outrageousmatterLemmies, We just reached over 10k subscribers, thank you all for helping us grow from our small humble beginning, to now the capital for US political debates and news.
TWeaKIsn’t that just 10k subscribers in your local instance?
I think you’re right, which means it’s way bigger.
from kbin.social I see the number 316, is that subs from kbin users?
Should be, yes. I see somewhere around 600 for lemm.ee.
Lemmy world -> politics = USA… it feels so wrong but well, the block button is there for something, isn’t it?
alephSeriously. This is egregious enough that it makes me wonder if admins can rename communities.
whats even more egregious is the errant space after “politics” making it read “politics @lemmy.world”
I never noticed that. Thanks. Now I hate it.
Oh, damn, I subscribed to the wrong community. Sucks.
I thought this was about world politics and it turns out it’s just (again) US centrism.
TheGreenGolemI think I can mention it. I mean, why not?
There was a cool subreddit back there, r/USdefaultism. We should do something like that here.
randintNon-US gang
YoBuckStopsHerec/globalpolitics is what you want.
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Why create this community on the “world” instance (hosted by someone from the Netherlands) and call it a general name but make it specific only to then tell people to go to the community that needs to use a specific name to cover a general subject (which they need to do because you hijacked the name they would logically have used when you should have used a specific name)?
Why do you think there are rules for community names? There are no rules or expectations (at least not yet) for community names.
The well-known answer for why this community is named this is that it is a recreation of another community that was also named this.
And it shouldn’t have been like that over there but we still had to make the same mistake over here?
If you don’t think of it as a mistake, simply an inconsequential detail, it makes perfect sense to retain it as a form of identity, so people that switched platforms can feel like they moved as a group.
I wasn’t putting words in your mouth, you are acting like they have somehow done something incorrectly, but that would imply there is a correct way, which would imply rules for how to do it, official, unspoken, whatever idc.
Anyone can make their own group on a different instance and call it the same thing. If you don’t like how lemmy.world works, don’t take it out on the mods here, either find another instance, start one yourself, or if you have to, take it up with a lemmy.world admin
Because lemmy.world absorbed a lot of reddit users, and this is how it was on reddit
And it shouldn’t have been like that over there but we still had to make the same mistake over here?
I’m just being descriptive. You asked why, that’s why.
I’m not saying it should be that way, or that it should not be changed now that it is that way. I’m here for US politics but I’d be happy if this sub became a world politics sub and I had to subscribe to c/USPolitics (or whatever) as well.
eupraxia!actuallesbians says hello 😅
I’m in the USA but I i think it’s inevitable. The USA is the single largest primarily English speaking democracy in the world. Since Lemmy.world is a primarily English speaking instance, it should be expected that an American would create a politics community first and since it’s the first they just call it politics.
For example, the UK is the only country in the world where they don’t put the country name on their stamps. Because they invented paper stamps first in 1840.
This is not a fight worth worrying about IMO.
Come on, they’re the World Series champions.
Is it your belief that baseball is solely a US sport? US is just where the best players most often play. Other nations are not prohibited from the ML. See the Toronto Blue Jays (World Series champions in 1993)
Yes. That is how this whole fediverse thing works.
They’re not really much debate going on in this community. 95% of all posts are just “lol republican dumb Nazis” and every comment that’s not agreeing is downvotes to hell.
jeffwTo be fair, the US GOP is dancing closer and closer to fascist nazism day by day
RoundcatDo people just not understand how unpopular opinions work?
I mean, they typically are dumb nazis.
Perfectly proves my point.
This community is just “if you’re not “vote blue no matter who” you’re a dumb nazi”.
Think the issue is more with republicans than with the community
Again, proving the point.
daisy lazarusSince I don’t live in the States, I’m not voting blue. But I still think Republicans are dumb nazis. Am I an outlier, or are objective facts tough for you to swallow?
Maybe you’ll find more friends on Truth Social 👋🏻
Maybe you’ll find more friends on Truth Social
As though that’s far enough to the right for him.
You guys keep proving the point, over and over again.
The point, which will always be lost on you, is that we see no reason to engage, or take seriously, an ideology based on lies, hate, and oppression - one that cultivates division, stupidity, has zero redeeming actual values that do not involve restricting human rights - then yes, we’re proving it.
Nobody owes your archaic political views a platform. We - and I speak for the proudly woke progressive leftists, who value the rights of others and believe in equality and diversity - are sick of your self-centred psychopathy.
There are plenty of platforms for you to circlejerk with feeble minded xenophobes and suck off your grifting conservative overlords.
If you can’t respect the rights of minorities, the poor, the disenfranchised, then you have no value to me. You’re either conning others or being conned. That’s the extent of your “values”.
You’re all just weak, scared little children who have the same capacity for self-reflection as a fucking turnip.
Every argument is disingenuous; every political position is based on bad science and lies. And you still complain like whiney little bitches when you get shunned by the rational free-thinking majority.
Wipe that drool off your chin with your Pauline Hansen glad, you mouth-breathing regressive bogan Nazi.
Yes, point proven.
You’ve mistake me for a republican and or a conservative. I’m neither.
I’m against echo chambers and “my side and their views are right by default, all others are wrong” views. That’s what this community seems to be, unquestionably. Look at everything that’s posted - it’s all anti-republican/conservative.
I’m a leftist, and I’m “mistaken” for a republican all the time. It’s projecting. A lot of what is accused of by my party they are guilty of themselves. They’re crazy if they don’t think their own rhetoric isn’t just as bad or worse than what Republicans currently say.
The brainwashing into being able to dehumanizing others is horrific. Yet here we are.
The only person you’re fooling is yourself.
Also, “leftism” isn’t a party.
And I’m not dehumanizing anyone. They’re all human. Just very shitty versions.
I’m a leftist, and I’m “mistaken” for a republican all the time.
The current “left” seems to be “as soon as you disagree with any of my points, you’re a MAGA Trumper Republican Nazi”.
You can be trying to fight climate change, want all people to have equal rights, be pushing for a UBI, supporting reparations for indigenous people, but the second you dare say “hey maybe we should just keep the books telling you how to have anal sex away from the 10 year olds?” you’re instantly a nazi.
Politics and vitriol aside, well done on winning the Ashes. The fifth test starting tomorrow should be a cracker.
Cheers. Pretty shitty way to win tbh. I hate draws in a sport where a match has gone for 5 bloody days.
Teach me your ways of rhetoric senpai.
What objective facts do you have that most/all Republicans are nazis?
Nazi = Fascist. Trump= Fascist. Trump= Republican. Republicans= Fascist. Republicans = Nazi. We can’t wait for the evidence of mass graves this time.
ImFresh3xThere’s always some right wing snowflake whining yet adding nothing. We’re all doing our part. You’re doumg yours.
In most democracies you don’t have the toxic two party split ala US. There are intelligent conservaties, but the Republican party is … kinda wild.
You got it.
If Republicans ever quit doin’ nazi shit, people will quit pointin’ it out.
There’s already too many places where disingenuous support for nazi shit is welcome: reddit, facebook, threads, bluesky, truth social, 4chan, twitter, youtube comments, and far too many more.
Not everywhere has to be, and I hope the mods won’t be swayed by the constant insufferable whining of people who won’t shut up about how unhappy they are that everywhere isn’t stormfront.
If people stop moving the goalposts on what “litteral Nazi shit” is, you’d find that most Republicans aren’t literal nazis. Are there some? Yes. Do they make up a significant amount? Not eve close.
I’d say cheering when someone suggests eradicating a vulnerable minority is nazi shit. I’d say marching with nazis is nazi shit. I’d say carrying a nazi flag is nazi shit.
Welcoming nazis into your party? That’s nazi shit.
I’d say cheering when someone suggests eradicating a vulnerable minority is nazi shit.
Where is this happening? Firstly who is suggesting it, and secondly who is cheering it?
Michael Knowles advanced “eradicating” trans people at CPAC. And the people there cheered.
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That’s taken completely out of context and you know it.
It’s not calling for trans people to be eradicated, it’s calling for the current trans ideologies where if you’re a girl who likes trucks you must be trans and therefore must be rushed on to puberty blockers and get your breast removed.
No one is calling for trans people to be eradicated as in “killed”. That’s what Nazis did - they literally killed people by the millions.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”. If we wait for them to explicitly express trans-genocide, it will be too late.
No one is suggesting or calling for a genocide. It’s not happening. It’s not going to happen.
I call a spade a spade ♠️. Ask a trans person what they think Knowles meant. You won’t. Because you know what they’d say. And you don’t care , because you assert your ignorance as truth.
NotOverSeetherask a crazy person what something normal means and you get a crazy response
Yes, that’s true.
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If you’re splitting hairs about what “eradicate” means, it says a lot about what you’re happy to defend.
And why.
It’s not calling for trans people to be eradicated, it’s calling for the current trans ideologies
I’d say this is a distinction without a difference, since both involve eradication of trans people from public life, but the latter involves eradication of the very idea that trans people exist. That’s worse.
You’re being disingenuous. Then you move straight into the standard conservative bigoted lies which I’ll not quote.
No one is calling for trans people to be eradicated as in “killed”.
They absolutely are. Don’t insult people by expecting them to buy such hogwash.