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Ignores the don't X here sign then gets mad when they aren't allowed to X

Time, place, audience. Daft_ish thinks Lemmy needs a reminder that Alex Pretti was murdered in broad daylight? Imagining them walking up to Greta Thunberg while she's eating a vegan soup for dinner and reminding her about how awful commercial fishing is

Daft_ish has got a real problem if they're that outraged by the mod's response. I've seen plenty of powertriping arseholes to be mad at in my time, but this isn't it.

US politics, including about the ICE murders, is spoken about more than enough across the English speaking internet.

I know as much about current US politics as I do my own country's politics, because you can't get away from it without blocking most posts on here.

Which is to say that some of us would just like to have a space to NOT talk or think about politics, including US politics.

I already block so many keywords and communities here. It's hard to keep up.

Thank you mods for helping keep some places free of US politics.

I won't say all rules are valid or right, but this one just makes sense (in contrast to rules of some other communities, which outright ban certain opinions). Sometimes you don't want to hear about all the doom and gloom, and for many people, it's not good for their mental health to hear about it all the time. They know what's happening, they need some time off.

Lemmyshitposts doesn't have a rule against political posts and I fucking hate it. Shitposts are sacred. A shitpost is just silly, irreverent humor. That's it. The moment you bring an agenda into that space it changes into something else.

Also keyword blocking does fuck-all for screenshots of microblog posts to tangentially related communities... Every day I come across several US politics posts even with me deliberately not subscribing to any political or US-specific communities, and only looking at my subscriptions. (Admittedly reddit is much worse at this, with generic subs like r/AskReddit and r/LeopardsAteMyFace being inundated with Trump crap.)

I have an ever growing list of blocked words on here, all in a futile attempt to limit how much US shit finds its insidious way into my feed. I really, really shouldn't fucking have to mute half the dictionary, just to be able to access the internet without getting pissed off.

I feel bad for those Americans who are suffering, and stand in solidarity with them. But man, it's relentless. I know far too much about US politics.

Not saying mod was wrong but… It’s weird how we define politics.

Like, if portals started randomly appearing all over the Earth, spawning little goblins that like to turn human bodies inside-out, that would pretty clearly not be politics — but only for like 2 months.

After a while, the political parties would settle on their positions (probably with one of them calling it a hoax), and from that point forward saying “I can’t believe people are okay with the inside-out goblins” will be labeled “political”.

Which I guess is basically how fascism wins so easily. As long as it’s impolite to acknowledge the horrors of the world, it’s okay for them to continue.

My filters in Thunder:

• Trump
• Epstein
• ICE agent
• micropenis

Suggestions are welcome.

It wasn't even a shower thought.

The problem with cute animals now isn’t politics, it’s AI. I don’t want to watch ANY AI animals. Just the thought of being tricked into watching even 1/4 of a vid that ends up being AI, or giving it $$$ via views, has destroyed /awww and all the rest.

I hate this timeline.

I can't listen to the radio or watch any broadcast media any longer because Trump politics will not shut the fuck up.

It has invaded every bit of american discourse and separating the two will be nigh impossible until the source of the disturbance is remedied. it is literally impossible as an american right now not to be about this crisis.

so yeah i get it. but the elephant in the room is conducting the score, and we are literally drowning with only social media as a place to expunge.

block me at

https://reddthat.com/c/7735_41st_ave_se_lacey_wa

and a large portion of my conflagrations towards media will be less visible.

otherwise i apologize for it when i contribute. and i hope that moderation like this helps.

Am I going mad or are the 2 stitched together images not from the same person? The comments are acting like they are though.

Top part = a mod deleting a post about American politics

Bottom part = a comment from a Lemmy person saying he has had enough with American politics on Lemmy.

They both agree? Right?

1930s: dae get tired of hearing about this hitler guy?

seems like a lot of people want strict rules and enforcement. bots can do some things like word substitutions and other obvious code-able things. human intervention takes longer. most people can scroll on to posts more to their liking. if there is no community that meets your standards, it's a sign you need to start your own community and mod the way you want. i tend to not post in strictly modded groups. i'm not that pedantic and like groups where down-votes and comments do most of the moderation. spammers get removed soon enough.

what is happening in the US is of course a serious matter and I am happy we have places, communities etc. that keep on spreading awareness about such topics. 

This said, like other folks have already mentioned, there are also places where you want to take a gasp of air and just have a nice laugh. 

Awareness on these topics is undoubtedly important but done so in the right places. 

the comment of the moderator to reason the deletion of the political post is more than reasonable and done wonderfully and it's sad to see the unfortunate response of this user, playing almost victim. 

Let us continue to talk about the politics around the world and spread information and awareness BUT done in a way that allows others to also have a moment to take a breath in places where they momentarily don't want to be bombarded with x bad thing happening in y place and how this leads to z