Tim Walz promised a “joyous” Democratic National Convention in a lightning round of brief speeches Monday morning—pointedly not mentioning Donald Trump or JD Vance.
“What we’re going to show America over the next three days is what democracy looks like,” he said in his very first appearance at the event, a breakfast for delegates from Wisconsin. “It’s joyous, it’s inclusive."
“We understand what the alternative is. That doesn’t motivate people. It’s not just beating those guys. It’s about setting a course for our future that’s brighter for everyone.”
Came here to say this - I’m new to Lemmy, and I feel like there’s this overwhelming tidal wave of Trump posts here, even moreso than Reddit or other social media. I get it, he’s a shit human being. But maybe unless he actually does something, we don’t have to talk about him?
Lemmy is still small, and so broad fields like news, tech and politics dominate the feed - and Trump is a pressing enough topic at the moment to have posts about him get a lot of traction. It’s the height of an American election year and the threat of Project 2025 has people justifiably anxious.
I recommend cultivating and heavily curating community subscriptions, and sticking to your subscribed feed as your default home page. That way you can almost entirely avoid anything Trump related until you yourself choose to engage with it.
I like politics and news - most of my subscribed is some variant of that. There’s just so much more to politics and news than Trump, and as long as you’re not in the cult there’s not even anything interesting or engaging that he says or does. It’s just a circlejerk of “Trump bad” and I don’t understand how people aren’t tired of it - or maybe they think they’re helping?
Be the change, post! Right now most of the posts in any given community are from a handful of really active people. They’re posting what they want to see or what they think everyone else wants to see. More posters and more diversity is a good thing.
Can also add filters for Trump and Vance in your user settings (I’m on Connect) and stop most related posts from coming up in your feed. Was able to rescue myself from a tidal wave of Sailor Moon Ai posts in my feed that way 😁.