Well... technically speaking: Isn't "whining about politics" still "politics"?

If we follow that rabbit hole, OP has contributed to the exact issue they are ranting about.

Does your instance federate with Hexbear and Lemmygrad? Because I constantly have those people in my feed and it's absolutely exhausting. I see more memes about burning the rich and starting a revolution than normal memes in my feed. I'm left-wing, but I'm not looking at memes to constantly be confronted with politics. Unfortunately instance blocking isn't working well for me yet

I'm glad for you, please let me know what instance you're on

Same. OP is no 2 for my blocklist of literal children crying about politics.

Waah...I don't want to press the downvote button, id rather whine about all the things I don't like. People should automatically anticipate my desires and cater to them.... Waaahh

Do you read the comments too, or just scroll through the feed?

There is no such thing as a non-political discussion either! ;) everything is politics in some sense

Average comment: "I'm glad to see more female engineers. Historically they have been disfranchised."

MFers like OP: "Why would you bring politics into this?"

Honestly I never got why LGBT+ is even a political thing. It’s just basic human rights. But probably my opinion will be seen as politics by some.

If there are two or more people, there are politics. I agree with the idea that people who decry ‘politics’ often have disgusting ideas and beliefs. Its a malignant form of privilege to pretend to be able to ignore politics. It’s either that or they are just a little dim and don’t feel they can keep up in a conversation.

Talking about Trump on every other thread has nothing to do with politics either, I assume?

Least annoying strawman

"marginalized folks? Grrrrrrrr!"

No, they mean you fuckers thinking outright political posts are memes.

News is fine.

It's when people start screaming/blaming the "left" or "right", the "biden" or "trump", etc.

Extra annoying when I am not even fucking American and have to hear Americans scream about your old senile corpses you call presidents in EVERY FUCKING POST.

Extra extra annoying when I am reading a news article about my country, and Americans roll in screaming about how that's "bidens fault" or "illegal in montana". Learn to fucking read where you are.

But then again, According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have English prose literacy below the 6th-grade level.

Thank you, we'll get right on it.

That's right.

But only because "Vim vs Emacs" is a technically a religious holy war.

Nothing but holy wars there.

I guess not wanting to discuss it is okay considering that's exhausting, but asking others not to is the dick move

Not really. I want to kick back and relax, why would i start discussing politics in my free time? I live in a state that is deeply entrenched in one side, so my opinion does not really matter

Arguing politics online has never solved anything. I have better uses of my energy than to argue politics with a bunch of faceless randoms that won't accept anything less than total conformity.

Politics in a political or news sub is fine. Politics in, say, a technology sub or a gaming one is just annoying.

I think they prefer to be called "Austrians"

Tell me how it's "suspicious" to not want to read a post about Starfield, and have the comments be filled about politics because the game allows you to pick between he/him, she/her, and they/them?

It's a game. Shut the fuck up about politics.

I lean to the left myself. But it’s just nice to have a break every once in a while.

To be honest, due to how this thread turned out, I’m not even able to distinguish if this is serious or sarcasm

Just to clarify, my general point, I am in no way against discussing politics. Be it in the political communities, or with the occasional meme. I fully realize the potential that memes have for initiating or reflecting on political discussion.

My point here is that I have a strong feeling that the comment section of seemingly non-divisive posts I’ve also fallen prey to the BuT eVeRyThInG iS PoLiTiCs hardliners. I fully realize that many, many topics can be seen as politically divisive, even if I don’t feel so myself. But I would like to make two points about this:

1. And some posts, I get the feeling that the political discussion has absolutely nothing to do with the post body itself. It could be a picture of a beautiful sunrise, and someone suddenly starts talking about some American politician, and about how if it was up to that politician, we would never have sunrises again or something.

2. Secondly, but very importantly: the level tends to be very low. People don’t know once we articulate their political opinion or reaction to another person’s political opinion, but it turns into this food fight-grade yes/no, strawman, whataboutism, etc. etc. It is my personal opinion that this takes away from most users lemmy experience, it does from mine anyway.

Genie: so there are 5 rules

It's okay. We get it. But I see you've been scarred by those I mentioned in my other comment.

You know they're still gonna come for you, though...

sniff sniff "Hark! Doth he hear a chance to feel better about thyself?" cracks knuckles

If people actually upvoted good content and downvoted bad content, the front page of every default sub on Reddit wouldn't be an endless sea of reposts.

I downvote whenever I see them, but it seems like there are more, or a loud few (maybe both), for every one of my downvotes. It's not just here, it seems like this on /all too. To be more specific, it seems there are more trolls constantly watching and quicker on the keyboard for anything remotely political. It sucks that we need moderation in any capacity to enforce no politics on 'no politics' spaces..

Just to clarify, my meme was more about Lemmy in general, also not the posts themselves but that the comment sections of all kind of things suddenly become (in my view unnecessarily) politically divisive. It just escalates quickly.

Actually, you're displaying an aggressively incurious attitude, which is not the virtue you seem to think it is 😛