Let’s say Sunday is NoPo day, for example. I think we’d all be in a better mood that day.

Edit. Yikes. Way too many people taking this too seriously and missing the point.

No, I’m not trying to suppress your free speech.

No, this post is not oppressive of your political views in anyway.

No, this doesn’t have any baring whatsoever on what country you’re from.

If your response to this shower thought is a four paragraph rage you are already lost. Why are you in showerthoughts?

No, this does not have anything to do with subscriptions or blocking communities.

If you’re incapable of light jokes then no, you should not comment.

And finally, no, this is not a serious request post. I can’t believe that needs to be explained for half the people here…

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    Maybe you should start a No Politics campaign. Have some debates over the issue. Raise it with your leaders. Find out the impacts of the new policy. Get all of Lemmy to have a vote on it.

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      Except that people find a way to insert politics into almost every thread. You’d have to block three quarters of the site and about half the users lol

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        You know, it’s almost like politics affects everything. Strange thing that.

        I don’t want to debate politics everytime myself, but the fact stays that at the end of the day, everything is political

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      Exactly. That’s the whole point of link sharing sites, you can curate it to just show the things you’re interested in. Simply blocking like 5 politics-related communities will almost entirely wipe political content from your view.

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      Not forcing your beliefs on everyone else? Well that’s certainly unAmerican of you! I’m not voting for the person YOU clearly support!

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    Fair enough. While you’re at it, add a no anime day and a no Linux day as well. Or are we only removing things you don’t like?

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    I’d love to see more users / activity in the non-political niche and hobby communities. That’s my holiday wish.

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      The 3d printing community is awesome and very active. Thanks ro them I fix my shitty printer. They help me so much every time I do something dumb and fuck my printer up.

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        Yes, I have noticed a lot of activity in that community! I do some resin printing myself. Most folks in there appear to be using filament, but I’m grateful they are so active.

        It’s not too surprising that some dedicated DIY 3d printing “maker” type people gravitate towards the fediverse.

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      Holiday wish??? Dude. It’s October! This is spooky season, then it’s turkey season THEN holiday season!

      My rule of thumb is that anyone who puts up christmas decorations before Black Friday is a massive asshole, who sucks dick…but not very well. They use a lot of teeth in their blowjobs, because they have no sense of how things are supposed to be. They do things nobody wants.

      That’s why you gotta wait until black friday. For now, it’s all about black cats, and murder. Blood is a decoration! Also, pumpkin spice…for some reason…

      LOOK! I DON’T MAKE THE RULES!

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    It’s hard not to find this kind of logic and desire to be naive and somewhat childish. I really do think it comes from a desire to go back to a time when you’re a child and you don’t have to worry about things.

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      It’s privilege.

      When people don’t want to talk politics it’s because they have the luxury of not being affected every moment of their lives about said politics.

      I.e. easy to switch off the ‘trans people should die’ rhetoric when you’re a cis gendered middle aged white man in a western country.

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    my struggle with stuff like this is that, because i am lgbt, my existence is considered “political”.

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      my existence is considered “political”.

      I wish this would give you (and others) a pause to reflect on held opinions.

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        i mean, what pause can i do? i would like to exist.

        Are you saying my preference to exist in society and not be discriminated against is just an opinion to be debated? because i am very tired of debating that topic.

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              Whatever belief you’re holding. You’re not going to stop existing.

              Politics is dirty. The propaganda is real and everywhere. Good propaganda pulls at “feeling” and “emotions.” If they can get you mad about something, the propaganda worked.

              If your self identity is “political,” they have won. Thats exactly what they want. They got you. They will use you to help push their agenda. Im sorry this is rough, but it is what it is. I’m gonna say it… you’re going to be used as a pawn of the left.

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                Ah yes, sexual orientation isn’t political, that’s why every LGBT+ person has never had any issues with adoption, finding bathrooms that align with how they present (without committing a crime), have never been sent to a legal reeducation camp, and aren’t considered to be illegal in existence (man what was the Russian Government, a political entity’s take on LGBT+ folks and their relationships, I can’t remember).

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                  What…

                  Maybe unfortunately, but the sexual orientation of folks (homosexuality) is definitely used as a tool by politicians to push certain agendas. Politicians will pander to these groups like they do to many other groups.

                  OOP said, “My existence is political.” And wasn’t wrong.

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    This is already possible, on any day of the week you desire, without affecting anybody else’s preferences. I assume you’ve subscribed to certain communities that you enjoy. If so, you simply switch your view to the Subscribed feeds. You can switch back anytime you want to All. As a bonus, you could even limit yourself to viewing only the communities on your instance by using Local.

    I know that comes off a little snarky, but I don’t know what you do or don’t know, so I’m going with the assumption you don’t know. Otherwise, as others have suggested, you can block communities and instances, and also add keywords to filter out specific topics.

    Edit: looks like it’s a feature request for the webui. I know Mlem has a keyword filter.

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      The issue is not politics posting. It’s politics posting in non-political subs. Like people posting about trump on this community and calling it a shower thought

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    “Missing the point”

    From my POV, you’re the one who’s missing the point.

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    The problems is what constitutes as politics is very different to different people. Is a gay man posting about his relationship with his husband political?

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        This. So many people’s lives are inherently political and opting out is a privilege.

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          Drag doesn’t think opting out is a privilege. Drag thinks being apolitical is a marginalised identity. Aroace people don’t participate in the political systems of romance and sex. ASPD people don’t respect political laws or norms. Drag thinks being political is the normal thing to do, and society punishes those who are less enmeshed in the dominant politics.

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            Drag gets blocked by a lot of people every time Drag comments like Drag is nine years old.

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              And in the context of having a politics-free day on Lemmy, why do you care about what those people think?

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                Because the decision of which politics is disallowed is a political discussion, and those people will bring their politics of bigotry to the table and argue that “no politics day” means minorities should be silenced.

                Uh oh, you got politics in your no politics.

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                  You’re on Lemmy, where the vast majority of people are left-leaning. Anyone who says this is going to be downvoted to hell.

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                Yeah that’s nice, the rest of us have to deal with reality however. So while you’ve created a fantasy world in your head where things are just and perfect the rest of us don’t have that luxury. So let’s not pretend that things are all that simple eh?

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                Drag thinks gay people are political. Politics is when a group of people use a process for decision making. A gay couple is a group of people who have decided to date each other. That’s politics. Straight people are also political. Everything is political.

                Aroace people are slightly less political than straight, gay, and bi people, but not by much, because they still have jobs and friendships and relatives.

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    First we will form a committee that monitors and tracks posts for subject matter that may be political. There will be extensive lists of what is acceptable and what isn’t, topics that will be debated at length every week.

    Then, roughly two months into NoPo days, a tampon v pad debate between a childfree estate lawyer and a closeted scentsy sales rep with a breeder fetish will spill over into other instances, inflaming users to pick sides. Both women will become icons on their respective feminine hygiene products until they are both viciously doxed and swatted by opposing communities.

    One week after, NoPo days will ban any words related to period protection and thus incite a backlash from lemmy feminists and allied persons.

    The committee will be fediversally disbanded only ten weeks into NoPo days and it’s members will be forced to make alt accounts in dishonor.

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    Good luck getting a tankie to shut the fuck up, sadly politics (or a tenuous grasp of) is all they know.

    Poor little cretins.

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        Tankies, also known as red fascists, are pretend leftists who uncritically support the USSR, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Their only ideological basis is “USA bad”.

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        Count your lucky stars you’ve managed to stay ignorant to these folks.

        You’ll know a tankie when one is with you.

        That’s all I’m gonna say on it.

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            It’s a type of person, not any one person. You won’t really be able to avoid them completely here. They’re the type of person who won’t shut the fuck up about how the U.S. is actually an authoritarian state and glazes the fuck out of places like China/Soviet Russia.

            You will likely see for yourself what I mean.

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              Oh man, that sounds like deep state Russian/China operatives trying to push an agenda. Something like that?

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                I can never really tell, truth be told. I just write them off as either being brainwashed or a bad actor. Same treatment either way.

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    Block Lemmy world politics and news subs and it will clear your feed.

    It is way easier thing to do over expecting a bunch of people doing something together lol