Life is political, get involved or get out of the way.
If we were blind on the politics / moral eye we'd be on reddit I reckon
the world is staring down a budding fascist regime and people are still whining about having to scroll past things they think of as "PoLiTiCaL".
we're so cooked. they'll have the transes in death camps and people will just bitch that they had to see the headline.
Goddamnit. I'm gonna get sooo many reports from this post.
The worst part for me? Fuckin beans.
I don't want to care about politics, but politics keep trying to bust in my door and want to shove itself down my throat like a possessed dildo, so I only be political as self defence.
Because politics impacts your life and everyone around you
everyone here is a leftist nerd, and the united states is at risk of falling under right-wing fascism.
Being against genocide isn't a "political position." It's called "being a decent human being" and you should be against it, no matter who is doing it to who.
Pointing out that Trump is the dumbest, cruelest president that has ever lived isn't a "political position. " It's called "using your fucking eyes and paying attention to what he's doing."
I could go on and on about "things that are more obvious than a sunrise being labeled 'political positions'" but those 2 things could keep us busy for years.
Because the sole nature of Lemmy is political. The whole reason it exists is political. People want to move away from tech oligarchs and take control of their own spaces, of their data. Rotting on Reddit while all your data is being harvested and your interactions get turned into shareholder value is very convenient. Being on Lemmy is inconvenient (although it has become less so over the last year). So if you're willing to ditch a very convenient platform because of your beliefs, and move to a platform that aligns more closely with said beliefs, then it's fairly obvious why said platform is so political in nature.
This.
Just from the features and the convenience, Reddit is better. It's bigger, it's got more content, it's easier, it's more stable (or at least used to be). You don't have to worry about your instance going under or anything like that.
The reason for the devs to invest their time to make lemmy and the apps and for admins to invest money and time into hosting and running the instances and for users to use this instead of Reddit is mainly the politics of wanting to have your own space with your own data.
The truth is the for a lot of us being here in the first place was a political stance.
why do you think some things are political and others aren't? it's all politics babe, you're just mad you had to think about certain things. this ain't a safe space for whiney "aPoLiTiCaL" manchildren, that's back on reddit.
Lemmy has always been this way AFAIK, but let's be honest if there was ever a time that people need to be be aware of politics it's now.
Since you brought it up, I finally upgraded to windows 11 and hated it so I switched to Pop! linux since it's good for gaming. So far so good, Proton needs some tweaking on occasion but it's easy to do. Hell Rimworld and Planet Crafter run even better. I haven't tried anything else out yet.
Dude, Proton is so good for 2d gaming. I have, I think, 3X the number of Stardew Valley mods installed than when I had it on Win10. It's at the point where I am deciding on whether to downgrade my Windows SSD and just use it for firmware updates (though I might experiment with running the DualSense tool in wine, instead).
Reminding that "...there are currently no major left-wing political parties in the country." you Americans have far right or right wing parties, haha losers
Didn't realize this was strictly about the US. Also left and right are relative directions. Something being left of something else. You can endlessly compare apples and oranges if you want, but I don't see the point.
"Can we stop talking about politics for a moment?"
"So, uh, does anyone like Furina from Genshin Impact?"
"HOLY SHIT, okay fine, let's talk politics."
I mean, politics encompass everything. There is no escape, simply a tolerance for one flavor of politics over another. You may be in a position that views news and opinions as an annoyance, but I'm not free to forget what's at stake.
Good meme!
Answer you probably weren't looking for:
Because while you might not be political, the Nazis are. They're political enough for both of you, actually, and they prefer it that way.
dude, a lot of us have been banned from reddit for being overtly leftist. its a major reason lemmy even exists.
Beans are political if you look at it hard enough.
Also if you look at politics even more it also becomes beans.
Either embrace the absurdity or fight for the right to grow beans on your friend's lakehouse farm while taking your clothes to your mom's house so she can wash them for you.
Preach, my friend. It is actually the main reason I'm considering deleting my profile because part of the reason I left mainstream social media was to get away from politics and ideological lunatics, but this platform is fucking full of both. Even after filtering out as much of it as possible. Its like a cancer, spreading to every forum page on here.
Is there anywhere on the internet where people are just focusing on hobbies and interests that aren't mired in hatred and aggression?
You can just browse your subs, you don't have to browse All.
Technology and memes also frequently lead to political topics.
I mean, don't you think it's at least in part bc politics have invaded just about every aspect of science and tech?
Like I work in research, and over the last 5 months everything has changed. And it's still constantly changing.
I wish it didn't have to be so political, but a lot of people feel like it's not so much a choice to talk about politics. How do you talk about science/tech/healthcare without mentioning very abrupt and invasive policies? Often, I learn about things that will have an impact on my job here before I hear anything from my employer. It's kind of insane.
I mean, even work is politics, wages and safety and benefits.
Going shopping is political. Prices are directly tied to politics.
Need to replace broken electronics? Welp, tariffs and its 200% the original cost.
Everything is politics, its impossible to avoid.
Done hobby? Hey what do you know, DJI is soon about to be banned in the USA for perceived "nationak security" issue. Politics.
Want to jerk off? Welp your state banned porn because it went againt some religion. Politics here again.
Lets just eat food. Oh no, the food regulators got fired because of "wokeness" and now you get food poisoning. Politics.
Politics of state and business, poor job market prospects, these are the things that we need to solve if we are to truly maximize beantime or beanmaxxing if you will
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