• Norin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You gotta block the bots that post news stories to communities named after the publication.

    Really clears up the feed.

    • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Also try to get the more spammy ones blocked by your server, it’s a service for all other users as well

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I don’t block much stuff, but I only subscribe to things that don’t generally feature US politics. So I essentially have two feeds: All and Subscribed. Scrolling All can be exhausting…

    • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That seems like the ideal approach. I sometimes WANT a survey of what Lemmy is talking about and sometimes I don’t. I’ve got massive tolerance for bullshit given my difficult upbringing but even I’m hitting limits and needing a break. It’s madness.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I browse by “Subscribed” and subscribe to communities that aren’t politically focused. Here’s a list:

    click here for a list of meme communities

    MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR

    Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes these include politics but that’s not the sole focus.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    lemmy can now filter out entire political comms.

    and most apps can filter out keywords. do at least “trump” and “musk” and you are good.

    as a not-usian i keep it for the entertainment value of the crumbling empire though.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        you can filter out comms from your lemmy settings > blocks or something.

        keyword filtering is not yet a thing on browser lemmy.

    • August27th@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

        • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’ve always thought that saying was weird. If I’m specifically grilling, I want to taste the heat. The smoky aroma is what makes grilling special to me. If you just want to taste the meat, it isn’t that different to using a pan imo. That’s why I like coal grills but prefer a wood fire, though that can be unpractical for some stuff

          • LoreSoong@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Using a pan and a propane grill are vastly different imo. I dont dislike charcoal or wood. I think each has thier own place depending on the meal you are preparing. For example I like to make steak and chicken kabobs on a propane grill and burgers and hotdogs on a charcoal.

            At the end of the day though seasoning and meat quality take center stage. So its all about what you have access to and can afford.

            • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 years ago

              For me grilling is less about just food preparation and more about the different experience of using a grill and the different taste you got from it. So with propane, even though it makes food prep a lot easier and more consistent, much more convienient, it loses the taste aspect so a big part of the whole thing is missing for me. It’s all about what aspects you value and how much.

      • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

          • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            27% of the US voting base is Democrat. 43% is centrist.

            Do you lean hard to progressive politics and abandon independents or do you try and capture centrists and hope that your voting base understands that the opponent is a literal fascist?

              • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 years ago

                Didn’t really answer the question…but okay.

                Hindsight is 20/20.

                If we run a full progressive candidate we will also for sure lose. But at least we’ll all feel warm and fuzzy inside that we picked a wonderful candidate. It’s a knife edge, if we want to only pander to our base, we will for sure lose support of many centrists.

                • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  2 years ago

                  You were told this before the election, repeatedly. You can invoke hindsight

                  If we run a full progressive candidate we will also for sure lose.

                  The last time the Democrats tried, they won a super majority

        • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 years ago

          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

          • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Lol okay. You make it sound like running a campaign is so easy. Maybe you should run the next one.

            If you go with a full progressive or overtly leftist campaign you will also lose. You will gain votes from the “purity politics” left from people like you but you will lose the support of so much of the centrist/independent block.

            43% of the US population identifies as independent. 27% identifies as Democrat. We don’t have a large enough voting base to win by ourselves without independent/centrist votes. If you abandon them as well, we also lose. Conservatives can always count on their base to vote for whoever… apparently we’ve learned that we can’t do that with progressives. It’s apparently our way or we sink the whole fucking boat with everyone in it. We apparently only vote for the PERFECT candidate, or we just won’t vote at all…or vote 3rd party.

            • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              2 years ago

              If you go with a full progressive or overtly leftist campaign you will also lose.

              The last time Democrats tried, they won a super majority.

              • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 years ago

                Yeah mate…back in 1932. I’m sure nothing’s really changed since then. And if you think we’ve had a “progressive” candidate since then… I’d LOVE to hear this hot take.

                • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  2 years ago

                  I was talking about Obama, who ran a progressive campaign.

                  Also, if you believe that Democrats haven’t run a progressive campaign in 90 years, you have ZERO leg to stand on saying it would lose.

            • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              2 years ago

              You make it sound like running a campaign is so easy.

              It’s not, at all. Spotting a repeated mistake IS pretty easy, though

              you will lose the support of so much of the centrist/independent block

              Prove it. Leftist ideas are liked by the majority of the country when asked without labels, so you’re talking out your ass.

              43% of the US population identifies as independent

              A lot of those are leftists who don’t associate with the DNC. I would know, I’m a member of a group of them who all get talk about politics. I’m literally a member of the group you’re claiming wouldn’t vote for a more left candidate and I’ll tell you: the majority of us would

              Conservatives can always count on their base to vote for whoever… apparently we’ve learned that we can’t do that with progressives

              Progressives aren’t the Democratic base, but nice try shifting the blame. Democrats are right-wing and are losing votes because of it. Look at 2024 in CA and see the millions of votes lost because they went centrist

              We apparently only vote for the PERFECT candidate, or we just won’t vote at all

              Either troll or so stupid you’re not worth engaging further on, just holy shit what a stupid reduction

              • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 years ago

                The last 4 Democratic Presidents have ALL been just barely left of center - Biden, Obama, Clinton, and Carter. The last true progressive we tried to run back was in '72 against Nixon and we lost so incredibly badly that people backed FAR away from trying to run a progressive candidate…go look at the results, they’re pretty insane.

                • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  2 years ago

                  Amazing how one election 50 years ago is enough to conclude that progressives can never win elections ever, but endlessly running conservative Democrats and eating shit just means you need to tack harder right. Not to mention that Obama ran considerably to the left of any other recent democrat candidate and cleaned up.

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          So, since they did not in fact “have the left in the bag,” “going for centrists” was not, in fact, “strategically speaking the right move.” Even by your own dumbass reasoning you’re wrong.

          This excuse is rolled out every time your favorite “centrists” eat shit, which is most of the time. The underlying logic that moving right is the way to win is above critique, no matter how many times it’s tried and failed. The Democratic party and their candidates and campaigns are all of course above critique, they can never fail, they can only be failed. You can only ever punch down and tell voters to change their behavior to accommodate the candidate’s positions, and never tell the candidate they should accommodate their constituents. The whole concept of democracy is meaningless at that point, just a popularity contest for which face will do the same awful shit, a game for rich sociopaths to fight over prestige and position, rather than a way for common people to have any sort of influence whatsoever over policy.

          The left warned them loudly and clearly and they ignored us, as they always do. If course, we weren’t the entire reason they lost, although I wish we were, because if we have the power and will to deny them wins, then they have no choice but to give into our demands or fade into irrelevance. Exercising this power is the only possible way to make them listen, or, if they won’t listen, it’s conveniently also the way to go about creating a new party that will.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Americans really do think their politics is just another tv show. I’ll let you in on a secret, the problem with Trump is not that he isn’t “boring”

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, and it doesn’t matter if the politicians overseeing those times are “boring”

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Biden was boring. It was a welcome reprieve from daily scandals and, at minimum, monthly constitutional crises. Now we’re moving to weekly constitutional crises. Functional government is boring. It’s mostly bureaucratic regulatory bookkeeping.

            It’s certainly possible to not be boring in a positive way, for instance if a politician is loudly advocating for radical positive change. But statistically speaking, boring is less harmful than the alternative.

              • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                2 years ago

                So did every president since Israel existed. The non-boring president didn’t stop that genocide, he blocked a lot of aid we were sending Ukraine, and unblocked a lot of aid we weren’t sending Israel. At least Biden wasn’t trying to turn Gaza into his own resort. This is objectively worse than boring Biden.

                • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  2 years ago

                  So did every president since Israel existed

                  I’m comfortable writing off anyone trying to claim the last year and a half in Gaza is just “business as usual” is a genocide denying fascist who would have said of the Holocaust “eh, Jews have been descriminated against in Germany for centuries”.

                  Like, you don’t even deserve to live, let alone have a “boring government”.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      We outside of the US didn’t even have any say in the elections and are subjected to your constant, and I mean constant political shit.

      It’s all so tiring

    • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.)

      • Rachelhazideas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It’s really easy to blame non-voters when you have the privilege of civic literacy, do not face voter disenfranchisement, do not live paycheck to paycheck, do not have a job that will fire you for ‘other reasons’ when you take off to vote, do not have an abusive spouse that will watch you fill in your mail in ballot if you vote, do not have to walk an hour away to the voting poll because you can’t drive, do not have a permanent address for a mail in ballot, so on and so forth.

        Yes, there are lazy ‘I’m not political’ morons who are willfully ignorant and don’t vote. But let’s not pretend that everything about American infrastructure including car dependency, anti-homelessness laws, understaffed voting polls, centralized media and fake news, aren’t all designed to make voting harder than it should be and disproportionately target minorities.

        • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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          2 years ago

          It’s really easy to blame non-voters when you have the privilege of civic literacy

          This is a helluva line I that I’m absolutely stuck on.

          I don’t even know how to approach it… civic literacy as a privilege? I feel like that’s an entirely new term invented as a way of avoiding accountability tbh. I get that it’s hard to vote, and I get people who have to work all the time, but I don’t get pushback against the idea that we’re just not making the effort or trying to push through challenges for a better future. Fuck that, I don’t care. Ya’ll gonna learn one way or another what accountability means.

          • Rachelhazideas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Getting a quality education or having parents who did is a privilege. No baby was born knowing how to vote. The vast majority of non-voters don’t even know how to start, let alone how to take time off to vote or when their mail-in ballot window is. Many might not have the required IDs and need to jump through another hoop to vote.

            To non-voters, the voting process can be as daunting as getting your driver’s license the first time, except they’re doing it alone, juggling 3 jobs and raising kids. They simply don’t have the time or mental energy to go through bureaucracy and mentally keeping every deadline and paperwork in their minds.

            Civic literacy is a privilege because the fact that you understand the importance of voting and know enough about the process to plan ahead of it means that you grew up in circumstances that allowed you to do so.

            Calling people lazy for not voting is like calling people assholes for not buying cage-free eggs. t’s very easy to not give a shit about either when you’re living paycheck to paycheck, and it’s very easy to perceive complaints about this as virtue signalling.

            You’re not getting anyone to vote by calling them lazy. Don’t be angry. Be useful and be actionable. If you actually want more people to vote, understand the systemic barriers behind why so many don’t vote, educate others on it, and make a difference.

            • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Me who was denied an education and raised by a cult family in the wilderness for the first 20 years, and had to escape and learn everything and get an education on my own, and still somehow managed to learn the importance of voting for qualified candidates, reading this and taking notes

        • RedPostItNote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          The election was completely fraudulent. Our country did NOT vote for this. Watching people rip each other apart over “how we voted” is painful because ALL OF IT IS FICTION.

          • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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            2 years ago

            The election was real.

            The millions of contentious voices on Facebook, twitter, reddit and so on were not. They used the KGB handbook to play the basic tactic of amplifying the worst contention on both sides of literally every issue, leaving the general, moderate population absolutely checked out and uninterested in involvement.

            When you don’t feel connected to your community, what do you do? You ignore it, you don’t work to better it.

            While I say this was from the KGB handbook (literally) I don’t think they were the only forces at work, I think it’s just an effective tactic that everyone who wants to control or subvert the richest, most powerful nation on earth (a nation already sabotaged by “fierce individualism”) will readily employ so that democracy no longer stands between them and the prize.

            When the goal is “line go up for infinity” the soil itself is a commodity that will be dug up and sold. I really feel like ya’ll still aren’t realizing what’s happening. Almost half the population didn’t get involved, and the ones who did had no media literacy or involvement in politics, as evident by the absolutely bonkers exit polling. We’re at that scene in the Die Hard sequel where the dump trucks are driving the gold out of the city.

            • RedPostItNote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 years ago

              So everything is crystal clear to you? Lmao. The election was falsified, the bots online are fake to give the fake election numbers credence. This isn’t rocket surgery. I feel like maybe you don’t understand what’s happening.

              • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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                2 years ago

                I can already tell I won’t enjoy conversing about this with you, it’s okay, have a good one.

      • HalfSalesman@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It seems like you’re directing this at me, and I can say that ultimately before November 5th I would have nodded my head in agreement. For basically the last 20 years I’ve been more or less obsessively following politics. I’ve voted in every election, primaries, midterms, special elections, local elections, and general. I’ve canvassed and donated. I’ve perpetually kept my eye on the news and participated in a invite-only political debate sub-reddit back in my reddit days. I’ve advocated IRL at my own workplace, risking my job security.

        But now I’m verging on suicidally disinterested. After this result I want to disconnect so fucking badly. I want to check out and it feels like there is no escape. I don’t even enjoy my “escapes” like video games, movies/TV, books as much as I used to. All of it feels like a grey sludge while a radioactive fire burns the world.

        And the problem is, even if things get sorted out, I will never want to care again. Even if the US fixes its major problems I will forever be disgusted with the majority of my fellow citizens and be ambivalent about most of their well being. I am permanently mentally isolated after this election. The rest of my life seems intrinsically and inescapably dimmer.

        Will I care anyway? Yes eventually and inevitably, I’ll feel emotionally pulled to care. Its just how my brain works. And I will resent it. I resent it now.

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          You were fanatically supportive of genocide, while heaping venom and hatred on the people who oppose it; I don’t think anyone cares what you are ‘disgusted’ by. Your boos mean nothing, we’ve seen what makes you cheer.

        • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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          2 years ago

          It seems like you’re directing this at me,

          I actually wasn’t but I do appreciate the brutally honest and non-combative reply, this is exactly the window into how the foreign and domestic forces working tirelessly to amplify contention and hate have subverted our very spirit and left us not wanting to care about anything anymore.

          This isn’t entirely the fault of the population, but the population can and should at least more informed of this tactic so they don’t doom-scroll the worst clips and gifs, the pandering content, the screaming matches and “debates” and news stories from dubious outlets. We need to do this so we all take better care of our minds, this is part of the whole story… your mind is vulnerable and selfish forces will sell out your mental wellbeing and sovereignty so they can keep making line go up.

          If you take care of your mind like your body, if you take care with what you put into it, it will be stronger and healthier and you can make better decisions. This is why they are attacking the very notion of “mental health” by the way. They want a depressed, checked-out population of serfs working the fields and buying the latest iPhone as soon as it lands.

      • nomorecids454@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Not everybody’s american you dumb idiot. Of course i’m sick of all the yank spam. It’s not my country. It doesn’t make me a bot

    • tpyoman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Same but some don’t tag their posts and I still see some posts slip through maybe I should block the news communities.

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I don’t mind the odd post, sometimes it can be relevant and important topics . But those two words balances it out.

        • tpyoman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          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

      • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

  • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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

    • Itwasthegoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been arguing with Tankies and bots for like 2 days in an Anti-DNC meme.

    Some of them have unironically endorsed Republicans, like not even a joke, no mask, they just want things to burn.

    • Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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?