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At best, mods seem overwhelmed, especially of meme communities, while at worst, they are okay with such rule violations so long as they agree with the particular brand of politics. I had to start blocking some when they advocate extremist views that I don't find fun to constantly read. This was long before the election ramp-up - like "wouldn't it be fun to skin a landlord alive?", "the only good landlord is a dead landlord", etc.
But it worms its way into many other communities too, so finally I blocked all of lemmy.ml. Blocking lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net makes the Fediverse fun to be in, rather than a hellscape of extremist propaganda that constantly makes fun of the USA sponsored genocide, while defending genocide committed by Russia or China. I am okay with content regarding genocide, but I prefer a more... "adult" take on the matter, rather than the juvenile crap I was constantly seeing before those blocks.
They are free to speak however they want - but I am also free to not listen.