You’re banned too You’re welcome
Same, I ban all US politic subs as well
at least if the memes were good. It’s just bad man this bad man that or dementia man dementia man that.
all of the posts are doom scrolling
That’s not what doom scrolling is dummy
With all these posts that require voting i have only one question, “how can i vote if i am not USA citizen?”
Looks like you’re voting for Trump, then.
Obviously a Russian bot.
What posts require voting???
Vote for not felon, there’s rain of these posts, I’d be glad to vote for not felon, but how do i vote if I’m not allowed to because I’m not citizen of USA
You’re obviously not the target of the post
Then why there are so many of them? It is international platform, then why it should be under one of superpowers? we here for shit and giggles aren’t we? Then why politics should be pushed down our throat even when we are not target of these posts, why they should be dominant when we seek to avoid them?
I don’t know the exact metrics of Lemmy but I’d wager it skews US centric. Just block the people posting them, it works.
Thank you for advice)
The Political Propaganda machine in the US is now at full steam given how near their Presidential Election is, so we get innundated with “vote X” and “X is great” posts along with “Y is bad” ones.
Advertising has become so abusive that you can’t browse anymore without and AdBlocker, and Political Propaganda is just a more manipulative form of advertising, often pushed by people deeply emotional bound to “their club” (funnilly enough, I also avoid Sports stuff, as it suffers from exactly the same problem) hence far more insiduous and aggressive.
Then to make it even worse, this electoral cycle in the US is all about doom-mongering with not a single message of hope or a bright vision for the Future: in other words, everybody is selling Fear, which at least in traditional Advertising is uncommon.
Telling people to vote is not propaganda it’s a call to action, the one that is a duty to all citizens regardless of country.
You keep using that word far too generally which takes away from your message.
Lastly, it’s not just annual doom mongering. I’m so sorry you have to see it but it’s a big fucking deal and completely unprecedented for us as an entire goddamn country. Our political plights do NOT just boil down to more advertising.
We are fighting for our rights and those of us less fortunate. We’re talking not just freedoms but lives. This is not hyperbole, people are dying and more will die and suffer if we do not shout and scream about it.
I’m sorry our election isn’t easier for you to ignore goddamn. Your final line of how there isn’t a single iota of hope just shows how full of complete shit you are. Shame on you for lying like this.
Bullshit!
If it was about “just vote” you wouldn’t care who for.
That post of yours is such a perfect example of that very sleazy political propaganda I was talking about that the very first paragraph is already deceitful misrepresentation.
Then follows the customary use of political slogans from the Book Of Vote Lesser Evil: it’s “unprecedented” vote - again - “fighting for our rights” and, most hilarious of all for the “less fortunate” (trully beyond belief in a country with a grand total of 4 national politicians who are leftwing, and the rest being overwhelmingly hard-right ultra-neolibs or far-right fascists).
The whole thing reads like somebody who has swallowed the Cool Aid and is giving themselves an excuse to pester everybody else, all very similar to religious nutters proselytizing.
From the outside it’s like watching the Russian Elections but for a country with a Power Duopoly instead of a Power Monopoly, complete with people in their minds boosting way out of proportion the small differences between those two cheeks of the same arse that pass for Political Parties, to convince themselves they actually have a choice (lest they realize having the country governed for the many, not for the fatcats, is never going to happen in that electoral system and they have to do something about it) in some kind of country-sized Stockholm Syndrome.
It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.
All with the blaring self-righteousness of - “I lifted a finger once. Nothing happened overnight. Never again.”
Cheered on by those actively participating in concern trolling divide-and-conquer political campaign tactics, both from within the country and from halfway across the world in China and goddamned russia.I have a hard time handling all the bad shit in the world. I noticed lately I open Lemmy much less because of all the doom posts. I already deleted reddit and disabled YouTube. Lemmy is all I have left as social media, but it’s getting less attractive by the day.
It’s become so much better since I started banning communities. I might unban them in a year or so, but for now my timeline stays clean.
Nice, I’ll go do that too, thanks!
You are probably browsing lemmy using ‘All’ filter instead of ‘subscribed’ which only shows posts from communities where you have subscribed.
Partly true, there isn’t much I’m subscribed to so I’m through the list fairly quickly. I’m having a hard time finding stuff I find interesting but isn’t junk. Generally, stuff happening in the world interests me, but lately I’m having a hard time handling all the bad shit.
That’s why you then go to local, not all
I get it in local too
You have just given me the power to ruin all of lemmy for you in particular. Fool
American - sees a shitpost about beans
Butterfly meme
“Is this a post about politics and/or religion?”
Yeah only America talks about their own politics or religions during pivotal times directly related to those things
Yeah the /all feed legitimately seems to be mostly yank politics, and has felt that way for months. Real tired of hearing about them 😴
And you think we’re not sick of hearing y’all cry about sunak and what labor is doing rn???
Plenty of your comments are you crying about seeing America exist. What you’re crying about right now in this comment us yanks have been dealing with while your elections brewed.
Or what about Brexit? Do you realize we don’t give a fuck? We still hear about it. That bitch of a king, I could go on and on.
It’s almost like when you partake in global communities you’ll hear about shit
I don’t care about normal politics what annoys me is the Tankies climbing out of the wood work to tell you about the evil evil “west”
Funny enough, from some of the replies I get to my posts, some of them relating to us politics, I can only assume that people either don’t notice or don’t care about what instance I’m connected to.
It’s a fun game… At least, I’m entertained by it.
Yep, same here. I already have a lot of existential dread about shit I can’t do anything about, so why wouldn’t I ban them. Hell I have a lot of title words filtered out too
/all does seem to be devolving into just a shitty news feed of US bullshit. I try and block as much as possible, but it’s not perfect. Lemmy needs a way to categorise and filter out stuff like blatant news links. I want memes and discussion, not ads and news.
