Seriously every other post, every sub seems like nothing but politics. It’s so boring and disgusting. What made reddit great at one time was the diversity of genres and depth. Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems. I have been here since the Reddit exodus. It’s always been this way.
Do different Lemmy servers have different content?
Are certain severs curated?
Where do I find the depth and deep subject matter.
Less so than .ml. If OP had asked over there most of the comments wouldn’t be shaming them.
Because being able to ignore politics is helpful to the liberal west who is trying to cling to status quo. It’s not helpful to marxist leninists who don’t like the status quo. This doesn’t make .ml more political, it’s just equally political reactions from different sides of an issue.
Assisting and seeking to ignore or cover up clear abuses only serves to shield the abuser. Whistle-blowing might seem like a more political response to abuse, but covering up abuse is also political.
You can’t force people who don’t care to care. Like any therapist will tell you, you only control your own actions.
I guess you could just say “fuck them”, but isn’t the point of politics to help people who actually exist, flaws and all? People who aren’t really into politics are possibly a majority, and people that will put any serious effort into it are a (frustratingly) definite tiny minority. Bugging them anyway isn’t activism.
Not caring IS political. It’s a political stance to be so disconnected from reality that one would prefer to bury their head in the sand and ask for advice on how to bury it further.
Not caring about the state of the world doesn’t absolve you of your responsibility to it. It just makes you a negligent parent not wanting to talk about your kids every time you go to the bar.
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So? What are you going to do about it?
If you want to make any difference (which, let’s be honest, it’s mostly shitposting here), you get on an auto-masturbator next to them, and mention a thing or two when you’re both recharging. Maybe, just maybe you’ll plant an intellectual seed.
Do you think I’m trying to convince you to become political or to change your ways? Or are you just imagining my responses without reading them? My entire point is there’s no such thing as being apolitical in a political world. Every single action you take or doesn’t take reinforces or undermines the current system unless you’re in kindergarten in a heated discussion about your favorite color. Assuming you’re not in kindergarten, you should be able to handle a bit of how various topics are impacted or are connected to politics regardless of your own participation in those discussions.
Me? I’m pretty heavily involved in IRL politics and have been for years.
I was nice to OP. That’s it.
I guess it’s on me for expecting you to finally respond to my actual point after trying to restate the same thing over and over, but seeing as that never actually happened, I’m out.
Alright.
To answer your question before you go, no, I don’t think you’re trying to convince anyone of anything. Which is the problem; what are you doing, and how can anyone engage with it? I read what you wrote, it’s just not relevant to what’s going on in this thread.
Like what, was I supposed to fly off the handle and say “politics doesn’t effect anything”, or agree and say “yes we’re both very woke, much better than most people”? That would definitely be a waste of time.
Because OP is a reddit liberal, like dotworld, who assumes their own politics are normal, and everything else is “political”.
Apolitical exists. It’s existed in every country ever at about the same level, and probably is a slight majority. You only have to touch grass to find out, basically. I actually don’t believe you haven’t noticed.
No it doesn’t