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Reminder: In addition to not being The Onion, this isn't a politics community (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

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[–] Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People just have a very poor sense of organization or proper placement. I feel a lot of the political doom and gloom posts are from those who feel like not "enough" is talked about something, when it apparently already is, so they throw it here.

But for a while now, yeah it's tiresome to try and turn every single thing into another political box.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

They may also feel it's not talked enough in general, and put it here on Lemmy, where every second post is about that.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago

That's social media in a but shell. It explains why you see political on seemly random communities like shower thoughts.