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poses a reasonable threat, or contributes to evidence of a credible threat.
And who decides ‘reasonable threat’? The people who are joking along with you on preddit or the people locking you in the Epstein cell temporarily until your tria-- ohhh, nevermind.
Note to Canadians: armed American federal cops have come to major Canadian cities to arrest Canadians for something illegal in America but not illegal here - like selling hemp seeds were - and taken them to America for processing. It’s fucked up.
Legitimately, do you have a source/example?
Marc Emery jumps to mind first, but admittedly that was selling seeds with some evidence of cross-border sales, and IIRC he was arrested by the RCMP and Halifax Police Department, though acting on a warrant from the Western District of Washington. If there was another mid- to high-profile case like that, especially if American enforcement made the arrest on Canadian soil [edit: or if this is about Emery and I’m missing some key details] I 100% want to learn more.
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I’m not saying these people don’t deserve it, but what good does it do? Wouldn’t it be better to, IDK, kidnap them in order to exchange them for actual human rights? Like, giving away your freedom and potentially your life in exchange for a bill for a public health system?
You’re actually correct, civil resistance is actually the most potent force:
The original suggestion certainly seems like a way for a single person to have more impact.
My understanding is there are marginal cases where violence is the answer, but I suspect this isn’t one of them because of succession.
It’s important to set achievable goals! There are plenty of republicans in your local area.
I’m guessing the black SUVs are en route.
For anti-DEI purposes, they don’t send black SUVs anymore.
This
Of all the shit that comes with trump, this is the worst thing. For the next 4 years I cannot have a single fucking day without trump. It’s going to be trump left, trump right, trump before, trump after, there is no escaping it. 4 years of 90% of the news being trump bullshit. kill me now.
Honestly, I think that’s the top reason he went into politics. Narcissists need everyone to pay attention to them
That’s a pretty interesting observation, i never considered that.
I think that is partially true
Wether by design (probably) or accident, the cheeto takes all the headlines and there is no space left for the actual crimes they’re committing, like making sure the rich get richer by tax cuts, the tarrif thing, etc.
I think a lot of it is just designed to ensure people aren’t paying attention to what really matters, a magicians trick if you will
Less of a magicians trick and more like that time you were 2 and dad took your nose. Some fuckers still out there everyday looking for their damn nose.
If that’s the worst thing, then you are very privileged.
Oh shut up already with your “privilege”. That political correctness has been a huge reason for many people to vote for orange cheeto to begin with.
I’m just an ordinary guy living an ordinary life, I don’t need some armchair hero twat telling me that I’m privileged
“The worst thing about someone harming others and/or breaking laws is how often I have to hear about it.”
“What do you mean I’m only able to say that because I’m not directly affected by it? I’M just trying to go about my day— calling my attitude short sighted is EXACTLY why these bad things are happening”
Holy fuck lol
JFC
You understand what a hyperbole is?
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
I literally overstated it because it sucks so much having to hear trump all day, every day. Yes, it is little in comparison to actually having to suffer his consequences, but that was obvious, no?
I sure wish people would stop choosing the end of the fucking country over a little word ick.
You’re privileged.
Pathetic
Or you aren’t American
Right, because only America will be affected by all this, just like how only Germany was affected by the Holocaust.
Which reminds me, the worst thing about that Hitler fellow is how I have to keep hearing about him.
If you genuinely think there is going to be a holocaust you should probably be planning assassination of government officials rather than complaining online.
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The worst thing? The audacity.
Unfortunately, no matter how the rest of the next four years go, I fear we’ll be hearing “Trump-era” for the rest of our lives.
Even after, there’s tons to undo and process for the history books.
When he got elected I added filters to my Lemmy app… Trump, Elon, musk, Tesla.
Half my front page was still full of Tusk.
Even in Canada 50% of news is about Trump
And the other 10% is Elon
Filters in the fediverse are so nice.
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That would be nice!
Piefed has them and its awesome! https://piefed.social/user/settings/filters
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I agree. Its by one dev (mostly) so its amazing what they did :) The bones are solid!
I really want a client on phone.
At least some clients have them if you like to try. I am using thunder on android which has it but I haven’t tried it myself so not sure how effective it is.
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Yeah that is true. They did add instance blocking after it was requested a lot so hopefully this will be added soon to Lemmy.
I have every word relating to the US filtered. Every community filtered. And it still fills half my feed. Wish I could do more.
E.g. OP comic was not filtered.
Unfortunately Lemmy has quickly grown too toxic for my mental health.
Yet this bypasses filters because it’s not in the title or text
I wish I could filter words in community names.
Yeah, i wish i could live with my head in the sand too.
Not all of us are American.
I’ll save you the effort of replying, I know you’ll say that it effects every country.
Well, at least you are honest about your wanted ignorance.
Oh look another toxic user to block
I can’t seem to add enough keywords.
Shame filters rely on people actually including the filtered keywords in the title.
Not nice enough, since this would still end up on your feed.
Between November and now, I worked pretty diligently to create a wall around me to avoid these topics. Unfollowing, blocking, filtering.
Once the inauguration happened, I discovered that the concrete I used was faulty and full of holes. The black, fetid water of these lunatics seeped in from all directions.
Tech news, cultural news, arts, all possible other topics that I thought were safe within the walls I built are now covered with sludge.
I so tired of this shit. How did we let this happen?
[Describes working very hard to ignore problem]
How did it happen?
It can’t be ignored forever.
Dude, I was up on the news and very diligent in many things.
You don’t know where I live, you don’t know what I’ve done up to November, nor where I’ve worked.
I spent literally the last few months of my entire fucking life trying to shut out this shit so it doesn’t tank my mental health to a degree that would likely kill me.
So please, spare me your fucking judgment.
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I’ve been having this problem since 2016.
No matter how many filters you throw at it, there’s always images, videos, and people self-censoring to get around them.
It’s infected everyone and everything, like a virus.
Searching for a way out. I’m sure there’s somewhere safe out there…
Ironically, for all that I’m sick of hearing about AI AI AI AI AI AI AI everywhere, maybe a really good prompt could plug the few remaining holes…
I’m in the same spot. Even made a Lemmy account just so I can block communities. Then I go to technology/linux/memes communities and guess what? It’s american politics all over. And don’t even get me started on Reddit, at that point subreddits don’t even matter anymore. Even on the subreddit related to my own country in eastern Europe, every day I see a ton of pointless “Trump news”. And mods justification is always “it’s TOTALLY related to our country because US politics impacts the entire world”. Like, what’s the point anymore? We might as well talk about Trump and Musk in the plants or lego community.
Probably because the impact is bigger now and affecting a lot of the things you mentioned. That’s what happens when they get power I guess rather than just talk. I’ve been doing my best to avoid it as well though, it also makes me feel so negative. Good luck to you in this crazy world.
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Yeah, the rage at every time something gets around the filters is nowhere near the stress built up while the filters were inactive.
Annoying? Absolutely. Worth getting upset about? Nah. I’m not going to pick fights with every person complaining about American stupidity at the water cooler. I’m not going to be rude to people here just because the text passed the filter. It would be more constructive to instead, erm, direct energy towards removing the source of the problem than tilt at windmills.
You think we could behave if we had the option to add community tags or descriptions?
aww, fuck you tooo >ε
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to news networks. No more hard questions. No people planning positive rights legislation. Nothing but trump. The status quo is safe while he sucks all the air out of every public forum and media.
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to news networks
Or to single-letter social network sites.
I bet people said the same thing about Hitler both before and after he died. Awful people are typically quite often talked about.
It’s almost like we’re watching a historical event where a large democratic nation is quickly turning into an oligarchal dictatorship. Almost like we’re dealing with the consequences of anti intellectualism.
Also just because you don’t live in America during all this doesn’t mean your country is immune to right wing influence.
Dude, here in Europe half the nations are already beholden to some extreme right faction, and the other half are flirting with it.
Our situation is honestly just a hair better and could deteriorate very rapidly.
Like, for example, if Putin makes his move against the Baltics. If that happens we’re equally megafucked.
It was oligarch for a while now.
I mean yeah but not to the point of openly ripping the govt apart.
This is why I wrote a script for Firefox that redacts pictures and mentions of Trump and Elon, haha
Link to the script? I’d love to give it a try.
Try that.
Next time I’m on my desktop I’ll be sure to post it here as a reply to your comment so you get a note.
Needs TamperMonkey to run.
The funny thing is, I have Lemmy filtering out all posts with the word Trump in it, but it failed to get this one, the one complaining about too many people talking about Trump!
The day he no longer exists will be a joyous day indeed.
https://isdonaldtrumpdead.com/
Someone already made it.
presses F5 furiously
I hate how US centric lemmy.world is. Wish I could block all Americans.
feeling this one right in my 37th floor open window.
At least wrap yourself in a trans flag for the world to see, like that US veteran last week.
What US veteran last week?
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Everyone’s talking and nobody’s doing anything.
Social media was probably the best thing to ever happen for fascists. Because everyone’s online and not out there actually doing something about it.
And right now we mostly have clowns (Zuck, Musk) at the helms of, let’s call them what they are, megapropagandamachines. Imagine what equally evil but much smarter players could do.
Like, say, Putin? I honestly have to wonder how much the rise of fascism over the last couple decades owes to him.
