I encourage Europeans and non Americans to post things that are relevant to their lives. I’m American and post things that are relevant to my life and that I have an opinion on. I’m curious about people’s opinions on things that I’m uninformed about.
Well it could be worse. You could wake up and actually be in the US.
Eh, I give it a 4/10 right now. There’s still some cool stuff to do and plenty of great people around, but generally, can’t recommend it if you don’t have to.
Well Iranians would chime in but…
It is astounding to see everyone is just once again gobbling up the US regime propaganda on Iran despite knowing how much the mainsteam news lied about Palestine. Good guy trump is collectively punishing the Iranian people with crippling economic sanctions to “liberate them from their tyrannical regime”
Are people incapable of learning from anything the past two years?
Elaborate please
The US and Israel are trying to destabilize Iran and create a civil war to make it like Syria and Lybia. This short video does a pretty good job explaining it https://www.youtube.com/shorts/52JKfb0Nl4E
Viva chile!
I would like to learn more about Chile
I assume it’s because the life in Europe is better so people don’t need to escape their reality as much. You can go out and see a cool castle or ride a train or go check out a new country. And then you can get really, really, really good food that won’t give you diarrhea like the food here in the US.
We just lurking, not allowed to let the government know we are here!
huh, the US government doesn’t know lemmy exists
Well yeah, if you only go to McDonald’s or Taco Bell then you’ll get diarrhea, but there’s plenty of food and restaurants around the entirety of the us that has phenomenal food. However looking at your post history proves to me you don’t care about facts and only about insulting people and their ideals, and seemingly everyone on the internet enjoys nothing but shitting on Americans no matter the circumstance, so I know this will fall on deaf ears.
Ouch!? You have very curious reading comprehension skills, it appears. I’m not shitting on Americans, i’m shitting on the relatively weak and ineffective governments at the local state of federal level, which tend to only serve the interests of folks with large amounts of money. I have a relatively sensitive stomach and I have been sick from all kinds of restaurants across the US.
You see, when you pay people minimum wage or less so in the case of tipped workers, their motivation to clean up and provide a great sanitary environment for everything is arguably lessened, don’t you think? Further, our education system, being largely designed by large corporate interests aims to produce ignorant workers, people addicted to fast food, sugar and its derivatives. People who think food should be as cheap and fast as possible, as convenient as possible, and not worthy of sitting down and spending time, contemplating cooking it, growing it, eating with family, et cetera.
I remember walking around in Zwolle, Netherlands. I remember being embarrassed because I was the only one walking around while eating something. Everyone else sits down to eat. I never saw anyone eating in their car. Or eating while driving. I’m just saying this is illustrative of the difference between the US’s fucked up food culture and the rest of the world’s more mature and established food culture.
Have you ever been to Japan? Have you ever been to Europe? Have you ever been to South America? I have and I can tell you, on average, they truly respect food. Just walk through the center aisles of any American supermarket and tell me if those products suggest a culture which honors and values food? It’s my humble opinion that no, not really.
If I’m full of shit and I’m doing something wrong, I am all ears and willing to do better, I promise you. You’re gonna have to be real and not just throw daggers like that.
taco bell doesn’t give me diarrhea. it’s not the firmest bowel movement, but it’s certainly not diarrhea.
You misunderstand, riding trains increases the amount of shitposting capacity one has.
Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.
What’s the difference between the US and Germany?
In Germany the ICE will probably not show up at all to take you away.
non white americans exist and enjoy good food 🤭 I encourage you to try it
Si lo sé, soy uno de esos. Pero igual, si el gobierno no inspecciona las operaciones de los restaurantes, igual te da diarrea. Las veces que he ido a Europa he regresado en mejor condición de estómago.
My filters disagree with you.
Though I wish I could block everything that has to do with that disgraceful country but, ah well.
Or just a general “no politics” option would be nice.
I think Lemmy ia harder to filter. My mastodon/sharkey feed is clean from being US-centric because there’s content warning feature, people use it, and people describes their image well in the alt-text. That works well with filter. Even the public federated feed i still very clean.
Lemmy however is less robust on that. My Lemmy frontend is not helping either. It does have filter feature but I don’t think it works. I can’t say anything on Piefed, haven’t tried it at all.
How is mastodon these days?
I’d be fine with “no US politics”. It’s so annoying that !politics@lemmy.world is specifically and only about US politics. Because apparently, US politics are the only politics relevant for the world.
Us poltics are and have been the biggest soap opera for YEARS. and people love their soaps.
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“USA stuff” is affecting the whole world right now. You are coming to check out an English based social network for non-“USA stuff”. What did you expect?
I genuinely do not understand what the complaint is. If people are interested in non US things, please, by all means go discuss those things, but please don’t act like it’s weird how it is now.
Start posting. Please. I am begging you.
- An American tired of wallowing.
From the other perspective, I love when I’m still up at 2-3 AM and start seeing the ich_iel posts come up.
I love checking Lemmy in the morning, and seeing all the German language Memes. I can’t read them, since I don’t know German, but I like knowing that they’re over there, doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Cuz My country is fucking the world over right now
Our country. We’re fucking people unwillingly together!
I am European.
Here’s an image I took on Friday:
Based!!!
but…where are the gestapo and soldiers to harass the people?
In the museum :)
Nice. Wanna get railed?😏
I envy your snow!
It is nice, though it’s over now and raining.
As an American I have no idea what this bizarre contraption is
We can also post small cars (or of reasonable size). Ha!
Self driving cars of the world.
this a commie bus to the despair mines
That sign has a Z and letters with accent mark over it.
So I think this a picture of communism?
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.
I’m pretty sure we have those in usa. It has many names, like commuter train.
Man, as an American I wish I had that kind of picture to take.
It’s a bloody deathwatch. It’s a country which could either crash and devolve, or get out of its own morass… at any moment.
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 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.
Pushed, as in malicious actors are trying to spread evil propaganda, not that it’s what people currently care about because of the impending fucking doom looming over us because of those things you listed… 🤪
Yeah just some of the most important world events going on. Odd how people talk about that stuff.
Why do I have to read ten reposts of everything happening in the US if it changes nothing and the comments are always the same? How is every little US thing ‘important’ to the rest of the world?
Let’s consult my feed:
Minneapolis hotel worker fired over ‘doxxing’ of ICE agents
Oh my God! Hotel worker fired in Minneapolis? What has the world come to? How will leaders of the countries respond to this issue?
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.
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 - !lll@quokk.au, that links to some good reads. There’s also !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.
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.
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.
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.
!cat@lemmy.world 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.
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.
I can see why those are important, but I don’t wanna be more angry lol
I also blocked YouTube links because of the extreme amount of reposts of YouTube videos on here
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 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.
Woops
