People talk about filter bubbles, but there’s a nuance here: on Lemmy, you’re not being served up whatever the platform owners think you should see from an opaque algorithm. You’re going to, by default, see cesspool content. You have to choose to block it.
LBJ was one of the most shrewd politicians the US has had as president, and a lot of his policies weren’t as a result of his own beliefs but rather what he thought would politically benefit him the most. His support for the civil rights act was a notable exception to that, based more on his own convictions than political concerns.