Hello rational, logical thinkers.
Some of you might be losing your minds with all the idiotic takes that get flooded on here about the upcoming election
"Don't vote for Biden's genocide because Trump's genocide will be better. Also, it will definitely not become domestic genocide although he promised to take revenge on his perceived enemies if he wins, which is all democrats and people of color. He's totally joking even though he's never joked in his life."
I am reminded of the 2016 election from the perspective of Reddit. If you were like me during the election, you were pretty confident that Bernie was going to be the Democrat candidate. We all "Felt the Bern" and there was a ton of support in the form of posts and comments saying it was all but certain. Then reality set in that Reddit content is only but a small slice of the actual voting population in the United States and we got Biden instead.
I bring this up because Lemmy is even smaller than reddit. As an example, Transgenders make up 1-2% of the population yet it seems like 20-30% of Lemmy users are trans.
So when you're feeling existential dread because of these fucking idiots, just remember that it's a subset of a subset of the US voting population and is not actually mainstream thinking.
Stay critical, be skeptical, try not to fall for the fascist attempts to drain your energy and tire you out.
And yes, vote.
Lemmy users are, I think, more expressive because the old site stopped being a place for actual discussion and a good number of us are from small communities in the earlier days of the internet. I won't tell you how to vote, but please do. Maybe even block some communities if you need to. I stopped going to Google News about a month ago and my mental health definitely improved. I find myself reading more that I wanna know about rather than what happens to have happened.