This community is for photography and interesting images. This isn't the place for shitposts about trump overshadowing quality posts. There's already 10 other communities people can go to for that.
Yes please. It's getting increasingly difficult to block US Politics from Lemmy. Unitedstatesians are so obsessed with it. I don't want to be force to see it ALL OF THE TIME EVERYWHERE!
As a Unitedstatesian myself, while I like to keep informed of important events, even I like to get a break from the constant stream of the same news or meme or whatever being shared a dozen times, or in the case of today's mugshot, 70+ times.
Canadians and Mexicans are "North Americans". Brazilians are "South Americans". People who live in the US call themselves Americans. That's just how language works, buddy. If it irritates your pedantic bone so much, the only solution is to build a time machine to go back a few centuries and change it.
Political campaign funded bots/PR firms are the reason you see it saturate social media so badly. It's not entirely because we're obsessed with it, most people I know try to just live our lives and go vote when it's actually election day and that's about it.
That is to say, it is very annoying to most of us, too, and I support the motion to ban political images/shitposts on the pics community.