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  • The real issues pressing western democracies right now. No need to deal with the housing crisis, rising inflation, diminishing quality of life, inaccessible healthcare, widening gap between the poor and the rich (systemic wealth inequality,) and so on. The real issues are trans people, porn, and other pointless discussions. They’ll have you fight a culture war so you don’t fight a class war, and in doing so they’ll tighten your shackles even more while you’re distracted.


















  • Because the sole nature of Lemmy is political. The whole reason it exists is political. People want to move away from tech oligarchs and take control of their own spaces, of their data. Rotting on Reddit while all your data is being harvested and your interactions get turned into shareholder value is very convenient. Being on Lemmy is inconvenient (although it has become less so over the last year). So if you’re willing to ditch a very convenient platform because of your beliefs, and move to a platform that aligns more closely with said beliefs, then it’s fairly obvious why said platform is so political in nature.