The admin of sh.itjust.works has been approached but as of yet has failed to reply to concerned Lemmy users. I’m glad Beehaw admins look out for us by cutting off instances that host communities like this.
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Politics didn't dominate everyday discourse like it does today. We had tv news, newspapers, Radio and magazines. Yeah, we knew that Bush sr threw up on the Japanese PM. But unless you subscribed to very specific periodicals you were only going to see major events and these were icky talked about because it was something interesting that happened, not because people had very strong opinions that they wanted to debate. I've seen people say that we lack a shared national experience like we used to have. We used to all consume the same media. So there wasn't much debate. Now the facts are constantly being debated because people read wildly different sources that present the news in a conflicting manner.
Im in my mid 30s, my guy and have older family members and friends. You arent talking to some wide eye'd teenager. There's a level of civility thats unable to be had because the right has slowly but surely marched towards insanity, but politics were always a hot button issue in the US. Talk radio, right wing talk radio posing as christian radio, politically leaning daily newspapers, tabloids, talkshows, the 24 hour news cycle and more.
And thats not even getting to discourse around people who were on the outs during an era. Like the general attitudes and casual hate speech thrown around gays in the 90s and 00s was kind of appauling. Still isnt great but eddie murphy's hit comedy bitch which was just him being mad at a hypothetical gay man and calling him an F was huge in the 80s. But yeah golden age when nobody cared about politics.
Where do you live at, a battleground state? I don't, so we never got all the targeted advertising and whatnot here. I imagine someone in Ohio or Florida would have a much different experience due to political advertising. However, you probably weren't experiencing it online in Yahoo pool or Diablo II. The 24 hour news cycle didn't exist until the mid to late nineties, and only took off after September 11 2001. If you were consuming and discussing political content on a daily basis, then you were an outlier.