It’s not all bad though!

Those were for voting, not candidacy, AFAIK. Not that candidicy would have been any more fair then…

Are you describing right now or making a prediction I can’t tell

Oh I’m willing to have a few comments, I should have been more clear. I was just saying I didn’t want this to just keep going indefinitely. Bye!

I don’t intend to have a back and forth with you, I have reason to believe it would be unproductive and frustrating.

Maybe just consider that people have no better recourse to judge a person than their actions, and mitch has done terrible things. His motivations, and whether or not he is “evil” or just generally trying to do the right thing, are irrelevant in the face of his destructive political actions. People aren’t happy that an old man had a seizure, they are happy the old man might not be causing harm much longer.

Not explicitly, no. It’s just a red flag that if you engage with this person it will be unproductive and frustrating.

Conservatives wish death on pretty much all liberal politicians every now and then, sometimes on live television, and no one even bats an eye. A handful of leftist internet comments have “ding dong the witch is dead” vibes and you start clutching your pearls.

Mitch is a shitty traitor.

“both sides” is the fastest giveaway of a bad faith troll lately. At least the unapologetic conservatives don’t pretend to take the moral high ground

We are both arguing what we each think should happen. It just so happens that in this disagreement, what I think should happen is for things to not change.

I get the appeal of somehow turning a larger more active community that is similar to what you want into explicitly what you want, but that doesn’t consider how that effects the majority of people who joined and are part of that community because it is already explicitly what they want. The majority of the demand for political news on lemmy is for US politics.

If there was somehow a way to throttle the US politics so it didn’t flood out everything else, then the bulk of the community would just find another place that wasn’t doing that.

All that can reasonably be done is be patient, for communities to grow and stabilize, until there are active groups available for each specific interest

That one might be filled with US stuff because many of it’s users are from the US, but there is no rule requiring everything be related to US politics, which seems to be the rule people wanted changed here. Even if they changed that rule here, this place would still have been 90% US politics because that is what the community that grew here wanted.

It has only existed for a month and based on all evidence has always been for just US politics. Are you sure you haven’t confused it with another politics group on lemmy? Like [email protected]?

Idk why people want to change communities to be what they want them to be instead of seeking out or making the communities they want elsewhere. Anyone can have the politics name on any other instance, unlike how reddit was.

If you don’t think of it as a mistake, simply an inconsequential detail, it makes perfect sense to retain it as a form of identity, so people that switched platforms can feel like they moved as a group.

I wasn’t putting words in your mouth, you are acting like they have somehow done something incorrectly, but that would imply there is a correct way, which would imply rules for how to do it, official, unspoken, whatever idc.

Anyone can make their own group on a different instance and call it the same thing. If you don’t like how lemmy.world works, don’t take it out on the mods here, either find another instance, start one yourself, or if you have to, take it up with a lemmy.world admin

As a kid I had it hammered into my head by my grandparents that patriotism is the desire to improve (and maintain) the place where one lives.

I wish more people had that perspective. “Patriotism” as a description of blind devotion and themed outfits is pretty dumb.

Why do you think there are rules for community names? There are no rules or expectations (at least not yet) for community names.

The well-known answer for why this community is named this is that it is a recreation of another community that was also named this.

Why would you subscribe to something in the first place without knowing anything more than its title? Bizarre.

I had commented a long-winded opinion a few minutes ago, it probably doesn’t matter, but I’ve been sitting here wondering for the last 20 minutes…

Why does this matter to you, or to anybody? I’m not trying to be judgemental, I do not understand it.

Do you feel like there should be rules about community names? That they should have to be as descriptive as possible woth the name, or something like that?

I’m not sure why it would matter if communities want to name themselves anything at all, and many communities are intentionally named something completely different than what the community is for. Do you think that shouldn’t be allowed, or is it just situations like with this community where you see an issue?

Personally I really don’t think the names matter, one way or the other. I’m really only against this community changing because I wanted a US politics community in the first place, and if this stops being that, I’ll have to go find another one.

Some instances do not allow downvotes. I don’t agree with your post but cannot downvote it.

I’m not complaining, I like no downvotes, downvotes are usually just a way for people to vent frustrations without articulating them.

But, you can’t necessarily use votes to draw the conclusions you have.

I didn’t agree when people tried to insist subreddits with certain names should be obligated to try to be as nuetral an interpretation of their names as possible, but here on lemmy, this concern is even more silly.

On reddit, another /r/politics couldn’t be made, and there was a valid argument that they were preventing anyone else from using the generic name more appropriately, essentially holding it hostage. But, I already didn’t think it was a big enough deal to really matter, many other possible names continued to be available for a more generic subreddit.

Here on lemmy this is a complete non-issue. You can make a /c/politics on any instance you like, and you can start your own instance if you don’t like any available. The only difference would be subscribers and participation, but the subscribers that are here are here for a US politics sub, that’s what it was when they joined, changing it would not be ok with many of them.

If you want a world politics community with subscribers you have to start one and get people to join.

And lemmy.world is just the instance name, it has no indication of theme for the communities it hosts

The most convincing argument that elon does a lot of cocaine is just listening to him speak in a less formal interview.

BUT! I don’t think he used to be actually smart, just lucky. Too many people assume “succesful” people had to have done something exceptional to earn it, but 99% of extremely wealthy people acquired that extreme wealth through a simple combination of luck and startup capital (which of course they have because they are lucky).

Doesn’t reddit not make money though? Like, if traffic resulted in them making money, I’d agree, but everything I’ve heard would indicate using reddit with an adblocker literally costs them money.

Exclusively using reddit to protest should be fine IMO, just don’t contribute anything that isn’t a protest (including voting)