Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy

Blaze@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish I could, but personally not knowing would be a greater mental load then having to process this run away train of fascism.

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What more are you really going to do? You already know you’re going to vote Democrat in 2028.

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    • harcesz@szmer.info ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You seem surprisingly certain you will be able to vote.

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      • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, sure. Even Russia still has elections.

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• yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can’t pretend it isn’t happening.

  I’d love to be able to tune it out, but that’s what they want.

  Ignorance is compliance.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can you do me a favor and reply with your alts?

  I’ve blocked at least 3 so far but it’s like playing fucking whack a mole

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• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Blaze lives inside the sopuli.xyz server farm confirmed.

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• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I find that keyword-based filtering seems to work better than blocking. We’re at a point here that if one is blocking all communities where people post news and politics to then there’s nothing left to browse because you’d need to block virtually every even slightly popular community.

  My current record so far is refreshing the front page and seeing 4 posts with all the others being filtered out. That’s how bad the politics and news spam has gotten. And people wonder why normies aren’t coming here…

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  • stopdropandprole@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i don’t wonder that. let the normies have their Destiny 2 and PublicFreakout and fantasy sports communities elsewhere. seeing comment section after section on Reddit filled to the brim with “I’m so funny!” unserious one liners was obnoxious. people talking about GoThrones fandom and RC cars while inequality skyrockets or the rich dismantle every federal govt program that benefit 99% of the population is not a good thing to yearn for. the founders-effect dominance from a handful of narrow ideologically centrists is not something we need more of.

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  • deadcream@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I combine it with blocking users. Political communities are blocked entirely, and then users who post irrelevant political crap in non-political communities are blocked individually.

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• PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just the one alt?

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I simply blocked Lemmy (and all my other time waster websites) from my phone.
  I subscribed to a newspaper to keep track of news.

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