Those were for voting, not candidacy, AFAIK. Not that candidicy would have been any more fair then…

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

We are both arguing what we each think should happen. It just so happens that in this disagreement, what I think should happen is for things to not change.

I get the appeal of somehow turning a larger more active community that is similar to what you want into explicitly what you want, but that doesn’t consider how that effects the majority of people who joined and are part of that community because it is already explicitly what they want. The majority of the demand for political news on lemmy is for US politics.

If there was somehow a way to throttle the US politics so it didn’t flood out everything else, then the bulk of the community would just find another place that wasn’t doing that.

All that can reasonably be done is be patient, for communities to grow and stabilize, until there are active groups available for each specific interest

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 !politics@lemmy.ml?

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

As a kid I had it hammered into my head by my grandparents that patriotism is the desire to improve (and maintain) the place where one lives.

I wish more people had that perspective. “Patriotism” as a description of blind devotion and themed outfits is pretty dumb.

Why do you think there are rules for community names? There are no rules or expectations (at least not yet) for community names.

The well-known answer for why this community is named this is that it is a recreation of another community that was also named this.

Why would you subscribe to something in the first place without knowing anything more than its title? Bizarre.

I had commented a long-winded opinion a few minutes ago, it probably doesn’t matter, but I’ve been sitting here wondering for the last 20 minutes…

Why does this matter to you, or to anybody? I’m not trying to be judgemental, I do not understand it.

Do you feel like there should be rules about community names? That they should have to be as descriptive as possible woth the name, or something like that?

I’m not sure why it would matter if communities want to name themselves anything at all, and many communities are intentionally named something completely different than what the community is for. Do you think that shouldn’t be allowed, or is it just situations like with this community where you see an issue?

Personally I really don’t think the names matter, one way or the other. I’m really only against this community changing because I wanted a US politics community in the first place, and if this stops being that, I’ll have to go find another one.

Some instances do not allow downvotes. I don’t agree with your post but cannot downvote it.

I’m not complaining, I like no downvotes, downvotes are usually just a way for people to vent frustrations without articulating them.

But, you can’t necessarily use votes to draw the conclusions you have.

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

I love the comic strip and am looking forward to this.

But apple tv? That sucks. For them, mostly, I’m just gunna have to pirate it.

Only if you don’t clean them in my experience, and they aren’t particularly hard to clean. Just give em as good scrub when you clean the shower.

You can get shower mats with brush parts. No need to fold yourself in half, just shuffle your feet.

Maybe as far as the shock value but imo they are completely different. The bible verse is about absolute surrender to the christian god, where anything you might value as highly as god should be made lesser than him in your mind.

It seems like “kill the buddha” has the opposite intent, aggressively reject all notions of “other” or “authority” etc

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke 14%3A26&version=NIV

Good thing I don’t think that book matters, that was a close one, you almost got me.

Now excuse me while I go lay with a man

If you suddenly got notified that the place you live has been redistricted to put you in a district which reduces your voting power, would you be ok with your “solution” of uprooting your entire life, changing jobs, finding a new place to stay, and re-registering to vote? Or would you maybe pursue a less completely-insane solution to the problem?

I get what you mean, but IMO we are at the point where the “good christians” should be thinking of a different name for themselves and attempting to distance themselves from the rest of Christianity.

When the great majority of self identified christians are hateful, bigoted, and cruel, then Christianity as a whole is hateful, bigoted, and cruel. People outside of the religion do NOT see a distinction between those that actively advocate for hate and those that are just still showing up for church on sunday.