Everything is politics, especially these days. You cannot even say, "genocide is bad" without some fuckwit calling you an antisemite.
The only thing worse than politics are those who refuse to take a stand.
People get triggered when you say "we should be kind to each other" and will call you a woke, liberal snowflake. Those are also the same people who will screech about "making everything political" wherever they get any blowback. So yeah, everything is political and always has been.
The EU project wasn't political until people started virtue signaling
A Flag is political, the act of defacing/removing a flag is political, the EU is political. EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL
I'm now curious, as someone who hasn't participated in any of the chats, what's going on?
There was a... discussion whether Hungarian flag deserves to be near EU flag.
Not the politics I expected tbh
Im sorry ur username lmaooo
As one of the parties involved, Here is my attempt at a writeup:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/48968557
I wrote it as a reply for here but ended up posting it standalone.
there was an agreed upon compromise lol, one guy had to come and argue it
Agreed upon is a stretch it was lets make sure it doesn't look completely stupid. The children weren't going to let up.
uhh, you were the only one who couldn’t let it go mate
If the room temperature IQ'ers had simply put a different European flag over it we wouldn't have cared but they didn't
Another reason the weird nationlism these things always devolve into is such a nuisance.
it turned into politics
Lemmy gonna Lemmy
!I think everyone on here has good intentions. But many are proactive about it to a extent where they feel a duty to ostracize anyone who doesn't. And they immediately start suspecting anyone who hasn't settled on their systemic solution of choice of having said bad intentions. ("If crypto-anarcho-eco-mercerism is the obvious way to stop all the bad things, why would someone advocate for anything else than because they don't want to stop those bad things?") I think you could have a server where 100% of people had good intentions, and they'd still end up accusing each other of dog-whistling and whatnot. Like, you don't need to ensure you share the same value system just so you can discuss a funny cat video.!<
/rant
Edit: perhaps this is the effect that continuously encountering trolls has on your brain
Every event like this devolves into nationalistic pixel-wars. All the possibilities in the world, and people just want to force their flag in over everything else -_-
they should have made a subchat for the eu area at that point lol.
It was stupid and ruined the whole mural because they wanted to joke around they couldn't remove the country from the politics which were the way they were due to 50 years under Russian rule.
A sincere fuck you to everyone who participated in that nonsense of desiccating the flag and for demanding your stupid little garden was kept on the Scottish flag
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