Lemmies, We just reached over 10k subscribers, thank you all for helping us grow from our small humble beginning, to now the capital for US political debates and news.
Lemmies, We just reached over 10k subscribers, thank you all for helping us grow from our small humble beginning, to now the capital for US political debates and news.
Lemmy world -> politics = USA.. it feels so wrong but well, the block button is there for something, isn't it?
Oh, damn, I subscribed to the wrong community. Sucks.
I thought this was about world politics and it turns out it's just (again) US centrism.
I think I can mention it. I mean, why not?
There was a cool subreddit back there, r/USdefaultism. We should do something like that here.
Non-US gang
Come on, they're the World Series champions.
Is it your belief that baseball is solely a US sport? US is just where the best players most often play. Other nations are not prohibited from the ML. See the Toronto Blue Jays (World Series champions in 1993)
c/globalpolitics is what you want.
Why create this community on the "world" instance (hosted by someone from the Netherlands) and call it a general name but make it specific only to then tell people to go to the community that needs to use a specific name to cover a general subject (which they need to do because you hijacked the name they would logically have used when you should have used a specific name)?
Yes. That is how this whole fediverse thing works.
I'm in the USA but I think it's inevitable. The USA is the single largest primarily English speaking democracy in the world. Since Lemmy.world is a primarily English speaking instance, it should be expected that an American would create a politics community first and since it's the first they just call it politics.
For example, the UK is the only country in the world where they don't put the country name on their stamps. Because they invented paper stamps first in 1840.
This is not a fight worth worrying about IMO.
Please rename the community to US Politics if that is the only topic allowed.
Or just join some other place if you don’t like this place.
Only perfect descriptor names allowed on the internet. Better change my email address for the irritable dudes in this thread.
This is how federation works, people.
See the sidebar for regional or global politics communities.
rename the community RedTeamBad
Do you do anything other than whine? Boo hoo hoo, no one likes people who are trying to eradicate vulnerable minorities! Waaaah! People keep calling them nazis just because they're marching with nazi flags!
Just read the rules next time and it won’t be an issue for you.
Kinda gross how chauvinist americans are in taking the default term "politics" instead of "US politics" while ignoring international affairs. It was gross on reddit and it's gross here.
It gets even worse when you see the mods dismissing this reasonable criticism as "trolling". They have decided that this is their turf because they've gotten here first, regardless of utility or rationality. Pretty much describes the whole state of politics in their country.
Yeah no one is trolling. This is what we genuinely and sincerely believe.
The Americans trying to present themselves as the default is a significant problem brought about by their place in global hegemony. They do this and defend it viciously everywhere because they are nationalists, even the democrats are incredibly nationalistic.
Ideally as america declines and recedes from a position given to it by ww2 fucking the rest of the world over its population will slowly accept this and start acting like a normal country that accepts it is not the centre of all things and should not be treated as such. It is one country out of many and there is no reason it should not be treated and present itself just like all the other countries out there.
This will take a long time to happen though. American ego will need to be smashed first. As well as the incredible nationalism at the heart of most of the population, this is the hardest part though because americans see no problem with their nationalism, this despite the fact americans wave more flags everywhere than a nuremburg rally.
Is it because it's a mainly english server? I love reading whats going on in other countries but I'd mainly focus on topics which'll immediately effect me day to day. Is it lack of people from other countries posting or am I being stupid?
The rules of the channel state:
Must be articles relevant to US political news. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed.
It would be reasonable for this channel to be dominated by US politics if that was simply a consequence of the demographics of the site. It is not reasonable to appropriate the name 'politics' in the largest instance that also happens to be named 'world'. This is the equivalent of someone making a channel called 'food' and forbid posting anything that isn't traditional Scottish cuisine.
Wdym? There's other countries that aren't the US?
Congrats! The trolls are here so you know you've arrived. Thanks for the hard work.
Really would be renamed US politics in my opinion since this is a .world instance.
Isn't that just 10k subscribers in your local instance?
from kbin.social I see the number 316, is that subs from kbin users?
Should be, yes. I see somewhere around 600 for lemm.ee.
I think you're right, which means it's way bigger.
Theres no political debate happening here lol. Just a lot of circular tugging.
There's a lot of whining from republicans who won't get rid of the nazis in their party and can't stand it when people point out what that makes them.
Here we go again.
Rename yourselves US politics.
Congrats. Good milestone.
You're welcome!
They’re not really much debate going on in this community. 95% of all posts are just “lol republican dumb Nazis” and every comment that’s not agreeing is downvoted to hell.
To be fair, the US GOP is dancing closer and closer to fascist nazism day by day
If Republicans ever quit doin' nazi shit, people will quit pointin' it out.
There's already too many places where disingenuous support for nazi shit is welcome: reddit, facebook, threads, bluesky, truth social, 4chan, twitter, youtube comments, and far too many more.
Not everywhere has to be, and I hope the mods won't be swayed by the constant insufferable whining of people who won't shut up about how unhappy they are that everywhere isn't stormfront.
Do people just not understand how unpopular opinions work?
This thread has a lively debate. That seems to be contrary to your characterization. I do understand why fascist propaganda and talking points don’t go over well here though. It’s probably upsetting to not get a lot of support.
I upvoted for controversy.
I brought this exact issue up with the moderators of c/politics and they dont care. In fact one of the moderators (yoBuckStopsHere) is the top poster of all the tabloid articles that have little to nothing to do with politics. Hes trying to curate a community that vilifies one particular party. Its sad.