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last i heard we passed radishes and are up to hummus now

Without knowing what posts they're talking about, probably. I try not to drag US politics with me everywhere I go, but the fact that my country is ten years into the dumbest fascist coup in history and they still might succeed in knocking over our democracy is mentally invasive in a way that's hard to put into words, and it tends to distort the lens through which one sees the world. Now that I reflect on it, I don't think a week has gone by in the past decade where I haven't thought about Trump, MAGA, and the mortal threat they pose to me and my friends. Maybe a few weeks in the beginning of the Biden admin, when I genuinely thought we had dodged the bullet and the Republican party would ditch Trump, but even then I knew the fascist problem hadn't gone away completely and would be back. Its constant presence tends to make me see things through the lens of US politics even in places where it might be a reach. Combine that with the fact that there are just a lot of Americans with internet access and I get why it gets annoying.

Sorry y'all have to hear about it all the time, if it's any consolation I too am tired of it and hope we can get our shit together, but it's a tense time and probably will be for the next while.

Da, tovarishch, po yego povedeniyu srazu vidno, chto on amerikanets.

This is one thing I noticed after coming here from reddit- I realized I was addicted to how angry reddit made me feel. It’s another kind of dopamine.

I feel like people are nicer here.

To your point, I’ve come to realize that just feeling angry all the time doesn’t really accomplish anything. It’s better to do some things to take action. So I’ve taken to helping the angry people find something helpful to do rather than stoking each other’s anger all the time. I think there’s an outrage addiction element at play here, as odd as that may sound.

I don’t really believe there should be explicit bans on politics in any particular space, personally, but I do think we as individuals can do better to look after each other’s mental health and contribute productive things to whatever conversational space we find ourselves in.

I can't speak for everyone else but in my own experience it is almost exclusively non Americans making it political at the Americans who are posting.

Almost exactly like this post is doing, in fact.

Apparently not

not shit

Nobody tell 'em

No. Fuck you! /s

Or do both, just in appropriate places.

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