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Ha, now your a poltical memer
sigh That’s how they get ya…
I blame the reddit exodus
Every day
Is it really political any more when evil people have used politics to gain control over our lives to wreck our retirement funds, deport and possibly murder our friends, and oh just for fun destroy the entire foundational structure of science and discovery?
Nope. That’s not political. That’s awareness of the environment in which we find ourselves, and an attempt to deal with it.
Hopefully it will be over soon (in part thanks to awareness campaigns) so we can go back to politics where we have some conservatives, some progressives or whatever, and some single-issue parities that can make common cause with the others from time-to-time. Politics would be so wonderful to have now. It’s only been gone for maybe a decade and I miss it so much.
Is it really political any more when evil people have used politics to gain control over our lives to wreck our retirement funds, deport and possibly murder our friends, and oh just for fun destroy the entire foundational structure of science and discovery?
All that shit was absolutely happening before Trump too, spare us the “we must retvrn to when America was great” reactionary nonsense
I’m Swiss.
I don’t buy the greatness thing. I’d like go back to having an America that makes sense sometimes, and which we can reasonably work with.
So when it only brutalised brown people
It’s weird because I agree with you, but for some reason interacting with you makes me angry anyway.
This is a excellent use of Lemmys filter keywords feature. I also use it for crappy words used in news titles like slams, rails, blasts, etc
A great option though I don’t think that’s actually available by default, I know mobile apps have it but on desktop I’m using a violentmonkey script for that and don’t see a way to do it in settings
Oh right, totally forgot that’s not baked in. I currently only Lemmy on mobile with voyager as a PWA webapp, might have to see if it makes the transition to desktop now or not.
You might not be political, but the Nazis are, and they don’t really mind sending non-political people to the camps.
They seem to enjoy it, in fact. Memes are important, but so is freedom to meme.
I too like to bury my head in the sand.
You don’t have to worry about the fire slowly coming towards your home if you have no idea the fire is even there.
Dam it’s almost like we’re entering a 3rd world war
Use an app that allows blocking posts by keyword, like Voyager.
This is my list of keywords that keeps my sane while browsing lemmy:
I do the same. I still get a ton of posts like this don’t include any relevant key words and still are about musk or trump. It’s impossible to escape.
Its absolutely impossible to be on Lemmy and avoid political post even with keyword filters because keywords don’t filter on meme content, usually.
I’m on Voyager and had no idea it did this! Thanks for sharing.
And then you look for a community devoted to your hobbies and the most recent post is from a year ago.
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Yeah, it’s not easy to ignore when the US goverment starts sending people to concentration camps
You had no problem ignoring it for decades previously.
I’m a little lost as to what exactly this rebuttal is implying. Do you feel that those who willfully ignored these issues went they weren’t as dire should continue to do so as they get worse? I’m having difficulty reading this charitably so clarification would be appreciated, thanks.
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Because foreign lives actually are worth just as American ones.
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It was being en mass before. The only difference is that now it’s effecting (non African) Americans.
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Americans when they realize they’re wrong, but are to much arrogance pieces of shit to admit it.
Can’t just bury your head in the sand and say you don’t care about politics
I can actually and science proves it’s better for mental health.
While true, not all Lemmy is american.
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Yeah, that “I don’t care about politics is what brought them there in the first place”, but they will never acknowledge that, instead they will just double down on their aggressive apatheism.
Which are topics covered by 90% of the forums here already. If you browse for memes you should be allowed to see some. instead you get AOC Simps sharing some rally.
Blocking users posting political campaigning on meme forums are now modus operandi.
Try posting that shit on the woodworking forum and see how it flies. The meme forums are poorly moderated.
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A picture of a crowd with the headline AOC and Sanders gathered 35000 people this weekend is hardly a meme.
Have you considered I might be European? And I might be somewhat interested in American politics, but I’m also interested in other shit to. If Lemmy wants to succeed it will have to cater to a wider audience than the most politically engaged core.
Blocking a few users have cleansed my front page alot. I hake no issues with people discussing their political worries. Thats imoortant in any free State. What’s not important is forcing those discussions into any minor irrelevant topic.
Have you considered… that political memes… should be posted to the communities specifically for political memes? I know, crazy, right?
If someone wants to bury their head in the sand while everything burns, that’s their perogative.
Personally, I get more than enough exposure to the ongoing situation through other sources. I don’t need my haha funnies to pull double duty, and I’d argue that they’re an incredibly poor format to convey useful information for staying properly informed.
I definitely don’t need random internet asshole busybodies deciding they know my information needs better than I do.
They might not bury their head in the sand either. They might be engaged in the topics, but at the moment they just want to see what funny references exist in a non political sphere.
American tarriff could affect woodworking price in the US and maybe in canada or his main trade partner
You are not the center of the world. Crazy right?
Sounds like their problem, not mine. They voted for it, I wouldn’t expect you to care much about British internal politics either.
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There maybe a balance between getting informed of the big lines of what’s happening in the US (which is of course valuable) and spamming until it’s 100% of everybody’s timeline
Always have been
Come to my sub.
Not what I’m seeing, maybe I curated my feed differently? Idk maybe my server also blocks some?
You gotta block the bots that post news stories to communities named after the publication.
Really clears up the feed.
Also try to get the more spammy ones blocked by your server, it’s a service for all other users as well
