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The world is political.
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Submitted 1 day ago by timeless@lemmy.ca to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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seralth@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Because generally speaking, politics is at the end of the day the single most unfiying thing on earth.
Everyone and everything at every level is directly influenced by politics.
So when you get a bunch of people together on a topic and those people otherwise don’t know each other. They are only really able to communicate in passing with one or two things.
Politics and its relation to the topic. Or a narrow opinion on the topic. Maybe a joke or some other passing comment if you push it.
It’s what small talk is. And Lemmy like reddit and any other major general community is mostly goanna be small talk.
The more frequent commenters may learn each other or have more meaningful communication but that’s goanna be rare. And realistically any meaningful conversation is goanna be sparked either via a disagreement or agreement from the aforementioned poltical view or opinion shared.
Functionally if you don’t want to engage with politics at any level for any reason no matter what. Then you basically need to just stop using anonymous and impersonal forms of communication.
Cause it’s politics or the weather basically, and since no one is goanna talk about the weather your left with politics for small talk.
That or stick very strictly to forums that deal in a extremely EXTREMELY narrow topic. Like cat pictures with out captions.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Stick your head in the sand if you want to, but as a trans woman, I need to know when I’m gonna get imprisoned for existing, and never see my family again.
Sorry to make things political.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
This. A lot of ‘making everything about politics’ is the reaction of people whose very existence been politicized by those in power.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
You wouldn’t be imprisoned. That would imply due process and habeas corpus.
Enemies of the regime will be disappeared.
I’m not trying to make you feel bad. I just think this is where we are at the moment and I have a hard time not thinking about it.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, they’re wanting to suspend habeus corpus, so that’s utterly terrifying and I really hope my last moments aren’t spent personally witnessing the CECOT body pile in their backyard.
scott@lemmy.org 1 day ago
They’re talking about suspending habeas corpus so…
Regardless I still think they’re going to go after the unhoused more explicitly and use less explicit means to push trans people (and others they disapprove of) into that category in order to make excuses for the disappearancess. We shall see I suppose.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Apology not accepted. You don’t owe anybody apologies for that, ever. They should be apologizing to you.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Maybe if some orange turd wasn’t busy fucking up everything from board games to airplanes politics wouldn’t come up so much.
Hard to have a conversation without it when there’s a massive tariff on every single product related to work, hobbies, and even just living.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It really is tough to talk about anything else, and even when you do talk about it, it’s more of an exasperated sigh than a conversation.
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In times like this, ‘anti-politicals’ would cry that even talking about LIVING is too political for them. Politics is living, folks, get off your armchair with your heads in the sand and take a look outside. Shits fucked up right now, and talking about how fucked up it is isn’t too ‘political’. Not talking about ‘politics’ is ignoring the world around you and how it affects the every day person.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly this. Sure it is exhausting, but it is necessary. Even more so with this current administration.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s not like tariffs are going to disappear only if people talk about them 24/7.
Not expending all your mental energy in thinking about it and just enjoying life, hobbies and other topics is probably one of the best things you can do. Why do you think orange guy makes the statements he make. It’s not because he is stupid (even if you want to think he is stupid) is because he knows his opposition gets triggered by it. And if you are constantly thinking about it you’ll destroy your mental health and the mental health of those around you. Exhaustion is their goal.
Just live life.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The problem is that they’re actively impacting your ability to participate in many hobbies, or eating up funds on necessities that force you to forgo other things entirely. It’s not that we’re just repeating “tariffs bad” when talking about them, it’s that they’re actually factoring into decisions being made in order to live our life.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I was on a discussion board for anime figurines and people started posting screenshots of their order checkouts showing tariffs nearly doubling the cost of their order. That caused a conundrum because people started talking politics and that’s not allowed according to the board rules. But what are people supposed to do? Can they talk about increased prices or is that political? Do they just have to pretend prices have skyrocketed for no reason at all? Can they even mention prices are higher than before?
If you don’t restrict things then you’re allowing discussion of politics. If you do restrict things then you’re preventing normal discussion because of politics. It’s unavoidable.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Everything is political; how much you notice really is just a metric of how much a particular subject effects you.
This is such a great example.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Even something as simple as suggesting “Hey, these figures are made in Vietnam instead of China, so they’re lower cost right now” is political. It is, as you said unavoidable.
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s always been political, you were just in a more comfortable for you political space. Typically you don’t notice the politics when that’s just life and your own values.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 11 hours ago
Despite everything people here says, you’re probably not going to get a community without politics
Lemmy was born from politics, grew from politics and the largest communities are about politics
Your best bet is to leave if you’re sick of it (Lemmy is essentially stuck with politics forever) or get used to it and use some filters to prevent the worst
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 11 hours ago
!WomensStuff@lazysoci.al is no politics! We’re a trans+ inclusive women’s only group though.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
???
Trans rights aren’t political?
Women’s rights isn’t political?
tehmics@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
Filter out the politics, and join a bunch of other forums instead.
TypicalHog@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
It’s because Lemmy mainly consists of hyper-frustrated leftists who treat it as their safe space echo chamber.
MBech@feddit.dk 6 hours ago
There’s good reason to be a hyper-frustrated leftist in this shitty world. Not sure I see it as a safe space echo chamber though. Everyone is welcome to join and voice their opinion as long as they aren’t being racists, bigots or spreading disinformation on most instances. Problem is that the right wing around the world only really has one policy, and that’s being racist biggots who try to spread fear and hate while denying simple scientific facts and data.
LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Maybe everything is political, but I blocked US politics communities, and the experience is more enjoyable now.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 18 hours ago
Everything is political. You’re just not aware of how the things you like are political.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Because shit’s really fucked up right now and needs to be fixed.
You’re like one of those people in a world war, “why is everyone so political?”
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 19 hours ago
Thats not politics. That’s news.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
I don’t want to be political, but the government decided that me existing should be illegal. So now me posting about fashion or makeup or whatever is automatically political now.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Well I would push for a gunpla and modelmaking sub, but… people all over the world are dying to conservative political stances and authoritarianism.
So, do we talk about building plastic models or the death of innocents? Some would say both, but many of us know it’s hard to focus on hobby topics when it seems like Revelations might kick off at any given moment.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people’s lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.
There’s a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there’d be less, probably.
Also, what do you even consider “political”? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn’t political, but a story about two men getting married is. That’s a really low quality analysis there.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
First, That’s what happens when you’re living under a dictator.
Second, even in normal times, everything is political. How much you get paid, and how your boss treats you, and how banks work, and how the roads look, and everything else you see is the result of a political choice.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lemmy is mostly populated by intelligent people (include yourself if applicable) that fled reddit when the app crackdown began.
As such we talk and some of that talk covers the current situation in the world of politics.
If you don’t want to see any there are plenty of subs you can use.
You can also do what I do which is block the orange turnips name so you don’t see the posts.
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Lemmy is mostly populated by intelligent people
Hey I will not accept such slander!! I’m an idiot!
(include yourself if applicable)
Oh nevermind, carry on. :P
Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You outed yourself by demonstrating reading comprehension, sorry
timeless@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
[deleted]ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some apps (e.g. Voyager/Thunder) and web frontends (Tesseract? not sure which tbh) enable keyword filtering.
In the case of the apps, it’s found in settings under filters & blocks or filters, respectively. Unfortunately I can’t recall which web frontends enable it for sure, but I do remember there seemed to be fewer of them that did last I checked.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Content Filters. There’s are lot of communities dedicated to lemmy how to’s and it’s kinda dependent on the app you use where to click specifically.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
lemmy.ca##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(“/trump/i”))Put that into your ablocker custom rules.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Percieved intelligence is subjective. See this paper where 65% of Americans think they are smarter than average. The math doesn’t add up.
Lightor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, but like, I’m smart enough to know I’m not in that 65%, because I’m smarter than average.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You privilege is showing.
Whenever someone claims to be “apolitical”, or wants something to “not be political”, is because they are looking at it from a position of privilege where the status quo doesn’t hurt or challenges them. They also can’t see the oppression, hurt or risk that said think exerts on others, minorities, or social pariahs.
Non-political is a mythical creature. It exists as a safe haven to lure the insensitive into apathetic inaction. Nothing is apolitical because existing as a human being is itself political.
some_random_nick@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
To be fair, most politics on Lemmy is US-centric politics. Second is EU-centric.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lemmy suffers from the “alt-tech curse” in that since there is perfectly serviceable, normie friendly tech, for someone to come to the alternative you have to be not so normie.
Gab, Parler, Voat back in the day, Mastodon and Lemmy, bluesky, etc are all part of the same phenomenon of micro-exodi from established sites due to fitting poorly with existing moderation which, given the fact normies still use the sites, means we’re always looking at extremists of some kind.
Whether it’s the tankies on lemmy.ml, or the progs on bluesky, or the tradcons on parler and gab, it’s always some group being told “if you don’t like it here go make your own” and them doing it.
The problem is this makes these environments extremely off-putting to normies as every single motherfucker on each of these platforms has at least a Bachelor’s degree in scaring the hoes.
The reality is, if you want normie content, you’re gonna find it on platforms used by normies.
Lemmy is too niche to have karma farming bots reposting the same shit every hour, so cat videos etc are in short supply, and most of the people who do participate here have scary levels of politics brainrot.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Semi-related, this is what happened to onlyfans. It was basically the exact same concept as patreon, the only difference being that NSFW stuff was allowed. The result is it became ONLY PORN.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Correct! In general, if there is tech A that does a thing for a demographic, tech B can really only hope to pick up demographic !A
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Everything is about politics now. I watch space, aviation, and car stuff on YT and they’ve all had episodes that start off with “I try to avoid politics but the tariffs/whatever is having a big effect on this industry so I have to talk about it.”
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Everything is political. Always has been. Only difference is people’s money is getting affected so it’s unignorable. Mind you when it’s racism, sexism, oppression, genocide it’s all ignorable. But God forbid you get in the way of people’s money.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes I agree that the world is terrible and we will all die angry and frustrated because these psychotic apes can’t just get along.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I predict a huge leftwing shift among apolitical people since it’s bleeding into things people who don’t read the news experience
dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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Well, a lot of people jumped ship from other platforms because of politics. So they’re gonna be here.
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It’s a time where politics are fucking with all of us, so it’s topical.
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reddit still exists and has a larger base, so if you want to talk about stardew valley, just by the nature of numbers that’s where they’re gonna gather.
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There are a lot of “lurkers” here, not a lot of posters. Seriously, notice how often The Picard Maneuver, or Stamets keeps popping up.
God I hate to be the guy who says this especially because I am ABSOLUTELY being hypocritical right now, but you gotta be the change you want.
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Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.
Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.
Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…
The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,
Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server
The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.
Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.
Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.
I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Its not. We have cat pics as well.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
We need more active guitar forums, but it’s still better than Reddit has become.
loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 9 hours ago
And porn!
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
First: allow me to welcome all new members of LEMMY.
Seriously, whatever flavor you are federating from. And pardon me I have not read this entire thread of replies but I hope it is full of nothing but welcome!
Not all of Lemmy is political. A lot is though, so I can imagine that it may seem charged.
But what’s really happening here is that everything is… transparent. That’s why I’m here. If there is bias, it’s visible.
The trouble with the corporate alternatives is that their hidden bias is: control. Pardon the politics even here, but the fact is our society has never reflected a situation where one group exercises dictatorial control over almost everyone with complete immunity.
Because with all their creepy animated emoji things and predictive analytics they are putting folks asleep. Wake, work, isolate, Sleep. This is the bias of corporate social media. Emphasis on isolate.
So… welcome…
And enjoy. It’s nice to be a part of a place where people are more awake.
But under all interactions should be the vibe that we all in this together.
So welcome. Enjoy. Find you place and your people. Ignore posts that alarm or annoy you.
twinnie@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I’m not against some political stuff but there’s so much circlejerk opinion pieces that get posted. It’s just a bunch of people posting stuff that confirms their own beliefs, which is not better than what happens on the likes of Xitter. It’s just a different kind of echo chamber but people are okay with it because it’s left rather than right.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s embarrassing how often the first paragraph of the article contradicts the title of the post. Then you look at the comments and 99% of them are blathering as if the title is true.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No offense, but if you are an American adult and don’t understand why so many posts are political right now you probably need to be reading them. We are probably going through the most problematic power shift the world has seen in 100 years and if we The American People don’t start fighting back substantially we are looking at losing most of our rights as free citizens.
It’s that fucking serious.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Nope, head in sand and complain through anis.
Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s the zeitgeist right now. The world is falling to dystopia and it’s top of our minds in our communal ride down. But yeah, def nice to be able to disengage /engage with non-dystopia as needed to not go crazy.
nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
This is a time where it’s hard to be away from politics. I switched to all tech news after the U.S. election, and the tariffs are strongly influencing the supply and demand, and the convict is skewing crypto ponzi schemes in his personal favor which has a lot of influence on hardware. He has Musk that’s trying to influence hard on AI which also impacts a lot of our hardware.
Can’t fucking get away from it, really.
steeznson@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Lemmy hasn’t quite reached the critical mass to have completely insane subs like /r/gangstalking or whatever. People here tend to have quite niche interests but relatively normal nerd ones. Some accounts are basically single-issue posters who have some political pet view that they shoehorn in everywhere.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because you’re not filtering by your subscribed communities.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
remove all of the news communities from your feed and try again
Piatro@programming.dev 1 day ago
There’s probably a correlation between people who are aware enough of reddit’s practices and policies to want to switch to Lemmy and people who are engaged in or by political discussion.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’d say lemmy has a stronger “fuck the system” vibe, whatever the topic. Privacy, trans rights, environmental issues, financial oligarchy…
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Even the system supporters pretend they don’t these days
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not to mention almost everything is political these days…
Like, the root cause of most our issues are political and there’s a lot of issues. So it shouldn’t be surprising most topics are tied back to it.
LMurch@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
When 1/3 of the country makes the president their entire personality, and hate the other 70%, whether they are LGBTQ, minority, democrats, or just women, it’s going to be hard to avoid politics.
timeless@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
And if you tell other normal people to come here eventually this place will become less extremist
peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yes, Lemmy is probably 60% people who were banned from Reddit for being overly political.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
“I want rights”
“I want to not be an open air slave to the billionaires”
“I recognize some deep systemic flaws of our systems”
I guess that’s overly political.
dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I didn’t get banned but I definitely would have by now if I’d stayed.