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I avoid it as much as I can. I'm not a fan of the outrage addiction, and I'm highly suspicious of gaining any reliable information about events from an echo-chamber, even if it's on "my side" of the political spectrum.
That and even if I agree with a lot of the posts you’ll notice that they’re posted by the same people at a very alarming rate. I’ve ran through and blocked anyone who posts the same topic every 6 minutes. Since then my feed has been less monotonous and slightly more authentic.
I blocked one heavy news poster and am probably about to block another. How do people reasonably find time to do this, precluding unfathomable resources and hired help to do everything but eat, sleep and excrete? Even then, why would you want to? I am a month into classes (they are depressing when you realize how business - centric and human adverse they are, but necessary for reasons), and not doing daily short walks and I already miss them. Even if reading and parsing that much news and politics is humanly possible, why would one want to do that?
Kremlin or CCP paychecks.
This is not news conducive to either. Please get offline for a while, for your own sake, if not your loved ones.
Ignorance is bliss. Regardless, no need to be rude.
I wasn't intending rudeness, and did perceive rudeness in the form of bigotry, in yours. I can see how my comment could be perceived that way, and when I feel some weird way about others, I go outside, if only for a few moments (heavy schedule for a few months). Connecting with sunshine, fresh air, green space, watching squirrels, birds, hugging my favorite tree does wonders to preserve my sanity. I hope you'll give it a try. I'm sorry I came off as rude, I was just taking a quick break between assignments, and I tend to be naturally terse, anyway, with exceptions. Like now.
Fair enough, I appreciate the explanation. I wasn't being rude either, I'm warning people about how the Kremlin and CCP use shills on social media.
They're authoritarian governments that regularly oppress, kill, lie, suppress information, and worse. They're using the age old tactic of divide and conquer on social media because they can't compete militarily. They're here on Lemmy, especially on Hexbear, lemmygrad.ml, and Lemmy.ml.
Maybe, maybe not. Some people really do hold those opinions, for reasons not at all related to see see pee and Russia. Maybe they just noticed Big Business and billionaires get privatized profit and socialized loss while everyone else loses homes, then get criminalized for homelessness.
I'll say it again: we need to push hard to effectively address and correct conditions of despair, instead of criminalizing symptoms of despair.
No, not maybe. Definitely. But yes, they often highlight legitimate issues, including corporate influence on politics, obscene wealth inequality, and mistreatment of some classes of people.
Til I'm CCP. Please.
Obviously not what I was saying.
Got a block list to share?
This is a good idea. Perhaps you should make a community that focuses on curating block lists.
Can you export/import block lists?
I asked in a similar thread a while ago and the answer is no, you have to type them each out and as for importing you need to go into each user to block.