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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Dam it's almost like we're entering a 3rd world war
I blame the reddit exodus
Ha, now your a poltical memer
sigh That's how they get ya...
You might not be political, but the Nazis are, and they don't really mind sending non-political people to the camps.
They seem to enjoy it, in fact. Memes are important, but so is freedom to meme.
I too like to bury my head in the sand.
You don't have to worry about the fire slowly coming towards your home if you have no idea the fire is even there.
Is it really political any more when evil people have used politics to gain control over our lives to wreck our retirement funds, deport and possibly murder our friends, and oh just for fun destroy the entire foundational structure of science and discovery?
Nope. That's not political. That's awareness of the environment in which we find ourselves, and an attempt to deal with it.
Hopefully it will be over soon (in part thanks to awareness campaigns) so we can go back to politics where we have some conservatives, some progressives or whatever, and some single-issue parities that can make common cause with the others from time-to-time. Politics would be so wonderful to have now. It's only been gone for maybe a decade and I miss it so much.
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What bugs me about it is that it’s usually not even news, just outrage bait.
Well yeah, you’re on a social media site, not a news site. What do you expect? Everyone here to have a journalism degree or something?
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I filter out all of those words from my feed. I still see a lot of political stuff but it's balanced out with a bunch of meme communities and such.
When people talk about people being jerks on lemmy I miss out on most of that. I'm here for fun.
Weird! It's almost like the country that a significant portion of the world rely on for protection turning into a literal fascist dictatorship is somehow significant. Who'd have thought
We get it, your country is on fire. We hear about it EVERY DAY of our lives. It would be great to go on here or any social media and not see a post about what Trump or Musky have done in the past 5 minutes.
Sure, but the words Elon and Trump are pretty specific filters to block those posts. I turn mine on when I'm feeling saturated.
My country's doing fine, but there are others that are quite concerned. Most notably the USA.
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I have a filter on Elon and Trump
It was too much
Same but some don't tag their posts and I still see some posts slip through maybe I should block the news communities.
if it's that bad, I honestly think you shouldn't be online.
Not kidding, you need to take better care of yourself if it's at the point where you're setting filters and still getting stressed seeing political content, you're not helping yourself escaping online.
There have to be some other things you can do, places you can go, activities you can occupy yourself with or people you can hang out with.
Because man... this shit happening right now is big, it's history, it's going to be really, really hard to escape it online because there are millions and millions of people far more involved and worried and trying to communicate their concerns.
I don’t mind the odd post, sometimes it can be relevant and important topics . But those two words balances it out.
Yea my current blovklist looks like this. And I still see a bunch of stuff for them.
maga, politics, biden, trump, republican, elon musk, musk, elon, conservative, rfk, election, russia, russian
Looks like this one slid through. Maybe add "political"
Yea good call I'll a that one as well.
Me too, it was needed.
It would be nice if we had elected the boring president yeah.
It would have been nice if 45% of the eligible voting population didn't already check out last year. It would have been nice if there weren't countless posts by bots on reddit saying "I really hate all this politics" in a concerted, ongoing effort to make people like OP tune out and not care.
I mean, I get that it's hard sometimes to always see what's happening in the world, but you have the option to turn it all off. But expecting to just get the content that appeals to your mood at the moment and lets you avoid responsibility, that's fucking childish.
When you're a child you can avoid the world. You're supposed to be protected from the world. You grow up and BAM now you're part of shit. No, you don't get out of it. No, you don't get to escape whenever you want. Sorry, we didn't sign up for it either but we know what we have to do so we're concerned about events and trying to communicate that concern so that evil doesn't flourish. (Much further.)
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I did.
It would be nice if the boring president actually tried to win.
They did try to win. They just didn't try to win the way YOU wanted them to. Strategically speaking, going for centrists was the right move, even if you were a progressive candidate. They assumed that they already had the left in the bag, and we're trying to target independent and centrist votes. Nobody would have thought that the left would just....let Trump win because of some bullshit purity politics. But hey, now that the left has let a fascist into power, we won't have to worry about voting anymore. Super smart power move progressives. A+. You played yourselves.
Strategically speaking, going for centrists was the right move, even if you were a progressive candidate.
That's why they won in 2016 and 2024, right?
Stupid ass shit like what you just said is the kind of shit that lost to fascism twice now and look at you, still saying it! Keep going, I'm sure losing a third time will be great
now that the left has let a fascist into power
Liberals love blaming leftists when shit goes bad even when it's their garbage ideas that got us here. Fuck right off
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When things are on fire you tend to see a bunch of smoke. Just sayin…
Exactly. It's like being in a house that's on fire, laying down for a nap, and complaining when the flames make it too bright to sleep. You can ignore it and move deeper inside the house to nap like you used to, but there's no fire brigade this time.
Unless it’s a clean burning propane
Or one of those cool decorative indoor ethanol candles
Taste the meat not the heat.
You don’t, by chance, happen to sell propane and propane accessories?
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