The risk is it's a bit hard not to be doomery when their big one shot of the year (since lol filibuster is still in effect) is such a ****ing joke. Like, it's literally an ACA repeat, it's gonna help some people but leave a lot in the cold, the GOP will point to every single flaw and spend the next year screaming at the top of their lungs it's a failure and a **** ton of people will just tune out and not care about voting in the midterms to save the guys who left them out in the cold.
Of course I could be wrong and the GOP corrects to being mad about Dr. Seuss or whatever, but the fundamental lessons are still there.
The problem with doomer mentality is that it assumes the doomer is "better" most of the time.
Which creates the very disconnect that causes non-caring.
The world isn't just sunshine and roses, for sure, but reducing everybody to bugbears isn't going to help.
People don't want to get involved because they're afraid of being reduced, boiled down and turned into a tale to frighten people in the night because of what they believe, which is the very same thing doomers hate. Hence the current boogeyman that is "cancellation".
People and things deserve consequences, but small victories come at the cost of turning away involvement for fear of public shaming and rotten vegetable throwing in the social media stocks. Because they don't know whether they prematurely angered Twitter/Tumblr over something they didn't know and had no natural curiosity to find out if it was a problematic behavior due to their life before they even interacted with somebody who would find their behavior problematic(Not everybody Googles "is thing/person problematic/bad" constantly to an obsessive point, and don't like to be subsequently told that liking thing makes you Basically Satan and Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds), or were simply branded as a lolcow by 4chan for being any kind of emotionally invested being(Unless you pay the meme and cruelty taxes). With submission to a higher cause and penance required to earn the Tribe of the Holier-Than-Thou(in either Lefter or Religiously Holier divisions) or the sacred Pepe's good graces via their chosen representatives in the meaty and digital realms.
Yes, I feel that that doomer culture, and its public shaming everyone that does not doom subdivision, has a certain fanatical religious-esque fervor to it, which preachers or pundits seize upon and perpetuate to get money off of unhealthy individuals.
This occurs across the board.
And it is often done by people who badly need mental health treatment for severe depression and/or being unchecked narcissists more than social media time.
Doomers need help. Because they aren't doing this kind of thing naturally or purely altruistically, even though the mentally and socially justify it as such(Very few people throughout history do it to help). It's symptomatic a mental health crisis of pandemic proportions that people profit off of.
Because "everyone is awful except me or the mes out there, and the mes are better because the mes are not them" is the only universally socially acceptable mentality anymore, and it's profitable.
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IGNORANCE ISN'T AN EXCUSE, but assuming everybody naturally and habitually knows that and/or searches for "thing I like or may be getting invested in problematic/bad" is dangerously presumptive, and assumes this as not only a natural compulsion by healthy people, but that it is taught early everywhere.)
