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
Alas, yes it does, but idk, stop looking at shit memes.
Oh I wish to stop looking at shit memes, but if more than half of them are tankie crap it’s obviously going to degrade the experience
You need a better meme plug. I’d share my sources, but I don’t want them to get too popular, yaknow?
You wouldn’t know them, they go to another instance
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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
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.
like that homeless man you ignore in the street
Nonpolitically.
you could hold up a mirror and they still wouldn’t recognize themselves in it.
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.
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 life!
math is racist.
edit: /s for those of you who don’t get the joke
Burn the 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 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
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Almost everything conceivable has a political angle of some sort.
What people that complain about politics generally mean is “politics that they notice that make them uncomfortable.”
“marginalized folks? Grrrrrrrr!”
“Why can’t there be normal people in my treats that don’t have political issues visibly affecting their lives?”
No, they mean you fuckers thinking outright political posts are memes.
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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 havent seen anyone talk about politics on programming.dev
Thank you, we’ll get right on it.
That’s right.
But only because “Vim vs Emacs” is a technically a religious holy war.
Nothing but holy wars there.
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”
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.
America has turned pronouns political. I think you’re confused.
Ahh ok any social issue that makes people uncomfortable is political.
I don’t think you understand what pronouns are.
I block a lot of folks. It’s nice.
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
Seems to me lemmy needs a bigger downvote button
I meant taken over, but can’t change it now on mobile
It’s okay. We get it. But I see you’ve been scarred by those I mentioned in my other comment.
You know they’re still gonna come for you, though…
sniff sniff “Hark! Doth he hear a chance to feel better about thyself?” cracks knuckles
Thanks saltesc :)
Not seen this yet, tbh. Politics in fact seem a rather rare topic outside of the US-centric posts?
Preach.
Theres a block function in a lot of Lemmy apps.
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