Are you describing right now or making a prediction I can't tell

I don't intend to have a back and forth with you, I have reason to believe it would be unproductive and frustrating.

Maybe just consider that people have no better recourse to judge a person than their actions, and mitch has done terrible things. His motivations, and whether or not he is "evil" or just generally trying to do the right thing, are irrelevant in the face of his destructive political actions. People aren't happy that an old man had a seizure, they are happy the old man might not be causing harm much longer.

"both sides" is the fastest giveaway of a bad faith troll lately. At least the unapologetic conservatives don't pretend to take the moral high ground

I mean, generally getting downvoted in an argument is a matter of course, at least until people who you aren't arguing with chime in.

Also a lot of what you are saying doesn't really make sense to me? I feel like I'm not sure we agree what we disagree about.

Honestly the shit I got downvoted the most for was just standing up for trans people, reddit is full of transphobes.

I believe the devs have said they aren't going to make it officially visible, which is all I care about. If you want to make value judgements on people based on a number so bad that you had to find a client that shows it, more power to you.

That one might be filled with US stuff because many of it's users are from the US, but there is no rule requiring everything be related to US politics, which seems to be the rule people wanted changed here. Even if they changed that rule here, this place would still have been 90% US politics because that is what the community that grew here wanted.

It has only existed for a month and based on all evidence has always been for just US politics. Are you sure you haven't confused it with another politics group on lemmy? Like [email protected]?

Idk why people want to change communities to be what they want them to be instead of seeking out or making the communities they want elsewhere. Anyone can have the politics name on any other instance, unlike how reddit was.

If you don't think of it as a mistake, simply an inconsequential detail, it makes perfect sense to retain it as a form of identity, so people that switched platforms can feel like they moved as a group.

I wasn't putting words in your mouth, you are acting like they have somehow done something incorrectly, but that would imply there is a correct way, which would imply rules for how to do it, official, unspoken, whatever idc.

Anyone can make their own group on a different instance and call it the same thing. If you don't like how lemmy.world works, don't take it out on the mods here, either find another instance, start one yourself, or if you have to, take it up with a lemmy.world admin

I didn't agree when people tried to insist subreddits with certain names should be obligated to try to be as nuetral an interpretation of their names as possible, but here on lemmy, this concern is even more silly.

On reddit, another /r/politics couldn't be made, and there was a valid argument that they were preventing anyone else from using the generic name more appropriately, essentially holding it hostage. But, I already didn't think it was a big enough deal to really matter, many other possible names continued to be available for a more generic subreddit.

Here on lemmy this is a complete non-issue. You can make a /c/politics on any instance you like, and you can start your own instance if you don't like any available. The only difference would be subscribers and participation, but the subscribers that are here are here for a US politics sub, that's what it was when they joined, changing it would not be ok with many of them.

If you want a world politics community with subscribers you have to start one and get people to join.

And lemmy.world is just the instance name, it has no indication of theme for the communities it hosts

Doesn't reddit not make money though? Like, if traffic resulted in them making money, I'd agree, but everything I've heard would indicate using reddit with an adblocker literally costs them money.

Exclusively using reddit to protest should be fine IMO, just don't contribute anything that isn't a protest (including voting)

Me, when I'm trying to write on a piece of paper in my hand instead of on a flat surface

Congratulations on being the smartest person in this thread so far, no one else has apparently ever heard of a pump before