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You're in a community on a primarily LGBT instance. One of the most affluent and influential countries in the world has one of their two major political parties trying to declare that anyone who's not cis, white, heterosexual is an aberration that needs to be purged.

An attitude that is attempting to spread to other Western nations.

Something which is either actively affecting, or will potentially effect, many of the members of this instance.

So, uh, anyway... sorry for offending you, but if you don't like things getting spicy then maybe this isn't the place for you.

I've seen two posts in just the last hour about the "flood" of US politics posts and not a single post about US politics posted in a few days.

Either I must have the users posting that stuff blocked, or someone's making a mountain out of a molehill on a personal vendetta.

And those who know, know I am always everywhere. If it existed, I'd have commented on it.

Unfortunately the internet is full of Americans.

with peace and love 196 has always been this way you won’t be able to fight it without changing the core culture of 196

what you can do is post content you want to see, which you are doing here so excellent work keep it up 😎👍🙌

Speaking of shitshow, have you been following American politics right now??? Asking for a friend.

get shitposting then cuz a lot of us are real pissed off and i cant blame them with the situation here in the us

Some advice, just block the users posting the politics, if your Lemmy phone app or the desktop browser version support doing so. If they post stuff you don't want to see now, they'll post stuff you don't want to see again in the future.

Me personally, that's what I do. My mental health is in a tight spot and I don't have the energy for the doomer shit any more, so I'd like to hang onto some of my essence, because I can just wait to go full doomer panic mode if Trump cucks his way into 2024 and starts banning trans people from life (which would affect me).

Also it's worth considering, a lot of these people being "no I want the Dems to lose because some bullshit" might be fucking tankies/accelerationists sneaking in here again, not all of them but a bunch. That idea really clicked when a friend of mine pointed the possibility out.

I'm not that versed in politics because of my similar aversion to it as you seem to have, but I do know those idiots exist, are annoying and loud, and are just contrarion moron cowards who want democracy to end so they can con someone else into doing a whole revolution for them after it gets bad. Even though none of them would last through the getting bad part.

So just block people posting uncomfy memes, ignore Internet psychos, vote in November, including local elections wherever possible, and we'll all hopefully come out of this without too much lasting trauma.

I just sorted by hot, then sorted by top 24 hour and top 12 hour, and I don't see what you're talking about. None of the top 10 in any of these three sorts is about American politics

sort by top of all time

I can't believe HP and Tom Scott is becoming a political movement smh my head

Hey, I am trying hard to post silly shitposts grunble grumble grumble

If you don't want trans people dealing with politics then you should stop politics from dealing with trans people.

We got to the "this entire community..." stage way faster than Reddit did.

Set default sort to new.

I can't say the same thing OP says, because I blocked every politics community/magazine I could see when browsing all. But the truth is that most posts and comments, whether politics or not, are related to something about US.

The sad thing is that we can't do anything to bring balance onto the existing instances, so 80% of content will keep being related to US and 20% of content will keep being related to the rest of the world.

The good thing is that an instance called lemmywithout.us or kbinwithout.us could be created, similar to this magazine, but at instance level. Or we can block every community/magazine where most content, whether posts or comments, is related to US.