- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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Between November and now, I worked pretty diligently to create a wall around me to avoid these topics. Unfollowing, blocking, filtering.
Once the inauguration happened, I discovered that the concrete I used was faulty and full of holes. The black, fetid water of these lunatics seeped in from all directions.
Tech news, cultural news, arts, all possible other topics that I thought were safe within the walls I built are now covered with sludge.
I so tired of this shit. How did we let this happen?
I’ve been having this problem since 2016.
No matter how many filters you throw at it, there’s always images, videos, and people self-censoring to get around them.
It’s infected everyone and everything, like a virus.
Searching for a way out. I’m sure there’s somewhere safe out there…
I’m in the same spot. Even made a Lemmy account just so I can block communities. Then I go to technology/linux/memes communities and guess what? It’s american politics all over. And don’t even get me started on Reddit, at that point subreddits don’t even matter anymore. Even on the subreddit related to my own country in eastern Europe, every day I see a ton of pointless “Trump news”. And mods justification is always “it’s TOTALLY related to our country because US politics impacts the entire world”. Like, what’s the point anymore? We might as well talk about Trump and Musk in the plants or lego community.
Probably because the impact is bigger now and affecting a lot of the things you mentioned. That’s what happens when they get power I guess rather than just talk. I’ve been doing my best to avoid it as well though, it also makes me feel so negative. Good luck to you in this crazy world.
It’s almost like we’re watching a historical event where a large democratic nation is quickly turning into an oligarchal dictatorship. Almost like we’re dealing with the consequences of anti intellectualism.
Also just because you don’t live in America during all this doesn’t mean your country is immune to right wing influence.
Dude, here in Europe half the nations are already beholden to some extreme right faction, and the other half are flirting with it.
Our situation is honestly just a hair better and could deteriorate very rapidly.
Like, for example, if Putin makes his move against the Baltics. If that happens we’re equally megafucked.
Filters in the fediverse are so nice.
I wish I could filter words in community names.
Not nice enough, since this would still end up on your feed.
Yeah, i wish i could live with my head in the sand too.
Social media was probably the best thing to ever happen for fascists. Because everyone’s online and not out there actually doing something about it.
And right now we mostly have clowns (Zuck, Musk) at the helms of, let’s call them what they are, megapropagandamachines. Imagine what equally evil but much smarter players could do.
The funny thing is, I have Lemmy filtering out all posts with the word Trump in it, but it failed to get this one, the one complaining about too many people talking about Trump!
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Everyone’s talking and nobody’s doing anything.
Who cares, Henry’s come to town!
My kingdom for some beans!
It wouldn’t’t be so bad if people let filters do their job and put Trump in post title…just saying.
I’m on mobile, could someone make this a square comic so I can share it? I don’t know how
I’m starting to dislike and avoid the Daily Show and even the Jon episodes, I just can’t keep hearing and seeing the stupid bullshit every damn day.
@title: A smart person would limit exposure and stick around to not have to find out.
Everything… EVERYTHING… related to the orange parasite or any of its’ bootlicking minions, I downvote without looking and move on.
