• @finitebanjo
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    245 days ago

    Is it like a coordinated effort to drown out politics, whats the angle here?

    • @rockSlayer
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      415 days ago

      After the US election, it’s needed anyways. We could probably all use a short break from politics

      • @[email protected]
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        95 days ago

        I unfollowed every meme community because it was wall to wall whingeing about Trump.

        It’s about time someone changed the subject.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 days ago

        Ive blocked Trump and Musk from my feeds. But they still get through somehow sometimes.

        I just want a break dammit!

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          85 days ago

          Well…what if you imagined them having a leaked sex tape? Just squishing their bits into each other, until they’re a sticky moankng gooey mess! Put THAT mental image in your mind!

          …yeah, I’ve mentally checked out long ago, and no longer am trying to maintain sanity. Frank Reynolds is right. Lets just get REAL WEIRD with our final days…

            • @Lost_My_Mind
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              24 days ago

              Why does musk look SO MUCH like princess leia??? Ahhhh!!!

          • @[email protected]
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            25 days ago

            …yeah, I’ve mentally checked out long ago, and no longer am trying to maintain sanity. Frank Reynolds is right. Lets just get REAL WEIRD with our final days…

            That’s weird. That paragraph is the only part of your comment i can see.

        • @[email protected]
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          44 days ago

          Ugh, same. It really doesn’t help that most of the time people seem to refuse to actually describe their image. We need “TW: Musk/Trump” to become standard for easy blocking

      • @finitebanjo
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        05 days ago

        I think politics play a very large role in life and that ignorance of it gives us outcomes like Trump, but I would like to hear more about what the motivation for the cats is if that’s also on the table.

        • Cris
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          125 days ago

          Wanting to be able to exist in a social space online without 3/4ths of all discussion in that space being bleak political news isn’t the same thing as ignorance.

          I posted about voting, I engage with political discussion, but lemmy is a very politics heavy platform, and while there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with that, you kinda have to manage your fatigue levels. You can only be but so upset, outraged and exhausted before it starts to affect you, and being burnt out and overwhelmed doesn’t yield productive political action

          You gotta take breaks and balance paying attention with stuff that makes life feel worthwhile. If you don’t, eventually you just give up. Cats for a little while is kinda nice :)

          • @[email protected]
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            Also worthwhile noting that not everybody on the English speaking internet is American ¯\_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

            It doesn’t matter how much trump is forced down my throat, it doesn’t change shit because I live on the other side of the world. A little bit of awareness and courtesy every once in a while wouldn’t go astray.

        • @Lost_My_Mind
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          45 days ago

          No no. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge. Stupidity is the inability to use knowledge.

          Every single day since 2016 we’ve had trump in our daily conversations. Every single day we’ve heard every stupid thing he’s done. Every tiny little thing he’s ever said. If news outlets had access to his toilet time, they’d play nightly audio of his poops. There is not a single thing about him that hasn’t been said 1000 times. No piece of information about him that isn’t out there.

          And he doesn’t keep himself secret either. He stood onstage and said into a microphone, with cameras rolling, in front of thousands of people, with pride in his voice as he said it, that he would be responsible for the largest mass deportation innititive this country has ever seen. He said if he was elected we wouldn’t have to ever vote again. He said he would use the united states military if needed to “put down” the enemy within.

          These are not the words of a man hiding facism. He put it on full display for over a year, and the votes came back that we as a collective country WANT that.

          The information is out there in public. Reported on ad nauseam on a nightly basis for over a year.

          Trump is not the result of ignorance. Trump is the result of weaponized stupidity.

          • @finitebanjo
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            You have a very cool philosophy and I thank you for sharing, but the definition of ignorance is not the same as unaware. To be ignorant generally implies to ignore the reality or truth.

            American Heritage Dictionary has this to say about it:

            Ignorance:

            • The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.

            • The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.

            • A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.

            I’d normally also include something like Oxford Dictionary definition but for some reason they’ve got a paid subscription model now.

            • @philthi
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              14 days ago

              It does list “the condition of being […] unaware” in the definitions you quoted. I think it’s fair to say ignorance can mean being unaware, but ignorance can at times also signify that it is intentional, or that a person is choosing to ignore information.

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                Though saying “ignorance is the lack of knowledge” stands true, regardless of whether that lack of knowledge is intentional or not.

    • OtterOP
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      185 days ago

      I don’t think it was coordinated.

      It feels like someone shared a photo, others felt inspired to share, and it snowballed since then

      • Pennomi
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        45 days ago

        Snowballed is the wrong word. Collapsed into a black hole seems more appropriate, considering the subject matter.

      • @finitebanjo
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        35 days ago

        Alright, I’m hype, but it is a lot of cat photos.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ll take it. Cute cats are very cute. I’ve been missing my daily dose since the API debacle.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      85 days ago

      I don’t know, but if that’s the case, I’m fine with it.

      I’d have to read the 500th depressing story about trump, whom I can’t do anything about…

      …or I can see a cute kitty.

      BRING FORTH THE KITTYS INTO THE FEED PLEASE!!!

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