Let’s say Sunday is NoPo day, for example. I think we’d all be in a better mood that day.
Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously and missing the point.
No, I’m not trying to suppress your free speech.
No, this post is not oppressive of your political views in anyway.
No, this doesn’t have any baring whatsoever on what country you’re from.
If your response to this shower thought is a four paragraph rage you are already lost. Why are you in showerthoughts?
No, this does not have anything to do with subscriptions or blocking communities.
If you’re incapable of light jokes then no, you should not comment.
And finally, no, this is not a serious request post. I can’t believe that needs to be explained for half the people here…
I just wish people weren’t so aggressive with politics.
I’ve noticed a severe lack of perspective and empathy in these communities which has greatly deterred me from engaging.
Reddit was bad as well, but it seemed to attract a more rounded and informed community at least in the early days. Probably a function of fragmentation more than anything.
Good luck getting a tankie to shut the fuck up, sadly politics (or a tenuous grasp of) is all they know.
Poor little cretins.
“Tankie” ?? What’s that?
Tankies, also known as red fascists, are pretend leftists who uncritically support the USSR, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Their only ideological basis is “USA bad”.
Count your lucky stars you’ve managed to stay ignorant to these folks.
You’ll know a tankie when one is with you.
That’s all I’m gonna say on it.
Someone you shouldn’t interact with
Ok… if I know who it is i might be able to avoid them better.
It’s a type of person, not any one person. You won’t really be able to avoid them completely here. They’re the type of person who won’t shut the fuck up about how the U.S. is actually an authoritarian state and glazes the fuck out of places like China/Soviet Russia.
You will likely see for yourself what I mean.
Oh man, that sounds like deep state Russian/China operatives trying to push an agenda. Something like that?
I can never really tell, truth be told. I just write them off as either being brainwashed or a bad actor. Same treatment either way.
my struggle with stuff like this is that, because i am lgbt, my existence is considered “political”.
my existence is considered “political”.
I wish this would give you (and others) a pause to reflect on held opinions.
i mean, what pause can i do? i would like to exist.
Are you saying my preference to exist in society and not be discriminated against is just an opinion to be debated? because i am very tired of debating that topic.
You aren’t going to stop existing because a held belief stops existing.
what held belief?
Whatever belief you’re holding. You’re not going to stop existing.
Politics is dirty. The propaganda is real and everywhere. Good propaganda pulls at “feeling” and “emotions.” If they can get you mad about something, the propaganda worked.
If your self identity is “political,” they have won. Thats exactly what they want. They got you. They will use you to help push their agenda. Im sorry this is rough, but it is what it is. I’m gonna say it… you’re going to be used as a pawn of the left.
Ah yes, sexual orientation isn’t political, that’s why every LGBT+ person has never had any issues with adoption, finding bathrooms that align with how they present (without committing a crime), have never been sent to a legal reeducation camp, and aren’t considered to be illegal in existence (man what was the Russian Government, a political entity’s take on LGBT+ folks and their relationships, I can’t remember).
What…
Maybe unfortunately, but the sexual orientation of folks (homosexuality) is definitely used as a tool by politicians to push certain agendas. Politicians will pander to these groups like they do to many other groups.
OOP said, “My existence is political.” And wasn’t wrong.
Reflection on held opinions is… political.
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Maybe you should start a No Politics campaign. Have some debates over the issue. Raise it with your leaders. Find out the impacts of the new policy. Get all of Lemmy to have a vote on it.
Listen here you little shit!
Sure, or you could go outside and play on some days.
Fair enough. While you’re at it, add a no anime day and a no Linux day as well. Or are we only removing things you don’t like?
Could it be 3 different days ? Because I don’t want to spend one day per week staring at my walls
Not op but I’d be down for all three of those actually!
At that point it might be better to just have a designated anime, Linux, and politics day (or two).
OR! Categories that you can block, with mandatory category tags on each community and lying about the category results in perma-ban.
And no memes
Okay Buddy, this is where I draw the lines.
You can take my gun, but you can never take my memes!
And a no snark day!
Wouldn’t you like that
It’s hard not to find this kind of logic and desire to be naive and somewhat childish. I really do think it comes from a desire to go back to a time when you’re a child and you don’t have to worry about things.
It’s privilege.
When people don’t want to talk politics it’s because they have the luxury of not being affected every moment of their lives about said politics.
I.e. easy to switch off the ‘trans people should die’ rhetoric when you’re a cis gendered middle aged white man in a western country.
Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously
People should take it seriously when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech. In this case it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification. So yeah.
when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech
“We should have a day where nobody talks about politics” is less a comment on censorship and more a comment on the speaker likely feeling enervated by the Say Everything Do Nothing cycles of political discourse.
It’s naive, self-serving, and myopic, to be sure. But it does illustrate an overall problem of these social forums. People rehashing the same arguments over and over again. People screaming at one another blindly, making all sorts of trollish comments and paranoid accusations, and generally harshing the vibe of the overall community, pleading and begging for annoymous randos to support this or that political candidate or policy… its not fun.
A day without political speech might be healthier for everyone’s mental state, broadly speaking. But only for the moment, in the same way a man yanking himself up to the surface of a pool and gasping for air feels relief, before sinking below the surface again.
it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification
When you feel helpless and impotent, its all you know how to ask for. A very sad state of affairs overall. Every day going online, expressing anger, doing nothing about it, logging off, encountering horrors in real world, feeling anxiety, and going back online to vent again.
Touch grass
Unfollow all the political communities and your issue will be solved.
Wasn’t looking for a solution, kid.
You were literally suggesting that the entire population of Lemmy change because you don’t want to read politics.
Yes, let’s take a shower thoughts post very serious. Smart choice.
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Usually this just means “no politics I disagree with.”
I’d love to see more users / activity in the non-political niche and hobby communities. That’s my holiday wish.
The 3d printing community is awesome and very active. Thanks ro them I fix my shitty printer. They help me so much every time I do something dumb and fuck my printer up.
Yes, I have noticed a lot of activity in that community! I do some resin printing myself. Most folks in there appear to be using filament, but I’m grateful they are so active.
It’s not too surprising that some dedicated DIY 3d printing “maker” type people gravitate towards the fediverse.
I use both. Love the resin one, Hate the fdm with all my heart
Are we making wishes for Halloween now?
Holiday wish??? Dude. It’s October! This is spooky season, then it’s turkey season THEN holiday season!
My rule of thumb is that anyone who puts up christmas decorations before Black Friday is a massive asshole, who sucks dick…but not very well. They use a lot of teeth in their blowjobs, because they have no sense of how things are supposed to be. They do things nobody wants.
That’s why you gotta wait until black friday. For now, it’s all about black cats, and murder. Blood is a decoration! Also, pumpkin spice…for some reason…
LOOK! I DON’T MAKE THE RULES!
Spooky holiday is still a holiday
You should definitely tell Costco, who had Christmas decorations out in fucking JULY!
Ok…I know Everette True is just a comic, but I’m REALLY channeling his spirit hearing that…
Feel free to have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and its hobby threads
Except they always become political as this is Lemmy
“Missing the point”
From my POV, you’re the one who’s missing the point.
Thank you Anakin.
The irony is that this post itself is political.
I love the idea
Yes! We should elect officials from each community. Then have them get votes from their community and then we can get all the community heads together and decide what day it is. As long as it’s not at the start or end of the week. I think people who want that have bad genes and should get deported back to Reddit, and make Reddit pay for it.
Block Lemmy world politics and news subs and it will clear your feed.
It is way easier thing to do over expecting a bunch of people doing something together lol
