'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' Google Searches Spike on Election Night, Suggesting Many Americans Had No Idea He Wasn't Running
'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' Google Searches Spike on Election Night, Suggesting Many Americans Had No Idea He Wasn't Running
The spike began around 6 a.m. on Election Day, and continued to rise over the course of the day until reaching its peak at midnight Wednesday.
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It's not that uncommon for people to block all that stuff out for personal reasons. Lemmy itself has some users that intentionally filter out all political stuff from their feed. I don't agree with it, but there's a lot of people like that.
Some people call this 'elaborate repression mechanism' or 'retirement into private life'.
I don't like suppressing emotions because suppressed emotions happen to come back at unexpected times in weird places.
It's not a good idea because at the end of the day even if you're not interested in politics, politics is definitely interested in you. Thse people are just burying their head in the sand and ignoring the real world.
I'd be afraid that public opinion making isn't the only topic or problem they ignore or repress.
Today for the first time in my life I've blocked keywords Trump and MAGA on Lemmy. Also took down my funny user handle. The world feels too real and too unsafe for funny monikers and constantly seeing the fuhrer's face again for half a decade. I'm not ready.
"If it's important someone will tell me about it" is such an infuriatingly common position.
Politics on lemmy is a boring circlejerk anyway. Mods are even more ban happy than r/politics on Reddit. No political discussion of substance is possible.
Which substance are we talkin?
The substance where opposing views can be presented and argued. An exchange of information, ideas, ideology, and facts.
I've got 12.6 tons of election denial, 3.78 grams of highly concentrated transphobia and 54 barrels of ... what will you give me for it?
3 tons of salt, 200 barrels of voter disaffection, 47 pallets of polarization.