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?
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’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…
[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.
No
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.
Dude don’t waste your death on a splat, buy a sniper rifle and at least try an assassination attempt. You can always have a live grenade or side arm if you screw up and have to off yourself… But I mean, at least take some pot shots at him or a crony before you leave.
I’m not saying these people don’t deserve it, but what good does it do? Wouldn’t it be better to, IDK, kidnap them in order to exchange them for actual human rights? Like, giving away your freedom and potentially your life in exchange for a bill for a public health system?
You’re actually correct, civil resistance is actually the most potent force:
The original suggestion certainly seems like a way for a single person to have more impact.
My understanding is there are marginal cases where violence is the answer, but I suspect this isn’t one of them because of succession.
I’m guessing the black SUVs are en route.
For anti-DEI purposes, they don’t send black SUVs anymore.
Someone should kill the president of the us and his wife Elon.
Just to make sure there’s no chilling effect on any Americans who watched that link: It is in fact perfectly and absolutely legal for you to say you want to kill the president. The above linked video was just a skit.
(Further info on this is available in this legal advice Reddit thread.). Basically it only becomes questionable when it poses a reasonable threat, or contributes to evidence of a credible threat.
So I’m just saying; the more realistic and actualized your plans are, the quieter and more secretive you should be with them! All the way up to the glorious date you carry out your plans! …and you control when that date is! Wouldn’t that be exciting?
Anyways, I just think there are certain ideas worth popularizing and trying to get into the popular imagination, and this is one of them (all your plans coming together like a well oiled and maintained rifle. Perhaps from the arsenal of a well-regulated militia). Hey maybe one chosen one will do us all a favor!
We all have to take a shot at the things we believe in right? Sorry for typing so much… I guess I must have an itchy trigger finger.
poses a reasonable threat, or contributes to evidence of a credible threat.
And who decides ‘reasonable threat’? The people who are joking along with you on preddit or the people locking you in the Epstein cell temporarily until your tria-- ohhh, nevermind.
Note to Canadians: armed American federal cops have come to major Canadian cities to arrest Canadians for something illegal in America but not illegal here - like selling hemp seeds were - and taken them to America for processing. It’s fucked up.
Legitimately, do you have a source/example?
Marc Emery jumps to mind first, but admittedly that was selling seeds with some evidence of cross-border sales, and IIRC he was arrested by the RCMP and Halifax Police Department, though acting on a warrant from the Western District of Washington. If there was another mid- to high-profile case like that, especially if American enforcement made the arrest on Canadian soil [edit: or if this is about Emery and I’m missing some key details] I 100% want to learn more.
It’s important to set achievable goals! There are plenty of republicans in your local area.
Who cares, Henry’s come to town!
Filters in the fediverse are so nice.
If only Lemmy had actual keyword filters :/
That would be nice!
Piefed has them and its awesome! https://piefed.social/user/settings/filters
I love piefed, and I’d switch to it if the UI is better or they had custom clients support :(
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.
Yeah but youd have to set them again for each client. Too bad but it works ig :/
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 wish I could filter words in community names.
Not nice enough, since this would still end up on your feed.
Shame filters rely on people actually including the filtered keywords in the title.
Yet this bypasses filters because it’s not in the title or text
I have every word relating to the US filtered. Every community filtered. And it still fills half my feed. Wish I could do more.
E.g. OP comic was not filtered.
Unfortunately Lemmy has quickly grown too toxic for my mental health.
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.
Oh look another toxic user to block
I can’t seem to add enough keywords.
Who?
He’s a pretty big Hearthstone youtuber who has since moved on to other videogames
What rank?
And yet with all my filters, here you are shitting up my feed with yet more.
Fuck you very much.
Yeah, the rage at every time something gets around the filters is nowhere near the stress built up while the filters were inactive.
Annoying? Absolutely. Worth getting upset about? Nah. I’m not going to pick fights with every person complaining about American stupidity at the water cooler. I’m not going to be rude to people here just because the text passed the filter. It would be more constructive to instead, erm, direct energy towards removing the source of the problem than tilt at windmills.
You think we could behave if we had the option to add community tags or descriptions?
aww, fuck you tooo >ε
feeling this one right in my 37th floor open window.
At least wrap yourself in a trans flag for the world to see, like that US veteran last week.
What US veteran last week?
Edit:
I feel this
This is why I wrote a script for Firefox that redacts pictures and mentions of Trump and Elon, haha
Link to the script? I’d love to give it a try.
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.
My kingdom for some beans!
I bet if Trump could take over earth by imprinting himself over people like Agent Smith, he would.
It wouldn’t’t be so bad if people let filters do their job and put Trump in post title…just saying.
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.
Why can’t the president be boring? So he/she creates no big news. Trump just change his mind every day and lie…
