Trippin' Through Time

It would be nice if we had elected the boring president yeah.

When things are on fire you tend to see a bunch of smoke. Just sayin…

I have a filter on Elon and Trump

It was too much

You gotta block the bots that post news stories to communities named after the publication.

Really clears up the feed.

I am leaning harder and harder on 'political comedy isn't comedy' as a rule. 'It's just a joke,' is a far too common smokescreen for people pushing terrible ideas and mocking people spreading bad ideas doesn't do anything to stop them. It can even help. Politics isn't supposed to be entertaining. It's the decisions that affect how we live our lives. We need comedy in politics like we need strippers in surgery.

I got ya

I would post more but I got this computer yesterday and have not transferred my old meme folder yet. Ah well

You might not be political, but the Nazis are, and they don't really mind sending non-political people to the camps.

Why are there so many people assuming every lemmy user is from the USA

Sometimes its bad for mental health to continuously see all the bad things that are happening in the richest country in the world

It's amazing how much still gets through, but at least I'm not scrolling past a dozen "news" stories between every meme or comic post.

I might occasionally be accused of being political, but yes. Lemmy is no escape. Many users from any instance will jam their politics into anything and everything, constantly. It's genuinely weathering.

You want to vibe and chill? HOW DARE YOU! DONT YOU KNOW X IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!?!?!?!?

WHY ARENT YOU MAD ABOUT X??? ARE YOU A MONSTER??

And then you look for a community devoted to your hobbies and the most recent post is from a year ago.

At some point, pretty much everything becomes political. I like to cycle, walk and enjoy nature. Me not wanting to get killed by a car driver is political, and me thinking we shouldn't dump toxic crap in the environment is political. The new stop sign at the corner of the street is political. Housing is political. The high price of goods is political.

It's understandable to want to escape, avoid all this crap and take a break for a while. But memes are also a way to vent and express the frustration about the current political climate.

Unfortunately those two are narcissist shit stains that enjoy having people talking about them every day so they are nearly impossible to avoid for a while.

I like to go touch some grass. Close social media and go take a walk or cycle. Think about how all the fucking money is... eeerh... touch some grass... go camping and hiking, admire the views that are about to get destroyed by capit... eeehm, that makes you feel small. Hear the beautiful sounds of nature accompanied by the dirt bikes illegally riding in the forest. All free of politics! Even when they'll invade and annex my country, I'll just be like "can't we all just stop talking about politics and share memes, please!?"

What bugs me about it is that it’s usually not even news, just outrage bait.

This is the exact reason why c/memes on lemmy.world has a "no politics" rule.

Me: Just wanting to chill and not care about politics

My Backstory: Nearly "terminated" by the CCP because of the One Child Policy. My parent's defying the CCP is inherently political. My entire existence is literal the definition of being political.

I filter out all of those words from my feed. I still see a lot of political stuff but it's balanced out with a bunch of meme communities and such.

When people talk about people being jerks on lemmy I miss out on most of that. I'm here for fun.

Sometimes it yearn for the days the Harlem shake was a meme, and the Numa Numa guy, and badgers badgers badgers...

And if you really want to go even farther back to the 90s and super early 2000s internet (i am talking about pre 9/11) you had Where Are The Toons Now? And peanut butter jelly time and the Mr. T vs. (Insert random opponent here). Does anyone remember when Mr. T was an internet meme? Or even Bert is evil (a 90s meme literally stopped by 9/11).

While fun stuff obviously still exists aplenty (i actually like the skibidi stuff) I just wish we could do that again. But Trump is fucking everything up so much that I can simply cannot look away. It is everywhere.

I like to be informed, however I wouldn’t call whatever happens on lemmy as information sharing but more like endless ranting. I get it it is what it is but I think it is healthier to have more than one topic

On the plus side my internet usage went down because I just do news check up daily and I lose desire to use internet further

Helps a little bit.

Is it really political any more when evil people have used politics to gain control over our lives to wreck our retirement funds, deport and possibly murder our friends, and oh just for fun destroy the entire foundational structure of science and discovery?

Nope. That's not political. That's awareness of the environment in which we find ourselves, and an attempt to deal with it.

Hopefully it will be over soon (in part thanks to awareness campaigns) so we can go back to politics where we have some conservatives, some progressives or whatever, and some single-issue parities that can make common cause with the others from time-to-time. Politics would be so wonderful to have now. It's only been gone for maybe a decade and I miss it so much.

I don't block much stuff, but I only subscribe to things that don't generally feature US politics. So I essentially have two feeds: All and Subscribed. Scrolling All can be exhausting...

I mean, it's a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM

This is a excellent use of Lemmys filter keywords feature. I also use it for crappy words used in news titles like slams, rails, blasts, etc

Filter them out. I did it myself. It helps.

Just set up some filters and you will more peace. Some will still get through but it will not feel like a deluge.

Use an app that allows blocking posts by keyword, like Voyager.

This is my list of keywords that keeps me sane while browsing lemmy: