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Your comment was a pain to read. Am I understanding correctly that you're mostly repeating yourself and ignoring my point about your false dichotomy?

Nobody here is saying we need to invade /c/cutepicsofpuppies with Donald Trump is Bad posts. You're saying "Get Politics off my Lemmy." I'm saying somewhere in the middle is best.

We have a rather extreme voter apathy epidemic combined with the resultant diarchy, where the main objective is not solving problems, but ensuring the top two dogs are always on top followed by winning the next election against the other team.

You wrongfully assert 100% of Americans don't care and don't do anything; it's more that a large enough percentage of Americans don't care and don't do anything such that the powers that be know they can do whatever awful thing they want to do for their donors.

You're constructed an excellent false dichotomy there, haven't you?

Somehow putting uncomfortable conversations into tiny boxes everyone avoids doesn't feel like the way to stop the rise of the far right.

Enjoy the sand around your head, though.

Evidently the sentiment isn't having a wide enough reach, as people are crawling into their echo chambers to avoid not having to deal with the fallout of their apathy, handing elections over to the nasties.

Not everyone was German/Italian/Japanese in the 1930s-40s either. Pretty sure those countries still affected others, though.

Sadly not relevant to my specific post, but I appreciate you spreading the word.

"No politics please" sounds like a great rule until the results of politics kick down your door and black bag you.

Fighting to remove as many posts as possible on Lemmy when we barely get any posts at all doesn't make sense; ignore the people requesting you take a popular post down for some potential technicality.

"The Left needs to fall in love; The Right simply falls in line."

I think making a personal community, throwing it at lemmy-federate, and then posting it there really works best in this case.

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I guess I have some homework to ~~endlessly procrastinate~~ do.

I reserve the right to feel guilty, embarrassed, sad, etc. for inappropriate reasons in much the same way I reserve the right to feel positive emotions for similarly nonsensical reasons, but I appreciate the logic of it and you for dispensing it.

Thank you.

In their defense, a feature that's not known by everyone isn't really the fault of the people who don't know about it.

Thanks to you, now they and I know about it.