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My filters in Thunder:

• Trump
• Epstein
• ICE agent
• micropenis

Suggestions are welcome.

That being said. Is there a community to post thoughts that may be political in nature? Pretty much all of the communities I’ve seen (politics, etc) only allow links to articles in their rules.

I'm glad that those interested or in many cases, obsessed with politics have a place to discuss it but I have no interest in seeing it so In conjunction with instance and community blocking, I use the filters to block any new "hot" political word or phrase that I find my feed inundated with. Once the core block list is built, adding something new is only required every other week or so to keep the feed politics-free.

The instance and community blocks do the majority of the heavy lifting but a filter list is an absolute necessity to get rid of the users that insist on injecting politics into every community they find.

I can't listen to the radio or watch any broadcast media any longer because Trump politics will not shut the fuck up.

It has invaded every bit of american discourse and separating the two will be nigh impossible until the source of the disturbance is remedied. it is literally impossible as an american right now not to be about this crisis.

so yeah i get it. but the elephant in the room is conducting the score, and we are literally drowning with only social media as a place to expunge.

block me at

https://reddthat.com/c/7735_41st_ave_se_lacey_wa

and a large portion of my conflagrations towards media will be less visible.

otherwise i apologize for it when i contribute. and i hope that moderation like this helps.

Cute animal pictures inevitably leads to conversations like:

1. Pitbulls should be banned!
2. Cats are an invasive species that are terrible for the environment and you shouldn't let them outside
3. Vegan arguments against pets
4. Vegan arguments against feeding pets meat

Politics is just turning life into a legal model, the way physics turns the universe into a mathematical model. To ban politics is to ban life itself. It is incredibly naive to think you can do so.

Maybe you could ban US-cdntric discussion, but even that seems like a fool's errand. We live in a globally connected world and the US is one of the most dominant forces in that world. Like it or not, US politics impacts the entire planet.

I wish I could get away from it. It’s too fucking depressing at times.

what is happening in the US is of course a serious matter and I am happy we have places, communities etc. that keep on spreading awareness about such topics. 

This said, like other folks have already mentioned, there are also places where you want to take a gasp of air and just have a nice laugh. 

Awareness on these topics is undoubtedly important but done so in the right places. 

the comment of the moderator to reason the deletion of the political post is more than reasonable and done wonderfully and it's sad to see the unfortunate response of this user, playing almost victim. 

Let us continue to talk about the politics around the world and spread information and awareness BUT done in a way that allows others to also have a moment to take a breath in places where they momentarily don't want to be bombarded with x bad thing happening in y place and how this leads to z

Am I going mad or are the 2 stitched together images not from the same person? The comments are acting like they are though.

Top part = a mod deleting a post about American politics

Bottom part = a comment from a Lemmy person saying he has had enough with American politics on Lemmy.

They both agree? Right?