Why is almost everything on Lemmy political?
I joined Lemmy a few days ago and have been reading around. 90%+ of the content I see, even on non-politics related communities, is political in some way. I have no interest in that, so it’s tiring, especially when it’s inserted in the comments of completely unrelated posts.
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a lot of people here migrated from reddit for political reasons, so a lot of the communities have been set up by those who tend to view things in a political way. it also seems that the general climate in the united states, where a large amount of the english language content is made, views nearly everything as political, either caused or reinforced by american politics dominating most forms of media.
it also cant be discounted that there are certain users whose sole motivation for posting in any community is either bait or propaganda, which can spoil any community that does not have very active moderation or rules prohibiting political posts or comments.
What’s kind of crazy is that almost all political content is about Trump / Trump-related too. From what I’ve seen Lemmy is very progressive (me too), but I see almost no news about progressive / left-wing / liberal things happening? It’s all Trump-Elon-Republicans. It’s like I’m in a conservative community with the amount of Trump content around.
there is nothing to feel excited or hopeful about from american progressives at the moment, so it is all cope posting. i am more disheartened by posts like the one that showed up the other day eith a link to a supposed story about a cybertruck owner who complained that he got laughed at by children. it is not news, it is not worthwhile, it has not enriched the lives of anyone who read it. it is an outlet to expend political energy for those who dont know what else to do. politics are unavoidable, and complaining about politics is natural and can be cathartic, but at this level it is drain that is part of a trumps political strategy.
Because Trump is president, and Republicans have the Senate, House, and SC...
Like, they have all the "checks and balances" that are supposed to save us from a president like trump. But they're not using them.
Do you want to see more articles about what the left is doing?
Post them.
It's that easy
Trump wasn't president a year ago, and it was the same back then. Besides that, the communities that aren't supposed to be political tend to get a lot of political content, for instance every time Elon farts it gets posted to the technology communities. The only option not to get confronted with this is to block lots of communities and/or users.
Trump wasn’t president a year ago, and it was the same back then
If we're going to start removed about how ineffective neoliberals are and how voters needed more than fear of trump to turn out...
I've been beating that drum since 2021.
The focus back then should have been on what Biden did to help, but there wasn't many examples of that.