Edit: some of you need to step outside and smell some fresh air, I promise it wont bite
Edit to the edit: this goes doubly for the people private messaging me their manifesto
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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For your filter to work, you’d have to add many other words. Politics is the distribution of political goods, including attention and significance. If you pay attention to something or think something is significant, that is politics. So for your filter to work, you’d have to filter out anything and everything that you pay attention to and think is significant.
So lasagna bolognese is politics?
I know it sounds absurd. You’re thinking I’m insane. You’re thinking there’s no way a sane human being believes lasagne bolognese is politics. You’re thinking my definition of politics is useless or absurd.
But let’s look at this closely. Again, politics is the distribution of political goods and our assessments of those distributions.
Being aware that politics is everywhere means we can choose what to pay attention to and what to do. It’s fine to choose lasagna bolognese. It’s fine to choose what kind of life you want. We’re involved in politics even if we don’t know it. We’re already somewhat skilled at it.
I think you're just arguing semantics now, I'm here to see memes, not conflict. You're digging too deep into it for the sake of philosophy. While I can appreciate the angle I think I'm just going to continue receiving the memes, thanks
You seem to really value fun, and that is genuinely okay.
It probably seems as if I'm splitting hairs. It might also seems as if I'm interested in conflict (in the memes-conflict dicotomy you mentioned). Overall, it might seem as if I'm an armchair philosopher yelling at the clouds from my ivory tower.
The way I see it, I'm not making a point in that ivory tower. I'm not in the vacuum of philosophy for philosophy's sake. I actually think I'm doing the total opposite: what happens when we notice what we pay attention to, how the world affects us, and how we affect the world? In other words, what happens when we open our arms to the world instead of closing our eyes to it?
This is incredibly practical.
Every single choice that we make has consequences. It affects people nearby and around the world.
I'm not arguing for us to pretend to be perfect people, whatever that means. I'm arguing for noticing our place in this world and how we are connected to others. I'm arguing for expanding our perspective instead of narrowing it.
Even when we expand our perspective we can still choose memes and fun.
I do it. I'm like you in that sense.
The very small change is noticing that we are making choices and that choices are consequential.
Conflict and philosophy are two you should probably add to your list.
I wonder if memes are collections of signs with meanings in relation to each other and their users. I'm sure that's NOT the case tho.
You mean the meat-based dish? A product of an industry that relies on subjecting animals to cruel conditions while also frequently exploiting the labor of poor immigrants (including undocumented ones), while the bosses receive tax subsidies from the government?
But suppose I don't bring any of that up. Suppose you have a community that's just for recipies, and I post a comment under each recipie providing vegan substitutes. Suppose someone else starts replying to my comments suggesting ways to include more meat in recipies and starts cracking jokes about it. Is that political?
Stop you're making my mouth water
Very political thing you just said, isn't it?
Sorry I didn't get past "meat based dish"
Why not?
Mmmmmmm
I'm glad you're contemplating these questions. You can answer whenever you're ready.
Well This is the recipe I last used, but I like to let the Bolognese sit in the fridge for a day prior and I tend to use double the garlic.
I also love to put a crap ton of chili flakes in the sauce while it's simmering, even swapping out chili oil for the olive oil if I want that extra kick, it does change the flavor profile a bit though so be sparing
Oh, so now you want to talk politics?
You right, it might be better to not rely on the beef, I think a Bolognese with venison might actually slap, or buffalo, used to be really common in the rockies when I lived there
I'm just confused because you said you wanted a politics-free lemmy experience and here you are telling me about your politics.
I mean I guess you don't have to alter the sauce if you don't want
Any idea what it would taste like if I made it with billionaire flesh? I believe in eating the rich, but it's just a dietary preference, nothing to do with politics.
It is for someone. For example, someone who dislikes the Americanization of Italian cuisine, or dislikes the spread of Italian-American/western culture in their country. Maybe someone from Sicily who feels like Sicilian culture is underrepresented when talking about Italian culture.
But yeah, my point is that just because it's not political for you doesn't mean it's never political. But if you want an online space where you only see ideas and culture you agree with, then you can absolutely do that.