I notice that often (not always) inflammatory comments are written by those who frequent politics related communities.
In addition to being straight up antagonistic, the comments often are about labeling and categorizing everything.
Like if someone posted a meme or made a joke. It can't just simply be taken at face value. The commenter is compelled
to categorize it, label it, assume there is an underlying agenda. It has to be Russian or Chinese propaganda, it's far-left or far right,
its LGBTQ related, it's incel related, it's promoting some agenda somehow.
When I go to check their profile it is very common that the individual frequently comments in politics related communities.
Man, not everything on the planet needs to be politics related. There's not a deep state agenda for everything.
Memes and jokes are sometimes dumb and silly and no one is trying to promote anything. There is actually a type of humor
called Surreal humor or Absurdist humor which like sarcasm seems like a lot
of people just don't get.
go to your cities facebook page sometime or god forbid nextdoor. People are fully addicted to being online, and mad. You'll see the same people pop up time and time again, forcing their opinions on things that are completely irrelevant. There can be a picture of a park on a nice day and these people will fly off the handle about liberals or lgbtq or something.
They literally can't help it anymore, it's a dopamine drip for them. They get to feel superior for a split second, then move onto the next post.
I think part of it is that and part of it is feeling helpless. All political news is terrible all the time, it's always outrageous and anger inducing especially because there is literally nothing you can do but vote or the much much much harder, borderline impossible, "actually run for office yourself" so a persons only outlet is online.
I think I'm guilty of this, but I try not to be nasty about it.
I mean, the original creators of Lemmy are Communists. Not my opinion; they stated that much themselves. Despite their claim that their team comes from a bunch of political ideologies, lemmy.ml is very pro-Communism, and a breeding ground for pro-Russia/China and anti-Ukraine/America content.
I block every single user who writes comments like that and nowdays I can pretty much gurantee that when I see a thread about one of these topics I'm not seeing even half of the replies because they're almost exclusively from blocked users.
While there is undeniable truth in what you say, I'd caution to remember that while politics dominating your life may be optional, its not for many. Trans people just trying to exist is seen as political, for instance.
While that is true, I don't think those people should also be given Carte Blanche to turn everything political.
I get that they are extremely oppressed, and have all the right to fight against it, but I fail to see where a pirate flag is an Anti-LGBT symbol or a tranphobic icon, as I've seen some claim.
It's not cart blanche to turn anything political. I'm just asking you (and everyone here) to recognize that somethings they may not think of as political already are. If you put yourself in the shoes of the person treating something as political and still come away thinking its unfounded, as in your pirate flag case, you've done what I've asked.
No. OP literally just does blog posts. They should be on kbin microblogging, or start an actual blog. I don't even disagree with their posts, but they have no idea what "unpopular" or "opinion" means.
I don't think it's an unpopular opinion to hate people politicising everything - politics should stay in politics.
Sometimes you just want to chat stupid shit and get away from all that crap.
You say that as though being a minority gives carte blanche to make any discussion you're involved in political - bigots may try to make you political, but many folks are more than happy to live and let live. I mean I certainly wouldn't want to talk about my ASD all the time.
That means what you wrote is an expression of your privilege, and is therefore itself a political statement.
The privilege to have sought out communities where I don't always have to speak about politics, or where I can debate people on more harmless subjects? You can do that too you know...
And if everything suddenly becomes political around you where it wasn't before, it might not necessarily be because you're a minority, it might be because you're the one politicising things, ala my first comment.
No offence to you, but that doesn't always have to be true. When the going gets serious, of course it has to be political, but one can certainly joke around and have fun without things turning political.
If you can't do literally anything with anyone without it becoming political, even in safe spaces, then the problem isn't who you are, it's that you've got nothing else to talk about but politics.
You're basically asking "do you check for red flags on everybody who is not raising red flags?"
In comment threads, I usually only check post history for people I am considering blocking. It makes sense to check post history if people are instigating. If that person is just starting shit everywhere then there's no reason to listen to them, but if they have a history of reasoned discussion then maybe what they say is worth considering. (I realize how ironic this is coming from somebody who has almost no comment history on a new account)