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In my eyes, there is no avoiding politics. Ignorance is bliss, knowledge is power, and choosing ignorance means choosing to ignore something that directly affects you. I feel I need to know what’s happening in politics, so I can know when and how I can be most effective with direct action. Part of understanding what I see in the news also requires an in-depth understanding of history and other seemingly innocuous news stories, so I have the appropriate historical knowledge to understand how and why it affects politics. Staying informed also protects me from being manipulated by politicians and the specific news I consume.
To expand on what you said, I think many people like that bliss. It’s easier to be ignorant and happy.
choosing ignorance means choosing to ignore something that directly affects you.
what does lemmy have to do with any of this
I avoid it as much as I can. I’m not a fan of the outrage addiction, and I’m highly suspicious of gaining any reliable information about events from an echo-chamber, even if it’s on “my side” of the political spectrum.
That and even if I agree with a lot of the posts you’ll notice that they’re posted by the same people at a very alarming rate. I’ve ran through and blocked anyone who posts the same topic every 6 minutes. Since then my feed has been less monotonous and slightly more authentic.
Got a block list to share?
This is a good idea. Perhaps you should make a community that focuses on curating block lists.
Can you export/import block lists?
I asked in a similar thread a while ago and the answer is no, you have to type them each out and as for importing you need to go into each user to block.
Like the fucking plague.
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99% of it is American and I’m not. So what the fuck could I even do about it if I wanted to?
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There’s nothing I can do to change someone’s mind on ANY subject on here.
I’m just here to find interesting stuff, make a funny comment or 2 or find answers to some questions I may have. That’s about it.
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Define avoid? Actively repelled by any political discussion?
Or
Will lerk in a political community and not commenting due to not wanting to dip a toe into the toxic gas lighting pool?
Or something normalized in between?
I’m a political lurker for sure. I want to read about people’s ideas - even if they challenge my own. However, I don’t like to debate or have many in depth political conversations myself.
Yes, avoid.
Try to, comments tend to ruin it
Yep, that’s pretty much my list as well.
You can try to avoid politics all you want, it won’t avoid you.
Is that even possible?
I would think.
oh 100% i avoid it completely. i advocate for things in my own space and my own community. I’m not wasting my time talking about this shit online with any of you. i already know what im doing in november and i know what i gotta do in my local community and i dont give a flying fuck what anyone on here has to say about any of it. aint trying to change a bunch of random stranger’s minds (especially when i know we already pretty much agree on all the shit im already going to be doing)
and instead of policing my communities to attempt to help create a politically tasteful environment for myself, id rather just … fucking avoid completely any political environment. problem solved, life easy
PS if you block ads, you should block most news
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You should make your own community and do it right!
Most political stuff on Lemmy is either hardcore communist or US centric, neither of which I know much about so avoid.
I only pay attention to the UK centric stuff as that’s what I understand being that I live here.
Avoiding politics is fucking gay, amirite bois?
Most of the time, yes. It always make me feel angry or sad.
I only avoid discussions with the hardcore leftist anarchist/communist groups because there is a big overlap between those communities and absolutely brain dead moderation policies.
Comments that have been removed/gotten me temp banned from Lemmygrad and .Ml include:
“millions of people died under Stalins rule”(banned, “misinfo”)
Someone commented “nuke Texas” I said something to the effect of “yes blow up the 49% of Democratic voters” -comment removed, comment calling to nuke Texas left up
Having comments edited by bots and mods so you don’t hurt anyone’s fee fees
There are other examples if I go through the mod log. Lemmy.Ml in particular takes an absolutely wild amount of mod/admin actions compared to any instance.
Tl;Dr: yes but not because of politics, because Lemmy leftists are the fucking worst
The modern political climate in my country is bad enough to make me suicidal, so I avoid as much of it as I can.
Good.
I try to (except from here I guess). I feel like a lot of political discussions here lack any nuance, and are often very US-centric. I’m moderately left wing myself, but I still often feel like I have little in common with the sometimes extremely left viewpoints here. They are usually also seem to be defended in a very black and white way. If you don’t agree you’re quickly deemed a fascist or nazi.
Honestly, I feel like online discussions often don’t really achieve anything. Differing opinions are downvoted and often met with name-calling or accusations. I’d rather discuss in-person with friends and colleagues across the political spectrum, that tends to actually lead to a friendly sharing of thoughts rather than the unsatisfactory hate spewing you get online.
