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I totally agree, too much is too much.
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"No politics please" sounds like a great rule until the results of politics kick down your door and black bag you.
There are enough places to talk about it, also not everyone is American
Evidently the sentiment isn't having a wide enough reach, as people are crawling into their echo chambers to avoid not having to deal with the fallout of their apathy, handing elections over to the nasties.
Not everyone was German/Italian/Japanese in the 1930s-40s either. Pretty sure those countries still affected others, though.
I an pretty sure all you guys ever do is complain and bitch and moan. But taking action as a US-ian? "where is my burger?"
We have a rather extreme voter apathy epidemic combined with the resultant diarchy, where the main objective is not solving problems, but ensuring the top two dogs are always on top followed by winning the next election against the other team.
You wrongfully assert 100% of Americans don't care and don't do anything; it's more that a large enough percentage of Americans don't care and don't do anything such that the powers that be know they can do whatever awful thing they want to do for their donors.
So if something bad happens in any country, from any government abusing it's citizens, that is also not allowed? Because that's not how it seems to work. It's specifically US politics posts that get removed.
Yeah, most of the time it is US politics getting removed, because 10,000 other NA users have already posted about the same thing lol.
What good does reminding us of Alex Pretti's death do? We're not exactly on the fence about ICE here on Lemmy
An assault on democracy anywhere is an assault of democracy everywhere, first of all, secondly what happens in the USA directly impacts the rest of the world, not sure if you noticed. Thirdly, the fact that we're not on the fence is precisely because we talk about it. It's not just about ICE, it's about all politics, it has a direct impact on how we think and feel about things in our own countries- case in point being how for instance right wing regimes in the EU are now vying to implement ICE like measures along the mediterranean, and being aware of and taking a stance against that shit as it happens abroad is the first step to prevent it at home, memes be damned.
You're not even preaching to the choir, you're preaching to a whole congregation of other preachers. Trying to explain how important communion is to a Catholic priest. But it ain't Sunday, and we're not at Mass right now. Time, place, audience. Do you think the people of Lemmy would be in favor of right-wing political parties taking over their countries, if only they weren't inundated with the very same American politics that they whine about constantly seeing?
I disagree with your third point. We're not on the fence about ICE, not because people like you won't shut up about them, but because we're all leftists here. Being against ICE is as fundamental an aspect of our political alignment as being in favor of universal healthcare and funding children's school lunches. We're not about to start thinking that it's okay to starve children, if only we stop talking about it for 10 minutes.
An assault on democracy anywhere is an assault on democracy everywhere, but the battleground is not the showerthoughts community on one instance of Lemmy
It's not politics, it is current events.
the phrase "sir, this is a wendy's" comes to mind