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People who think Lemmy is too political and refuse to join is good. (beehaw.org)

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Look at here and the people who complain about it being too hard to figure out are the ones complaining about "I can't use muh slurs, this is awful."

"The left of today is very much in favour of censorship to avoid “harm.” This makes those of us in the middle very wary of signing up to any partisan media." /u/decidedlysticky23

/u/misshapensteed claims he isn't far right, but explictly only posts on PoliticalCompassMemes and TheLeftCantMeme and KotakuInAction.

If they are too stupid to figure out we know they're lying, they're too stupid to figure out lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes. This is a different platform, I'd rather we don't just transplant all the reddit problems here.

Lemmy is inherently political. It was and is a revolt against reddit's staff, their business model and the influence of US politics, media and corporations on their platform due to their advertising model. This place wouldn't exist if there wasn't political differences.

We're not here to impress people who were banned for spreading Nazism. Go to all the reddit-clones that started in the early 2010s when reddit got called out for hosting toxic racist-or-fascist hate communities and communities sexualizing minors (e.g. /r/jailbait).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Everything is inherently political. If anyone thinks it isn't, it's just because the politics favour them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is true, politics is not something distinct which can be considered separate from or optionally added to society, culture or economics, although Lemmy is also explicitly political. That might be more what I intended to say.

(The real kicker is realizing that abstaining is not politically neutral.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Very true. A good phrase is "the personal is political". Politics refers to organization, power, and decision-making, and so much of our lives is determined by decisions outside our control.