• tazeycrazy@feddit.uk
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    1 hour ago

    If its an international news sub I think one post form each country perday is fair. I don’t need to have a minute by minute update about drumps bowel movements and how awful they are.

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    Same bro, same! I have blocked 10+ communities and keywords through Voyager app.
    I do enjoy my home page, but I do like to scroll through /all, and that’s where I scroll going through USA news.

    Edit: USA users are also aggressive when you complain, like you are wrong, not letting other people know what’s going on.

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    Wouldn’t make a difference for me, I speak spanish so I can’t post at all because every instance/community is english only.
    Feels even worse when someone posts good news from my country but it’s just propaganda and manipulated numbers, but since every actual critic was kicked out of mainstream media long ago, the fediverse won’t accept whenever they post now and it wouldn’t matter because they speak spanish anyway.

    Yes, I know I could host my own.
    No, I don’t have the means to do it.

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      2 hours ago

      If I report every post I see not fit, I will get banned most likely.
      And they will say that we support Trump and that we don’t let people know about Trump for the 100th time.

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    Yeah. As a Canadian, I can’t say that I’m not fucking sick of it. This America-centric bullshit has gone on for far too fucking long, and if there is one thing that I will thank Donald Trump for, it is finally giving me a socially acceptable justification for hating that entire fucking shit stain of a country.

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      Whoa! I never knew you were a Canuck. Glad you’re better off.

      But we should be used to this centric viewpoint. We have Toronto and our own country’s fixation on the toronto-niagra-montreal Triangle of Journalistic Relevance, outside of which no one and nothing matters.

      I try not to hate the yanks just because the news fixates on them for the same reason our news fixates in its own way. And I’ve met so many smart and caring yanks that are just not being heard in their own country.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    Isn’t this only a problem because many users are American? Then naturally many posts will be about America.

    How is “world news” defined?

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      It’s also their problem defining what is important and what not. Posting everything that Trump says, is not news, it’s a spam.

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        And yet we still can’t identify half our own states on a map. To be fair, there are a lot of rectangles.

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      It’s not only that.
      I have the feeling that US mainstream media style is replicated in the comments, aimed at maximizing polarized drama instead of having balanced and grounded discussions.
      I can’t stand that type of talk.

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        This. I was watching the BBC Archive the other day, where it interviewed people’s thoughts on the mutual disarm movement back in the 80s, and you had two people sitting down at a table expressing their views, but not getting more than a little riled up or resorting to character attacks.

        https://youtu.be/6yfE9Ihr8F0?t=661

        I wish TV was still like this. The most vocal guy in the room is putting forward the view that UK paid for the nukes, and so it should keep them, and ultimately make ourselves more independent of the US and not subservient to them. He’s also a chauvinist pig, but it is only one aspect of his personality and the others seem to understand that and keep the discussion grounded.

        One thing I have noticed from watching these old videos is that people ultimately haven’t changed: the exact same gripes (cost of living, buying houses), and the exact same fears (russian interference, loss of jobs to china). They just smoke and drank more.

        That last sentence might sound like a joke, but I do think there really is something to having a beer and sharing a cigarette with someone you’re violently in disagreement with. It normalizes the air somehow. Reminds me of the “slightly less than two drinks” rule from Mitchell&Web.

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        So many resources are deployed with the aim of making Americans afraid of each other and the world. This polarizes people, who get very heated and expend huge amounts of energy spitting vitriol at each other to no effect, which has the very intentional side effect of making politics so uncomfortable (and seemingly unproductive) to think or talk about that many people who can afford to do so just tune it out, which allows politicians to get away with even more heinous shit because it’s what’s expected of politicians anyway. It’s a pretty elegant, if dismal, system :/

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      And that “we” (honestly don’t know if it applies to you specifically) are in their support of influence, so any big enough US news has significant impact on half of the globe.

      With on one hand the polarization of discourse and on the other the decay of democratic standards in the US, it is normal to have higher levels of interest across communities that are not US centered but only US influenced.

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    12 hours ago

    One of the first things I realized I had to do after joining Lemmy, was blocking some “politics@…” communities (and some people active there)

    Completely unbearable.

    Rest of Lemmy then turned out to be totally fine and enjoyable folks!

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      10 hours ago

      there are alot keyboard politicians on lemmy. they al seem to have a master degree in politics.

      doubt any of those keyboard politicians actually contribute to anything useful in their own local politics.

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    This is why I joined feddit.uk. If I want UK-centric stuff then I can look at “local” posts. If I want to see more stuff (including US stuff) then I can look at “all” posts.

    • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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      That’s certainly a luxury some of us has. Feddit.dk for Danes is certainly nice.
      And with regards of filtering out mostly 'murican stuff I’ve just blocked lemmy.world and that seems to have helped a lot.

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      I had a brief scroll through your history and it looks like you like to post a fair bit about the USA. Some trump meme, something about Tesla in San Francisco, Taylor Swift meme, Trevor Noah cllip…

      …be the change you want to see…? 🤷

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldOP
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        Of the four examples listed, three are just up bullshit.

        1. Tesla flew off a bridge which happened to be in San Francisco. Would’ve posted a similar thing if it was in London or Kuala Lampur.
        2. Taylor Swift happens to be American. Her fanbase is global.
        3. Trevor Noah is a comedian born in South Africa, talking about comedy festival in Saudi, being attended by comedians from everywhere.

        🙄🙄🙄

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    Just don’t sub munis about US news or politics? I never see any here except local stuff in the Chicago munis. Curate your subscription list and you’ll be golden.