Americans like to pretend the only country that matters is them
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GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 5 weeks agoCan we have one fucking post without american politics getting shoehorned in
I get it’s important to you but perhaps keep it to topics or communities at least somewhat related
B312@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why do people say this? I find European politics fascinating. I, as an American am very interested in what goes on globally.
B312@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I personally don’t care about the politics of other countries outside if the very basics.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Hear! Hear!
(from NZ)
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If the word ‘Republican’ were omitted, that comment could be applicable in most countries on the planet.
It’s kind of nitpicking anyway, don’t you think? Almost as nitpicky as pointing out when the country of the United States is referred to by the name of the continent it shares with other nations.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Probably, though I really don’t want politics being shoved into a literal shitposting community without any prompt in the op either way. I have my own political issues to worry about over here in Germany and have only so much mental capacity for gloomy copeposting now that trump was re elected.
There is also a wide range of communities available for political venting elsewhere, why does it have to be a non political post in a shitposting community? Where am I supposed to go if not here to avoid that stuff?
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s understandable. I imagine a large section of the user base doesn’t navigate to a specific community to look through posts, and instead just skip through the main feed. I didn’t realise the community until you pointed it out.
While I agree with your sentiment that no one wants to be so bombarded with foreign politics, at the very least the joke that user made was in keeping with the theme of the meme.
Regarding your final question, depending on your method of consuming this content, you may be able to entirely block comments by setting a blacklist of words, perhaps including ‘Republican’ in this case. The same I know is true on most applications for post titles, but I’m just assuming here the same is applicable to comments.
Either way, best wishes with the situation in the fatherland, I do hope to visit some day.