If we were blind on the politics / moral eye we'd be on reddit I reckon

Life is political, get involved or get out of the way.

Goddamnit. I'm gonna get sooo many reports from this post.

The worst part for me? Fuckin beans.

Because politics impacts your life and everyone around you

I don't want to care about politics, but politics keep trying to bust in my door and want to shove itself down my throat like a possessed dildo, so I only be political as self defence.

everyone here is a leftist nerd, and the united states is at risk of falling under right-wing fascism.

Being against genocide isn't a "political position." It's called "being a decent human being" and you should be against it, no matter who is doing it to who.

Pointing out that Trump is the dumbest, cruelest president that has ever lived isn't a "political position. " It's called "using your fucking eyes and paying attention to what he's doing."

I could go on and on about "things that are more obvious than a sunrise being labeled 'political positions'" but those 2 things could keep us busy for years.

The truth is the for a lot of us being here in the first place was a political stance.

Since you brought it up, I finally upgraded to windows 11 and hated it so I switched to Pop! linux since it's good for gaming. So far so good, Proton needs some tweaking on occasion but it's easy to do. Hell Rimworld and Planet Crafter run even better. I haven't tried anything else out yet.

I gotchu, fam

Lemmy has always been this way AFAIK, but let's be honest if there was ever a time that people need to be be aware of politics it's now.

Because the sole nature of Lemmy is political. The whole reason it exists is political. People want to move away from tech oligarchs and take control of their own spaces, of their data. Rotting on Reddit while all your data is being harvested and your interactions get turned into shareholder value is very convenient. Being on Lemmy is inconvenient (although it has become less so over the last year). So if you're willing to ditch a very convenient platform because of your beliefs, and move to a platform that aligns more closely with said beliefs, then it's fairly obvious why said platform is so political in nature.

Reminding that "...there are currently no major left-wing political parties in the country." you Americans have far right or right wing parties, haha losers

dude, a lot of us have been banned from reddit for being overtly leftist. its a major reason lemmy even exists.

I mean, politics encompass everything. There is no escape, simply a tolerance for one flavor of politics over another. You may be in a position that views news and opinions as an annoyance, but I'm not free to forget what's at stake.

"Can we stop talking about politics for a moment?"

"So, uh, does anyone like Furina from Genshin Impact?"

"HOLY SHIT, okay fine, let's talk politics."