"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."

Beans are political if you look at it hard enough.

Also if you look at politics even more it also becomes beans.

Either embrace the absurdity or fight for the right to grow beans on your friend's lakehouse farm while taking your clothes to your mom's house so she can wash them for you.

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.

Glossy bean

Good meme!

Answer you probably weren't looking for:

Because while you might not be political, the Nazis are. They're political enough for both of you, actually, and they prefer it that way.

Politics of state and business, poor job market prospects, these are the things that we need to solve if we are to truly maximize beantime or beanmaxxing if you will

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

Even beans are political, mate.

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.

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.

People like to complain, and if you’re even marginally aware of the recent headlines, there’s a LOT to complain about.

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

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.

I gotchu, fam

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

Because politics impacts your life and everyone around you

It's pretty easy to filter out most political stuff on Lemmy and Reddit and similar platforms. Just subscribe to communities you like and stay out of All. If I go to All, I know what I'm in for. That's on me.

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

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

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.

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

That’s not public transportation!

I've started using keyword filters more and more. You'd be surprised how few you need to hide most of the political shouting.

insert [at this point I'm afraid to ask] meme

what is the "beans" thing?

Everything is inherently political and engaging with the world around us is more healthy in the long run.