If I ignore/block them, it allows them to continue unchallenged. I hate getting into it with them, since they are a baseline idiot.
I guess that’s it. I saw a person with a 6 month account spouting garbage, was gonna block but thought perhaps that wasn’t morally responsible. Wondering what the options were.
To be honest, I don’t take any politics very seriously. I realize that Lemmy has a more tech slant that attracts peoples who’s brains work, um, a little different. And more on here are apt to get fixated on something.
But i’m not one of those. So many here make politics their entire identity. I don’t.
It’s fun to discuss here and there. But my real life is just about fucking women, chilling with friends, fucking around with AI stuff and enjoying life.
I think Lemmy takes politics WAY too seriously and way too personally.
Most politicians suck. Most aren’t really looking out for us. So I just do my own thing.
But, you must understand, to many people politics is very personal, whether they like it or not.
You are very lucky to be able to do your own thing, to have the privilege of politics being fun and not very serious. But to millions of people, this is, literally, a life and death matter.
And there it is, that’s exactly what I meant. You’re proving my point. You’ve taken politics so personally that you’ve elevated it to “life and death” status in a country where, by law, no politician has the power to arbitrarily sentence people to death.
If you’re in the U.S., “politics” doesn’t decide whether you live or die—laws, courts, and due process do. We’re not in a dictatorship (regardless of what Lemmy says) where a party can declare entire groups of people to die based on politics.
So unless you’re saying elected officials are legally executing people outside the justice system, the “life and death” framing is emotional exaggeration, not fact.
Maybe someone feels like politics is life and death to them, but feelings aren’t proof of reality. And reacting to politics with that level of personal emotional investment tends to just polarize people more and cloud their ability to think critically.
That’s what I meant when I said people take it too seriously–and more pointedly, I was referring to Lemmy posters taking it too seriously.
I’ve seem post reacting to totally non-political information with politically-charged responses and accusation. Even if the topic didn’t start out political at all.
@DonaldJMusk @comfy Well, there are just things that are worse than death, aren’t there?