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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.
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Submitted 5 weeks ago by timeless@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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tanisnikana@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Apology not accepted. You don’t owe anybody apologies for that, ever. They should be apologizing to you.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Exactly this. Sure it is exhausting, but it is necessary. Even more so with this current administration.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 weeks 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.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
You outed yourself by demonstrating reading comprehension, sorry
timeless@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
[deleted]ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
lemmy.ca##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(“/trump/i”))Put that into your ablocker custom rules.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Yeah, but like, I’m smart enough to know I’m not in that 65%, because I’m smarter than average.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 weeks 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.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Thats not politics. That’s news.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
I predict a huge leftwing shift among apolitical people since it’s bleeding into things people who don’t read the news experience
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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.
dustyData@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
To be fair, most politics on Lemmy is US-centric politics. Second is EU-centric.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 weeks 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
expr@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
The world is political.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Especially now.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
Everything is political. You’re just not aware of how the things you like are political.
Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Nope, head in sand and complain through anis.
twinnie@feddit.uk 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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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spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because you’re not filtering by your subscribed communities.
yesman@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
99/100 times complaints about “politics” is a someone taking offense at being confronted with politics they don’t like.
But yea, if you like reactionary politics, Windows, or AI, Lemmy is going to be a bad time.
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 weeks ago
or ai
Don’t tell dbshitter that
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Everything is political
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
!WomensStuff@lazysoci.al is no politics! We’re a trans+ inclusive women’s only group though.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
???
Trans rights aren’t political?
Women’s rights isn’t political?
tehmics@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Filter out the politics, and join a bunch of other forums instead.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s pretty annoying. Best thing you can do do is sub to communities that don’t have it. As an example, the linux communities are pretty big and low on politics.
timeless@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
[deleted]rabber@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Just throw those people in the trash with your block button man, you have full power here
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It is a bit insane, because the world is a bit insane right now, and honestly I think it’s your fault.
Well, not you specifically, and it’s not entirely your fault. But part of the reason tyranny and fascism have gripped power across the globe is that political discussion is considered impolite. It’s offensive to point out how absurd or dangerous a political policy is, so we just avoid the subject. Wouldn’t want to offend a conservative bigot by pointing out other people exist.
And because polite people avoid the subject, only extremists engage in the debate. Nuance is lost, and the crazies take charge of the nuthouse whilst “normal” people, like yourself, fret about people talking about the problem.
It would be fucking fantastic to look at a picture of the sky and not think of how air pollution is being deregulated, how Qatar is buying influence with the President by gifting him an airplane, how space is being monetized by a South African Nazi, or how we’re all likely to die of an airborne virus because the person in charge of coordinating our healthcare response has a brain that’s mostly worm poo.
It would be wonderful to stop talking about politics, but not talking about it has led us, inexorably, to this point. We have a duty to discuss ideas when they affect all of us. We have a responsibility to point out stupidity and ignorance and make conservatives feel ashamed of it. It’s not fun for us, either, but if we were to follow your lead, we will end up murdering children in death camps. Which is exactly where we are.
kreskin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because Lemmy’s userbase was boosted by a lot of reddit banned people, and reddit bans people for political speech. I’d guess lemmys userbase doesnt represent a random sampling of the general population.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Is it really so many banned people? I thought most of us were here voluntarily due not liking reddit policies. I have my reddit account, I just don’t use it.
Bongles@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
There was a huge influx of users when reddit broke third party apps, I have to imagine that was larger than reddit bans. But then not everybody stuck around so who knows.
kreskin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
granted, it hasnt been measured that I can find, so I’m talking about what I think, not what is known. It possible you’re right.
wjrii@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have mine, and frankly I still use it to read about college football and Star Wars and check AskHistorians and post about keyboards. For shitposting and actually engaging with humans – yes, many of whom are my political speed or even further left – I really prefer it here. I “left” during the Mod Rebellion and APIpocalypse when it kind of became clear things were not going to be getting better. If it dies, it dies. We got beans over here.
rabber@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I would say it’s quite literally because a lot of people who post on lemmy are intelligent and intelligent people pay close attention to the problems in the world aka “woke”
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 5 weeks 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.
the_q@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Because everything is political. We’re in the position we are now because people weren’t paying attention. Finding a place to stick your head in the sand ain’t here.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Merriam-Webster: politics
Definition 1:
a : the art or science of government b : the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy c : the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government
And here we are on social media.
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks 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.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Politics need to be contained to their own communities. Propaganda everywhere (even if it’s propaganda that confirm your own views) drive people away.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
I’m okay with far right people being driven away, actually.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Not everyone who doesn’t want to talk about politics 24/7 is far right. In fact most are not. People be seeing far right in their own shadows nowadays. Stalin level paranoia.
TypicalHog@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s because Lemmy mainly consists of hyper-frustrated leftists who treat it as their safe space echo chamber.
MBech@feddit.dk 5 weeks 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.
Piatro@programming.dev 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Even the system supporters pretend they don’t these days
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
rabber@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
And if you tell other normal people to come here eventually this place will become less extremist
peregrin5@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yes, Lemmy is probably 60% people who were banned from Reddit for being overly political.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
I didn’t get banned but I definitely would have by now if I’d stayed.