Absolutely, thank God I don't live in America cause the politics seem crazy over there.
I wonder what the internet would be like if it was around for 1920s-30s Germany.
A huge part of the rise of fascism in Germany was Hitler's skillful use of media.
Most people got their news from papers, and formed opinions by talking with other people in person, and there was a robust culture attuned to those methods of information which enabled people to form a clear picture of the world, so that their picture was roughly in the neighborhood of reality. Hitler was able to manipulate the new mass media of radio so that he could distort and manipulate people into believing crazy things, because they still had the set of interpretations that were appropriate for an older set of media that wasn't subject to the same type of skillful manipulation. It was really effective. It was a big part of what led a fairly democratic state to freely choose to elect a person who literally went on to kill millions, on purpose, when anyone who had a clear picture of reality would have been able to see it coming a mile away.
I will NEVER vote for Kamala Harris, because genocide is a red line for me, and she's personally responsible for Gaza.
Politics is just too stressful, I try to avoid it.
I really think Jill Stein has some great things to say, I think it's a shame that the duopoly is trying so hard to keep her down when she's the only one who can really move things forward. I think I'm going to vote for her.
Voting doesn't matter. If you really want progress, you definitely shouldn't vote. I'm not going to. Why would you, even?
Whoops, sorry about that, I had some sort of fit at the keyboard. Anyway what was I saying?
It's the world's most powerful military and largest economy, unfortunately for the rest of the world, we're fucking nuts too.
Hey, don't sell us short! We also tend to be ignorant and uneducated.
First past the post inevitably converges to a 2 party system, with all the frustrations that brings.
You see it as well in UK, Hungary, Turkey, ...
Be carefull whenever someone suggests: the prime minister/president/... should come from the biggest party. It can take a few election cycles, but it ends up with a 2 party system, as that's the dominant strategy.
Anything is better when all you engage with is mindless entertainment
I wish Lemmy was more entertaining, and not just a million Linux articles wearing a trenchcoat
Came to say this. Yeah. Echo chambers feel good, but they are trash-tier entertainment, like drugs.
Idk about all, but hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are both unpleasant. I'm glad lemm.ee leaves it up to the user rather than censoring it from the instance level though
I like that connect let's you block an instance and then has comments from users of said instance overwritten with a spoiler-type tag. That way you can decide to read those comments or not (I sometimes open them in non political threads).
Filtering out words in posts has worked well for me. I can still get news/politics in small doses without 90% of the noise
Not unpopular. Lemmy politics is a garbage dump, the entire platform was created as a safe haven for commies and we're still reeling from it, with many users (especially from .ml) sharing biased news and "memes" that are nothing but propaganda and DAE AMERICA BAD????
Having political takes isn't necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is "capitalism is bad" then you're an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else
Having political takes isn't necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is "capitalism is bad" then you're an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else.
Man that resonates...
But what if America good? Harris! - lemm .ee / world
What the hell is left to browse after that?
Lemmy is small enough as it is.
I don't disagree as such but, eh.
I like comics, movies and the piracy communities.... But even then like... Super quiet in there.
The obvious ones like cats, linux, and star trek but also meta-posts like these, comics, non-political memes, greentext, bikes, general technology. There are collapsniks and conservatives have been trying to settle recently. There's a wide variety of niche content but they are small enough that for every 10 visitors you need someone to post something. There's a lot here, it's small compared to extremely large sites but is still an active message board.
You forgot LOTR and German memes!!!
For me, there's so many undesired communities and political communities that it's easier to just pick the communities that I like subscribe to them instead of blocking everything else. There's too much to block
i kinda like the fire hose
I do check the all feed for stuff i like from time to time
That's what I was thinking.. that's literally what subscribe is for...
That generally holds true for life as well.
Even if you want that stuff, you get a much better perspective in World News and News communities.
Politics and PoliticalMemes is just a bunch of redditors who aren't used to being in a non echo chamber social media platform.
Dnc shills
An allow list is easier than a block list
that it do
Cut off one head, two more grow in it's place
No, Lemmy is better when you block all gaming, Linux, and anime
Edit: guess it's an unpopular opinion, yay!
Leaving you with politics and porn? Hmmm...
Oh I forgot I already took out the porn
I still have
Cats, superb owls, various handicrafts, and of course all the political doom I can eat
Sir this is a Wendy's
Picked the right sub for a shit take.
Have your much deserved upvote. For your bad opinion being in the correct location.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, did you mean to post this in c/mycology?
You're wrong.
Source: I'm sassy
I block the antisemites, it narrows things down quite a bit
Wdym by antisemites? People who just hate Jews and discriminate towards them or people who are against Israel. Cause these are two different things
