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.
Waah...I don't want to press the downvote button, id rather whine about all the things I don't like. People should automatically anticipate my desires and cater to them.... Waaahh
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
Least annoying strawman
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.
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.
How does this compare to other western countries?
As an American, I couldn't resist.
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
Sounds like you're asking yourself a philosophical question. Some people actually care about things.
Arguing politics online has never solved anything. I have better uses of my energy than to argue politics with a bunch of faceless randoms that won't accept anything less than total conformity.
Politics in a political or news sub is fine. Politics in, say, a technology sub or a gaming one is just annoying.
I think they prefer to be called "Austrians"
I havent seen anyone talk about politics on programming.dev
Thank you, we'll get right on it.
Nothing but holy wars there.
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.
Seems to me lemmy needs a bigger downvote button
if people were to actually downvote politics that would help
If people actually upvoted good content and downvoted bad content, the front page of every default sub on Reddit wouldn't be an endless sea of reposts.
I downvote whenever I see them, but it seems like there are more, or a loud few (maybe both), for every one of my downvotes. It's not just here, it seems like this on /all too. To be more specific, it seems there are more trolls constantly watching and quicker on the keyboard for anything remotely political. It sucks that we need moderation in any capacity to enforce no politics on 'no politics' spaces..
Not seen this yet, tbh. Politics in fact seem a rather rare topic outside of the US-centric posts?
Preach.
this is EXACTLY what the OTHER PARTY would say!!!
To be honest, due to how this thread turned out, I’m not even able to distinguish if this is serious or sarcasm
Just to clarify, my general point, I am in no way against discussing politics. Be it in the political communities, or with the occasional meme. I fully realize the potential that memes have for initiating or reflecting on political discussion.
My point here is that I have a strong feeling that the comment section of seemingly non-divisive posts I’ve also fallen prey to the BuT eVeRyThInG iS PoLiTiCs hardliners. I fully realize that many, many topics can be seen as politically divisive, even if I don’t feel so myself. But I would like to make two points about this:
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And some posts, I get the feeling that the political discussion has absolutely nothing to do with the post body itself. It could be a picture of a beautiful sunrise, and someone suddenly starts talking about some American politician, and about how if it was up to that politician, we would never have sunrises again or something.
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Secondly, but very importantly: the level tends to be very low. People don’t know once we articulate their political opinion or reaction to another person’s political opinion, but it turns into this food fight-grade yes/no, strawman, whataboutism, etc. etc. It is my personal opinion that this takes away from most users lemmy experience, it does from mine anyway.
im being sarcastic.
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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.
Just to clarify, my meme was more about Lemmy in general, also not the posts themselves but that the comment sections of all kind of things suddenly become (in my view unnecessarily) politically divisive. It just escalates quickly.
Amen brother speak up!
Theres a block function in a lot of Lemmy apps.
