If you're asking the rest of the world to just never discuss the thing that's at the center of nearly all major world news, that is a hard ask.
I know it's not pleasant, I get if you don't like hearing about it, but there's really not any way of getting away from it.
You know you can make your own instance with blackjack and hookers right? If you read the sidebar of this community, nothing being said here is problematic according to the community (and by extension, instance) owners.
Reddit's a one stop shop, one point of failure, one set of guidelines. If you need a place that is devoid of politics, shitposters posting about the news, or people who make you feel uncomfortable for mentioning the headlines, I am certain there is an instance and community for you.
Probably not as populated tho.
Oh man, I love disassociating so much. I hate the real world. Why do I have to be constantly reminded of genocide, innocent people being sent to concentration camps, entire demographics losing their rights, or fascist white supremacists that would goon to the thought of my life being just a little harder?
Why is no one letting me disassociate in peace like I want. Don't they understand that I'm the real victim here?
The beauty of the fediverse is that no one platform should become omnipresent but that interconnection between platforms is possible. It’s a user-directed service. If Lemmy isn’t meeting your personal standards then there are other options.
Yes, Lemmy is quite political. If that doesn’t tickle your fancy, you’re more than welcome to try a different service. Lemmy’s purpose is not to become the next Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok in size - it’s to provide an alternative to them. Growth for growth’s sake isn’t usually a great idea.
Did you know that there are non-Americans on Lemmy? And that they maybe, just maybe, might want to focus on what is happening in their own countries?
I agree with the sentiment but trump is happening to your country too. America does effect the world even us non Americans.
I'm Canadian so it's certainly more pronounced but not a single country is uneffected by his actions and by the american market.
Lastly, feel free to post about your country and its issues. I'd personally love to see some shotposting about countries I don't know much on or don't pay enough attention to. Win win. Less trump posts per capita, more content on Lemmy, and we all learn
I agree with the sentiment but trump is happening to your country too. America does effect the world even us non Americans.
I already engage with what is happening in the US enough, but I try and avoid it here on Lemmy. I am mainly responding here in defence of someone who was jumped on for wanting to be able to regulate their intake of US politics.
Lastly, feel free to post about your country and its issues. I'd personally love to see some shotposting about countries I don't know much on or don't pay enough attention to. Win win. Less trump posts per capita, more content on Lemmy, and we all learn
I am not the most creative when it comes to memes, but I do post about Australian police issues over at !acab@quokk.au
What is coming will affect everyone in who's country is is in anyway economically affiliated with the US. This post was meant to be a wakeup call for people to do a risk assessment.
Honestly, I hope I'm wrong and what happens in the US can be totally isolated here. But realistically, I can't think of a way that's true.
And you being awful to someone who needs to disconnect from US politics is helping how exactly? This is all just the same American exceptionalism that's existed on Lemmy (and Reddit before that) since the Obama era. You could literally just edit "trump" into your post and folks like myself and OC could choose how to regulate their feeds. I already get enough US politics from everywhere else that doesn't have these keyword blocklist options.
I only really have a problem with it when it's in a post like this where there's no reference in text, so filters/blocks can't pick it up. 196 seems to have this issue most frequently due to the way people write titles here.
I like a bit of rage bait as much as the next person but if I can't get a break from it without going completely offline then I will go completely offline (just for a bit).
I don't disagree with these posts but without my own mental health I am useless to their cause.
Filtering & moderation is supposed to be lemmy's advantage.
I tried to do this several months ago and people went ape shit, like it was a personal attack on them "GuEsS YoU'Re jUsT GoNnA StIcK YoUr hEaD In tHe sAnD ThEn?!? YoU'Re pArT Of tHe pRoBlEm!!!"
Dipshits
When I was in high school learning about Nazi Germany, I wondered what it would be like to live in those times. To have neighbours disappearing, and nobody does anything about it. Now I know.
I am not your neighbour. I am not on your continent. Even if all of the world's militaries combined to try and stop what is happening in the US, they still would not be able to match the might of your country's military. What would you have me do? Focus so much on your pawblems that I ignore those of my actual neighbours?
My friend committed suicide. She hanged herself. I don't know why. I hung out with her the day before she did it, and she seemed happy. She had plans for the future. I only found out weeks after she did it.
And I think if we didn't have a worldwide rising tide of fascism coming from America, there would be less trans girls killing themselves. I don't know your story, I don't know if this means anything to you, but what I care about is creating a world my friend would have wanted to live in. Because I have trans friends all over the world, including in America, who are still alive and who need my help. They need everyone's help.
And you think I'm American because I care about my American friends? Because I think of them the way people a hundred years ago thought of their neighbours? Because I have a sense of empathy and I'm worried about what the Americans are sending over here?
We have fucking proud boys in my city, counterprotesting left wing rallies. If you don't care about that, and can't imagine caring about it, then you're either very white and very cisgender, or... I don't have the words.
Yeah I mean I voted, what more can I do, I have to spend the rest of my energy keeping myself alive
The number of so-called "good side" USians responding to you without a clue that they are also infected with the 'American exceptionalism' brainworms is ridiculous. It's as if these people genuinely believe that every English-speaking creature on the internet is USian despite it being the lingua franca. Meanwhile, I'd bet you any money they have no fluffing idea what is going on in my country in relation to the liberation of Indigenous Australians. All while I know all too much about what's happening to PoC and trans people in theirs. But they will swamp you and attack you for 'not caring' anyway. As if looking at memes online is going to make a meaningful difference at all to what is happening just past their own doorsteps.
I like politics because I'm a good person.
I like politics. I don't like being blasted with US politics, despite my* inability to do anything about them, especially when they circumvent my* extensive word blocklist. I guess that makes me a bad person ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't live in America, but I've been doing lots to help with US politics. I've been comforting my trans friends who live there, campaigning for refugee visas in my country, talking to Americans on the internet and asking them to vote Democrat in the midterms, and warming my local community up to the idea that we might have to fight against USA in world war 3.
I can do all that because I'm a kind, smart, determined, and creative person. You said you can't do anything about US politics? That's a shame.
There are important issues in my own country that I focus my spoons on, yet despite that I am working on getting a creature to my country on a refugee visa from the US. Which is far more meaningful than looking at memes on Lemmy.
What is a shame is that you do not care enough about your neighbours to meaningfully try and address issues at home. I would rather work in my community to encourage people to vote for the Greens or the Socialists than to convince USians to vote for a party that does not work for them.
I like video games with women in them. I like movies about rebellions. I like art that makes me think about society. I like science fiction that uses allegory to explore controversial issues. I like queer joy. I like books about feudal power struggles. I like Mass Effect. I like Mistborn. I like Aliens. I like Jurassic Park. I like Avatar, both of them.
You know what I don't like?
Sports.
There's no politics in sports.
It doesn't matter if the Red Bears or the Blue Tigers win the Ball Cup this year. They'll just play again next year. It doesn't matter. It doesn't make me think. It's not controversial. It's not meaningful. It's boring.
trump's neck vagina is terrifying.
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