This is a fair assessment. I actually like politics, but I have still blocked numerous political communities because the users spam variations of the exact same 2 articles over, and over, and over, and over again.
It's either going to be:
The first few times were interesting, now it's just effing annoying. Blocking these communities has definitely improved my Lemmy experience.
Join communities focused on political theory more, you get more analysis than simply X Bad.
i like sticking my head in the sand too; it's safe.
Privilege is so convenient, in so many ways! I mean, who gives a shit about any of it, I'll probably never be affected!
nobody has ever felt inner peace wearing a button shirt and tie
He's naked in the other pic.
Exactly. This asshole wants people to stop yelling at them for "just wanting a fiscal conservative" in office. (The guy in the pic, not OP)
Anyone telling American voters to ignore politics in an election year is doesn't want progress. Please keep that in mind...
Many of us aren't American. The assumption that we are remains an annoyance on this website.
I just don’t think you need to be bombarded with political crap in every community. You can care about politics and not want to see it in every other post.
I'm glad you did what you want with your own life. People should block instances/people/subs instead of complaining about them. I think the people who complain actually want to grandstand their own beliefs. You have become what you hate dipshits!
Block/mute, move on. It's your life. It's your lemmy. Use the tools at your disposal instead of trying to get other people to do what you want!
I don't want 10,000 anime posts on my all page but they keep popping up lol
Do you know if there's anything I can do to stop it?
When you ignore politics:
Except it's mostly Americans, and their politics mostly has nothing to do with me. Such is life I suppose.
Give it time, eventually we will do an imperialism to your country too.
Well, the 'politics' communities are usually used by US folks as their politics communities. It's great that Trump is doing senile-old-man things again, but I cannot vote for or against the guy anyways. So, there is no real reason for me to keep up with that drama.
Remember kids, nothing doesn't apply to you, everything was made specifically for you. If you find yourself in a community that seems like it doesn't apply to you, remember that you're never in the wrong place, obviously it is that community who is in the wrong.
What? Is this supposed to be snark? By blocking the community, I am saying that this is the wrong place for me to be. I just don't want it showing up in /all.
I still browse through the political communities occasionally but I hate how their posts absolutely dominate the main page by default.
This is certainly what they want you to think.
The fact is that "both sides" (sorry) are selling a pill for doom. The fire meme above is whatever Trumps latest scary/dumb thing he said, or it's 40 network cameras focused on a 100 SqYd patch of a city that wants to be on the news.
It's whatever will mobilize you to donate, click, watch, buy, and yes, vote.
We only got the fire meme because we don't understand fire.
Being apolitical is just accepting status quo which is, funnily enough, also an explicit political stance.
You can vote without having 70 % of your feed filled with the fucked up USA politics.
To be fair, voting is less than the bare minimum effort required to enact meaningful change.
And how can you know what meaningful change even is without staying on top of current events?
You just equated blocking c/politics with being broadly pro status quo. You can be politically engaged and active and not like the discussions on c/politics.
No, i equated being apolitical with being pro status quo. Being apolitical was implied by not wanting to hear about politics and reaching "inner peace" as a result.
There a huge difference between apolitical and not wanting to be spammed by left-wing echo chamber talking points. Who do leftists think they are reaching on Lemmy anyways lol.
You can always go back to reddit. First of all, to even consider .ml "left wing echo chamber" you need to be more far right than Hitler*, since even open genocide support argued by a lot of people here** is "left wing" to you? Difference is, .ml admins arent US govt bootlickers unlike reddit admins and you can't just scream for them to shut us communists like you people did on reddit.
*Oh, an .worlder, figures.
**Mostly .worlders and such, the fact such a genocidal proaganda isn't banned on sight is a visible testament to .ml not being an echo chamber.
Lemmy was made by Communists, it has a ton of Communists and Anarchists as a consequence. Believe it or not, Leftist outreach is working on Lemmy.
While I appreciate yalls community service, the revolution will not be hosted online.
Course not, that's why I always tell people to read theory and join an org like PSL or FRSO.
I know for a fact I have gotten a few dozen people to read at least a little bit of theory, converted a few to Marxism-Leninism, and helped encourage at least one comrade to join an org. The numbers are low, yes, but that's important nonetheless.
No one is saying it will. Lots of folks in leftist spaces advocate for getting in the streets, unionizing your workplace, and organizing in socialist organizations. If you're a socialist, it's time to find a socialist organization to join. Can't find any local chapters? Start your own. Don't like any local organizations? Join one and work to improve it.
It won't happen online so just give up and ignore what's happening. This is so defeatist and exactly what corrupt politicians want, apathy.
There is a list of people I have radicalized, actually.
And obviously this is not an echo chamber. Tell people not to vote for a blue team genocider and libs freak out.
Ignorance is bliss.
I cannot disagree.
Turning my brain off to global affairs once or twice a week is essential to my sanity.
Along with anything news related.
For real, such peace of mind doom scrolling now
I believe, that's the opposite of doom scrolling...
Also political memes.
And memes.
I created an account just for that lol
And then you come to this place and give us flashback.
Thanks for nothing
Now you can thank yourself for making that good decision!
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