204
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
204 points (97.2% liked)
World News
57769 readers
1873 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Ask Historians !askhistorians@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
We've already seen that story. And Biden did make amends but didn't remove all of the shitty things Trump did. And ultimately the US went back to Trump.
Maybe there might be a reasonable person as President in 2029. But even if that's the case, we need to assume there will be another President like Trump (or worse) in 2033.
We have to consider the possibility that post-civil rights US was the outlier, not the norm. The US may be just reverting back to it's true self, a violent nation dominated by racism.
True of all democracies. Canada has it's share of fruitcakes and could suffer a similar insanity and elect one...
Yeah, which is why people were pretty forgiving of Americans after Trump's first term. People get scammed by a con man, just a bump in the road of democracy.
Then the idiots elected him again.
You can be fooled once, but then you'd expect people to learn. If you do it twice... well then we need to assume that Americans weren't actually fooled by Trump. Trump represents who Americans really are. We should also assume Americans will elect someone like Trump (or worse) in the future. Americans are generally narcissistic assholes that can never admit they're wrong. They generally believe in American superiority. So they vote in someone that represents that.
I assumed that after Jan 6, there was no possibility Trump could ever be elected again. That would require people who voted for Biden saw Trump try to throw out their votes, and then decide they would vote for Trump in the next election. There's no way that could happen, right? But it did. So we all had to reconsider how we think of Americans after that.
Trump is the symptom of a much bigger problem. The US has a massive cultural problem. That's not something that changes in one election cycle.
What electing Trump the second time exposed is that he is the real face of Americans, not some aberration. They care about 'me, myself and I' only. They only start to care about laws and policies if it negatively affects them personally. Even then, they will not do anything more than complain if anything more requires an ounce of work that might interfer with their online activities, gaming, watching sports, etc.
It's definitely a possibility that can't be discounted. The Civil Rights movement changed a lot of things and set the US on a path of cultural progress. A slow path, but it was going that way. Trump entered politics by saying by saying Obama wasn't eligible to be President. There was some obvious bullshit about a birth certificate, but there's the underlying meaning to it about a black man being ineligible to be President. A lot of people picked up on it and it's like they became free to be themselves. Their racist hateful selves.
Trumpism is a rejection of all progress made in the Civil Rights movement and afterwards. So they're going back to the way they were before.
To me, it's the apathy towards this that's most concerning. In every country there's racist assholes, but in the US it seems they generally just accept that's what their country is now, or believe that somehow the problem will just fix itself. They only seem to protest when social media tells them to protest, and social media is owned by Trump's allies. The power these companies now know they have doesn't bode well for this going away when Trump is gone. They'll want to maintain their power by just bringing in some other racist asshole that appeals to the base instincts of Americans. Too many interests are lined up now for this to go away easily.