And yes, I know people will say block keywords and communities, but people don’t understand some communities have rules and people must follow them.

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    What good does reminding us of Alex Pretti’s death do? We’re not exactly on the fence about ICE here on Lemmy

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      An assault on democracy anywhere is an assault of democracy everywhere, first of all, secondly what happens in the USA directly impacts the rest of the world, not sure if you noticed. Thirdly, the fact that we’re not on the fence is precisely because we talk about it. It’s not just about ICE, it’s about all politics, it has a direct impact on how we think and feel about things in our own countries- case in point being how for instance right wing regimes in the EU are now vying to implement ICE like measures along the mediterranean, and being aware of and taking a stance against that shit as it happens abroad is the first step to prevent it at home, memes be damned.

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        You’re not even preaching to the choir, you’re preaching to a whole congregation of other preachers. Trying to explain how important communion is to a Catholic priest. But it ain’t Sunday, and we’re not at Mass right now. Time, place, audience. Do you think the people of Lemmy would be in favor of right-wing political parties taking over their countries, if only they weren’t inundated with the very same American politics that they whine about constantly seeing?

        I disagree with your third point. We’re not on the fence about ICE, not because people like you won’t shut up about them, but because we’re all leftists here. Being against ICE is as fundamental an aspect of our political alignment as being in favor of universal healthcare and funding children’s school lunches. We’re not about to start thinking that it’s okay to starve children, if only we stop talking about it for 10 minutes.

        An assault on democracy anywhere is an assault on democracy everywhere, but the battleground is not the showerthoughts community on one instance of Lemmy

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      And some of us aren’t even American, and sometimes it’s nice after being reminded of it in 4 other daily posts and it being on the news I can go “well all that is probably enough reminding me of that event for today, I’d like to go look at cats for FIVE MINUTES and not have it be there too.”