Animal groups, hobbies, work, and art are political. Art is the best example: artists are often said to hold a mirror up to society. Work's conditions are dictated by the conditions of capitalism and the entire act of work is an endeavour in practicing capitalism under the direction of a boss who can control you at the office. Animal rights issues are also obviously political, and hobbies is a really vague umbrella term but there's a whole lot of politics under that umbrella.
Politics is defined by nearly all dictionaries as the field concerning power and decision making in groups. Everything relates to that. I don't understand what these "non-political" spaces you're talking about are like. Do you mean being alone? Because if you're not in a group, then you're right there wouldn't be any participation in group decision making. Is that what you mean? That you like your solitude?
Anyway, maybe it wouldn't hurt so much if you weren't trying to read my mind without consent. No means no, but you didn't even ask. No wonder you're in pain, you tried to delve inside my mind and I kicked you back out.
Yeah, I'm neurodivergent in a lot of different ways, and every one of them reduces the efficacy of neurotypical empathy. That sensation you're experiencing right now from talking to me is the same way neurotypical people feel when they talk to you. No wonder neurotypicals are so ableist to autistics, talking to us causes them pain. But it's still not right for them to demand we think like them, and it's still not right for you to demand I think like you. What we have to learn is how to coexist together.
And any coexistence we reach isn't going to involve always assuming we can read minds effectively. It's just an unrealistic standard.
Actions speak louder than words, and words speak louder than thoughts. If they aren't acting on left wing ideology, then they're not left wing ideologically. They're just liars.
I never met anyone in my life who didn't act on their beliefs. I met plenty of hypocrites, people who said they believed different than they acted, and usually their professed beliefs were better than their actions. But those weren't their beliefs, they were just liars. There's no such thing as a person who doesn't believe in their actions.
That's ridiculous, because communism is the opposite of authoritarianism. Communism is defined by Marx as classless and stateless. Whatever you think is just as authoritarian as fascism, it's not communism. Maybe you think state capitalism is communist and that's why you're confused.
I agree, this "left unity" BS is propaganda and it's wrong. True unity means making a space welcoming to everyone by kicking out intolerance. Left unity is created by deplatforming authoritarians and transphobes, and building systems that provide justice to the marginalised. Welcoming fascists and bigots means disunity, as much as they love to scream otherwise.
Everything is political. Not taking sides here, just confused that you don't like politics. If you've removed politics from your feed doesn't that mean you've removed all content?
Their guidelines say you shouldn't keep responding to someone who says they don't want to keep talking. So let's say someone uses a slur that not everyone agrees is a slur, like the R word. I can't downvote it, so I report it and reply "no slurs". They respond "I didn't use a slur and I don't want to discuss it with you". Well now it's down to the moderators to remove the content, and if they don't agree with me or they aren't educated then I can't do a thing about it.
Back on Reddit people used to use my disability as an insult all the time. I'd downvote, report, and comment. I'd pester the bigot so they'd learn that using slurs is more trouble than it's worth, and lots of times the moderators would say "that's not a slur" and leave the comment up, and then 4 weeks later the Reddit admins would come and remove the comment. But by then I'd already persuaded the bigot that using slurs is a huge hassle that only leads to trouble. I had a system. I could fight bigotry myself even though I wasn't a mod.
On beehaw I'm just supposed to trust that the moderators are perfect? No thanks, I'm an anarchist. I don't trust anyone unconditionally. It would take a whole lot of effort to persuade me that beehaw is a safe space. Because to me, a safe space is a space where I'm able to defend myself when nobody else will.
Reality is god to realists. That's what they believe in. They worship it, they obey it, they demand others have the same respect for it. It's theism.