious and stupid ones to the most serious, expert ones.<\/li>\n<li>You do intensely, not leaving a millimeter of yourself unconquered.<\/li>\n<li>Your analytic side, your emotional side, your balance, everything gets to crumble and make you numb.<\/li>\n<li>After anywhere between 30mn to hours, you are numbnumb.<\/li>\n<li>To the point of not remembering\/knowing what you are supposed to be doing (fight back).<\/li>\n<li>So you jump on entertainment, which is completely endless today, right there in our pockets or at arm\u2019s length.<\/li>\n<li>Something insane happens again. Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To move away from this loop because things have become urgent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop using social media so much, which means uninstall this shit from your phone. Forever. If you can\u2019t do that, understand that you need help. Even better, quit.<\/li>\n<li>Use all the tools available in democracy to push back authoritarian BS. Get involved, etc. Never stop.<\/li>\n<li>Truly disconnect from devices, breathe longer.<\/li>\n<li>Teach yourself stuff, possibly useful ones. Don\u2019t ever stop learning.<\/li>\n<li>Build resilience in any way you can. It\u2019s always useful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The numbness is rampant. We need to wake up. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pattern is this: Something fucking insane is happening, like the US government under attack by a dude not in the fucking government. You jump on social media. You saturate the fuck out of your mind with takes from the most hilarious and stupid ones to the most serious, expert ones. You do intensely, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}