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I got ya
I would post more but I got this computer yesterday and have not transferred my old meme folder yet. Ah well
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And then you look for a community devoted to your hobbies and the most recent post is from a year ago.
Why are there so many people assuming every lemmy user is from the USA
Sometimes its bad for mental health to continuously see all the bad things that are happening in the richest country in the world
Same as Reddit, Americans don’t seem to be able to comprehend that there are other non Americans on the internet. It’s crazy.
Bonus points for people saying ‘here, where I’m from, not in my country’, they are all from the US. Anyone who mentions where they live with zero context and assumes you understand is a yank.
It’s always funny seeing non-Americans assume that the problems of America are unique to America and that anyone talking about those problems can only be from America.
I’m not amoroncan, but unfortunately what happen there have consequences for all of us
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It’s terrible for your mental health to be constantly bombarded with “the sky is falling” news.
“the sky is falling” is implying that what’s being talked about isn’t real. The rise in fascism is very real and very global.
Yeah, it’s not easy to ignore when the US goverment starts sending people to concentration camps and being anti-american.
Can’t just bury your head in the sand and say you don’t care about politics, because then changes will come as a surprise
" why did I get laid off without severance? oh, they rolled back labor laws.
At least I have welfare as I search for a job… oh, they took that too.
Well, next elections I’ll be voting against them. Wdym Trump is on his third term and planning a fourth one?
Why are ICE officers taking me to a plane, without due process, claiming I’m being anti-patriotic?) "
While true, not all Lemmy is american.
Yep, that’s on me. I’m just used to talk to americans when I’m met with a “I don’t care about politics”
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.
Sounds like their problem, not mine. They voted for it, I wouldn’t expect you to care much about British internal politics either.
While Musk and Trump were doing their thing in the US, Musk was also trying to prop certain parties around europe. Reform (UK), AfD (Germany), Vox (Spain), Lega (Italy) Their internal politics are similar to that of Germany before WW2, plus their external politics are: pulling from NATO, stopping the funding that goes to the CVE, threatening annexation of allies… so I wouldn’t be surprised if internal politics are indicative of following the path of Germany.
If UK were actively threatening allies, saying they won’t support NATO countries if they are attacked, and one of thekr citizes was close to the PM and was also trying to sway elections in the rest of europe, I’d be as concerned as you internal politics to see where you wpuld be going.
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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.
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.
Have you considered… that political memes… are memes as well? I know, crazy, right?
Have you even considered how tariffs could affect woodworking prices? The price of services to keep with the increase of the cost of living, the increase in the price of any woodworking material/tool coming from out of the US…
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.
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Not wanting to follow donald ducks disastrous adventures isn’t burying your head in the sand IMO.
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.
Please, enlighten me about how it is as bad now as it was before, and not even worse.
“Yeah, they are sending random innocent citizens to concentration camps in mass now, but you didn’t care about it when it was certain specific innocent people to Guantanamo so you shouldn’t care about this either”
Sounds like someone who would say “all parties are the same” or “I didn’t want to vote for Kamala because the dems supported Israel”
Because foreign lives actually are worth just as American ones.
Yeah, who said otherwise?? The problem is that it’s being done en mass now, not that it’s american lives per se. Yeah, it was a problem already, but it became a bigger problem now. You can’t ignore that.
It was being en mass before. The only difference is that now it’s effecting (non African) Americans.
Sure bro
Americans when they realize they’re wrong, but are to much arrogance pieces of shit to admit it.
I like to be informed, however I wouldn’t call whatever happens on lemmy as information sharing but more like endless ranting. I get it it is what it is but I think it is healthier to have more than one topic
On the plus side my internet usage went down because I just do news check up daily and I lose desire to use internet further
Helps a little bit.
A disturbance in the Fediverse. As if a million posts and comments cried out and were silenced.
They fixed that bug so now if someone cross posts your content and gets banned, it won’t delete your images
What’s that from? I can filter on my desktop that way via Adblock origin but not on my phone.
Lemmy custom interface. An example one is Tesseract.
Alternatively you can use Ublock filters.
Sometimes it yearn for the days the Harlem shake was a meme, and the Numa Numa guy, and badgers badgers badgers…
And if you really want to go even farther back to the 90s and super early 2000s internet (i am talking about pre 9/11) you had Where Are The Toons Now? And peanut butter jelly time and the Mr. T vs. (Insert random opponent here). Does anyone remember when Mr. T was an internet meme? Or even Bert is evil (a 90s meme literally stopped by 9/11).
While fun stuff obviously still exists aplenty (i actually like the skibidi stuff) I just wish we could do that again. But Trump is fucking everything up so much that I can simply cannot look away. It is everywhere.
You’re the man now dog
Yeah that’s fine but you don’t need to tell us all about the continuous unraveling of your society.
Our society.
I might occasionally be accused of being political, but yes. Lemmy is no escape. Many users from any instance will jam their politics into anything and everything, constantly. It’s genuinely weathering.
You want to vibe and chill? HOW DARE YOU! DONT YOU KNOW X IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!?!?!?!?
WHY ARENT YOU MAD ABOUT X??? ARE YOU A MONSTER??
Starting to think of unsubing from technology, too often it’s about trump and musk. But it’s also one of the largest communities.
Problem when most active communities at least sometimes include US political bullshit is that few are left without it if you just want to block it. We are not all Americans, it isn’t helpful to constantly have US bullshit showing up. Hopefully as lemmy grows the smaller communities will grow and I can have a feed full of kayaking, Linux memes and homebrewing.
I mean we live in a neo nazi fasict state. It was chill during bama years
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No, it was chill for you
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Use an app that allows blocking posts by keyword, like Voyager.
This is my list of keywords that keeps me 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.
you might not be american but you sure do live on planet earth
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I mean, it’s a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM
Just set up some filters and you will more peace. Some will still get through but it will not feel like a deluge.
But but but what if you’re a dumb dumb like me and don’t know where the filters are?
Well then you just see that content day in, day out and slowly sink into a pit of despair.
🥲
Serioulsy though, try to figure out how to filter these things. I have been a lot less sad and depressed since I did it.
I figured it out! XD the feed is a lot less annoying now.
Awesome! Enjoy the peace :-)
Oh good, I’m right on track then!
Filter them out. I did it myself. It helps.
Come to my sub.
Always have been
