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196 does not rule when the top voted posts are all about US politics (bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com)

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This entire community is becoming a shitshow.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (4 children)

You're in a community on a primarily LGBT instance. One of the most affluent and influential countries in the world has one of their two major political parties trying to declare that anyone who's not cis, white, heterosexual is an aberration that needs to be purged.

An attitude that is attempting to spread to other Western nations.

Something which is either actively affecting, or will potentially effect, many of the members of this instance.

So, uh, anyway... sorry for offending you, but if you don't like things getting spicy then maybe this isn't the place for you.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Tell that to the hordes of people yelling why they won't vote, despite all of this. Discussion with these people is like talking to a brick wall. I don't think this community is appropriate for these exchanges.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

with peace and love 196 has always been this way you won’t be able to fight it without changing the core culture of 196

what you can do is post content you want to see, which you are doing here so excellent work keep it up 😎👍🙌

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Speaking of shitshow, have you been following American politics right now??? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

i cant help but not to when the entire internet has nothing but amerlcan politics

i dont even live in america

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I am trying hard to post silly shitposts grunble grumble grumble

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

pats head *

You are doing a wonderful job, keep posting silly shitposts.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

sort by top of all time

I can't believe HP and Tom Scott is becoming a political movement smh my head

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No one is sorting by top of all time when they casually browse the community. They're sorting by hot, or something else restricted to a semi-recent time period.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I am not sure I get where op is even coming from here.

Out of the top 20 of all time, only 5 are even about American politics at all, and arguably 2 of those 5 are not American specific.

Where I'm from, if you're a conservative, leftist women won't fuck you either.

Edit: Ok, I went deeper and kept scrolling (this is honestly a good community, with good memes lol, glad to be here) and, I'm just eyeballing it here, but less than 1 in 5 posts even applies to American politics, and less than half of those is exclusive to it. So honestly, wtf op?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

partially my fault i recently made a bad post which poked fun at certain users. who come into us politics posts and blame americans for their own suffering for not having a better system calling them lazy etc. i was literally just like hey that’s not nice lots of americans especially young ones haven’t had a say in their government. comments immediately turned sour and i got called names for “ruining 196” 🙁(even though it’s like always been this way). i deleted the post because i agree it was a bit mean spirited on reflection.

but i made a better one that was more to the point and has been better received. 🙂

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Unfortunately the internet is full of Americans.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sorry

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You sound Canadian.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Set default sort to new.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

100% love that lemmy is still small enough that sorting by new still feels fresh almost every time 💞

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