-Looks out window. Lawn’s engulfed in flames. Closes window shades.-
“All better.”
I mean, if there’s not anything I can do beyond dumping a thimble of water on the fire six months from now I’d rather just die happy.
I post to Lemmy a lot and generally try my best to not contribute to the doom and gloom for this reason. I think there’s a difference between wanting to stay informed and getting addicted to the outrage/doom posts.
I’m mostly here to joke around with people and nerd out in a handful of niche interest communities.
And we love you for it.
<3
You won’t escape US politics, it’s just not possible
It is a cancer that will infect whatever community you attempt to find refuge in
GOOD LUCK FRIEND
It goes deeper than that. Like it or not, US politics have an influence on the rest of the world. And that’s why it’s so important for everyone to follow international news, no matter where you live. Like it or not, this shit affects us all.
All with the blaring self-righteousness of - “I lifted a finger once. Nothing happened overnight. Never again.”
Cheered on by those actively participating in concern trolling divide-and-conquer political campaign tactics, both from within the country and from halfway across the world in China and goddamned russia.I hide posts when I’m done with them and I swear to god these political and news communities are posting the same things over and over again. I’ve seen the same post more than once.
With all these posts that require voting i have only one question, “how can i vote if i am not USA citizen?”
What posts require voting???
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all of the posts are doom scrolling
That’s not what doom scrolling is dummy
The Political Propaganda machine in the US is now at full steam given how near their Presidential Election is, so we get innundated with “vote X” and “X is great” posts along with “Y is bad” ones.
Advertising has become so abusive that you can’t browse anymore without and AdBlocker, and Political Propaganda is just a more manipulative form of advertising, often pushed by people deeply emotional bound to “their club” (funnilly enough, I also avoid Sports stuff, as it suffers from exactly the same problem) hence far more insiduous and aggressive.
Then to make it even worse, this electoral cycle in the US is all about doom-mongering with not a single message of hope or a bright vision for the Future: in other words, everybody is selling Fear, which at least in traditional Advertising is uncommon.
Telling people to vote is not propaganda it’s a call to action, the one that is a duty to all citizens regardless of country.
You keep using that word far too generally which takes away from your message.
Lastly, it’s not just annual doom mongering. I’m so sorry you have to see it but it’s a big fucking deal and completely unprecedented for us as an entire goddamn country. Our political plights do NOT just boil down to more advertising.
We are fighting for our rights and those of us less fortunate. We’re talking not just freedoms but lives. This is not hyperbole, people are dying and more will die and suffer if we do not shout and scream about it.
I’m sorry our election isn’t easier for you to ignore goddamn. Your final line of how there isn’t a single iota of hope just shows how full of complete shit you are. Shame on you for lying like this.
Bullshit!
If it was about “just vote” you wouldn’t care who for.
That post of yours is such a perfect example of that very sleazy political propaganda I was talking about that the very first paragraph is already deceitful misrepresentation.
Then follows the customary use of political slogans from the Book Of Vote Lesser Evil: it’s “unprecedented” vote - again - “fighting for our rights” and, most hilarious of all for the “less fortunate” (trully beyond belief in a country with a grand total of 4 national politicians who are leftwing, and the rest being overwhelmingly hard-right ultra-neolibs or far-right fascists).
The whole thing reads like somebody who has swallowed the Cool Aid and is giving themselves an excuse to pester everybody else, all very similar to religious nutters proselytizing.
From the outside it’s like watching the Russian Elections but for a country with a Power Duopoly instead of a Power Monopoly, complete with people in their minds boosting way out of proportion the small differences between those two cheeks of the same arse that pass for Political Parties, to convince themselves they actually have a choice (lest they realize having the country governed for the many, not for the fatcats, is never going to happen in that electoral system and they have to do something about it) in some kind of country-sized Stockholm Syndrome.
It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.
at least if the memes were good. It’s just bad man this bad man that or dementia man dementia man that.
Yeah the /all feed legitimately seems to be mostly yank politics, and has felt that way for months. Real tired of hearing about them 😴
And you think we’re not sick of hearing y’all cry about sunak and what labor is doing rn???
Plenty of your comments are you crying about seeing America exist. What you’re crying about right now in this comment us yanks have been dealing with while your elections brewed.
Or what about Brexit? Do you realize we don’t give a fuck? We still hear about it. That bitch of a king, I could go on and on.
It’s almost like when you partake in global communities you’ll hear about shit
Y’all yeehaw snickerdoodle double cheeseburger 🤠🤠🤠🤠
You’re banned too You’re welcome
I have a hard time handling all the bad shit in the world. I noticed lately I open Lemmy much less because of all the doom posts. I already deleted reddit and disabled YouTube. Lemmy is all I have left as social media, but it’s getting less attractive by the day.
It’s become so much better since I started banning communities. I might unban them in a year or so, but for now my timeline stays clean.
Nice, I’ll go do that too, thanks!
For some reason lemmy shitpost suddenly became politics focused
Yep, same here. I already have a lot of existential dread about shit I can’t do anything about, so why wouldn’t I ban them. Hell I have a lot of title words filtered out too
Yeah, the doomposting is intense on Lemmy. I’ve taken up a policy of just downvoting any negative posts I see, even if I like the post otherwise, just to tamp down the negativity a bit around here.
The best and worst thing about Lemmy is how niche we are. It keeps out the “mainstream”, but unfortunately we’re easily inundated by perpetually-online doomers.
Also, I would recommend blocking users moreso than communities. Once you start looking for it, you realize that like 90% of these posts are made by just a few people/bots.
