The people who don't want to talk about politics to today degree are the ones benefitting from the status quo or are so privileged or doesn't affect them.

[–] simple@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

or maybe we acknowledge these issues and browse lemmy for entertainment and getting away from the stresses of daily life rather than be constantly reminded of it and roped into repetitive discussions that are preaching to the choir

err, what I meant was we need to burn down the system

[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I feel this. While I am not overly fond of capitalism or the United States government, most of the memes criticizing them are so un-funny they hurt. They weren't made because the OP had a funny idea for a meme, but because they wanted to insult the U.S. or capitalism and had to find some joke to do it. They feels so forced.

I think we as a community can balance making a political point with being actually funny at least a little better than we do

[–] arymandias@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can we not make everything on Lemmy about political memes?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Nothing is stopping you from blocking !memes@lemmy.ml or joining !nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

I would leave capitalism alone if its' consequences wouldn't influence every single sober moment of my life.