Not unpopular. Lemmy politics is a garbage dump, the entire platform was created as a safe haven for commies and we're still reeling from it, with many users (especially from .ml) sharing biased news and "memes" that are nothing but propaganda and DAE AMERICA BAD????
Having political takes isn't necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is "capitalism is bad" then you're an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else
Having political takes isn't necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is "capitalism is bad" then you're an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else.
A huge part of the rise of fascism in Germany was Hitler's skillful use of media.
Most people got their news from papers, and formed opinions by talking with other people in person, and there was a robust culture attuned to those methods of information which enabled people to form a clear picture of the world, so that their picture was roughly in the neighborhood of reality. Hitler was able to manipulate the new mass media of radio so that he could distort and manipulate people into believing crazy things, because they still had the set of interpretations that were appropriate for an older set of media that wasn't subject to the same type of skillful manipulation. It was really effective. It was a big part of what led a fairly democratic state to freely choose to elect a person who literally went on to kill millions, on purpose, when anyone who had a clear picture of reality would have been able to see it coming a mile away.
I will NEVER vote for Kamala Harris, because genocide is a red line for me, and she's personally responsible for Gaza.
Politics is just too stressful, I try to avoid it.
I really think Jill Stein has some great things to say, I think it's a shame that the duopoly is trying so hard to keep her down when she's the only one who can really move things forward. I think I'm going to vote for her.
Voting doesn't matter. If you really want progress, you definitely shouldn't vote. I'm not going to. Why would you, even?
Whoops, sorry about that, I had some sort of fit at the keyboard. Anyway what was I saying?
First past the post inevitably converges to a 2 party system, with all the frustrations that brings.
You see it as well in UK, Hungary, Turkey, ...
Be carefull whenever someone suggests: the prime minister/president/... should come from the biggest party. It can take a few election cycles, but it ends up with a 2 party system, as that's the dominant strategy.
The obvious ones like cats, linux, and star trek but also meta-posts like these, comics, non-political memes, greentext, bikes, general technology. There are collapsniks and conservatives have been trying to settle recently. There's a wide variety of niche content but they are small enough that for every 10 visitors you need someone to post something. There's a lot here, it's small compared to extremely large sites but is still an active message board.
Idk about all, but hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are both unpleasant. I'm glad lemm.ee leaves it up to the user rather than censoring it from the instance level though
I like that connect let's you block an instance and then has comments from users of said instance overwritten with a spoiler-type tag. That way you can decide to read those comments or not (I sometimes open them in non political threads).
For me, there's so many undesired communities and political communities that it's easier to just pick the communities that I like subscribe to them instead of blocking everything else. There's too much to block