Pat12@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoSix officers known as the ‘Goon Squad’ plead guilty to torturing two Black men, using a sex toy on them and shooting one of themmississippitoday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1777arrow-down19
arrow-up1768arrow-down1external-linkSix officers known as the ‘Goon Squad’ plead guilty to torturing two Black men, using a sex toy on them and shooting one of themmississippitoday.orgPat12@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squarehairinmybellybutt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·1 year agoon one hand, I wish I wouldn’t have to read those headlines because it depresses me on the other hands, there’s no point in muting that information, because people should know those things and should be angry I thought “we should read good news”, and then /r/upliftingnews appeared and it was just a rose-colored glasses thing. we actually need to hear bad news to make people react.
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI want to hear good news when we actually fix things. I don’t want to ignore bad news or to have news mischaracterized as good.
on one hand, I wish I wouldn’t have to read those headlines because it depresses me
on the other hands, there’s no point in muting that information, because people should know those things and should be angry
I thought “we should read good news”, and then /r/upliftingnews appeared and it was just a rose-colored glasses thing.
we actually need to hear bad news to make people react.
I want to hear good news when we actually fix things. I don’t want to ignore bad news or to have news mischaracterized as good.