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

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

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?

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

Genie: so there are 5 rules

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.