PhilipTheBucket

Hm... so part of my concern about the "everything else" politics community is that I feel like it is guaranteed to not really get used all that much. There's always going to be !ukpolitics@feddit.uk or !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !canada@lemmy.ca, I feel like pretty much all the political content that is put up by denizens of whatever part of the world is going to go into a region-specific place, and the "everything but the US" community just wouldn't get used.

I feel like the two obvious options are:

• !politics@piefed.social which is for "anything" with a specific focus on political news, and in practice is 99% US politics
• !uspolitics@piefed.social, which is for US politics only, i.e. the same thing but we have to have little disputes every now and then about whether something like Petro wanting to move the UN belongs there or not

I went with the first option. I really am fine with renaming it to !uspolitics@piefed.social, completely up to you. If it's the second option I feel like just deleting !politics@piefed.social unless someone has a use for it, to keep things clean, is probably better.

I do get the concern from the rest of the world that it's annoying to have US stuff as the "default" and everything else get put in its own region-specific "non default" category. Maybe uspolitics is a little more forward thinking in terms of getting away from that thinking (especially as the years go by and the US collapses in on itself like a rotten pumpkin, geopolitically speaking).

(And yeah, !world@quokk.au is fantastic, I like it. I sort of bounce between quokk.au and piefed.social currently in terms of my "main" account.)

Yeah, I get that. But also, 2 of the 5 stories I posted were not US politics stories. I would like to be able to post stuff about what's going on in the world without needing to sideline it if it isn't US stuff.

I do get what you're saying. Like I say, I'm just going to defer to letting the person who's organizing the top-level communities on piefed.social have the final say. I did add a "US Politics" flair, to make it a little easier to block US Politics stories if that's what people want to do, but I feel like more likely the people who don't want US politics in their feed are just going to block the whole community regardless which is completely fine (and I categorized it topic-wise accordingly).

Like I say, I do get it, I'm just deferring the decision to someone else instead of you and me arguing back and forth about it.

Why do you want to refer to Rimu about the name, while you didn’t consult him in the first place to create this community?

Because I wasn't intending for it to "go live" yet, I just didn't fully grasp what it would mean to leave the box checked to publish to other instances. I mean it's fine, I don't see a reason to delay now that it's published, but I had intended for more discussion and populating it with content before making it fully live.

It didn't even occur to me that the name would be an issue. I'm open to the idea. Like I say I think it should be instance owner's call at the end of the day, since "politics" is kind of a naturally heavily iconic community. I was actually a little bit surprised that there wasn't one here already. I'm fine changing it if the judgement is that it should have a different name.

Oh, I didn't realize it was going to make a public post about it before I had a chance to populate it lol.

Hm. I'll defer to @rimu@piefed.social about the naming. To me, "politics" while allowing politics from any country is fine, but I'm American so maybe that is just my exceptionalism. I generally follow the Beehaw conventions, they seem to strike a really good balance of short concise names without being overly chauvinistic about it.

I 100% agree with this. Lemmy is infested with politics communities but somehow every single one of them seems like it has some kind of flaw or other. !politics@beehaw.org and !politics_no_um@lemmy.world are probably the best in my opinion, but I think they are maybe not ideal only because they're both not federated to big chunks of the community. !politics@lemmy.world is absolutely godawful for multiple reasons. I actually was talking with @blaze@lazysoci.al about having half a mind to create one, to try to do a better job with it.

I just made !politics@piefed.social because your post inspired me to do something about it. Take a look at the sidebar rules and let me know what you think. I'm sure I am signing myself up for some kind of pain, let's see how it goes. How well does what I put there line up with what you were thinking in terms of how you wanted to organize the rules? I actually put specifically to allow video / image posts because of what you were saying... I might change my mind about videos just because there are already a couple of "political videos" communities and it really is a much different type of content.

The structure of the republic and the Constitution required political agents acting in good faith for the good of the citizens.

There is a 0% chance that that keeps happening. The structure of the republic required the ordinary people of the United States to be vigorous about making sure that their political agents were acting for the good of the citizens, and putting them in danger (electoral or otherwise) if they were not.

It worked, and we got complacent because things were working, and so we slid away from that and into this idea that they're supposed to just because they're supposed to. And look where it got us.

Consultant: Hey you guys are losing in basically every election by like 23 points

GOP: Yeah don't sweat it

Yes but the next and final phase of it is starting now

It's starting

Good job. Keep going. Overextend to your heart's content, I'm sure the country's law enforcement and courts will be positively impacted and it'll help with your future endeavors.

It is far from a garden variety of corrupt bureaucratic bullshit which it might at first appear to be. Corrupting the fed carries with it a huge amount of invasive control over private individuals' and businesses' money all across the country, which Trump is pretty much guaranteed to start abusing if he's allowed to get away with this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/trump-federal-reserve-control-unchecked-power/684279/

Anyone who's ever had an abusive stepdad will recognize the "abuse -> backlash -> cowardly backpedaling -> more abuse but passive-aggressiver now" pattern