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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (29 children)

I realize that this is a very hot political season. Its impossible to keep a "good vibes" feel with this year's election politics, so I'm not asking for "Don't be an Ass" or other such naive statement. But please try to be on your best behavior. This is "BestOfLemmy", and not a political debate site.

I've nuked a couple of subthreads that have gotten too hot. Please report anything you think is unhelpful to the greater discussion. I'll remove distracting posts as I see them, but I don't promise "good moderation" here. I'm just gonna cleanup what I can see and when I see it.


The general rule for "BestOfLemmy" is to be an appropriate place for a Lemmy beginner to get a feel of Lemmy in general. Yall are somewhat forgiven for the heated topic, but its not a complete pass. Try to keep the perspective of "newbies to Lemmy are stopping by here first". And think about how you'd like to present yourself to them.

This is my guiding principle for moderation. This isn't a debate subsite, or debate community. I'm not necessarily interested in having everyone here complete their back-and-forth discussion (especially if it gets heated, swear words, accusatory tones, etc. etc.).

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 10 hours ago

This post being presented as the best of Lemmy with all the downvote brigading for wrongthink is making me want want to leave Lemmy again. I used to run an instance a while back before the first reddit migration and just gave up (when lemmy.ml and lemmygrad was dominating the lemmyverse) and this whole mess of a post have only made it seem like everything is worse.

And that's after I've spent the last two weeks blocking users I find awful instead of spending all that time insulting and downvoting people "that have the wrong opinion".

Maybe the best of Lemmy is downvotes and snarky "don't let the door hit your ass in the way out" comments? I see no point I'm mentioning what seems like the worst of Lemmy these days.

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, but what if I hated America before Chump lowered himself from TV host to Presidential Candidate?

Like back in the G-Dub days I was asking Tshirt shops if they'd make "Death to America" shirts for me. (Only ever found 2 btw which was very brave of them in post 9/11 USA)

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

Then you can continue to gain fulfillment from your own sense of smug superiority, and normal people will continue to not care that you do.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

God, is there anywhere that isn't full of US politics???

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's because it's nearing their election it's ramping up.

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago

Voting is already ongoing in many states, today crossed 40 million early votes. For the next 1.5wk avoiding politics and crazy advertisements for/against candidates is impossible if you live in the US. Given the size of the country and its worldwide economic dominance it's impossible to not be impacted by US politics regardless of where you live.

[–] CondensedPossum@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

challenging my nationalism? that's like one of the isms i'm most sensitive about

next you'll tell me that if i don't love amerikkka, i can leave?

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