Comment by Bancakes
5 months ago
Not everyone is censoring you. Some of us want to learn about cool technology, not read politics irrelevant to daily life.
5 months ago
Not everyone is censoring you. Some of us want to learn about cool technology, not read politics irrelevant to daily life.
Fine, you're welcome to skip the political posts. I've felt the same frustration.
But when any new post that has Musk in the title is flagged within a minute or two entering the 'new' queue, then we have a problem.
We are indeed being censored by any meaningful definition of the term.
One one hand, I'm not flagging anything because I'm happy to let these discussions take place. If nothing else they are entertaining.
On the other hand, I see where the flaggers are coming from. If there isn't any gate keeping, other topics can be drowned out by a single highly contentious topic if enough people believe it is their civil duty to bring up that topic at every conceivable opportunity. This has happened on much of reddit, and on smaller scales in many social spheres across the country. Reddit demonstrates that almost any conversation could be steered into the direction of partisan politics if there are enough participants who think it's important to do that.
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No I live in Europe. And if I didn’t I wouldn’t worry about it until there’s armed men in uniforms and red armbands walking the streets. I’ve found the best coping mechanism to the overabundance and inflation of information due to the internet, is to simply live within your horizon. I see no musk/trump, I fear no musk/trump. Have a great day, hope your cortisol levels are good.
Time to worry then. Although to be fair, not all armbands are red. Some fascists prefer brown and black.
USA - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/cincinnati-ohio-nazi-f...
Germany - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/12/24/g...
France - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/05/12/neo-fasc...
Poland - https://www.reuters.com/default/far-right-independence-day-m...
Italy - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67922431
If you now tell me, a, but I live in <insert more specific European country>, you'll know just as well as I do that the fascists are on the rise in every European country.
When they start marching down the streets it will already be far too late. And if you think we're safe just because we live across the pond, well... remember that there is no European army, and that so far our leaders have been extremely passive in the face of obvious political interferences, in e.g. Germany.
This is a common type of argument that my friends and colleagues have offered me. Perhaps it doesn't make sense to help with wildfire relief because my house didn't burn down. Perhaps it doesn't make sense to have concerns about systemd because I use BSD. Perhaps it is a waste of resources to ensure HIV positive people have access to medicine because I don't have HIV.
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> I wouldn’t worry about it until there’s armed men in uniforms and red armbands walking the streets.
Wild that someone can write that entire sentence, put a period at the end, and not notice, "whoa, that actually makes zero sense at all, does it?"
And as others mention: time to worry!
"Local residents confronted and drove off neo-Nazi demonstrators waving large swastika-emblazoned flags along a highway overpass on Friday between Lincoln Heights and Evendale, Ohio, home to a historically Black community that has endured a long history of racism... As they approached the neo-Nazis, the demonstrators, which Talbert said were carrying guns, called them the N-word."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/cincinnati-ohio-nazi-flags...
This seems to fit your criteria of "armed men in uniforms and red armbands walking the streets". Time to be worried or no?
I agree, don’t look up!
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