Literally seen more whining about politics than I've seen politics.
Well... technically speaking: Isn't "whining about politics" still "politics"?
If we follow that rabbit hole, OP has contributed to the exact issue they are ranting about.
Does your instance federate with Hexbear and Lemmygrad? Because I constantly have those people in my feed and it's absolutely exhausting. I see more memes about burning the rich and starting a revolution than normal memes in my feed. I'm left-wing, but I'm not looking at memes to constantly be confronted with politics. Unfortunately instance blocking isn't working well for me yet
Same. OP is no 2 for my blocklist of literal children crying about politics.
Do you read the comments too, or just scroll through the feed?
I do. And it doesn't phase me, just scroll on past, like that homeless man you ignore in the street.
I've seen a sudden influx of memes all about this and I don't know why. It's suddenly the new trend and I don't understand it.
I'm glad for you, please let me know what instance you're on
Your instance doesn't affect what you see, except in cases of de-federation.
I am wary of people using an unspecified "politics tho" like this. More than once the """PoLiTiCs""" they meant were LGBTQIA+ people simply existing.
Honestly I never got why LGBT+ is even a political thing. It’s just basic human rights. But probably my opinion will be seen as politics by some.
That was my point. It's NOT political. The right is just using their existence as a scape goat.
If there are two or more people, there are politics. I agree with the idea that people who decry ‘politics’ often have disgusting ideas and beliefs. Its a malignant form of privilege to pretend to be able to ignore politics. It’s either that or they are just a little dim and don’t feel they can keep up in a conversation.
Talking about Trump on every other thread has nothing to do with politics either, I assume?
You are the one who just brought up that orange fuck lol
Make your own instance with the politics you want.
There is no such thing as non-political spaces, only spaces where everyone has pre-agreed on what politics are acceptable.
There is no such thing as a non-political discussion either! ;) everything is politics in some sense
No, everything is math.
math is racist.
edit: /s for those of you who don't get the joke
Burn the math!
Math is life!
Average comment: "I'm glad to see more female engineers. Historically they have been disfranchised."
MFers like OP: "Why would you bring politics into this?"
There are only two genders: man and political!
I wish people would stop using "politics" as a buzzword for every bit of news they don't care to hear about.
News is fine.
It's when people start screaming/blaming the "left" or "right", the "biden" or "trump", etc.
Extra annoying when I am not even fucking American and have to hear Americans scream about your old senile corpses you call presidents in EVERY FUCKING POST.
Extra extra annoying when I am reading a news article about my country, and Americans roll in screaming about how that's "bidens fault" or "illegal in montana". Learn to fucking read where you are.
I'm immediately suspicious of people that don't want to discuss politics in today's world. You literally have to be a carefree ostrich.
I guess not wanting to discuss it is okay considering that's exhausting, but asking others not to is the dick move
Not really. I want to kick back and relax, why would i start discussing politics in my free time? I live in a state that is deeply entrenched in one side, so my opinion does not really matter
Tell me how it's "suspicious" to not want to read a post about Starfield, and have the comments be filled about politics because the game allows you to pick between he/him, she/her, and they/them?
It's a game. Shut the fuck up about politics.
Umm how is that politics? I think you're confused.
Politics in a political or news sub is fine. Politics in, say, a technology sub or a gaming one is just annoying.
I havent seen anyone talk about politics on programming.dev
Well lemmy has a left lean and it's currently small enough for it to spill into other communities.
I lean to the left myself. But it’s just nice to have a break every once in a while.
Real
Seems to me lemmy needs a bigger downvote button
Not seen this yet, tbh. Politics in fact seem a rather rare topic outside of the US-centric posts?
Preach.
I think it's the world that's been taken over, not by politics, but by a series of rich bastards not being held accountable for the crimes against society they're regularly committing.
But either way I'd be MUCH happier to wish for all the porn to be removed from my feed when I dont even follow a single porn based sub. Or at the very least make sure it's blurred.
Genie: so there are 5 rules
I meant taken over, but can’t change it now on mobile
With all the garbage, unrelated, and no-effort posts that get dumped in this community and then upvoted hundreds of times, it's hilarious that political memes, which are actually memes, are where people draw the line.
Memes
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.