It's obsessive hatred of car dependency. It's not that surprisingly many of us hate cars, it's that surprisingly many of us hate that you necessarily need a car to do anything outside of the house.
Nooo, I ended up having to filter the fuckcars community because they were angry at ANYBODY that uses a car for any reason - like top voted comments and posts. I saw somebody get jumped by multiple responders for bringing up how there are small towns and people that live hours away from large cities that would still need cars for transportation
Like, I'm as much for improving public transit and reducing the amount of cars on the road in every instance where it's viable. I specifically moved within 10 miles of my job so I could start riding my bike to work instead of driving my hybrid car. It's not that I'm pro car, I'm just anti-extremist
I've gotten into it with a couple of guys for needing a truck. I'm a construction electrician. That means that in addition to lugging my tools around, I have to transport rather large and heavy pieces of equipment/gear on occasion. I'd happily rock a van, but it's hell trying to find a 4x4 van (snow) at a reasonable price due to the van life crowd. I've had guys say use public transport or car share, like dude, I work 6 days a week, that isn't viable. It's a completely one sided conversation with them.
My favorite response was somebody saying small towns in America should still have infrastructure and trains to connect them (which I agree with in theory) because every small town in the UK has them without even realizing there are small towns in the US that could fit the entirety of the UK between them and the nearest other town or city.
Lol nevermind that many of those towns/villages in the UK are centuries old, while many of the smaller towns (especially out west) sprang up specifically because of the national highway system, and also many have died with the introduction of the interstate highway system. I'm all for improving our national rail lines, but it would need to be implemented carefully to ensure that no more smaller towns die out due to lack of service. And to your last point, this is where specifically a high speed rail system would excel, if only just to efficiently cover the vast distances between US towns.
For one, if something is described as "carbrained," the subject is discounting, ignoring or outright rejecting alternatives to driving. A carbrained take would not necessarily be one that prefers cars. A carbrained take would include things like:
"the only way to make more room for people to move from A to B is by adding more lanes to highways!" (a concept that's proven to only make traffic worse)
"This cycling lane is not being used. Let's remove it!" (Which may be a fallacy based on the fact that cyclists move more freely in seemingly confined space, or the fact that the specific cycling lane in question may be an isolated lane with no origins and destinations on it)
"What? A bus lane? What a waste of space! Let me drive there!" (where the speaker fails to see that one bus easily holds four dozen people, which would mean four dozen cars not on the road, if & only if that bus is not affected by road traffic.
"We're wasting money on this high speed railway line between these two cities about 500 km apart!" (failing to see that distances between about 300 to about 800 km are the sweet spot where high speed rail is exactly in that sweet spot of distance where it's faster than both driving and flying.)
For two, the car lobby is already great at needlessly extending commutes. When the Katy Freeway near Houston was expanded to its current width of 26 lanes, the widest in the world, travel times changed from end to end from just around three quarters of an hour, to more than a whole hour. An increase of about a third. I could go on and on about this, but let's just say that it takes a lot more to make trains work worse, and generally, if you try to ameliorate transit service by expanding it, that makes transit better for everyone, including car drivers, unlike if you expand highways.
The thing of the anti car dependency movement is that they demand more developments to not to have to drive. They demand more space be dedicated to more sustainable developments, with less parking, uses closer together, more room for people out on foot or bikes to get where they want to go, all that jazz.
Ultimately, the anti car dependency movement wants freedom. The freedom not to have to drive if you don't want to, don't need to, or for any reason cannot. And that is what carbrained people are not getting.
Its not neccesarily obsessive, its just those happened to be communiies commoted tonleaving the other site, ao it visually appears to be the mainstream thought.
Linux is one of the larger communties who made the jump (in general tech people are more prone to caring about privacy and control, as tech communities in general are some of the largest here on lemmy)
Heck one of the largest communities is piracy discussion.
If the VW Golf had a complete monopoly on the car market to the point where you had to spend years jumping through hoops just to be able to drive your Focus on the roads, despite the Golf being an extremely shitty car when taken on its own merits, you'd probably be pretty resentful to the people who enable that monopoly, too.
No, it sounds like people who are constantly being told that Linux is "too hard to use" compared to Windows speaking up when they see a blatant example of that not being true.
I think you just inadvertently called them morons, lol. In any case, I used Linux exclusively for about five years. It is more difficult for most users than windows. The majority of the time, with windows, you just plug shit in and it will work for you. On Linux, it requires you to research what MAY work for your hardware. Often times, if it does work, you are missing features for your hardware. For software, you generally have to look up programs that will do what you'd like, as most mainstream programs aren't released for function with Linux. Additionally, most users are not familiar with our comfortable enough with using command line interfaces. You must be able to use command line as a Linux user. I haven't used Linux in approximately a decade, so some things might have changed, but people won't know that because the issues I pointed out were true for a long time. Most people aren't savvy enough to use Linux and they don't have the time/patience to learn it. Why this makes Linux users upset, I'll never know, it's all rather silly and unimportant.
The ads thing is because you probably have a different idea of what an ad is then they do. Usually when they are talking about ads, it's self-promotional stuff. Teams being built in, Onedrive asking to be setup, and especially Edge constantly begging you to give it a chance.
There's also that link to the Microsoft store for Candy Crush in the start menu of fresh installs of Windows 10. I imagine that's what kicked off the whole 'loaded with ads' thing. That's one anyone can agree on.
It’s not an EU thing. As an American, the small popups that show EVERY NOW AND THEN are not that big of a deal. I use windows for work, mac for personal, and Linux for other things like my server and hobby projects. Linux has regularly given me the most trouble.
Having never blocked any of these things... I get a mix of both. Along with the new latest internet drama, a few memes that may or may not apply to me, and some occasional lovely asses and boobs.
It already is on Connect? I blocked both instances, so no posts from either show in my feed and comments from users on those instances on other posts appear as "blocked by an instance filter," which you can choose to show it if you want
Welcome to the corporately controlled internet where marketing firms, public relations agencies and communications firms constantly try to manipulate the public discourse.
If you use filters ..... you can actually hear and read what people want to talk about.
Well, you can definitely narrow it down to what you want to read and talk about. I'm interested in doing that with politics (US), and I'm very far away from any kind of PR or marketing person. People can genuinely want to talk politics, it's not always a corporate conspiracy.
The best kind of marketing is the type you are completely unaware of.
The world runs on money .... money is made by convincing people to give it to you ... our modern world is built on convincing people ... but people don't like being convinced ... so you have to convince them without letting them know they've been convinced.
It's not a corporate conspiracy ... it's just business.
I'm fine with USA politics, because they got their hands up in everyone's asses so it affects everyone.
What bothers me more is American football. Nobody except them even plays this game but it's all over the news every time there's a major event. Same for baseball.
I can't wait for Lemmy to get big enough that I can unsub from all the big Lemmies. On Reddit I had a bunch of niche communities that were pretty nice and not political. Now all those spammers I avoided have come here too and the Lemmies aren't big enough to avoid them yet.
Well, when you realize that most of the radical communists on here truly believe that there must be an eternal struggle working towards communism but never actually achieving the goal, it makes sense why they are the way they are.
Literally had one of them tell me that is beyond unrealistic to expect any state to be able to even implement Socialism to any real degree. Of course, in Marxism a Socialist state must exist before withering away as Communism is fully realized, so they will literally admit that their philosophy is impossible to achieve.
They fetishize the struggle; they don't actually want progress, they want to complain.
Why do you find it shocking that someone wants their political goals to be achieved but is also realistic with themselves that they may never see them accomplished?
If you accept that your goals cannot be accomplished, why maintain them as goals? If you know it is futile, why bother? It is literally a waste of time at that point.
That said, I personally dont think it is futile. I think it mostly is an attainable goal, minus the withering of the state; I don't think we could reach a point where the state is completely unnecessary, so I advocate Socialism. I just also think it is ridiculous that someone would try and claim something is futile while simultaneously advocating that everyone adhere to that thing. Their philosophy states clearly attainable, objective goals. If they think it is unrealistic for anyone to ever achieve those goals, then they don't believe in their own philosophy. That is textbook cognitive dissonance.
Communism is very utopian and it is not well defined about how it would work in a practical or thoeretical sense (AFAIK). It is something to aspire to. Something to guide your path. One day, something like it may be achieved, but will take a long time to get there. Like, say, carbon neutrality, the "pursuit of happiness," the elimination of world hunger, to be like Jesus and to not sin, to have pyramids built, etc. It's a fairly common concept.
That's not cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the feeling of discomfort one may feel when holding contradictory beliefs and forced to reconcile the two.
cog·ni·tive dis·so·nance
/ˈkäɡnədiv ˈdisənəns/
noun PSYCHOLOGY
the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change
Nothing to do with a feeling of discomfort or reconciling the beliefs. Not sure where you got that idea from.
wrong. lexicographers are not the authority on a word's meaning. the definitions they provide are necessarily descriptive of the way words are or have been used, and say nothing about the actual meaning of the word. jackbydev got it right.
You should go back to your quotes, its pretty obvious that we are discussing the idea of holding a belief while simultaneously categorizing that belief as impossible.
I'd say that fixes the problem, but, uh, pretty sure it'll just strangle the platform. Really the only thing I can think of is a few people bouying smaller subs with content. Some of the art Lemmies in the 'imaginaryXYZ' realm are a good example, with like one person posting content on basically all of them. It's enough to make it worth subbing though.
Also I love how a post about how I'm tired of all the politics turned into a political discussion. Like, I do agree with one of the sides, but that's literally what we're complaining about.
Over the past few years I've become a blocking fiend. Transphobia? Blocked. Misogyny? Blocked. Vaccine conspiracy? Believe or not, blocked. It's great, I don't have to deal with terrible people and they don't have to deal with me.
I also have the orange guy and the X guy's names filtered out because I'm done seeing them everywhere.
If you want American politics off of your dashboard you would probably get a lot of mileage just from filtering out "Biden", "Trump", and "Desantis". Florida/Texas/California could be good too but you'll block non-political stories.
Americans are really annoying. They ruin the internet with their ability to turn ANYTHING and EVERYTHING into American politics. Even if it's about a cat on the opposite side of the world.
My favourite is posting a comment and having someone say "you voted for Biden, didn't you?". Nah, bro, I stepped foot in your country once and was mugged at gun point. I will never be back, let alone a fucking citizen of that shit hole.
Americans are interested in American politics. Next thing you'll tell me is Europeans are interested in European politics. I never hear about Brexit...
Americans bring their politics into everything. "Europeans" (such a generalization), bring their politics into posts that pertain to it.
Americans being upset because Starfield has pronouns is annoying. You don't really see "Europeans", Canadians, Mexicans, etc. crying about it. Just citizens of the USA.
You had a point, but then you started blaming the Americans for everything. Yeah, Americans pretty much just forget that there exist tons of people on the internet who aren’t American, but that doesn’t mean that all Americans just bring politics into everything.
Secondly, stop trying to blame others for things you have no idea who did. Sounds like you’ve got a similar problem to many Americans, where you’ll see some fair-right homophobic dude on the internet and think, “ugh, stupid Americans,”. Yeah, many Americans can be narrow-minded at times, but that doesn’t mean you project your opinion on that entire country.
Are you really that dense? Just because someone has a British accent doesn't make them British. Bet you think born and raised Mexicans need to go back to Mexico, eh?
I'm assuming you mean presidential election. But there are some state and local elections coming up this year. In fact, today is National Voter Registration Day in the US. (There's a specific day to remind people to register to vote or update their registration as needed.)
The day itself is more just to remind people to register to vote. Registering to vote can be done any day of the year, though there is a deadline if you plan to vote in a certain election. You don't need to register more than once in a particular state, though you do need to update your registration if you move to a new address.
The deadline for registration varies by state. For my state, it's 22 days before an election. But, at least in my state (this isn't the case in every state, but it's getting there), even if you don't register by the deadline, you can still fill out a voter registration form and vote using a provisional ballot (meaning it will be counted later that week after your voter registration has processed) on election day.
Basically, National Voter Registration Day is used to avoid a lot of headaches for everyone involved.
Just get rid of the nonsense and learn to be civilized you heathen! I think it's time for Europe to colonize America to civilize them again /s
All ballots are counted on election day here. I know because I was a Poll Clerk in an election. The Deputy Returning Officer (person in charge of the polling station) has final say on same day registration and then all ballots cast are counted on election day.
Or better yet be like Colorado with automatic registration.
Calling things like veganism and LGBT political is sad to me. Are we really saying people who don't want to harm animals and people who believe all genders and sexual orientations should have the same rights are political? Politics should mean shit like taxes.
That's quite a narrow definition of politics. I'd say anything that humans do that is perceived by others to be part of a social structure that maintains or challenges social norms and power relations is political.
Only if veganism itself becomes something nobody would challenge (like health is better than death, breathing is important) or if you are the last person on earth you can become the first apolitical vegan.
That's what I'm saying. They shouldn't be political issues. Everyone would hopefully agree. I'm not saying we shouldn't call them political issues, I'm lamenting that they have become political issues.
The problem is that politics affect nearly every person alive. If you stayed more informed you'd likely know that.
The attitude that you'd rather check out because you're not impacted not only indicates a position of privilege, it's precisely what evil leaders want because it helps them enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else.
I don't really care to hear Americans fight over Trump/Biden like children for 4 years. Oh wait, it's been more than 4 years, and they are still bitching about Trump.
Doesn't concern me. Hit me up when you're actually discussing politics that matter.
Both could be good if they were more strictly organized into communities or servers and the "all" feeds would lose importance... but unfortunately we are all just a bunch of shitposters and not the intellectuals we pretend to be
There are politically interested persons and there are politically toxic persons. Mainly you can spot them by their vitriol and mockery of people who voice their apolitical leanings.
The normal politically interested people will react just like a level person, asking why and then letting people have their own views in life be.
Then there's the politically toxic ones, where they will argue with those that has different political or apolitical outlook than they do even if there's nothing to argue about. Those cannot stand this kind of posts. Thus revealing themselves. And I tend to block them.
I'm not against politics, but for me, I do not endorse the activity of being aggressive to the opposite side of my views.
well, it seems I'm not the only one misreading the situation. since I've spotted some people who are also taking this too seriously.
I may not have the same view as the majority here, since my part of the world may give me a different experience compared to people on the West side of the globe (America/Europe)
I've been blocking every news and politics community that shows up in my All feed because I like to try to discover new communities but got sick of all the politics. It has made for a much nicer experience.
I don't know if you've noticed, but recently U.S. one the U.S. political parties turned hard right to fascism. So, excuse me for caring about it bcz I live here.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but recently U.S. one the U.S. political parties turned hard right to fascism.
They certainly have. People who whine about political content are usually just whining that the prevailing consensus is not consistent with their opinions. I imagine a good chunk of it is people being upset that lemmy is on the whole fiercely opposed to bigotry and is populated with people who are frustrated with corporate-owned social media.
Lemmy has always been overtly political. The whining is from the sort of people who move in near a live music venue so they can make noise complaints.
People who whine about political content are usually just whining that the prevailing consensus is not consistent with their opinions.
Are you implying that there's a problem with not holding the same set of opinions as the majority? Reasonable disagreement without implicit immorality is possible on many issues.
Are you implying that there’s a problem with not holding the same set of opinions as the majority?
No. I'm saying that the whiners are only whining about political content because they disagree with it. They would rather have no political content than content they don't agree with. It's the same impulse that dismisses all representation of marginalized groups in media as "political."
I don't know why this is such a problem for people. You KNOW "politics" are the most ridiculous and absurd aspect of our society today. And people are fed up with them.
I am the furthest thing from a dirty fucking communist but I understand that lemmy.ml is for communists. Don't come into their community and change it to suit your beliefs
That's weird. The thing that affects all our lives (in the US): What impacts wages, rent, education, social justice, the economy, cost for higher education, student loans, retirement, gas prices, inflation, cost of housing, policing, relations with other countries...
I mean for sure, the other commenter is just saying that something that affects every facet of our lives will be discussed pretty regularly in any social media, and especially so rn with the state of the world.
This is what happens when you don't have moderation tools on par with Mastodon or something moderated.
This is also what happens when mods don't moderate; when they write unclear, vague rules and don't have the power to enforce the rules anyways.
Seriously; a mod on lemmy can't do much. You don't like it? Go back to reddit; I hear they just introduced a really communist CQS system to allow the mods to really chill speech.
One day Americans will realize literally no one thinks about them. The best you have is a handful of Canadians and Mexicans, but even then it's just a handful.
European countries don't care about you. They quite literally don't think about you.
Lemmy before i installed connect:
us politics us politics us politics
Lemmy after i filtered politics using connect:
Comments bitching about there being politics....
Cant win
What about the obsessive hatred of cars and Windows?
THAT I actually enjoy
Not entirely correct.
It's obsessive hatred of car dependency. It's not that surprisingly many of us hate cars, it's that surprisingly many of us hate that you necessarily need a car to do anything outside of the house.
Nooo, I ended up having to filter the fuckcars community because they were angry at ANYBODY that uses a car for any reason - like top voted comments and posts. I saw somebody get jumped by multiple responders for bringing up how there are small towns and people that live hours away from large cities that would still need cars for transportation
Like, I'm as much for improving public transit and reducing the amount of cars on the road in every instance where it's viable. I specifically moved within 10 miles of my job so I could start riding my bike to work instead of driving my hybrid car. It's not that I'm pro car, I'm just anti-extremist
I've gotten into it with a couple of guys for needing a truck. I'm a construction electrician. That means that in addition to lugging my tools around, I have to transport rather large and heavy pieces of equipment/gear on occasion. I'd happily rock a van, but it's hell trying to find a 4x4 van (snow) at a reasonable price due to the van life crowd. I've had guys say use public transport or car share, like dude, I work 6 days a week, that isn't viable. It's a completely one sided conversation with them.
My favorite response was somebody saying small towns in America should still have infrastructure and trains to connect them (which I agree with in theory) because every small town in the UK has them without even realizing there are small towns in the US that could fit the entirety of the UK between them and the nearest other town or city.
Lol nevermind that many of those towns/villages in the UK are centuries old, while many of the smaller towns (especially out west) sprang up specifically because of the national highway system, and also many have died with the introduction of the interstate highway system. I'm all for improving our national rail lines, but it would need to be implemented carefully to ensure that no more smaller towns die out due to lack of service. And to your last point, this is where specifically a high speed rail system would excel, if only just to efficiently cover the vast distances between US towns.
Nah man, there's some crazy fucking Fuck Cars peoples who don't even think parents of severely mentally disabled children should have a car.
There's always absolute extremists, and they are never fucking silent.
They use carbrains as an insult. They expect people to add an hour to any commute.
For one, if something is described as "carbrained," the subject is discounting, ignoring or outright rejecting alternatives to driving. A carbrained take would not necessarily be one that prefers cars. A carbrained take would include things like:
For two, the car lobby is already great at needlessly extending commutes. When the Katy Freeway near Houston was expanded to its current width of 26 lanes, the widest in the world, travel times changed from end to end from just around three quarters of an hour, to more than a whole hour. An increase of about a third. I could go on and on about this, but let's just say that it takes a lot more to make trains work worse, and generally, if you try to ameliorate transit service by expanding it, that makes transit better for everyone, including car drivers, unlike if you expand highways.
The thing of the anti car dependency movement is that they demand more developments to not to have to drive. They demand more space be dedicated to more sustainable developments, with less parking, uses closer together, more room for people out on foot or bikes to get where they want to go, all that jazz.
Ultimately, the anti car dependency movement wants freedom. The freedom not to have to drive if you don't want to, don't need to, or for any reason cannot. And that is what carbrained people are not getting.
Its not neccesarily obsessive, its just those happened to be communiies commoted tonleaving the other site, ao it visually appears to be the mainstream thought.
Linux is one of the larger communties who made the jump (in general tech people are more prone to caring about privacy and control, as tech communities in general are some of the largest here on lemmy)
Heck one of the largest communities is piracy discussion.
My e-bike runs doom perfectly on arch. I don't see the problem.
That's because you don't change the driver.
If the VW Golf had a complete monopoly on the car market to the point where you had to spend years jumping through hoops just to be able to drive your Focus on the roads, despite the Golf being an extremely shitty car when taken on its own merits, you'd probably be pretty resentful to the people who enable that monopoly, too.
Your example sounds like the morons that respond to Amazon product questions.
Lol Amazon comments are a league of their own. Half the questions are:
Q) Does product do thing?
A) I don't know
No, it sounds like people who are constantly being told that Linux is "too hard to use" compared to Windows speaking up when they see a blatant example of that not being true.
I think you just inadvertently called them morons, lol. In any case, I used Linux exclusively for about five years. It is more difficult for most users than windows. The majority of the time, with windows, you just plug shit in and it will work for you. On Linux, it requires you to research what MAY work for your hardware. Often times, if it does work, you are missing features for your hardware. For software, you generally have to look up programs that will do what you'd like, as most mainstream programs aren't released for function with Linux. Additionally, most users are not familiar with our comfortable enough with using command line interfaces. You must be able to use command line as a Linux user. I haven't used Linux in approximately a decade, so some things might have changed, but people won't know that because the issues I pointed out were true for a long time. Most people aren't savvy enough to use Linux and they don't have the time/patience to learn it. Why this makes Linux users upset, I'll never know, it's all rather silly and unimportant.
The ads thing is because you probably have a different idea of what an ad is then they do. Usually when they are talking about ads, it's self-promotional stuff. Teams being built in, Onedrive asking to be setup, and especially Edge constantly begging you to give it a chance.
There's also that link to the Microsoft store for Candy Crush in the start menu of fresh installs of Windows 10. I imagine that's what kicked off the whole 'loaded with ads' thing. That's one anyone can agree on.
Also why always car analogies
It’s not an EU thing. As an American, the small popups that show EVERY NOW AND THEN are not that big of a deal. I use windows for work, mac for personal, and Linux for other things like my server and hobby projects. Linux has regularly given me the most trouble.
not to be that guy (i definitely am) but philosophy is political, just less obviously so
All good I'm just one of those people that has an itch to interject with barely relevant context in a lot of discussions lmao
As a European, car loving Windows users I don't think I'm accepted here tbh
cars and anything not FOSS*
As long as you stay on the meme subs it's fine
This is posted on a meme sub, can't stop the bitching about memes about politics
I dunno, I use archmemes
Having never blocked any of these things... I get a mix of both. Along with the new latest internet drama, a few memes that may or may not apply to me, and some occasional lovely asses and boobs.
What exactly are you filtering for? Just the word politics?
Lemmy June 2023: China good, Ukraine bad, US dog poop
Just avoid Lemmygrad and hexbear. Those are Cancer
Lemmy.ml was no different back then
Glad it got better
Did it? lemmy.ml is still federated with those instances.
I appreciate being federated, it gives me a chance to down vote them.
Block the instance.
Apparently my instance disables downvoting...
That's the only real downside. I just hope user-based ignore/block function for instances instead of just communities would become a thing.
It already is on Connect? I blocked both instances, so no posts from either show in my feed and comments from users on those instances on other posts appear as "blocked by an instance filter," which you can choose to show it if you want
I meant in the account, not a third party app.
But then you miss the Olympic level mental gymnastics
You know they're doping though. Kinda ruins the fun.
Olympics where everyone participating loses
Welcome to the internet
Have a look around
Come to the coast, we’ll have a few laughs.
He really was smart in writing that song (helps that the song is good by itself)
Welcome to the corporately controlled internet where marketing firms, public relations agencies and communications firms constantly try to manipulate the public discourse.
If you use filters ..... you can actually hear and read what people want to talk about.
Well, you can definitely narrow it down to what you want to read and talk about. I'm interested in doing that with politics (US), and I'm very far away from any kind of PR or marketing person. People can genuinely want to talk politics, it's not always a corporate conspiracy.
The best kind of marketing is the type you are completely unaware of.
The world runs on money .... money is made by convincing people to give it to you ... our modern world is built on convincing people ... but people don't like being convinced ... so you have to convince them without letting them know they've been convinced.
It's not a corporate conspiracy ... it's just business.
I'm fine with USA politics, because they got their hands up in everyone's asses so it affects everyone.
What bothers me more is American football. Nobody except them even plays this game but it's all over the news every time there's a major event. Same for baseball.
You're seeing NFL on lemmy? I don't see it at all and wish I did. Where can I find it
There is an NFL community on Lemmy World. It's fairly small though.
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I rarely see American football on Lemmy. But my feed is set to local usually.
I block this communities whenever they show up. Cleans up the feed really quick.
And I keep blocking em :).
It bothers me when they just do it in every sub. Star Wars memes? Star Trek memes?
There's no fucking escape.
We have essentially the same game in Canada. But I don't care about it either. https://youtu.be/Rsqcokevi2A
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I can't wait for Lemmy to get big enough that I can unsub from all the big Lemmies. On Reddit I had a bunch of niche communities that were pretty nice and not political. Now all those spammers I avoided have come here too and the Lemmies aren't big enough to avoid them yet.
The annoying thing is these people never see themselves as the insufferable bores always taking about local politics.
It's always really important.
It's always that you're a nazi if you don't agree.
It's just modern born-again Christians, who aren't knocking on your door, they're posting in your social Media.
Well, when you realize that most of the radical communists on here truly believe that there must be an eternal struggle working towards communism but never actually achieving the goal, it makes sense why they are the way they are.
Literally had one of them tell me that is beyond unrealistic to expect any state to be able to even implement Socialism to any real degree. Of course, in Marxism a Socialist state must exist before withering away as Communism is fully realized, so they will literally admit that their philosophy is impossible to achieve.
They fetishize the struggle; they don't actually want progress, they want to complain.
Why do you find it shocking that someone wants their political goals to be achieved but is also realistic with themselves that they may never see them accomplished?
If you accept that your goals cannot be accomplished, why maintain them as goals? If you know it is futile, why bother? It is literally a waste of time at that point.
That said, I personally dont think it is futile. I think it mostly is an attainable goal, minus the withering of the state; I don't think we could reach a point where the state is completely unnecessary, so I advocate Socialism. I just also think it is ridiculous that someone would try and claim something is futile while simultaneously advocating that everyone adhere to that thing. Their philosophy states clearly attainable, objective goals. If they think it is unrealistic for anyone to ever achieve those goals, then they don't believe in their own philosophy. That is textbook cognitive dissonance.
Communism is very utopian and it is not well defined about how it would work in a practical or thoeretical sense (AFAIK). It is something to aspire to. Something to guide your path. One day, something like it may be achieved, but will take a long time to get there. Like, say, carbon neutrality, the "pursuit of happiness," the elimination of world hunger, to be like Jesus and to not sin, to have pyramids built, etc. It's a fairly common concept.
That's not cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the feeling of discomfort one may feel when holding contradictory beliefs and forced to reconcile the two.
Edit: spelling
cog·ni·tive dis·so·nance /ˈkäɡnədiv ˈdisənəns/ noun PSYCHOLOGY the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change
Nothing to do with a feeling of discomfort or reconciling the beliefs. Not sure where you got that idea from.
That's the colloquial usage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
wrong. lexicographers are not the authority on a word's meaning. the definitions they provide are necessarily descriptive of the way words are or have been used, and say nothing about the actual meaning of the word. jackbydev got it right.
You should go back to your quotes, its pretty obvious that we are discussing the idea of holding a belief while simultaneously categorizing that belief as impossible.
Not to agree with statism, but it sounds like you're combining the incompatible beliefs of two different people.
Lmao downvoted because I guess people don't believe me? Here is the thread I'm referring to
It sure does sound that way, because those people are ripe with cognitive dissonance.
In the past they were sitting in cafes across Europe, chain smoking and writing pamphlets.
I just hope the wait won’t be too long because as for now, we’re losing people.
I'd say that fixes the problem, but, uh, pretty sure it'll just strangle the platform. Really the only thing I can think of is a few people bouying smaller subs with content. Some of the art Lemmies in the 'imaginaryXYZ' realm are a good example, with like one person posting content on basically all of them. It's enough to make it worth subbing though.
Also I love how a post about how I'm tired of all the politics turned into a political discussion. Like, I do agree with one of the sides, but that's literally what we're complaining about.
Over the past few years I've become a blocking fiend. Transphobia? Blocked. Misogyny? Blocked. Vaccine conspiracy? Believe or not, blocked. It's great, I don't have to deal with terrible people and they don't have to deal with me.
I also have the orange guy and the X guy's names filtered out because I'm done seeing them everywhere.
If you want American politics off of your dashboard you would probably get a lot of mileage just from filtering out "Biden", "Trump", and "Desantis". Florida/Texas/California could be good too but you'll block non-political stories.
Undercooked steaks? Well done steaks?
Americans are really annoying. They ruin the internet with their ability to turn ANYTHING and EVERYTHING into American politics. Even if it's about a cat on the opposite side of the world.
My favourite is posting a comment and having someone say "you voted for Biden, didn't you?". Nah, bro, I stepped foot in your country once and was mugged at gun point. I will never be back, let alone a fucking citizen of that shit hole.
Americans are interested in American politics. Next thing you'll tell me is Europeans are interested in European politics. I never hear about Brexit...
Whats your point?
Americans bring their politics into everything. "Europeans" (such a generalization), bring their politics into posts that pertain to it.
Americans being upset because Starfield has pronouns is annoying. You don't really see "Europeans", Canadians, Mexicans, etc. crying about it. Just citizens of the USA.
You had a point, but then you started blaming the Americans for everything. Yeah, Americans pretty much just forget that there exist tons of people on the internet who aren’t American, but that doesn’t mean that all Americans just bring politics into everything.
Secondly, stop trying to blame others for things you have no idea who did. Sounds like you’ve got a similar problem to many Americans, where you’ll see some fair-right homophobic dude on the internet and think, “ugh, stupid Americans,”. Yeah, many Americans can be narrow-minded at times, but that doesn’t mean you project your opinion on that entire country.
Bro that one guy screaming about pronouns who inspired a new wojak literally has a British accent.
Are you really that dense? Just because someone has a British accent doesn't make them British. Bet you think born and raised Mexicans need to go back to Mexico, eh?
No, but I do think you need to go back under the bridge where you came from.
Skill issue
You want to hear something spooky?
This isn't even an American election year yet.
I'm assuming you mean presidential election. But there are some state and local elections coming up this year. In fact, today is National Voter Registration Day in the US. (There's a specific day to remind people to register to vote or update their registration as needed.)
You guys have "National Voter Registration Day" but it's not a public holiday? Wow! In Canada, we have same day voter registration and it helps a lot!
If you’re in Colorado you’re automatically registered. https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/newsRoom/pressReleases/2021/PR20210629VoterRegistration.html
It’s the only state (it was at the time of this article at least) that has true automatic registration.
Of course republicans have been trying as hard as they can to get rid of it.
https://coloradonewsline.com/2023/03/20/how-a-red-state-exodus-from-an-interstate-voter-database-could-impact-colorado-voter-rolls/
That's great for Colorado. I like automatic registration better. No need to worry about ID or forms.
The day itself is more just to remind people to register to vote. Registering to vote can be done any day of the year, though there is a deadline if you plan to vote in a certain election. You don't need to register more than once in a particular state, though you do need to update your registration if you move to a new address.
The deadline for registration varies by state. For my state, it's 22 days before an election. But, at least in my state (this isn't the case in every state, but it's getting there), even if you don't register by the deadline, you can still fill out a voter registration form and vote using a provisional ballot (meaning it will be counted later that week after your voter registration has processed) on election day.
Basically, National Voter Registration Day is used to avoid a lot of headaches for everyone involved.
Just get rid of the nonsense and learn to be civilized you heathen! I think it's time for Europe to colonize America to civilize them again /s
All ballots are counted on election day here. I know because I was a Poll Clerk in an election. The Deputy Returning Officer (person in charge of the polling station) has final say on same day registration and then all ballots cast are counted on election day.
Or better yet be like Colorado with automatic registration.
This is interesting because, while I make a point of making and engaging with apolitical content, I am a lesbian.
I am a crossfitting vegan
Veganism somehow became politically charged, although not as much as LGBTQ+ who literally get disowned by their own family.
Calling things like veganism and LGBT political is sad to me. Are we really saying people who don't want to harm animals and people who believe all genders and sexual orientations should have the same rights are political? Politics should mean shit like taxes.
That's quite a narrow definition of politics. I'd say anything that humans do that is perceived by others to be part of a social structure that maintains or challenges social norms and power relations is political.
Only if veganism itself becomes something nobody would challenge (like health is better than death, breathing is important) or if you are the last person on earth you can become the first apolitical vegan.
Topics like sports are also very opinionated but no one calls them political.
Welcome to the Olympics.
That's what I'm saying. They shouldn't be political issues. Everyone would hopefully agree. I'm not saying we shouldn't call them political issues, I'm lamenting that they have become political issues.
Ah, see that's where I am going wrong. I don't engage in any content, but I do code in Rust.
I avoid news communities on every site I use and feel better for it.
Same here.. never look back..
Same, but with everything remotely political
Gee I wonder why fascism is spreading in the world
Dude, I'm just tired of listening ramblings about something that doesn't concern me.
The problem is that politics affect nearly every person alive. If you stayed more informed you'd likely know that.
The attitude that you'd rather check out because you're not impacted not only indicates a position of privilege, it's precisely what evil leaders want because it helps them enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else.
I don't really care to hear Americans fight over Trump/Biden like children for 4 years. Oh wait, it's been more than 4 years, and they are still bitching about Trump.
Doesn't concern me. Hit me up when you're actually discussing politics that matter.
Yeah US politics definitely don't matter globally lol
My brother in christ you're the one who chooses their own content
Not true! I am currently having an argument over light bulbs!
Not a bright idea.
What a dimwit!
More like a shining example of internet etiquette
Are you sure that will be... enlightening?
Are they dim!?
photo of all Lemmy Users May 2023
Image 1 should just have a full frame impact font reading 'linux'. Neither are ideal.
Both could be good if they were more strictly organized into communities or servers and the "all" feeds would lose importance... but unfortunately we are all just a bunch of shitposters and not the intellectuals we pretend to be
You prefer bean stuff?
what exactly is "bean stuff"
Something to do with Mr. Bean
Ugh.. Wake Me Up, When September Ends.
Here comes the rain again
September never ends.
Before I go-go?
Yep. I've blocked like 20 communities at this point
Nice to have this kind of posts here, that way I can easily identify the politically toxic users that will be blocked.
I'm going to regret this. But what makes you think that?
There are politically interested persons and there are politically toxic persons. Mainly you can spot them by their vitriol and mockery of people who voice their apolitical leanings.
The normal politically interested people will react just like a level person, asking why and then letting people have their own views in life be.
Then there's the politically toxic ones, where they will argue with those that has different political or apolitical outlook than they do even if there's nothing to argue about. Those cannot stand this kind of posts. Thus revealing themselves. And I tend to block them.
I'm not against politics, but for me, I do not endorse the activity of being aggressive to the opposite side of my views.
you're taking this situation waay too seriously. The meme is talking about fatigue not says they hate people for talking about politics
well, it seems I'm not the only one misreading the situation. since I've spotted some people who are also taking this too seriously.
I may not have the same view as the majority here, since my part of the world may give me a different experience compared to people on the West side of the globe (America/Europe)
On my feed directly above and below this post are two posts from world news and they are both articles about russia.
FTFY
July 2023:
US polítics, US polítics, US polítics
September 2023:
US polítics, US polítics, US polítics
subscribed feed
I've been blocking every news and politics community that shows up in my All feed because I like to try to discover new communities but got sick of all the politics. It has made for a much nicer experience.
How difficult is it to not only have a NSFW label but also a politics label which could be used for an all time line without politics?
it could be used jokingly
Just wait til March and next September
ENJOY YOUR DEATH TRAP LEMMIES!
can kick the users out of reddit, can't kick reddit mentality out of the users
And there is still no fire escape.
Enjoy your death trap ladies!
This applies to mastodon as well.
are you saying this is bad or good?
As a politician, the Simpsons are a national treasure... Did that answer your question?
Still got October and November too
There's no fire exit on this site?
"Enjoy your death trap, suckers!"
I don't sub to the politics or us news do when browsing only subbed I get much better results for content I care about
Some people would rather whine about politics (that they disagree with).
I don't know if you've noticed, but recently U.S. one the U.S. political parties turned hard right to fascism. So, excuse me for caring about it bcz I live here.
They certainly have. People who whine about political content are usually just whining that the prevailing consensus is not consistent with their opinions. I imagine a good chunk of it is people being upset that lemmy is on the whole fiercely opposed to bigotry and is populated with people who are frustrated with corporate-owned social media.
Lemmy has always been overtly political. The whining is from the sort of people who move in near a live music venue so they can make noise complaints.
Fair, I assumed your comment was meant a different way than it was.
Are you implying that there's a problem with not holding the same set of opinions as the majority? Reasonable disagreement without implicit immorality is possible on many issues.
No. I'm saying that the whiners are only whining about political content because they disagree with it. They would rather have no political content than content they don't agree with. It's the same impulse that dismisses all representation of marginalized groups in media as "political."
Or... maybe some people just don't care about politics and would rather see dank memes than "Nazis are bad" even if they agree that Nazis are bad.
Not caring about politics is how the nazis and other fascist regimes came into power.
Yup, whine whine whine.
I don't know why this is such a problem for people. You KNOW "politics" are the most ridiculous and absurd aspect of our society today. And people are fed up with them.
It filled with political trolls so gradually we didn't even notice
Yeah, you gotta curate your feed to remove all the american squabbling.
There are too many users on the right side though
I wish lemmy.ml would also ban politics so we could be finally free of hexbear and lemmygrad!
There are so many other instances you can choose then.
Hexbear and Lemmygrad are a blight
I am the furthest thing from a dirty fucking communist but I understand that lemmy.ml is for communists. Don't come into their community and change it to suit your beliefs
Hexbear and Lemmygrad isn't communists. They're Tankies with highly fascistic believes that only masquerade as communism.
Don't mistake Tankies for leftists.
That's weird. The thing that affects all our lives (in the US): What impacts wages, rent, education, social justice, the economy, cost for higher education, student loans, retirement, gas prices, inflation, cost of housing, policing, relations with other countries...
People are talking about that! Eww...
pro tip
I'm not in the US
even if I was it's my right to find political debate in the internet something not worth getting into
IDGAF
I mean for sure, the other commenter is just saying that something that affects every facet of our lives will be discussed pretty regularly in any social media, and especially so rn with the state of the world.
Whoa, your country doesn't have politics!? That's amazing...
This is what happens when you don't have moderation tools on par with Mastodon or something moderated.
This is also what happens when mods don't moderate; when they write unclear, vague rules and don't have the power to enforce the rules anyways.
Seriously; a mod on lemmy can't do much. You don't like it? Go back to reddit; I hear they just introduced a really communist CQS system to allow the mods to really chill speech.
Don't like it? Don't click it. Or better yet get a Chrome extension that blocks out unwanted stuff.
Ha, "Chrome extension"
"what the hell is a firefox"
You don't like it then get your country to annihilate us. Please?
There's no need, you guys are doing a great job by yourselves!
We will fester till we're annihilated.
We will fester till we're annihilated.
One day Americans will realize literally no one thinks about them. The best you have is a handful of Canadians and Mexicans, but even then it's just a handful.
European countries don't care about you. They quite literally don't think about you.
Boo fucking hoo.
Stop your whining.
I'll break your arm to bankrupt you