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Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
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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...
What the hell is left to browse after that?
Lemmy is small enough as it is.
I don't disagree as such but, eh.
Absolutely, thank God I don't live in America cause the politics seem crazy over there.
As an American, I agree. The common joke is that we’re living on the worst time line (a Community reference).
Well this is not an exclusive American thing.
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.
Filtering out words in posts has worked well for me. I can still get news/politics in small doses without 90% of the noise
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).
That generally holds true for life as well.
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?
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.
An allow list is easier than a block list
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
Cut off one head, two more grow in it's place
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