Post #1903751

2026-01-14 20:10 UTC

I don’t disagree that we need more positive and high quality hobby content. Sure. But personally I’m so sick of dudes complaining about “political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling”, whatever half of that banal nonsense is even supposed to mean… In fact, I’d go as far to say that people who whine about everything being “political” is a bright fucking red flag to me. My immediate assumption upon reading that is “this person is a Trump supporter who voted for this exact shit to happen because they want it to happen, and they don’t want to be confronted by the fact that other people don’t.” I know exactly what kind of people don’t want to hear about “politics” anymore now that Trump is elected, trampling our institutions, and fucking everything up. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, right?

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@karashta@piefed.social 2026-01-14 20:32

The red flag is at least, “they have so much privilege in our society they can ignore politics”, if not what you stated

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@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2026-01-14 20:52

I think something that has been lost in conversation about progressive politics and leftism more broadly (in US-centric circles at least) is that as much as people on the left disagree about absolutely everything, in general (*with plenty of exceptions*) politically left movements and cultural spaces tend to be far better at identifying common values and truths that are universal and holding individuals and communities to those values and truths. Whereas on the right the endless stumping about valuing freedom of speech turns out to mostly be a mirage when it comes to innocent, vulnerable people being physically murdered on camera, on the left institutions and individuals are much more often held to a standard of values and called out if they fail to reach it. When most people enter a space where left voices haven’t been systematically silenced, they often react negatively and feel rebuked. I know some of my first encounters when I was younger with actually left spaces initially made me bristle with how willing they were to say no to things that weren’t healthy, to challenge oppressive structures even if they were so normalized they were invisible to me… it can be an uncomfortable process but ultimately leftist spaces actually try to do it and it is good that they do it. I entirely agree with people having ways to decide when politics comes up on their feed and when it doesn’t, but the idea that we are all just being a bit too negative and obsessed with the news and we should cheer up is honestly insulting in 2026 given, you know gestures at everything.

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@Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-15 03:32

We have a lot of non-voters that love to complain about the results they helped achieve.

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