I live here! If I chose to be willfully ignorant I’d be no better than all those on the right I’ve been talking about being willingly ignorant for decades
I’m no hypocrite
I’m def the one on the left rn I barely know how to use this app
The people in this thread acting like you need to be tuned in to everything all the time with no filter baffle me. You can block all politics on Lemmy and get your political news elsewhere. People are more than entitled to cultivate the spaces they inhabit and use.
And then there’s no content :(
Nah, there’s plenty of Linux and Star Trek
That’s the best part
Aber es gibt so viel Inhalt!
In der Tat. Ü
oh you must be somehow dodging the countless anime and furry communities that are alive and “well”
Idk who the fuck Moe is but this cartoon gal has quite an imaginative and loyal following
I don’t block it because I want to start up to date with the Nazi regime
I also want to view more than 20 different posts a day…
Really? The collapse of a superpower isn’t fascinating to you?
I enjoy watching slow motion train crashes as much as the next guy, but everyone needs a break sometimes, you know?
Have you tried closing the app? That’s what I do when I’ve had enough.
That’s a pretty blatant false dichotomy
Ignorance to current events isn’t joy.
No, but drowning in political events doesn’t make for a positive experience either
I’m actually having a great time seeing my comrades on the streets
To use lemmy you need to block news about Zelensky
How would you even do this? It would take forever. Is there like a blocklist you can import?
If you look at my comment history, you’ll see how, on the boost app at least, to mute keywords and phrases, as well as a list that I use.
To save a click through my history: settings > filters and block > filter words
Plus word filter
There are word filters for Lemmy?
Some Clients such as Voyager have it
If you use boost I know there is
On Voyager, popular mobile client, there’s this setting page (linking image because apparently there’s no space left on my instance’s storage):
That’s what a lot of Germans did back then: ignoring what’s going on.
In the defence of some of us, like myself for instance, I live in a country where we can do literally jack shit to affect American political bullcrap, because it’s nowhere near America. I’m pretty sure Europeans are excused from having to stay up to date every moment, unless we can force the rest of the world to be continuously in the loop about… idk, whatever crap Geert Wilders is up to right now…
Well, you still have to predict nazi takeover of your country.
Nobody can prevent the future.
prevention is better than cure, because if you have to cure it you already have the disease. the future isn’t set in stone (theoretically).
I also don’t live anywhere near the US. Do I feel like I can’t do anything? Not at all.
I deleted my PayPal account
I deleted my Amazon account
I deleted my Instagram account
I switched to a Linux distribution which is mainly developed in Europe
I deleted my Google account
I deleted my WhatsApp account
I try to boycott as many American products (physical or digital) as possible.
Honestly all political discussions here are so cursed. Its just people yelling. Fuck that.
That might be because you actively go around yelling at people for not supporting Israel
Regretfully this is my local news so sticking my head in the sand probably won’t help.
Unfortunately feels like it’s my responsibility to be paying attention at this point no matter how noisy and brutal it gets
I remember I said I did this once and the amount of people who came of the woodwork saying “yOuRE pARt of ThE ProBlEM!!1!” Was insane
They are right though. How does sticking your head in the sand and pretending the problem doesn’t exist work?
Thing is, a lot of information about the current state of political affairs is blasting through all channels. Some people just want to use Lemmy to shitpost, hang out in CasualConversation, or look a funnies from Stamets.
I think that’s a fair use case, and doesn’t necessarily mean someone who does this is sticking their head in the sand about the current political order going to shit.
Oh look, exhibit a 🙄
And your answer is…?
People like you vote. Or should vote?! But should they if they just choose to be ignorant?!
You’re a living argument against democracy 🥲My answer is if you keep worrying about what others are doing you’ve got no chance to stay sane on the Internet Mister B
