• Ephera
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      Well, the ‘politics’ communities are usually used by US folks as their politics communities. It’s great that Trump is doing senile-old-man things again, but I cannot vote for or against the guy anyways. So, there is no real reason for me to keep up with that drama.

      • @Vespair@lemm.ee
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        Remember kids, nothing doesn’t apply to you, everything was made specifically for you. If you find yourself in a community that seems like it doesn’t apply to you, remember that you’re never in the wrong place, obviously it is that community who is in the wrong.

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          What? Is this supposed to be snark? By blocking the community, I am saying that this is the wrong place for me to be. I just don’t want it showing up in /all.

      • @P00ptart@lemmy.world
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        Honestly if I weren’t American, I would still keep up with American politics at the moment just for entertainment value, or to feel better about the situation im in. “Oof, America has it bad right now. Thank god I live in Sri Lanka!”

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      Except it’s mostly Americans, and their politics mostly has nothing to do with me. Such is life I suppose.

      • @eldavi@lemmy.ml
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        use one of the instances that are not based in the united states; my french is getting a workout on .ml.

    • @maliciousonion@lemmy.mlOP
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      I still browse through the political communities occasionally but I hate how their posts absolutely dominate the main page by default.

    • @Homescool@lemmy.world
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      This is certainly what they want you to think.

      The fact is that “both sides” (sorry) are selling a pill for doom. The fire meme above is whatever Trumps latest scary/dumb thing he said, or it’s 40 network cameras focused on a 100 SqYd patch of a city that wants to be on the news.

      It’s whatever will mobilize you to donate, click, watch, buy, and yes, vote.

      We only got the fire meme because we don’t understand fire.

    • @LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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      There a huge difference between apolitical and not wanting to be spammed by left-wing echo chamber talking points. Who do leftists think they are reaching on Lemmy anyways lol.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
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        Lemmy was made by Communists, it has a ton of Communists and Anarchists as a consequence. Believe it or not, Leftist outreach is working on Lemmy.

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            No one is saying it will. Lots of folks in leftist spaces advocate for getting in the streets, unionizing your workplace, and organizing in socialist organizations. If you’re a socialist, it’s time to find a socialist organization to join. Can’t find any local chapters? Start your own. Don’t like any local organizations? Join one and work to improve it.

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            Course not, that’s why I always tell people to read theory and join an org like PSL or FRSO.

            I know for a fact I have gotten a few dozen people to read at least a little bit of theory, converted a few to Marxism-Leninism, and helped encourage at least one comrade to join an org. The numbers are low, yes, but that’s important nonetheless.

          • Lightor
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            It won’t happen online so just give up and ignore what’s happening. This is so defeatist and exactly what corrupt politicians want, apathy.

      • @TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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        There is a list of people I have radicalized, actually.

        And obviously this is not an echo chamber. Tell people not to vote for a blue team genocider and libs freak out.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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        You can always go back to reddit. First of all, to even consider .ml “left wing echo chamber” you need to be more far right than Hitler*, since even open genocide support argued by a lot of people here** is “left wing” to you? Difference is, .ml admins arent US govt bootlickers unlike reddit admins and you can’t just scream for them to shut us communists like you people did on reddit.

        *Oh, an .worlder, figures.

        **Mostly .worlders and such, the fact such a genocidal proaganda isn’t banned on sight is a visible testament to .ml not being an echo chamber.

    • @JillyB@beehaw.org
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      You just equated blocking c/politics with being broadly pro status quo. You can be politically engaged and active and not like the discussions on c/politics.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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        No, i equated being apolitical with being pro status quo. Being apolitical was implied by not wanting to hear about politics and reaching “inner peace” as a result.

  • Match!!
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    nobody has ever felt inner peace wearing a button shirt and tie

    • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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      Exactly. This asshole wants people to stop yelling at them for “just wanting a fiscal conservative” in office. (The guy in the pic, not OP)

  • @UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    I’m glad you did what you want with your own life. People should block instances/people/subs instead of complaining about them. I think the people who complain actually want to grandstand their own beliefs. You have become what you hate dipshits!

    Block/mute, move on. It’s your life. It’s your lemmy. Use the tools at your disposal instead of trying to get other people to do what you want!

    • @TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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      I don’t want 10,000 anime posts on my all page but they keep popping up lol

      Do you know if there’s anything I can do to stop it?

      • @P00ptart@lemmy.world
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        The thing is, WHO THE FUCK KEEPS MAKING MORE?!? like yeah, youre I to anime, great! JOIN ONE THAT ALREADY EXISTS! No need to divide it up into the most specific thing on the planet. Animecausualcannibalism.mi, catgirlswearinglobstercostumesmoe.world fucking STOP.

  • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    Anyone telling American voters to ignore politics in an election year doesn’t want progress. Please keep that in mind…

  • @Affidavit@lemm.ee
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    This is a fair assessment. I actually like politics, but I have still blocked numerous political communities because the users spam variations of the exact same 2 articles over, and over, and over, and over again.

    It’s either going to be:

    1. Trump be stoopid
    2. Israel be bad

    The first few times were interesting, now it’s just effing annoying. Blocking these communities has definitely improved my Lemmy experience.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      Join communities focused on political theory more, you get more analysis than simply X Bad.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        I just remember, in the very early days of these kinds of online communities, that people would actually try and organize to do shit. Like, you’d have folks on /r/Houston talking about a bunch of redditors going down to the Houston Food Bank to volunteer. Or you’d have some serious fucking shit out about a landlord with folks offering to come down and help out. I even caught a “my car is broken, I don’t know what to do” with a “don’t worry, I can help out” and a final “omg, its fixed, thank you so much!”

        Now its all talk. Nothing is real, its all just fucking ads and Mr. Beast style stunts. Nobody has any kind of trust or empathy for anyone else online. The closest you get to a material social network is people on Nextdoor screaming about how a strange car drove down the street and desperately asking everyone on the block to call the police and report it at once.

        Shit fucking sucks.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          The closest I’ve seen on Lemmy is Hexbear’s Mutual Aid community, where users help each other out financially when in need.

          • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            It works, in no small part, because the community is small and people have known each other by handles for years now.

            But the flip side is that a few of the mods on Hexbear can be just as draconian in their administration policy as anyone on old-school Reddit. So you periodically see otherwise friendly and active members vanish from the site.

  • @mlg@lemmy.world
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    I just browse “All” and I keep getting slapped with “Kamala actually cares about Gaza and understands the complexities of the situation so plz vote plz I beg we need this so bad no don’t go actually look at the ongoing genocide just plz vote” posts

  • @Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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    Privilege is so convenient, in so many ways! I mean, who gives a shit about any of it, I’ll probably never be affected!