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This entire community is becoming a shitshow.
If you don't want trans people dealing with politics then you should stop politics from dealing with trans people.
get shitposting then cuz a lot of us are real pissed off and i cant blame them with the situation here in the us
I can't say the same thing OP says, because I blocked every politics community/magazine I could see when browsing all. But the truth is that most posts and comments, whether politics or not, are related to something about US.
The sad thing is that we can't do anything to bring balance onto the existing instances, so 80% of content will keep being related to US and 20% of content will keep being related to the rest of the world.
The good thing is that an instance called lemmywithout.us or kbinwithout.us could be created, similar to this magazine, but at instance level. Or we can block every community/magazine where most content, whether posts or comments, is related to US.
Preach
I've seen two posts in just the last hour about the "flood" of US politics posts and not a single post about US politics posted in a few days.
Either I must have the users posting that stuff blocked, or someone's making a mountain out of a molehill on a personal vendetta.
And those who know, know I am always everywhere. If it existed, I'd have commented on it.
...does that mean you've blocked me?
that's genuinely kind of upsetting -- i think you're a really cool person
You're not blocked. 👍
And those who know, know I am always everywhere. If it existed, I'd have commented on it.
I identify with this all too much, and I agree.
Can confirm, I see you (both) everywhere
It's true, if you or FlyingSquid weren't there, it didn't happen.
with no ill will to OP, their comment history shows that they have been involved in heated debates in a grand total of… two. political posts on 196 in the past few days.
i believe OP is misidentifying the issue. trolls. it’s just trolls. :(
I just sorted by hot, then sorted by top 24 hour and top 12 hour, and I don't see what you're talking about. None of the top 10 in any of these three sorts is about American politics
More b holes, less b holes!
Some advice, just block the users posting the politics, if your Lemmy phone app or the desktop browser version support doing so. If they post stuff you don't want to see now, they'll post stuff you don't want to see again in the future.
Me personally, that's what I do. My mental health is in a tight spot and I don't have the energy for the doomer shit any more, so I'd like to hang onto some of my essence, because I can just wait to go full doomer panic mode if Trump cucks his way into 2024 and starts banning trans people from life (which would affect me).
Also it's worth considering, a lot of these people being "no I want the Dems to lose because some bullshit" might be fucking tankies/accelerationists sneaking in here again, not all of them but a bunch. That idea really clicked when a friend of mine pointed the possibility out.
I'm not that versed in politics because of my similar aversion to it as you seem to have, but I do know those idiots exist, are annoying and loud, and are just contrarion moron cowards who want democracy to end so they can con someone else into doing a whole revolution for them after it gets bad. Even though none of them would last through the getting bad part.
So just block people posting uncomfy memes, ignore Internet psychos, vote in November, including local elections wherever possible, and we'll all hopefully come out of this without too much lasting trauma.
I find reporting trolls and bad faith actors to be far more constructive and also productive then pretending that they don't exist.
If the de facto response is to block these trolls instead of reporting them then there's no way that the situation can get better. Lemmy isn't a free speech platform like Nostr moderation is important and one big part of moderation is reporting trolls and bad faith actors, essentially calling them out to the moderators.
So do your part and report the trolls and psychos and if you don't want to follow up later then block them, but it's important to file a report first.
good advice, sending love 💕 (assuming you haven’t blocked me cuz i post politics sometimes) 💞
We got to the "this entire community..." stage way faster than Reddit did.
Experience matters