Yeah, that “I don’t care about politics is what brought them there in the first place”, but they will never acknowledge that, instead they will just double down on their aggressive apatheism.
While Musk and Trump were doing their thing in the US, Musk was also trying to prop certain parties around europe. Reform (UK), AfD (Germany), Vox (Spain), Lega (Italy)
Their internal politics are similar to that of Germany before WW2, plus their external politics are: pulling from NATO, stopping the funding that goes to the CVE, threatening annexation of allies… so I wouldn’t be surprised if internal politics are indicative of following the path of Germany.
If UK were actively threatening allies, saying they won’t support NATO countries if they are attacked, and one of thekr citizes was close to the PM and was also trying to sway elections in the rest of europe, I’d be as concerned as you internal politics to see where you wpuld be going.
There maybe a balance between getting informed of the big lines of what’s happening in the US (which is of course valuable) and spamming until it’s 100% of everybody’s timeline
Which are topics covered by 90% of the forums here already. If you browse for memes you should be allowed to see some. instead you get AOC Simps sharing some rally.
Blocking users posting political campaigning on meme forums are now modus operandi.
Try posting that shit on the woodworking forum and see how it flies. The meme forums are poorly moderated.
Have you considered… that political memes… are memes as well? I know, crazy, right?
Have you even considered how tariffs could affect woodworking prices? The price of services to keep with the increase of the cost of living, the increase in the price of any woodworking material/tool coming from out of the US…
A picture of a crowd with the headline AOC and Sanders gathered 35000 people this weekend is hardly a meme.
Have you considered I might be European? And I might be somewhat interested in American politics, but I’m also interested in other shit to. If Lemmy wants to succeed it will have to cater to a wider audience than the most politically engaged core.
Blocking a few users have cleansed my front page alot. I hake no issues with people discussing their political worries. Thats imoortant in any free State. What’s not important is forcing those discussions into any minor irrelevant topic.
Have you considered… that political memes… should be posted to the communities specifically for political memes? I know, crazy, right?
If someone wants to bury their head in the sand while everything burns, that’s their perogative.
Personally, I get more than enough exposure to the ongoing situation through other sources. I don’t need my haha funnies to pull double duty, and I’d argue that they’re an incredibly poor format to convey useful information for staying properly informed.
I definitely don’t need random internet asshole busybodies deciding they know my information needs better than I do.
They might not bury their head in the sand either. They might be engaged in the topics, but at the moment they just want to see what funny references exist in a non political sphere.
I’m a little lost as to what exactly this rebuttal is implying. Do you feel that those who willfully ignored these issues went they weren’t as dire should continue to do so as they get worse? I’m having difficulty reading this charitably so clarification would be appreciated, thanks.
Please, enlighten me about how it is as bad now as it was before, and not even worse.
“Yeah, they are sending random innocent citizens to concentration camps in mass now, but you didn’t care about it when it was certain specific innocent people to Guantanamo so you shouldn’t care about this either”
Sounds like someone who would say “all parties are the same” or “I didn’t want to vote for Kamala because the dems supported Israel”
Yeah, who said otherwise?? The problem is that it’s being done en mass now, not that it’s american lives per se. Yeah, it was a problem already, but it became a bigger problem now. You can’t ignore that.
Yeah, it’s not easy to ignore when the US goverment starts sending people to concentration camps and being anti-american.
Can’t just bury your head in the sand and say you don’t care about politics, because then changes will come as a surprise
" why did I get laid off without severance? oh, they rolled back labor laws.
At least I have welfare as I search for a job… oh, they took that too.
Well, next elections I’ll be voting against them. Wdym Trump is on his third term and planning a fourth one?
Why are ICE officers taking me to a plane, without due process, claiming I’m being anti-patriotic?) "
While true, not all Lemmy is american.
Yep, that’s on me. I’m just used to talk to americans when I’m met with a “I don’t care about politics”
Yeah, that “I don’t care about politics is what brought them there in the first place”, but they will never acknowledge that, instead they will just double down on their aggressive apatheism.
I can actually and science proves it’s better for mental health.
Not wanting to follow donald ducks disastrous adventures isn’t burying your head in the sand IMO.
Sounds like their problem, not mine. They voted for it, I wouldn’t expect you to care much about British internal politics either.
While Musk and Trump were doing their thing in the US, Musk was also trying to prop certain parties around europe. Reform (UK), AfD (Germany), Vox (Spain), Lega (Italy) Their internal politics are similar to that of Germany before WW2, plus their external politics are: pulling from NATO, stopping the funding that goes to the CVE, threatening annexation of allies… so I wouldn’t be surprised if internal politics are indicative of following the path of Germany.
If UK were actively threatening allies, saying they won’t support NATO countries if they are attacked, and one of thekr citizes was close to the PM and was also trying to sway elections in the rest of europe, I’d be as concerned as you internal politics to see where you wpuld be going.
There maybe a balance between getting informed of the big lines of what’s happening in the US (which is of course valuable) and spamming until it’s 100% of everybody’s timeline
Which are topics covered by 90% of the forums here already. If you browse for memes you should be allowed to see some. instead you get AOC Simps sharing some rally.
Blocking users posting political campaigning on meme forums are now modus operandi.
Try posting that shit on the woodworking forum and see how it flies. The meme forums are poorly moderated.
Have you considered… that political memes… are memes as well? I know, crazy, right?
Have you even considered how tariffs could affect woodworking prices? The price of services to keep with the increase of the cost of living, the increase in the price of any woodworking material/tool coming from out of the US…
American tarriff could affect woodworking price in the US and maybe in canada or his main trade partner
You are not the center of the world. Crazy right?
A picture of a crowd with the headline AOC and Sanders gathered 35000 people this weekend is hardly a meme.
Have you considered I might be European? And I might be somewhat interested in American politics, but I’m also interested in other shit to. If Lemmy wants to succeed it will have to cater to a wider audience than the most politically engaged core.
Blocking a few users have cleansed my front page alot. I hake no issues with people discussing their political worries. Thats imoortant in any free State. What’s not important is forcing those discussions into any minor irrelevant topic.
Have you considered… that political memes… should be posted to the communities specifically for political memes? I know, crazy, right?
If someone wants to bury their head in the sand while everything burns, that’s their perogative.
Personally, I get more than enough exposure to the ongoing situation through other sources. I don’t need my haha funnies to pull double duty, and I’d argue that they’re an incredibly poor format to convey useful information for staying properly informed.
I definitely don’t need random internet asshole busybodies deciding they know my information needs better than I do.
They might not bury their head in the sand either. They might be engaged in the topics, but at the moment they just want to see what funny references exist in a non political sphere.
You had no problem ignoring it for decades previously.
I’m a little lost as to what exactly this rebuttal is implying. Do you feel that those who willfully ignored these issues went they weren’t as dire should continue to do so as they get worse? I’m having difficulty reading this charitably so clarification would be appreciated, thanks.
Please, enlighten me about how it is as bad now as it was before, and not even worse.
“Yeah, they are sending random innocent citizens to concentration camps in mass now, but you didn’t care about it when it was certain specific innocent people to Guantanamo so you shouldn’t care about this either”
Sounds like someone who would say “all parties are the same” or “I didn’t want to vote for Kamala because the dems supported Israel”
Because foreign lives actually are worth just as American ones.
Yeah, who said otherwise?? The problem is that it’s being done en mass now, not that it’s american lives per se. Yeah, it was a problem already, but it became a bigger problem now. You can’t ignore that.
It was being en mass before. The only difference is that now it’s effecting (non African) Americans.
Sure bro
Americans when they realize they’re wrong, but are to much arrogance pieces of shit to admit it.
I’m not American, so it tracks.
Anyways, care to link to sources about the en masse concentration camps already existing before this admin?