This is another example of US centrism.

This is politics@lemmy.WORLD.

From the name there is no indication that this wouldn’t be about world politics.

Please rename the community or change the subject to world politics and create a community like uspolitics@lemmy.world.

Edit: For all those saying “Well, just post stuff that’s not about the US”:

The issue is that currently the rules forbid exactly that.

Rules

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  1. Must be articles relevant to US political news.

This is the point that should change. It’s not about how many posts will then be US-specific or not, it’s just about whether you are allowed to post about non-US-stuff.

    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
      173·
      1 year ago

      Hopefully it will die and something like /geopolitics will take over.

      I call it RCS (reddit clone syndrome).

      Rather than let this place grow organically and have its own traditions and in jokes a group of people seem determined to make a clone of the place they recently left.

    • Niello@kbin.social
      13·
      1 year ago

      The name swapping was funny, but it was never practical. Many people who should find it or want to find it ended up not. Not only is there a name barrier, there’s also a barrier to them just clicking away or not engaging. World politics should be the more visible one compared to US politics anyway. Many people, especially Americans, would benefit from learning what politics is like in other parts of the world.