No politics means to not speak to anyone. Anything can be construed as political speech.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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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.
Did you have a day in mind? Does it cater to only one country? Is there something to learn from that ?
"Everything is political."
Missing the point.
What is the point?
The irony is that this post itself is political.
my struggle with stuff like this is that, because i am lgbt, my existence is considered "political".
I love the idea
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.
If you don’t like politics, just move to a country where you don’t get to vote. Problem solved.
Just block em. By blocking a half dozen politics subs and a dozen or so chronically online leftist agendaposters I've really cleared the air. Makes the experience a lot more enjoyable. :)
I just block the communities and users. Can't rawdog lemmy.
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.
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