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.”
I actually hate this headline and story. It should have solely focused on what Walz said, and avoided mention of the other guy, too.
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 😁.
Here’s the thing…
Trump gets clicks.
Even the most left wing media LOVE printing his name.
Here’s another thing. Everyone blames media, and they have their fair share, but “we” the consumer are clicking on those stories. That trains the news media to print his name more. We are part of the problem too.
Not much longer. Just this week, and its Monday, I’ve seen at least 5 Trump stories all summarized as old man yelling at clouds. I’m not gonna bother reading that shit anymore. There’s nothing that man can say or do that’ll shock me enough to bother reading about it.
Similar with the couches, diapers, ear bandage and seemen glasses. It doesn’t faze me anymore. It’s a one trick circus.
We all have that friend who always one-ups or craves attention by doing or talking about crazy shit you won’t even believe. It stops being outrageous.
Seeing media reporting on it is a lot like seeing an old childhood acquaintance in your birth town telling you about the binge drinking they had at the local bar yesterday. Cool story bro, but I think we grew apart, I have more important stuff to do and I don’t really care about the outrageous shit anymore.
Well it’s a bit of both. Individual choices matter but not as much as corporate choices. It’s the corporations that manufacture clickbaity headlines and use psychological tricks to make us do things more easily.
We can stop clicking all we want but if corpos are not forced to stop this kind of behaviour, nothing will change.
It works for many things, individual choices are important but the orders of magnitude between them and corporate actions are vastly different.
I mean, he mentions them too… just not by name. But also, him focusing on policy/good stuff/etc. IS news because Biden’s entire campaign was “hi I’m not trump” so it kinda does bear saying wow thank god he is talking about actual stuff and not trump.
Presidential politics in a nutshell.
30,000 words printed on what a tan suit means for foreign policy. Nobody wants to talk about who will replace Secretary of State.