Seriously, almost all the posts are just doom scrolling. And yes, I'm aware of the irony

Two things

1. Politics is for Power provides a pretty good model for thinking about this https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Politics-Is-for-Power/Eitan-Hersh/9781982116798

There's a lot of political hobbyism on social media in general and Lemmy is really bad for it. Take for example the constant Elon Musk rage bait. No one is doing anything productive with that information. They're just getting mad

2. Social media, in general, isn't a good way to get informed. It makes you feel really in touch but when a lot of the time you're getting biased and polarizing that is often as enraging as it is unproductive

We treat politics like entertainment and it's making our politics worse. Personally I try to limit my exposure to politics that I don't think will be productive. It might feel like the most important thing in the moment but it's often a huge waste of time

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.

• Douglas Adams

It's a link aggregator, if you don't like politics you're in the wrong format of social media.

I LOVE the idea of including how to take action. As much as Lemmy loves all the guillotine and cranial ventilation comments, they're not actionable or productive for 99.99% of the user base.

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Tell ya what, you up vote it and I'll down vote it and all should be right in the world.

Good question, I suppose I'm being negative about negativity.

Honestly, feel free to downvote, you have my blessing lol.

Yes.

Downvoting isn't "negativity", it's a method for users to define what does and does not contribute to the content of the platform. By downvoting this content, I'm voicing my opinion that negativity is overrepresented on Lemmy, and encouraging (however slightly) more positive content to be posted.

Agreed. Instance blocking needs to be more granular. Blocking posts from one is great, but it doesn't keep the peanut gallery there from brigading the comments.

Yes!

Users are consistent!

eg: I'm an arrogant asshole.

Unfortunately I'm cursed with a preference for opt-out (all + block lists) post filtering rather than opt-in (subscriptions). I realize this causes issues that are entirely on me, but especially with Lemmy being so small, I like to cast as wide a net as I can.

Obviously a Russian bot.

Bullshit!

If it was about "just vote" you wouldn't care who for.

That post of yours is such a perfect example of that very sleazy political propaganda I was talking about that the very first paragraph is already deceitful misrepresentation.

Then follows the customary use of political slogans from the Book Of Vote Lesser Evil: it's "unprecedented" vote - again - "fighting for our rights" and, most hilarious of all for the "less fortunate" (trully beyond belief in a country with a grand total of 4 national politicians who are leftwing, and the rest being overwhelmingly hard-right ultra-neolibs or far-right fascists).

The whole thing reads like somebody who has swallowed the Cool Aid and is giving themselves an excuse to pester everybody else, all very similar to religious nutters proselytizing.

From the outside it's like watching the Russian Elections but for a country with a Power Duopoly instead of a Power Monopoly, complete with people in their minds boosting way out of proportion the small differences between those two cheeks of the same arse that pass for Political Parties, to convince themselves they actually have a choice (lest they realize having the country governed for the many, not for the fatcats, is never going to happen in that electoral system and they have to do something about it) in some kind of country-sized Stockholm Syndrome.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.

It goes deeper than that. Like it or not, US politics have an influence on the rest of the world. And that's why it's so important for everyone to follow international news, no matter where you live. Like it or not, this shit affects us all.

Nice, I'll go do that too, thanks!

Partly true, there isn't much I'm subscribed to so I'm through the list fairly quickly. I'm having a hard time finding stuff I find interesting but isn't junk. Generally, stuff happening in the world interests me, but lately I'm having a hard time handling all the bad shit.

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Imagine having a choice in an election.

US vote rules were updated last time in 1965, here rules change before each election, usually 3-4 month prior.

I noticed recently that they stopped publishing 23:59 laws. You know laws which are published on the official website one minute before midnight, and they are valid from the next day. I dont know why they stopped, maybe they did this because it was during a state of emergency?

Migration emergency is still ongoing since 2015, last time they extended until 2024 sept. We had covid emergency and inflation emergency as well. I think the "there is a war in a neighboring country" emergency is still ongoing. I don't know because the "WAR" billboard ads were replaced with "join the army" and "Orbán is PEACE" ads, I dont know if they are related to this

Lol they have debates there, in television. We had debates, last time it was in 2006.

I'm looking forward to the 2026 elections, its possible that something will change, lol

Before the EU election each opposition party got 10 minutes to speak in the state television. This was an improvement from the 2022 election, they got only 5 minutes each that time. They cannot get any other screentime between elections.

But because of my work I met with guys from Tanzania, and some were coming from some *stan, (maybe kyrgiz? I dont remember) so I know from them that it could be even worse