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- 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?
[Describes working very hard to ignore problem]
How did it happen?
It can’t be ignored forever.
Dude, I was up on the news and very diligent in many things.
You don’t know where I live, you don’t know what I’ve done up to November, nor where I’ve worked.
I spent literally the last few months of my entire fucking life trying to shut out this shit so it doesn’t tank my mental health to a degree that would likely kill me.
So please, spare me your fucking judgment.
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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…
Honestly I’m surprised that “You won’t have to hear about Trump again” wasn’t motivation enough for people to get to the polls
This was 100% one of the most shocking things about all of this.
Ironically, for all that I’m sick of hearing about AI AI AI AI AI AI AI everywhere, maybe a really good prompt could plug the few remaining holes…
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.
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.
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Trump is the best thing to ever happen to news networks. No more hard questions. No people planning positive rights legislation. Nothing but trump. The status quo is safe while he sucks all the air out of every public forum and media.
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to news networks
Or to single-letter social network sites.
Filters in the fediverse are so nice.
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That would be nice!
Piefed has them and its awesome! https://piefed.social/user/settings/filters
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I agree. Its by one dev (mostly) so its amazing what they did :) The bones are solid!
I really want a client on phone.
At least some clients have them if you like to try. I am using thunder on android which has it but I haven’t tried it myself so not sure how effective it is.
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Yeah that is true. They did add instance blocking after it was requested a lot so hopefully this will be added soon to Lemmy.
I have every word relating to the US filtered. Every community filtered. And it still fills half my feed. Wish I could do more.
Yet this bypasses filters because it’s not in the title or text
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Yeah, i wish i could live with my head in the sand too.
Not all of us are American.
I’ll save you the effort of replying, I know you’ll say that it effects every country.
Well, at least you are honest about your wanted ignorance.
I can’t seem to add enough keywords.
Shame filters rely on people actually including the filtered keywords in the title.
Not nice enough, since this would still end up on your feed.
I bet people said the same thing about Hitler both before and after he died. Awful people are typically quite often talked about.
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 happend we’re equally megafucked.
It was oligarch for a while now.
I mean yeah but not to the point of openly ripping the govt apart.
This is why I wrote a script for Firefox that redacts pictures and mentions of Trump and Elon, haha
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Try that.
Next time I’m on my desktop I’ll be sure to post it here as a reply to your comment so you get a note.
Needs TamperMonkey to run.
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!
The day he no longer exists will be a joyous day indeed.
https://isdonaldtrumpdead.com/
Someone already made it.
presses F5 furiously
I hate how US centric lemmy.world is. Wish I could block all Americans.
We need a non-US instance for sure.No US IPs allows, no communities that allow US news or news directly related to them. USAmericans are just so friggin loud online and IRL.
Everyone’s talking and nobody’s doing anything.
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.
Like, say, Putin? I honestly have to wonder how much the rise of fascism over the last couple decades owes to him.
We shall stop being anxious, and start to be outraged. Organize, fight back, even at small scale
seriously. if your answer is to jump off a building, then fuck you. you were never an ally. you shirked your duty as a human and would have been a liability anyway. cowards are just as bad as the sociopaths they enable.
Sure…well the rest of the world is cheering you on. Go you guys.
The US is so intertwined with global politics and economy (e.g. financial markets, digital services, …) that it’s not just THEIR problem. If they drift further into fashism, oligarchy and right authoritarianism, sooner than later there will be a point where most of the world will be fucked in the short and possibly in the long term.
We need to fight this fight from our side as well, otherwise we all will go down. Our countries need to start pushing back against it and WE need to push our countries to do so. Write letters, go on protests, vote! Otherwise we might miss our window of opportunity to bring this spiral of destruction to a halt.
feeling this one right in my 37th floor open window.
Yeah, it means something bad is happening. People are talking about it because they don’t want to do anything serious about it, which is somewhat good. It would be good to solve this problem with words only.
