"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."
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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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.
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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.
This.
Just from the features and the convenience, Reddit is better. It's bigger, it's got more content, it's easier, it's more stable (or at least used to be). You don't have to worry about your instance going under or anything like that.
The reason for the devs to invest their time to make lemmy and the apps and for admins to invest money and time into hosting and running the instances and for users to use this instead of Reddit is mainly the politics of wanting to have your own space with your own data.
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Glossy bean
I don't want to care about politics, but politics keep trying to bust in my door and want to shove itself down my throat like a possessed dildo, so I only be political as self defence.
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.
I heard they even have a navy!
Especially soy beans
People like to complain, and if you’re even marginally aware of the recent headlines, there’s a LOT to complain about.
Exactly .... I wouldn't be talking about politics if politics had just stayed out of affecting my life in so many stupid, terrible and sometimes horrible ways
I prefer politics remain just plain boring press conferences from a dumb politician trying to figure out how to raise finances to build a highway or fix a bridge or upgrade water services.
It feels weird to have nostalgia for a time when the corrupt politicians, morally questionable revolutionaries and war crime loving generalissimos of the world at least tried to look respectable on the surface. You know, speak in complete, reasonably complex sentences and all that.
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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.
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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.
Lemmy is political because you may be into Star trek, you may use Linux, but we are all beholden to corrupt, capitalist oligarchs and billionaires. It's the one true shared interest of everyone here.
I gotchu, fam
The truth is the for a lot of us being here in the first place was a political stance.
dude, a lot of us have been banned from reddit for being overtly leftist. its a major reason lemmy even exists.
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.
Respectfully I’d disagree. I can’t scroll through most of my meme or shitposting communities without seeing some politically flavored post, and there’s some kind of political comment on probably 85% of those posts. I get politics is an important topic but people often don’t have the class to keep politics out of the more “fun” communities. I keep to my subscribed list, block the spammers, but it’s fairly pervasive. I suppose that’s not all a bad thing as I get on social media a lot less atm. If you’ve got any additional tips though I’d love to hear them.
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Because politics impacts your life and everyone around you
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
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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.
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That’s not public transportation!
It is if you leave the keys in the ignition.
Life is political, get involved or get out of the way.
I've started using keyword filters more and more. You'd be surprised how few you need to hide most of the political shouting.
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If we were blind on the politics / moral eye we'd be on reddit I reckon
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what is the "beans" thing?
Examples
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/582011
If you look up beans you'll find a period of time where literally every meme were about beans
That and jeans for some reason
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