Lemmy before i installed connect:
us politics us politics us politics
Lemmy after i filtered politics using connect:
Comments bitching about there being politics…
Cant win
What about the obsessive hatred of cars and Windows?
Its not neccesarily obsessive, its just those happened to be communiies commoted tonleaving the other site, ao it visually appears to be the mainstream thought.
Linux is one of the larger communties who made the jump (in general tech people are more prone to caring about privacy and control, as tech communities in general are some of the largest here on lemmy)
Heck one of the largest communities is piracy discussion.
Not entirely correct.
It’s obsessive hatred of car dependency. It’s not that surprisingly many of us hate cars, it’s that surprisingly many of us hate that you necessarily need a car to do anything outside of the house.
Nooo, I ended up having to filter the fuckcars community because they were angry at ANYBODY that uses a car for any reason - like top voted comments and posts. I saw somebody get jumped by multiple responders for bringing up how there are small towns and people that live hours away from large cities that would still need cars for transportation
Like, I’m as much for improving public transit and reducing the amount of cars on the road in every instance where it’s viable. I specifically moved within 10 miles of my job so I could start riding my bike to work instead of driving my hybrid car. It’s not that I’m pro car, I’m just anti-extremist
I’ve gotten into it with a couple of guys for needing a truck. I’m a construction electrician. That means that in addition to lugging my tools around, I have to transport rather large and heavy pieces of equipment/gear on occasion. I’d happily rock a van, but it’s hell trying to find a 4x4 van (snow) at a reasonable price due to the van life crowd. I’ve had guys say use public transport or car share, like dude, I work 6 days a week, that isn’t viable. It’s a completely one sided conversation with them.
My favorite response was somebody saying small towns in America should still have infrastructure and trains to connect them (which I agree with in theory) because every small town in the UK has them without even realizing there are small towns in the US that could fit the entirety of the UK between them and the nearest other town or city.
Lol nevermind that many of those towns/villages in the UK are centuries old, while many of the smaller towns (especially out west) sprang up specifically because of the national highway system, and also many have died with the introduction of the interstate highway system. I’m all for improving our national rail lines, but it would need to be implemented carefully to ensure that no more smaller towns die out due to lack of service. And to your last point, this is where specifically a high speed rail system would excel, if only just to efficiently cover the vast distances between US towns.
Nah man, there’s some crazy fucking Fuck Cars peoples who don’t even think parents of severely mentally disabled children should have a car.
There’s always absolute extremists, and they are never fucking silent.
They use carbrains as an insult. They expect people to add an hour to any commute.
For one, if something is described as “carbrained,” the subject is discounting, ignoring or outright rejecting alternatives to driving. A carbrained take would not necessarily be one that prefers cars. A carbrained take would include things like:
- “the only way to make more room for people to move from A to B is by adding more lanes to highways!” (a concept that’s proven to only make traffic worse)
- “This cycling lane is not being used. Let’s remove it!” (Which may be a fallacy based on the fact that cyclists move more freely in seemingly confined space, or the fact that the specific cycling lane in question may be an isolated lane with no origins and destinations on it)
- “What? A bus lane? What a waste of space! Let me drive there!” (where the speaker fails to see that one bus easily holds four dozen people, which would mean four dozen cars not on the road, if & only if that bus is not affected by road traffic.
- “We’re wasting money on this high speed railway line between these two cities about 500 km apart!” (failing to see that distances between about 300 to about 800 km are the sweet spot where high speed rail is exactly in that sweet spot of distance where it’s faster than both driving and flying.)
For two, the car lobby is already great at needlessly extending commutes. When the Katy Freeway near Houston was expanded to its current width of 26 lanes, the widest in the world, travel times changed from end to end from just around three quarters of an hour, to more than a whole hour. An increase of about a third. I could go on and on about this, but let’s just say that it takes a lot more to make trains work worse, and generally, if you try to ameliorate transit service by expanding it, that makes transit better for everyone, including car drivers, unlike if you expand highways.
The thing of the anti car dependency movement is that they demand more developments to not to have to drive. They demand more space be dedicated to more sustainable developments, with less parking, uses closer together, more room for people out on foot or bikes to get where they want to go, all that jazz.
Ultimately, the anti car dependency movement wants freedom. The freedom not to have to drive if you don’t want to, don’t need to, or for any reason cannot. And that is what carbrained people are not getting.
See the issue here is that a lot of these Reddit activists, they start out with a good cause that a lot of people could be sympathetic towards but they end up taking it too far because they’re all terminally online extremists.
Here’s a few examples:
Veganism: A lot of people are on board with treating animals better and eating more plants, but Redditors take it too far by advocating for the complete ban of meat and the prosecution of places like homeless shelters for providing turkeys on thanksgiving because that’s genocide to them.
Cars: A lot people would agree that we should decrease dependency on cars because they’re loud, they pollute, and they’re dangerous, but Redditors take it too far by wanting to ban all cars with no exceptions even if the exception is for parents with disabled kids.
Atheism: A lot of people would consider the possibility of there being no God and that religions deserve criticism, but Redditors take it too far by wanting to force all religious people to convert to atheism… or else.
Work reform: A lot of people support the idea of having stronger work protections and better wages, but Redditors take it too far by either by being full blown tankies or by rejecting the idea of work all together, regardless of how delusional and impractical that is.
Feminism: Most people believe that women should have equal rights and treatment in society, but Redditors take it too far by being full blown misandrists who want to oppress all men and “liberate” women from them.
Not to mention how with every one of these types of communities you always have the classic “you’re either with us or against us” mentality. Every disagreement makes a you a nazi/altright/bigot, their cause is totally comparable to the struggle against nazi Germany and the holocaust, and they are totally the good guys who have the total support of the general public (especially the young people) and that they’re just a minor enemy (read: cartoon villain) away from achieving utopia.
The communities on here are just an extension of those, and they bring with them the same type of toxic idiots to this platform.
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As long as you stay on the meme subs it’s fine
This is posted on a meme sub, can’t stop the bitching about memes about politics
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I dunno, I use archmemes
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What exactly are you filtering for? Just the word politics?
Lemmy June 2023: China good, Ukraine bad, US dog poop
Just avoid Lemmygrad and hexbear. Those are Cancer
Lemmy.ml was no different back then
Glad it got better
But then you miss the Olympic level mental gymnastics
You know they’re doping though. Kinda ruins the fun.
Olympics where everyone participating loses
Welcome to the internet
Have a look around
Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found
Come to the coast, we’ll have a few laughs.
I can’t wait for Lemmy to get big enough that I can unsub from all the big Lemmies. On Reddit I had a bunch of niche communities that were pretty nice and not political. Now all those spammers I avoided have come here too and the Lemmies aren’t big enough to avoid them yet.
The annoying thing is these people never see themselves as the insufferable bores always taking about local politics.
It’s always really important.
It’s always that you’re a nazi if you don’t agree.
It’s just modern born-again Christians, who aren’t knocking on your door, they’re posting in your social Media.
Well, when you realize that most of the radical communists on here truly believe that there must be an eternal struggle working towards communism but never actually achieving the goal, it makes sense why they are the way they are.
Literally had one of them tell me that is beyond unrealistic to expect any state to be able to even implement Socialism to any real degree. Of course, in Marxism a Socialist state must exist before withering away as Communism is fully realized, so they will literally admit that their philosophy is impossible to achieve.
They fetishize the struggle; they don’t actually want progress, they want to complain.
They fetishize the struggle; they don’t actually want progress, they want to complain.
In the past they were sitting in cafes across Europe, chain smoking and writing pamphlets.
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt.
Which of these are you discussing now?
You should go back to your quotes, its pretty obvious that we are discussing the idea of holding a belief while simultaneously categorizing that belief as impossible.
I just hope the wait won’t be too long because as for now, we’re losing people.
I’d say that fixes the problem, but, uh, pretty sure it’ll just strangle the platform. Really the only thing I can think of is a few people bouying smaller subs with content. Some of the art Lemmies in the ‘imaginaryXYZ’ realm are a good example, with like one person posting content on basically all of them. It’s enough to make it worth subbing though.
Also I love how a post about how I’m tired of all the politics turned into a political discussion. Like, I do agree with one of the sides, but that’s literally what we’re complaining about.
I’m fine with USA politics, because they got their hands up in everyone’s asses so it affects everyone.
What bothers me more is American football. Nobody except them even plays this game but it’s all over the news every time there’s a major event. Same for baseball.
You’re seeing NFL on lemmy? I don’t see it at all and wish I did. Where can I find it
There is an NFL community on Lemmy World. It’s fairly small though.
I rarely see American football on Lemmy. But my feed is set to local usually.
I got a feed full of spam because they decided some form of fantasy football needed an entire instance, with seperate communities for each and every single fucking team.
It bothers me when they just do it in every sub. Star Wars memes? Star Trek memes?
There’s no fucking escape.
Lol American football is fun. Actually all the major American sports are fun. If that’s what bothers you then you should find an instance or a platform that’s not in English. Because most of the English communities are going to be dominated by Americans.
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I avoid news communities on every site I use and feel better for it.
Same here… never look back…
Same, but with everything remotely political
My brother in christ you’re the one who chooses their own content
There’s no escape. You will always fall victim to attention whoring posts about US politics.
You want to hear something spooky?
This isn’t even an American election year yet.
Oh God, I don’t even want to think about just how many attention whoring posts are going to litter the front page.
Image 1 should just have a full frame impact font reading ‘linux’. Neither are ideal.
On my feed directly above and below this post are two posts from world news and they are both articles about russia.
Ugh… Wake Me Up, When September Ends.
September never ends.
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Before I go-go?
Yep. I’ve blocked like 20 communities at this point
Nice to have this kind of posts here, that way I can easily identify the politically toxic users that will be blocked.
I’m going to regret this. But what makes you think that?
There are politically interested persons and there are politically toxic persons. Mainly you can spot them by their vitriol and mockery of people who voice their apolitical leanings.
The normal politically interested people will react just like a level person, asking why and then letting people have their own views in life be.
Then there’s the politically toxic ones, where they will argue with those that has different political or apolitical outlook than they do even if there’s nothing to argue about. Those cannot stand this kind of posts. Thus revealing themselves. And I tend to block them.
I’m not against politics, but for me, I do not endorse the activity of being aggressive to the opposite side of my views.
you’re taking this situation waay too seriously. The meme is talking about fatigue not says they hate people for talking about politics
well, it seems I’m not the only one misreading the situation. since I’ve spotted some people who are also taking this too seriously.
I may not have the same view as the majority here, since my part of the world may give me a different experience compared to people on the West side of the globe (America/Europe)
ENJOY YOUR DEATH TRAP LEMMIES!
can kick the users out of reddit, can’t kick reddit mentality out of the users
This applies to mastodon as well.
