If you have used Reddit for some time, you'll have noticed an interesting trend: any large space where general content is allowed to be posted and which does not prohibit US politics, will generally become saturated with US politics.

This happens to some degree on Lemmy as well. It's because Americans are the largest national demographic group on the English-speaking portion of the Internet, and because American politics in general is extreme and garners a lot of attention from others. So if talking about it is allowed, it will usually become all that anyone ever wants to talk about, or at least it will appear that way in a space where popularity determines visibility.

Enough people have given good answers to this question, so I won't bother repeating their explanations. It came about after a trial following the last US election and a community discussion led to the trial becoming permanent.

I'm going to leave this post up as it's not actually about US politics, but about how the asklemmy community wants it to work.

I wish more communities implemented this rule.

Probably because we want somewhere that isn't flooded with whatever detestable thing trump last did or said. I've been meaning to put out feelers about revising the rule to "No current/recent politics", but I've never gotten around to it.

Most discussion about US politics isn't discussion sadly so it just turns into either arguing or a circle jerk of hating a specific person/place/thing. Most "news" isn't even news here, it's opinion segments. I agree it should stay in its own section to an extent since people can't tell the difference of what's news and what's opinion when reacting.

Because its everywhere all the time. And I get it, its interesting and never ending and affects the whole world and theres a bottomless well of drama and comedy and horror especially with orange man in charge, but its everywhere all the time.

Because Lemmy is already full with murican politics.

A while ago, we made rule 6 a temporary rule that was initially meant to last until the US elections. Later, through a community vote, it was made permanent.

Community vote: https://lemmy.world/post/23032034

Temporary rule 6 announcement: https://programming.dev/post/21409464

I guess this sub doesn't want to smell as bad as the rest of the "international subs" that are flooded with US crap.

Any place that permits American politics quickly becomes only American politics.

Sorry as an American, I can't read.

Anyways. Something something Venezuela US Invasion something something US Middle East Oil something something US something Donald Trump

(I mean seriously tho, there's been like 5 rule violators and it gets kinda annoying)

To stop the stupid posts after they voted for fascism, instead of a female president, again.

If you had to guess, what would you say is the reason?

but its fine for politics. world to shill for israel subtely

Rule 2

Breaks Rule 6 by asking why rule 6 exists.

Why is there a rule against US politics? Like are people asking about US politics too much or what?

I assume it's to preserve the community's identity. The fear might be that if US politics was allowed, then questions on that topic would oversaturate the questions in the community, turning it into a de facto politics discussion community.

The reason why it's specifically US politics is then one about whether politics from other countries would lead to the same effect. Which the mods probably deemed unlikely.

They have guns.

Probably because most of these spaces exist to push whatever narrative the admins and mods who own it want, and open conversation about these topics might result in some people learning about the world around them and making their own decisions.

Notice how many accounts appeared overnight from the Venezuela shit pretending a war was inevitable? Those are the accounts these spaces exist to enable.