I am European.
Here’s an image I took on Friday:
Man, as an American I wish I had that kind of picture to take.
As an American I have no idea what this bizarre contraption is
this a commie bus to the despair mines
Come to California, we have a bunch of those. And they all suck.
They’re all delayed by some stupidly long freight train blocking all the tracks.
That sign has a Z and letters with accent mark over it.
So I think this a picture of communism?
I’m pretty sure we have those in usa. It has many names, like commuter train.
Make more n people. Or just post more. I just accently posted on a UK thread because it was on my feed so it’s not nothing
The US is like turning on a morning soap opera. What absurd and dramatic contrivances have they come up with this time that could never happen in real life?
I mean, America is threatening war with Europe so…
Hey don’t blame all of us. It’s just that one guy with dementia who paints his skin orange.
Unfortunately, thats a moot point to people who are staring down the barrel of our obscenely large military budget. I dont blame people for not liking us. I didn’t vote for agent orange, but he is still representing our country 🤢
Come on - this only happens when Trump’s regime does some really dumb shit. Can’t be happening that often, can it?
Hungarian here, I still couldn’t convince my leftist friends in facebook group chats to leave that garbage site… Many of them are even IT professionals.
Here I am from the Balkans.
But I feel like posting about USA, until it’s never relevant again.
Well then post some articles about whats been going on in tge Balkins, I’ve got a buddy in Belegrade
Alright then. I have not been following much, ironically. I think America is of course, trying to meddle in our oil refinery deal, after putting sanctions on our refinery (which was partially owned by Russia).
I am secretly very happy about the refinery problems…anyway, it starts work again 23th January.
There were warnings that we would not be able to recieve pay on our credit cards (no transfers) or something like that as well.
Caused me to withdraw all my cash.
Estonia?
You have the same name as a Dragon RP guy
Lithuania?
Dog, I don’t want to know.
Serbia
Dammit
I’m American, but I’ll try to fill the gaps for a bit.
WHAT is the DEAL with this plentiful health care!? It’s like…I’m thrivin’ over heeeere!
“What is the deal with…”
Is it just me, or is that a really hack thing to do in standup comedy? lol
Its literarary shorthand for “this comic is bad at their job.” No comedians actually say that, unless they’re referencing a hack comedian.
Jerry Seinfeld literally was that guy. All those “what’s the deal with…” jokes are specifically making fun of Seinfeld. It’s not calling out all hacks; just the one specific hack.
They’re referencing Jerry Seinfeld. He does that.
Or did, probably before you guys were born lol
Like they said, referencing a hack comedian
I mean hack comedians still do it I guess, but most of them don’t make it past the open mic stage. Or they improve their craft and stop doing it.
“How about those comedians that say ‘What is the deal with…’? They’re trite I tell 'ya. Trite!”
It’s impossible because Trump keeps doing things it can still be 3:00 in the morning over there and he’ll do something. All Europe seems to have is the Germans, and they keep posting in their weird secret language.
As someone that can read German, das ist keine Problem. Es war sehr gut für Deutsch zu lernen. (My German is shit tho)
It is. Aber das macht nichts, man kann dich trotzdem verstehen.
It’s too bad only 2 places on earth are inhabited
The Us and Greenland?
Just take a look at the large communities on Lemmy:
- News: American
- Politics: American
- Memes: American AND political
I could not find any European meme community at all, and if there was one, I have a hunch it would be flooded with things Trump said or Musk said or whatever is new on Netflix. I guess news about the Circular Economy or the microplastics regulation, being rolled out slowly and in phases, though absolutely affecting EUropeans’ everyday lives, are just not quite as entertaining from an existentialist POV.
Not really that active but there is [email protected]
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…and being boring is only one of Europe’s strong points.
Global south content pls
Do you have their languages enabled in your settings?
Cause otherwise you might not see them.Huh good point. I had it default to undetermined which also had a tooltip that I won’t see most content. So I unselected all, let’s see
Edit: oh it said if that one is unselected most will not be seen. Select all then…?
I have a filter on
- Trump
- Musk
- ICE
- Vance
- [Ai] slop
- Microsoft
- Grok
My All Feed is basically empty now or consists of posts with zero or very few comments. I love the filter option, but it has also made it quite clear what is being pushed the most on Lemmy.
How do I set that up?
I’m still quite new to Lemmy. I still don’t quite get how it all works, haha. I’m using the Thunder app (don’t ask me why), and when I go to settings it’s the second option I’m presented with. Then you just add keywords for the things you’d like to filter out.
I also blocked YouTube links because of the extreme amount of reposts of YouTube videos on here
Yeah people have been talking about having less and less activity on Lemmy.
IMO it’s because of the content. The platform works flawlessly but unfortunately lemmy came about during a time that politics is being so pervasive.
It might be a general trend. I’m willing to bet all social media is slowly dying but the for profits inject bots to keep their numbers up.
Yeah just some of the most important world events going on. Odd how people talk about that stuff.
Sure, but i’ve just reached a point where I don’t want to get bummed out, everytime I open a social media app.
There must be positive things to talk about, and not just the enshittification of everything and the end of the world.
All I ever hear off of here is about every mundane dull thing. Most people don’t give a flying fuck about the state of world, it’s distressing really. People are dying, rights are being lost, the planet’s fucked, genocide is going on but people are more interested in TV shows and other distractions.
People are dying
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
rights are being lost
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
the planet’s fucked
All I can do about this is be mindful of my own carbon footprint, and recycle as much as possible.
genocide is going on
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
Yes, reading every horrible news article 24-7 is your MORAL DUTY and any attention to anything else, even if due to mental health concerns, makes you one of THEM and a BAD PERSON. Any distraction whatsoever is EVIL.
Have you considered the effect our emotional landscape has over our mental health, our effectiveness to pursue the world we want and the wellbeing of those around us? Sometimes people need distractions, friend.
I definitely get that! And it is definitely an issue. Personally, I feel like the state of the world is constantly knocking on my door. It’s almost claustrophobic. I vote for parties and politicians I believe in, I try to avoid supporting the ones who try to fuck up our world by not using their products or buy them.
But besides that, I not sure what else I can do, and I’m definitely up for suggestions.
Voting is a 5 minute activity once every few years. You generally don’t need to keep on top of news 24/7 to know which party is shity or not. I’m largely tuned out from electoralism because I find it useless.
My suggestion is to look at anarchism, look at how you can build up local community and make small scale improvements in a place you can actually effect and cause change. What I do is volunteer at my local community garden and help out with a food truck that gives food to those in need. Maybe you’re into tech and can look at stuff like 3D printing prosthetics for people who can’t afford them, sewing/knitting clothes for people to get through winter etc. There’s lots of ways to use the skills we have.
We can’t change the world, but we can improve where we live.
Even if we do all of what you mentioned, globalist news of dooming issues where we as individuals can’t do fuck all are constant. Hell, I’ve seen more news on that white woman shot by ICE than news about Europe overall, not even my home country. Not even important news, but any news at all.
My Home is more sane than All, but it’s sad the amount of focus US politics get on a social media that’s mostly Europe hosted.
Voting is a 5 minute activity once every few years
Local races>general primary>midterm primary>midterm election>general.
Its genuinely more important you make sure another Biden doesn’t win the primary than to vote in the general. If a Biden or Harris does win, your vote in the general is useless since they’re unelectable, and if they still somehow win, they’re going to betray the base by continuing and expanding republican policies until the republicans are back in power.
Not everyone is American.
Thanks! And thank you for a civil discussion. I will at some point look it up. If you have some resources you could recommend, that would be nice. I guess there a lot of good but also bad readings on the subject out there.
I’ve volunteered a lot before I got kids, where I was mentoring children of refugees. But having two kids under the age of 5 is a full time job beside my full time job, so currently there’s not many hours left of the day to do volunteering.
But I do still try to do small things here and there to improve the world around me.
That’s fair, children can take up a lot of ‘free’ time - but maybe you can find ways to have them help you out and help teach them the goodness of community support, volunteer reading at a library, carpooling with other families who can’t attend for lessons at a community centre, etc? A lot of that will depend on where you live and what’s around or what you could start around.
The ultimate resource is AFAQ. This is a ridiculously large document and not one you generally read from start to finish, but instead think of it as a guide to answer questions you may have.
If you want more ‘theory’, there’s a lot and being anarchists it’s all provided for free online and can be found at the Anarchist Library. Some decent older reads are Errico Malatesta’s - At The Café or Pëtr Kropotkin’s - The Conquest of Bread
If you’re into Sci-Fi, Ursula K Le Guin is a famous author who’s works often portray largely anarchist elements.
Want something that’s not black text on a white background, but presented in a more Web 2.0 manner? Crime Think’s got you covered.
Zines are hit or miss, but can always be interesting and give unique/local insights. A collect of many can be found at the Zine Library on github.
We run a community on Quokk.au called the Little Leftist Library - [email protected], that links to some good reads. There’s also [email protected] which links other readings/news.
But ultimately the main thing that sets anarchism apart from other leftist ideologies is that it’s less based on reading and more on direct action - making the changes that help the people today.
You are part of the problem.
Would you like to share how you think i could become part of the solution?
Lest I end up feeling guilty for making fun of you and your dipshit post, do you have any developmental issues I should be aware of?
My cat is better at barking than you are :-)
Also, my dad can beat up your dad, or something like that.
Not that I’m aware of. Go nuts.
I don’t care about things that happen in my country cause rest of the citizens don’t. I have stopped reading news in the last 3-4 years cause the situation is hopeless.
Same goes for USA.
I believe not reading news is what got us here. Too many have given up and don’t take a stance, which allows the situation to just get worse and worse.
But, I also stopped reading news. I stopped the day Trump won the election. The world is a shit show and I won’t allow my mood to get dragged down every day. I have a family and kids and I want them to have a good life and a fun dad to be around.
If things like what happens with the ICE raids are happening, the Epstein files, dictatorship suddenly threatens everything I’m not burying my head in the sand, but I want to dose the amount of news I consume.
I believe not reading news is what got us here. Too many have given up and don’t take a stance, which allows the situation to just get worse and worse.
Both people not reading good news sources and people reading bad news sources is what got us here. It lead to tons of people voting for a conman who lied to their face after his toadies told his base them exactly what he’d do, and tons of people staying home when it mattered.
I know voting is one of the least effective ways of making change, but people have to realize that not voting is a great way to allow negative change to take hold.
Along with your list, I have also blocked these communities. This is half list.
My issue with that is that I would like getting the raw deal once in a while to not stay uninformed, something like multiple custom filters would be cool. All we have right now is the subscribed list and the All list, which is filtered. Would be nice to have several filter lists.
No one is getting uninformed! Especially when tv, internet and people speak about USA and Trump 24/7. It hardly to miss any of that, except if you live in the mountains with no internet or tv.
I don’t watch tv, I get my news from Lemmy and my friends don’t talk about USA.
Especially when tv, internet and people speak about USA and Trump 24/7
But I don’t watch TV and Lemmy IS my Internet these days.
People in my friends group stopped posting news stuff because they assume everyone’s seen everything already lol
Same, I have a similar conundrum. Everytime I go longer than a few days without checking US news some unspeakable shit goes down. Like a dictator getting kidnapped.
The constant battle between wanting to stay informed and the urge to live peacefully as an off-grid mountain man lol
dictator
You can just say president, you don’t have to carry water for Trump.
Website with News’s exist too.
Those have too much of the doom and gloom. I want juuust enough to know what’s happening, but not to know every single thing that’s happening if you know what I mean.
ever since Donald Trump became the president of the USA, i have heard from irl people or news that: the “arrest” of Venezuelas president, threats to conquer Greenland, the US vice president being mad about my country banning a russian supported fascist from being a candidate, Israel funding and support and thats it i think
though it does make sense considering i dont really have a way to affect the USA and all of those things are about international events
You telling something I did read many times. Thanks tho.
[email protected] is doing well so far
Cat posts never disappoints. I should contribute soon.
I would think mice would be anti-cat
Our cat is not much into catching mice. We once lived in an allotment house, which is mostly a shed. We once had a mouse in our bedroom, and we had to wake up the cat. We placed her near the mouse, so she could see it. She just lied down and continued to sleep.
When my cat sees a bird he goes low to the ground, because he knows that’s what you’re supposed to do, and then shuffles awkwardly towards them. Usually they fly off and he looks relieved.
Our cat is as dangerous and brave as Toulouse and also never grew bigger than kitten size.
She’s have always been an indoor cat. We don’t believe she would last long outside on her own, with her two functioning brain cells.
I can see why those are important, but I don’t wanna be more angry lol
I think i should look up the filter function… So far I just blocked the most communities in all which do not use englisch or German.
…really? You don’t get tech/linux posts?
It’s primarily Linux posts that’s left haha. Luckily, I don’t mind that, as I have recently started using Linux again.
