Then go elsewhere.
Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 4 days agoThat analogy might work if not for the fact that I’ve attempted to block political discussions from my Lemmy feed through instance blocks, community blocks and word blocks, yet I still see people obnoxiously shoving their political views into everything.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 days ago
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
You don’t get to force politics in a non-political community, then tell people who disagree that they need to go somewhere else. Nope, that’s not how it works.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
I think the analogy holds up beautifully.
The man proceeds to tell the booth talkers that he’s taken great pains to avoid seeing or hearing politics in his daily life, such as quickly muting political ads on TV, requesting his neighbors take down their Trump flags, and local candidate election signs in their yard. He’s taken backroads to avoid seeing a political billboard on the way to work, all in the effort to spare their eyes the misfortune of sliding across disgusting politics. So it’s perfectly reasonable that he demand to the booth talkers they cease their discussion immediately, and switch to a topic he approves of, he explains confidently.
The two people in the booth glance at each other uncomfortably, wondering what terrible fate brought this strange demanding and oddly entitled man to their booth. Finally, one of them flashes a half-grin and spreads their hands disarmingly “Hey man, I get it that you don’t like what we’re discussing, but if we give in to your demand, wouldn’t that mean we’d have to give into any other demand you have about topics? What if we were talking about sex amongst ourselves and that too wasn’t acceptable? I don’t think we want to live our lives beholden to your feelings on things, that’s for us to decide. Have a good day.”
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
Yet again, the analogy fails. This is a community themed after retro games. As is on point for the Fediverse, folks can’t resist shoving their political views into everything, then they act as if it’s unreasonable for people to say they don’t appreciate the attention-seeking, echo chamber nonsense in a totally irrelevant community.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
The video is about a retro game, it’s just that the retro game has content you don’t like and don’t want other people talking about.
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
No. It’s an advertisement of political beliefs veiled as a retro games post.
“Look at me, I’m a leftist! Oh, and it’s relevant because a retro game made me one, see???”
Give me a break. It’s nothing more than an advertisement.