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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (30 children)

I realize that this is a very hot political season. Its impossible to keep a "good vibes" feel with this year's election politics, so I'm not asking for "Don't be an Ass" or other such naive statement. But please try to be on your best behavior. This is "BestOfLemmy", and not a political debate site.

I've nuked a couple of subthreads that have gotten too hot. Please report anything you think is unhelpful to the greater discussion. I'll remove distracting posts as I see them, but I don't promise "good moderation" here. I'm just gonna cleanup what I can see and when I see it.


The general rule for "BestOfLemmy" is to be an appropriate place for a Lemmy beginner to get a feel of Lemmy in general. Yall are somewhat forgiven for the heated topic, but its not a complete pass. Try to keep the perspective of "newbies to Lemmy are stopping by here first". And think about how you'd like to present yourself to them.

This is my guiding principle for moderation. This isn't a debate subsite, or debate community. I'm not necessarily interested in having everyone here complete their back-and-forth discussion (especially if it gets heated, swear words, accusatory tones, etc. etc.).

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What if I hate America and voted for Kamala?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Thank you for having more mercy than hatred.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I just hate Donald Trump more.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago

Thanks for that, too

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Idk who nuxcom is but is this really a contender for best of Lemmy? You see the same comment in every other post so is this person that special or do we have a slow day?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

My vote is very much on slow day and, given a choice, would nuke this thread entirely, if that helps.

If folk MUST steal other's work, at least pick something that is semi-uniquely them and not literally a post made while taking a shit.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (8 children)

America is like 100x more powerful than Russia, so it's really fucking weird that an ex-president is beholden to Putin.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

It's money and blackmail for sure.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

God, is there anywhere that isn't full of US politics???

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's because it's nearing their election it's ramping up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Voting is already ongoing in many states, today crossed 40 million early votes. For the next 1.5wk avoiding politics and crazy advertisements for/against candidates is impossible if you live in the US. Given the size of the country and its worldwide economic dominance it's impossible to not be impacted by US politics regardless of where you live.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Won't someone PLEASE think about the CONSTITUTION!

Trump spent four years breaking the law and Biden spent four years not putting his ass in jail. Meanwhile, you've NYPD officers putting bullets into the heads of people adjacent to turnstill jumpers. You've got paramilitary raids on college campuses and suburban neighbors to thrash peaceful protesters. You've got pipeline companies stealing property with the government's blessing, while locals blocking the illegal construction are sprayed with tear gas. You've got a billionaire actively buying votes three weeks before an election, while the FEC twiddles its thumbs. You've got illegal overseas occupation of territory from Okinawa to Al Anbar to Guantanamo Bay. You've got a SCOTUS that's taking bribes to issue rulings and Congressmen taking bribes to write laws and Governors taking bribes to turn over public property to private interests.

Whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (11 children)

"If you don't vote Harris, you hate America"

Great way to convince the folks at hexbear and .ml to vote Trump

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They weren't going to vote for Harris anyways. If she magically brought peace to the middle east tomorrow, they'd find some other reason to not vote for her.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

They won’t be voting in the election because 85% of them are not American.

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