Sometimes humans do stuff that are not at all related with politics. But we are masters of linking any non-political action to political arguments. (The classic 'I like pancakes.'-'So you hate waffles!'-problem)

Sometimes I just want to have a space to engage with funny memes without the mental strain of filtering out political comments.

[–] TheMemorius@postit.quantentoast.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure that's true, but here it's like way above 50% of the posts being just full-on propaganda, disguised as memes. IDK, I'm just comparing it to other sites/communities where the politics to meme ratio is way lower and feels less forced.

[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

OK, fair enough.

I think the fediverse in general attracts a lot of people who are tired of capitalist assholes extracting wealth on various tech platforms, which probably explains some of it. People are very angry right now, and that's gonna be hard to escape on Lemmy/kbin

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I would say pre 2016 political jokes was at one level, where the onion could make jokes that was not just an echo of reality.

Somewhere after that we crossed the political joke event horizon, and now we live in bizarro world, where many news items could have been the onion jokes.

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Back in the 2000s, most memes were just cat pictures. Longcat [is long], ceiling cat [is watching you], keyboard cat, grumpy cat etc.

Also #BrusselsLockdown hashtag was used in 2015 to ease political tension.