Well this is sure going to go well lol

OP: On the off chance that you are sincere about this: The modern Trump administration is snatching random people including citizens off the streets and stuffing them in extra-judicial hellholes where they sometimes die and sometimes get ejected from the country to God knows where, without the semblance of due process that “deported” would imply. For no other reason than that Trump and Stephen Miller wanted them to be punished. He’s also claiming that making fun of him on TV is illegal and that attacking American cities with the US military is fine. He was close friends with Epstein and, apparently, raped several children. Any person with even a shred of deceny or law abiding nature is going to hate him and everything he stands for.

If you’re not on board for that stuff, then I think you should say so. I have some isolated views that someone could call “conservative” (certainly in Lemmy’s overton window), it is fine, in the abstract. But in the modern US political environment, calling yourself “conservative” is a death sentence for your credibility. Certainly if you’re not going out of your way to say that you’re not on board for all that (probably even then).

If you’re just trolling, then fine, good luck with it. If you don’t think that Trump is actually doing any of those things, come to [email protected] and let’s talk. But if you want to make a conservative community on Lemmy, and your idea is to be pro-Trump in any way, I think people are just going to laugh at you.

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 [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected], 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:

• [email protected] which is for “anything” with a specific focus on political news, and in practice is 99% US politics
• [email protected], 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 [email protected], completely up to you. If it’s the second option I feel like just deleting [email protected] 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, [email protected] 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 @[email protected] 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.