#demoralization — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #demoralization, aggregated by home.social.
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The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker
https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-demoralization-of-the-white-collar-worker/
#HackerNews #demoralization #whitecollar #workers #workplace #culture #job #satisfaction #mentalhealth
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#NationalGuard documents show public ‘fear’ and #troops’ ‘#shame’ over #WashingtonDC presence
By Alex Horton, September 10, 2025
"The National Guard, in measuring public sentiment about President Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., has assessed that its mission is perceived as 'leveraging fear,' driving a 'wedge between citizens and the military,' and promoting a sense of 'shame' among some troops and veterans, according to internal documents reviewed by the Washington Post.
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"Friday’s assessment highlights 'Mentions of Fatigue, confusion, and #demoralization - ‘just gardening,’ unclear mission, wedge between citizens and the military.'
"The National Guard was ordered to this mission and does not have a responsibility to make it palatable to the public, said Jason Dempsey, a former Army officer who studies civil military affairs for the Center for a New American Security. But, he said, military leaders should think about how deployments with political undertones could have implications for recruiting and sustaining the force.
"The themes raised in these assessments, Dempsey said, also should give pause to American citizens. National Guard troops are overseen by governors, who almost always provide their approval when those forces are mobilized for federal service overseas or within the United States. But the mission in Washington, and an earlier deployment to Los Angeles, both occurred against the consent of civil authorities in those jurisdictions.
" 'When elected representatives say, ‘We do not want them,’ but the federal government sends them, and then you see these kinds of numbers,' he said, 'it does raise existential questions for the health of the National Guard, for how America views its National Guard, and how America uses the military writ large.'
"Such concerns were also spelled out in a separate cache of internal documents that outlined another Trump administration initiative: the creation of a #QuickReactionForce of National Guard troops to respond to #CivilUnrest anywhere in the United States. In that case, first reported by the Post as Trump’s D.C. deployment got underway in mid-August, military officials voiced concern about 'potential political sensitivities' and 'legal considerations related to their role as a nonpartisan force.'
"Trump has since signed an executive order directing the formation of the quick reaction force."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/UE4uh
#SilencingDissent #Clampdown #TrumpIsAFascist #Authoritarian #authoritarianism #NationalGuard -
#Musk looked hard at the villain trope and just went "yeah, I wanna be the world's biggest asshole."
And so it was, when this #SouthAfrican #NepoBaby - born of #apartheid - became the most pernicious of slimeballs.
Seemingly to become the most loathed, the most maladjusted, the most rotten scoundrel since Dick Dastardly.
He's a one-man #demoralization machine with a goal to hate on absolutely everybody. No exceptions.
#ElonMusk Cuts Funding for #InternetArchive
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But for my former friend, she just thought that I was overreacting and that I was just low in confidence and testosterone.
She even set me up with one of her girlfriends while I was fighting #GroupParanoia, #demoralization, withstanding #mental #abuse while trying to save a business from going under.
Being in an #abusive cycle is what I'd call a mojo killer though, but it didn't matter. She viewed the whole situation as a "boys will be boys" situation, and that I just buckled from stress.
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The Demoralization is just Beginning — https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/03/demoralization-is-just-beginning.html
#HackerNews #Demoralization #Beginning #Tech #Trends #Future #Insights #Society -
#GDP forecasts look obviously grim.
Tech Genius decides redefine GDP as something other than the metric used for 8 decades.
You know you could create 2 new metrics and choose to emphasize them.
Ah, but then you'd have that pesky comparison of previous administrations handling of the economy with whatever the hell deleting swathes of whole government agencies full of careers is going to be called.
#Demoralization is continuing to be effective...
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/gdp-trump-musk-government-spending
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This Russian defector #Bezmenov described in the 1980s exactly what is happening to America right now, and has been for some time: #demoralization and #destabilization. In other words, “You may kiss goodbye to your freedom.” https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
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Gonna drop these here for those fed up with the National Enquirer-level #journalism
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
#Media
#MSM
#JournalisticEthics
#Demoralization
#Destabilization
#Crisis
#Normalization
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#NaomiKlein’s #Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is a polymathic work that serves up new #political heuristics with the firepower we’ve come to expect from the coiner of “disaster #capitalism.” A Dante-spiral through our circles of cultural hell, it’s also a memoir of #demoralization, #selfevaluation, and persistent hope.
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vR0xTUzExMjIzODk4NDI/episode/MjcxNzAzYTAtNTFhMC0xMWVlLWJiZDAtYTc0YTk5YmQ5NGRk?sa=X&ved=0CJsCEM-BB2oXChMIyKum5fWpgQMVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAE -
Trial to Test Low-Dose Psilocybin for Mental Distress
A developer of mental health therapies from #psychedelic compounds says it received #FDA clearance for a clinical trial testing low doses of #psilocybin.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44595
#News #Science #Business #MagicMushrooms #ClinicalTrial #MentalHealth #Demoralization #University #Canada #Psychoactive #LowDose
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"A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system [with] no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his or her own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society."
#VáclavHavel, quoted in 'The Immortal King Rao' by Vauhini Vara
