Bullying someone who's country is at war with a dictator is bad, yes.
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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How about claiming Gaza before the corpse is cold?
What a fucking country.
This one stings just because how much I wanted kamala so we didn't have to learn what trump had in store.
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They were taking full advantage of English being a second language too. Pathetic children. What a fucking embarrassment.
I blocked all of the news and political communities on my main account.
I keep an alt to keep track of local and national news of where I live. Improved my mental health substantially.
Edit: I live in Europe
I wish I could, but personally not knowing would be a greater mental load then having to process this run away train of fascism.
We should really stay on top of the news to know when Trump wants us to wear identifying armbands
If you can't, it can be enough to say that's enough for today and control how much you take in I found a YouTube channel belle of the fifth column is just enough to keep informed but it's short and she put context to the news and just keeps it to the facts no click bait.
I'll not denigrate your choices. I will just say that I'm reading and listening to a lot less, but that's because I'm reading/listening/watching across the spectrum. Shutting out others' voices seems to be what got us here.
I haven't worked up the wherewithal to brave Breitbart, OANN etc yet. One, my mental health is so valuable to me, two, I want to continue to consume thoughtful pieces; but I think it's critical to keep an eye on these outlets so we can address legitimate grievances and also be a calm, steady, not-shaming tone to offer a more grounded perspective. It will take time, patience, respect to bring USA back to some semblance of sanity and unity. I think we are on the event horizon of do-or-die together, in that regard ) and I mean globally).
I don't think i understand your comment what does belle have to do with OANN or Breitbart I wouldn't touch those with a 10 foot pole.
I'm not sure how to be more plain. People are radicalized because legitimate concerns aren't heard, let alone addressed. Entertaining ideas doesn't mean automatically accepting all of them. How are we to address legitimate grievances if we refuse to listen for them?
I understand where you're coming from, but the legitimate grievances of conservatives are not covered by the far right media. They're alchemically transmogrified into immigrant hate, queer hate, poor hate.
Their legitimate grievances are largely the same as everyone. Wages haven't kept up with the cost of living is the most basic. But instead of looking at the top of the hierarchy for answers, these media sources redirect that grievance at the bottom of the hierarchy. And conservatives are obsessed with hierarchy.
It is good to study enemy propaganda, but it's hard to stomach. I wish more people could understand in the way you have.
And when we've tempered ourselves (I'm so not there yet!), we can calmly, rationally refute with truth in non-inflammatory language. We can try to use simpler terms and explain those not understood. I understand it's not going to be easy, that's why I'm working on temperance in small bites, first. Our media has inflamed and made reactionary all of us, to varying extents, because that supports the monied interests. It supports everyone's interests to dial it back, take deep breaths and respond rather than react. Don't think the Neo Duopoly is going to do that; they will counter it with even more inflammatory rhetoric.
I'm literally texting with my MAGA father in law as we speak. He is embarrassed by how Zelenskyy/Ukraine were treated yesterday. There is hope.
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I simply blocked Lemmy (and all my other time waster websites) from my phone.
I subscribed to a newspaper to keep track of news.
Initially I did as well - but we are fast approaching a point where simply ignoring this further will be unacceptable.
I feel that sometime soon we may be called to do more than be a voice of reason. Americans are being tested right now. Will you quietly look away because you fear discomfort as your freedoms are stripped away? As your neighbors are assailed?
I'm not fond of the sting of teargas and pepper spray... but it's probably about time to develop a taste for it again. Find a group, know your community, and stop hiding.
Oh, and if you see a Nazi? Punch it.
All threats. Foreign and domestic.
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I haven't seen any egg pics. Something is wrong, I can feel it.
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Where's my potash?
Trump is using a technique called 'The Gish Gallop.'
Obama wanted to pass the ACA and the GOP managed to block it for almost two years because Obama kept talking about that one thing.
Trump is breaking rules left and right; plus screaming about crazy ideas like buying Greenland.
There is so much stuff going on that normal minds just want to shut down to get some peace and quiet.
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News should always take a higher seat than memes. I don’t know why this is considered abnormal. For ages, the front page of ALL newspapers paper have been news. Not the comics section.
This place ain't the newspapers
It’s not a comedy forum either.
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It's because political discussion (and in general most commentary) on Reddit / Meta / Xitter has become overtly censored, and there's a real concern that it's tracked - a bad thing in an authoritarian regime barreling towards facism. Those who wish to have real political discourse having been moving away, and lemmy is receiving a lot of that traffic.
As an example, referring to a list of CEO's on Reddit as "Luigi's List" will get you a ban warning for inciting violence.
This increase in sensitivity to the potential implications of real political speech, coupled with increasingly stringent rules on the parts of the mods and accelerated by the auto-mod bots and AI chat bots, has led to a very restrictive discussion environment on the big social media networks. Even Bluesky, which is left-leaning and possesses the architecture for multiple servers to avoid centralization, is following this pattern.
Lemmy / Mastodon are attractive because they're not as restrictive, when you're posting you're interacting with real people, and because the mods and admins are humans dealing with a manageable population. And if someone censors you on the server you're on, you just move to another. More and more folks are realizing this as the enshitification of the big 3 continues.
Fear not, the memes will live on, but I think that in a very real way, Lemmy's (and the Fediverse's) time is upon us, and this is the result. People are using it for real shit because the real shit is upon us, and we need a place where we can freely discuss how to get clear of the incoming shitstorm.
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Feels like it's been that way since the election to be honest
Lemmy has always been a political outlet, but post election has been out of hands.
I mean, it makes sense. We're witnessing the US becoming a fascist dictatorship in realtime. It's a huge upset to the way the world has been for everyone living's lifetimes.
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It's not just Lemmy either. Every platform is looking like this. At least people have woken the fuck up.
some truth here, reddit deff has the sentiment slip through despite the ban hammer
I actually saw some news bleed into shitpost the other day. It's that bad.
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