It took a bit of finagling to exclude the US college and city subreddits but otherwise I subscribed as-is to everything on that page. I think I only have unsubbed to a couple of them manually after, mostly because of excessive political posts by people who clearly don’t live in the area (Israel and Palestine subreddits come to mind)
You get some great content from doing it. Specifically Denmark and Sweden have amazing content in Danish and Swedish respectively that you wouldn’t ever see otherwise. Plus the former Yugoslavia countries and Eastern Europe and basically a lot of Europe generically has some sweet content you would not normally see if you weren’t subbed to their subreddits. Right click to google translate helps a lot. There are some truly dank European memes out there.
One of the other things I noticed that was really cool is that I now am tuned in to state politics outside of my home state in US. You really start to see the major issues other states have when you are subbed to their home subreddit.
For us, going to a rural town or even many suburbs elicits the observation "It smells like dead gay people" as you've entered an area where you may get lynched for being yourself. Even here in Seattle, non-straight couples are getting violently assaulted for being out in public with their significant other. The state of affairs is rapidly getting worse for us!
Because that violence, like most issues in life, is rooted in politics. You cannot escape politics no matter how much you dislike it. The fact that you want to escape, or even can escape politics is in itself political. The fact that HN for whatever reason discourages politics is also politically driven.
Politics is life. Either embrace it or get left out.
> virtue signaling
99.9% of the people who use this term are actually committing the "crime" of "virtue signaling". Pot. Kettle. Black.
> FB, Twitter and Reddit with actual political involvement leads to more disappointment than progress
I would say political involvement (and the manipulation of) FB, Twitter and Reddit are directly responsible for our current regime here in the US. If anything, the key to winning is FB, Twitter and Reddit. Ignore them and you won't win, politically.
You make your pathetic jeers at "virtue signaling", but the "virtue signalling" from the alt-right on FB, twitter and reddit is exactly how the 2016 election was won.
Your replies here are the ones that look like noise, a bad habit, etc.
This is doublepg23's comment, despite where the conversation may have wandered, it was a very mild, general statement.
I guessed at what particular group doublepg23 was referencing, but with just a little imagination one can easily think of many non-LGBTQ+ segments of society that do not have the freedom to bury their head in the sand with regard to politics.
By and large gays have equal rights under the law. The fear of lynching is greatly exaggerated. There's ignorant people in the world...but what can be done to prevent these people from being radicalized? I think that's not a political thing but a community thing.
https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/bias-cri...
50% increase between Q1 and Q3 2018, looking at historical data we're seeing double the number of hate crimes as any quarter in 2016.
> By and large gays have equal rights under the law.
Please stop calling us gays, its disrespectful & dehumanizing. We are people just like you!
We do not have equal rights under the law, and there is a patchwork of laws in select states with varying degrees of protection that cover discrimination, nevermind how most of these protections are being rolled back or fought by the federal government right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Stat...
> The fear of lynching is greatly exaggerated.
Tell that to the dead gay men in Orlando, or the multiple people who've been attacked and murdered this year for being non-straight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LG...
> There's ignorant people in the world...but what can be done to prevent these people from being radicalized? I think that's not a political thing but a community thing.
Seems you missed what I said in the last comment. This demographic feels emboldened to hate by the current political climate. To prevent things from getting worse, we can't completely block out politics.
So no you don't HAVE to be in politics just because there are horrible attacks on the LGBTQ community.
How do you know this? Please cite sources, as is you make assertions with no backing. Even a brief read of Mastodon or Twitter shows that many LGBTQ+ people like myself fear for our wellbeing even in supposedly "safe" cities, and justly so considering how we are targeted.
> So no you don't HAVE to be in politics just because there are horrible attacks on the LGBTQ community.
I never said you have to be politically active if your LGBTQ+, but unlike cis-gendered straight people, we cannot bury our heads in the sand and entirely ignore all political news. The results of doing so in the past have been disastrous.
The obvious way out of that is to join bubbles that are aligned with your interests rather than political views. If your interest is politics then find a better interest :)