Watch Lemmy turn one of the few apolitical posts about something American into something political in 3… 2… 1…
Politics is important but sometimes I just want to play a video game without someone turning the conversation to politics when that wasn’t the topic at hand at all. I’m super angry about all the things my country is doing now too, but I also sometimes want to enjoy what I have left instead of being constantly stressed about it and bringing up the horrors happening at every opportunity—especially with just a snarky comment and no links to taking action. (Here are a few, albeit aimed at Americans: indivisible.org for finding a local group, 5calls.org for calling your local representatives, www.mobilize.us for events in general, action.aclu.org/give/now for donating to a group suing illegal things the current admin is doing.)
On the other hand, people have to vent sometimes and I guess I need to build up tolerance and a thicker skin to that, even when it shows up in a place marked Games and not US Politics.
Lifekraft@jlai.lu 5 days ago
I get what you say but in this case the comment was still kind of funny in a satyrical way.
Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Eh, to each their own, to me it wasn’t funny at all. Not in a this is offensive way, I can appreciate dark humor, but the impression I personally came away with was “annoying snarky comment” and less “incisive, witty, funny and topical joke”. Of course, my impression is probably extremely colored by my feeling it was just barely on-topic and a conversation hijack away from American Truck Simulator to American Politics, but I also have seen American politics comments that I found funny and this wasn’t one of them.