News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. 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. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
Just as an FYI out there, the majority of liberal, middle-class America's attitude about this entire thing is as follows:
Seriously, I have toured companies, I talk to coworkers and associates and managers every day, I am surrounded by America's white-collar workforce and nobody has ANY political principles. They may once in a while laugh at a conservative meme or joke, but will just as readily laugh at a left-wing meme.
Our country can be broadly divided into two camps, people who know even marginally enough to take a stance and have political affiliation, and people who have ZERO knowledge or interest in what's going on in our country. The last three federal election cycles saw the highest turnout of voters in American history. But exit polling showed that most people had no real idea who to vote for and just went with whatever their social media was showing them.
This malignant apathy, cynicism or ignorance also fills the segment with political ideology. Most conservatives in America do not have strong principles or thought-out positions. Years back I had a blow-hard conservative-sounding coworker complaining about special accomodations for handicapped workers, IE: special desks "going to waste" right up until they actually made friends with a coworker who had a prosthetic leg and suddenly never another complaint. You've probably all read plenty of stories about pro-life activists getting abortions, and so on.
On the left it's exactly the same. You see plenty of leftists right here on Lemmy who would support fascists and authoritarians if those people wore the right colors and promised to "hurt the right people" without thinking about long-term consequence or larger political pictures.
What's my point? We need to talk to each other more. We need to work harder to share our realities again, because the majority of people are far more receptive to intelligent, thoughtful examples of having strong, thoughtful values like "We shouldn't support countries committing genocide" or "We should have social safety nets and healthcare for the amount of taxes we pay" and so on. We CAN infect the population with positive mind-viruses but it takes socializing, it takes effort, it takes caring enough to make yourself uncomfortable.