ESD

[Mik]

ESD - Election Stress Disorder. FFS. They actually put a name on it. We are doomed as a species.

[George K]

@Mik said in ESD:

ESD - Election Stress Disorder. FFS. They actually put a name on it. We are doomed as a species.

[Catseye3]

@Mik said in ESD:

ESD - Election Stress Disorder. FFS. They actually put a name on it. We are doomed as a species.

Maybe a more useful label would be AJD -- Asshole Journalism Disorder. Right now there's an article on NBC predicting discussing the possibility of civil unrest. I am taking the liberty of judicious highlighting. (Otherwise accurately excerpted.)
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"The White House has been fortified, the National Guard has been called out, and gun sales are surging.

[How's that for an barnburner opener, eh?]

On the eve of a momentous election, a deeply divided nation is on the edge as it plunges deeper into pandemic and unemployment rages. The country holds its breath in anticipation of what some fear could be a potential breakdown of law and order or democracy depending on what happens Tuesday.

[Thank god for that good ole some fear tag! As a journalist you can write dang near anything you want so long as you preface it with some fear.]

Downtown Washington felt like a city preparing for a siege Monday as the normally bustling streets of the capital were turned into a plywood ghost town of boarded-up storefronts and windswept sidewalks.

[Oh, please. Windswept? Seriously? What, no tumbleweeds? No sound track of Good-Bad-Ugly whistling? No narrow-eyed Lee van Cleef menacing a stogie from left to right between sun-cracked lips?]
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And so on. If you can stand it, there's more of this here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/election-eve-country-just-unbelievably-stressed-out-n1245841

Anyway. If cities don't burn, it won't be NBC's fault!

[Jolly]

Which brings up a question...At what point does a free press need to be held accountable for blatant lies or opinion presented as news?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in ESD:

Which brings up a question...At what point does a free press need to be held accountable for blatant lies or opinion presented as news?

It's well behind you, wherever it is.

[Jolly]

@Aqua-Letifer said in ESD:

@Jolly said in ESD:

Which brings up a question...At what point does a free press need to be held accountable for blatant lies or opinion presented as news?

It's well behind you, wherever it is.

Or ahead of us..

Maybe Tombstone provides the answer...

Link to video

[Loki]

People who are stressed out are likely to have high anxiety to begin with. Yoga, meditation, being present don’t seem to help the woke much.

Worrying about things you can’t control is a waste of existence.