It makes sense to temporarily avoid politics to stay sane, compartmentalization. To completely avoid politics I don't see how one is not either very low intelligence to not realize their apathy harms people, or is smarter and aware their apathy harms others and is ok with it. Either dumb or bad.
Feel like here is one of a few places one can have some nice discussions, while for sure there is a general bias in opinions but people seem to at least sometimes read and answer on topic.
Nope. Politics to me is what everything ultimately comes down to. People have thoughts, and those thoughts are sometimes ideas, those ideas can then form philosophies, which when explored in the context of the world forms ideologies - logically reasoned systems of ideas that can be broken down into decisions and modifications that allow it to be implemented, which is politics.
To truly know what goes in the world we have created is to know politics, therefore to be uncurious about it is to be uncurious about the world itself.
I know people who are like that, and it seems they just consume products instead and get excited for the next product, I try not to think less of them, but if I'm completely honest it seems very childish to me, it's one thing to be ignorant of politics and history when you're 14 because all you care about is xbox, but when you're in your mid to late 20s struggling to parse basic allegories or recall what was in the news that year, its not great.
By the time I've blocked all the posts about sports ball, the politics can't fit through the filters. It's pretty relaxing. If I ever learn how any sport works, I'm gonna have to learn a new approach.
My politics don't conform to most parties or ideologies so I will almost always piss someone off. I look at most issues on their own and decide what makes the most sense to me. So I'm left on this and right on that but not part of any party.
No, I don't avoid it. I love to discuss with my fellow impassioned Lemmy users be it politics or any other topic and I don't mind being heavily downvoted once in a while.
I generally avoid discussing it. I don't really hide my views in any way, but the threshold for me to partake in a political discussion is pretty high, as those tend to devolve into partisan shitflinging pretty quickly.