It's not that uncommon for people to block all that stuff out for personal reasons. Lemmy itself has some users that intentionally filter out all political stuff from their feed. I don't agree with it, but there's a lot of people like that.
Some people call this 'elaborate repression mechanism' or 'retirement into private life'.
I don't like suppressing emotions because suppressed emotions happen to come back at unexpected times in weird places.
It's not a good idea because at the end of the day even if you're not interested in politics, politics is definitely interested in you. Thse people are just burying their head in the sand and ignoring the real world.
I'd be afraid that public opinion making isn't the only topic or problem they ignore or repress.
Today for the first time in my life I've blocked keywords Trump and MAGA on Lemmy. Also took down my funny user handle. The world feels too real and too unsafe for funny monikers and constantly seeing the fuhrer's face again for half a decade. I'm not ready.
"If it's important someone will tell me about it" is such an infuriatingly common position.
So that's why I had to vote for Biden as a write-in candidate!
Lmfao. America deserves this.
this could be very sensationalist because as far as I know, we have no idea what the absolute numbers are, the trend is measured in percentages:
Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.
So it's true that the peak is today, but that could be only a few people. Considering most of October the daily number was "0" (not enough data), I'm guessing the absolute numbers are fairly low. Anyone know how many datapoints google needs to publish data on trends?
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