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
everyone here is a leftist nerd, and the united states is at risk of falling under right-wing fascism.
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.
Your encounters with dildos is much different than mine
“voodoo dick my ass!” Comes to mind
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.
Dumbest? Maybe, but there have definitely been crueler: Andrew Jackson for one.
Andrew Jackson was the cruelest so far. Give Trump more time to cook and we will see.
It’s a political position. You are literally talking about a person in politics, that makes it a political matter. Wow difficult to understand I guess. Speaking about Trump is especially political and jarring
It’s difficult to see how it would be jarring, the guy is the very vocal President of the United States, materially affects quite a few people.
Incredible. We’ve found someone more dense than a neutron star.
Amazing
Say something non political
Orange man
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.
Dude, Proton is so good for 2d gaming. I have, I think, 3X the number of Stardew Valley mods installed than when I had it on Win10. It’s at the point where I am deciding on whether to downgrade my Windows SSD and just use it for firmware updates (though I might experiment with running the DualSense tool in wine, instead).
Pop-Os gang!
I gotchu, fam
Wild that you post this on a post that says “fuck AI”
I like to live on the edge…
How & why?
- AI
- Why not
Feels a bit uncanny
A shitty can of beans edited over the image is still better, uncanny AI images give me heebie jeebies.
Also, this is kinda borderline trypophobia triggering, which is the result of the uncanny AI effect.
or maybe it is uncanny because there are beans the size of boulders??
smh. “result of the uncanny AI effect.” talking about image generation like it’s some sort of magic taint that pervades the image. i’ll go draw large beans myself just to point out how fucking absurd what you’re saying is, brb.
How about this?
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.
Lemmy is political because you may be into Star trek, you may use Linux, but we are all beholden to corrupt, capitalist oligarchs and billionaires. It’s the one true shared interest of everyone here.
Also Star Trek and FLOSS are both intrinsically political.
Star Trek is THE political show
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.
This.
Just from the features and the convenience, Reddit is better. It’s bigger, it’s got more content, it’s easier, it’s more stable (or at least used to be). You don’t have to worry about your instance going under or anything like that.
The reason for the devs to invest their time to make lemmy and the apps and for admins to invest money and time into hosting and running the instances and for users to use this instead of Reddit is mainly the politics of wanting to have your own space with your own data.
There’s something comical about your discussion around leaving reddit and yet your comment starts like so much reddit trash.
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I’m tired of Lemmy users acting like they, on average, aren’t the people that people make fun of when they make fun of Redditors.
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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
Didn’t realize this was strictly about the US. Also left and right are relative directions. Something being left of something else. You can endlessly compare apples and oranges if you want, but I don’t see the point.
dude, a lot of us have been banned from reddit for being overtly leftist. its a major reason lemmy even exists.
