You are complaining that Lemmy removes political posts because people don't want to see unpleasant political realities. Yet this post, which is about an unpleasant political reality, has 108 upvotes, 1 downvote, and has not been removed. The post objectively and directly contradicts your claim. You're literally commenting on a Lemmy post saying "Lemmy would remove this post" - but this is clearly false.
You are being downvoted for saying something clearly false, not because of discussing an unpleasant political reality. Your comment does not even discuss an unpleasant political reality. It discusses your opinion of how posts are handled on Lemmy.
You are trying to claim that people downvoting your comment proves that people don't want to deal with unpleasant political realities, but that's not why people are downvoting you. The downvotes on your comment only show that people don't want to deal with objectively and demonstrably false opinions about Lemmy moderation.
"Incidentally, Lemmy would have had this comment removed by a moderator because “no politics.”
And people actually think that’s great because they don’t want to deal with the unpleasantness of reality; they just want to be entertained - see here."
The first sentence is false, because your comment is on Lemmy and not removed.
The second sentence is false, because people on Lemmy do want to deal with unpleasantness, and don't just want to be entertained - as proven by the engagement in this post and many others.
The claim "The 'no politics' rule is too arbitrary" is only hinted at in your comment - if you had instead commented this sentence initially, you probably wouldn't be downvoted as much. Although it would be a totally off-topic comment for this post. If this is what you intended to communicate, you did not communicate it well.
So now that I know what you're trying to communicate, I can say that yes, I agree with you that "no politics" is a very arbitrary rule. However, that does not automatically make your other claims true (which we can tell by the fact that your other claims are demonstrably false).
Is it maybe possible that you don't understand how federation works? And possibly that you're posting these comments from a non-Lemmy service, which is cross-posting to Lemmy without you realizing it? This might explain the confusion.
No, I am saying nothing about the Olympics and its stance on political statements. I am completely uninterested in anything about the Olympics right now. I am interested only in your wrong statement, and in helping you to see how your belief is wrong.
All of my claims pertain exactly to one specific thing: your claim that "people don't want to deal with the unpleasantness of reality, they just want to be entertained", specifically that you seem to say this is prominent on Lemmy.
That claim, you must now admit, for the reasons I have previously explained, is wrong. Don't you agree?
Because all over Lemmy, I see posts about unpleasant political realities. Genocide, child abuse, political murders, corruption. These are some of the most popular and discussed things on Lemmy.
Yes, there are a few small communities where politics is forbidden, but to say that this is the general case for Lemmy is clearly inaccurate, don't you think?
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SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 195d
Fuck that was brutal. Good!
WiredBrain@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 195d
Reuters Artilce Link about the broadcaster pulling the footage because of the commentary.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 194d
axx@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 194d
Fuck yeah, journalism.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · -31 pts · 195d
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 33 pts · 195d
DandomRude@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 195d
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 13 pts · 195d
DandomRude@lemmy.world · -22 pts · 195d
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 16 pts · 195d
DandomRude@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 195d
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 195d
You could have left without the performative flounce.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 195d
yuri@pawb.social · 7 pts · 194d
good riddance, i’m only three comments in and already sick of your bullshit
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 16 pts · 194d
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 195d
Very confusing take since from what I see Lemmy is absolutely saturated with unpleasant political realities
DandomRude@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 195d
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 195d
No, the logic is entirely different.
You are complaining that Lemmy removes political posts because people don't want to see unpleasant political realities. Yet this post, which is about an unpleasant political reality, has 108 upvotes, 1 downvote, and has not been removed. The post objectively and directly contradicts your claim. You're literally commenting on a Lemmy post saying "Lemmy would remove this post" - but this is clearly false.
You are being downvoted for saying something clearly false, not because of discussing an unpleasant political reality. Your comment does not even discuss an unpleasant political reality. It discusses your opinion of how posts are handled on Lemmy.
You are trying to claim that people downvoting your comment proves that people don't want to deal with unpleasant political realities, but that's not why people are downvoting you. The downvotes on your comment only show that people don't want to deal with objectively and demonstrably false opinions about Lemmy moderation.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 195d
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 195d
No, you say
"Incidentally, Lemmy would have had this comment removed by a moderator because “no politics.”
And people actually think that’s great because they don’t want to deal with the unpleasantness of reality; they just want to be entertained - see here."
The first sentence is false, because your comment is on Lemmy and not removed.
The second sentence is false, because people on Lemmy do want to deal with unpleasantness, and don't just want to be entertained - as proven by the engagement in this post and many others.
The claim "The 'no politics' rule is too arbitrary" is only hinted at in your comment - if you had instead commented this sentence initially, you probably wouldn't be downvoted as much. Although it would be a totally off-topic comment for this post. If this is what you intended to communicate, you did not communicate it well.
So now that I know what you're trying to communicate, I can say that yes, I agree with you that "no politics" is a very arbitrary rule. However, that does not automatically make your other claims true (which we can tell by the fact that your other claims are demonstrably false).
Is it maybe possible that you don't understand how federation works? And possibly that you're posting these comments from a non-Lemmy service, which is cross-posting to Lemmy without you realizing it? This might explain the confusion.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 195d
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 195d
No, I am saying nothing about the Olympics and its stance on political statements. I am completely uninterested in anything about the Olympics right now. I am interested only in your wrong statement, and in helping you to see how your belief is wrong.
All of my claims pertain exactly to one specific thing: your claim that "people don't want to deal with the unpleasantness of reality, they just want to be entertained", specifically that you seem to say this is prominent on Lemmy.
That claim, you must now admit, for the reasons I have previously explained, is wrong. Don't you agree?
Because all over Lemmy, I see posts about unpleasant political realities. Genocide, child abuse, political murders, corruption. These are some of the most popular and discussed things on Lemmy.
Yes, there are a few small communities where politics is forbidden, but to say that this is the general case for Lemmy is clearly inaccurate, don't you think?