Cool! Time to find out if I like it!

At the very least, I will have a well-educated position whence to call annoying people Butt-heads

I’m not saying politics is all good, but politics gives humans the power to make all those nice things you said mean something. Tools only get passed on to the next generation because of schools and apprenticeships; political organisation of knowledge. Ingenuity only has a lasting effect because of education politics, and the political organisation of philosophy and science. Climbing Mount Everest and landing on the moon would be difficult or impossible without politics to make supply chains and organise expedition parties. Knowledge would die in a generation if not for our politics, like it does with octopodes, an animal just as smart as humans, but apolitical.

And I think love is an inherently political emotion. Apolitical animals like octopodes or lizards don’t have an evolutionary reason to develop love, except perhaps sexual love for reproduction. Look at seahorses and how political and loving they are in comparison. Or penguins. So very political, so very loving. They care for their partners and children for a long time. Love is what binds them together and lets them do all those politics. Compare with eagles, whose most advanced political organisation is “get off my lawn”. Their lack of love makes them less political.

PieFed has a reputation feature admins can use to help figure out if an account is prosocial. There’s an option to prevent meme communities from adding to reputation

Politics also made all those civilisations.

When a society all agrees not to eat all the potatoes now, but to plant some underground and wait for them to grow more potatoes, that’s politics.

When an artist and a programmer agree to divide responsibilities and make a video game together, that’s politics.

When a discord moderator decides to force everyone to agree to a no politics rule, that’s politics.

That’s just a list of four random things I like

I don’t. Politics is the greatest strength of the human species. Ants and wolves and elephants are pretty political compared to snakes or rats, but humans are the most political animal by several orders of magnitude. It’s their capacity for political organising that made the Pyramids, and Bioshock, and put a man on the moon, and created Avatar

That’s true, but I think there’s a sizeable portion of people who want to believe that nothing has significantly changed for American minorities in the past year. They didn’t bother voting in 2024, and now they want to believe that nothing got worse for their queer and poc neighbours.

When communists talk about “controlled opposition”, this is what we mean. A billionaire goes to the DNC and says “Here’s a consultant I spent millions on to help your campaign”. The consultant has secret orders to sabotage the campaign and says “oil jobs are very important to voters, brag about all the oil jobs you’re going to create”. Kamala brags about the oil jobs and loses the support of the left. Kamala loses and ICE starts shooting people in the streets. And the left doesn’t learn because we don’t want to admit we messed up.

It’s also affecting queer and poc people more than before.

Politics is group decision making. Culture is group decision making concerning intangible things. History is group decision making in the past.

The good version of this is in Transformers One.

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This is great advice, seconding everything here

Those are the instances I politically agree with and are therefore nice!

You mean they can swing much further radical centrist with tankies. They’re not leftists.

Sincerely, a user of the instance so far left we think species is an oppressive construct.

Welcome and hello from MULTIVERSE! If someone’s mean to you, check the website they’re connecting from. If they’re from lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.net, or hexbear.net, that’s a tankie and you don’t have to take their opinion seriously. If you have a few negative experiences with tankies and want to avoid them, consider moving to a website that blocks tankies.

I’m going to recommend My anarchist manifesto at https://soulism.net/. It’s not an economic or legal manifesto, but a scientific and spiritual manifesto for a new kind of worldview to apply to society and identity.

Portal 2 has great puzzles for two players, but the timing can be frustrating

It’s actually a mediaeval economy simulator

Bloodywood are metal, but they also rap in Hindi

Today I finally realised arr is a pirate joke