Need a politics-free safe space? It's called "going for a walk"
I'm fine with politics on the internet, but why spam it on a memes community...
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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Point me to a time/place when politics were not completely intertwined with meme communities.
Oh, right. That doesn't actually exist.
Apologies for the sin of linking Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NonPoliticalTwitter/
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Lemmy has some very aggressive communists.
I’ve been lucky enough to dodge the crazy right wingers though.
To avoid crazy right wingers go to exploding heads and block the top twenty or so posters. Now all the authoritarian dipshits Im hearing from are at least coming from a better place than the auth right.
My main problem is that most of the memes aren't even funny.
Make memes that are funny and then we can talk
Yeah, it's literally just circlejerking the same dumb political views with different variations of "if you don't agree you're stupid"
I saw one an hour or two ago, literally just a YouTube video of some guy screaming "if you have a penis you're a boy if you have a vagina you're a girl! Got it?!" end video
Also every person who bitches about safe spaces: "ban dresses on men because it makes me feel funny"
I'm genuinely curious what's the difference between talking about our lives and politics?
You see, if you are white, straight and male, the answer is usually a big difference. For everyone else? Likely very little.
Singling out straight white men.. so progressive!
Yo soy
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Going for a walk?!?
That has surprisingly become political in the US
The call for walkable cities is a fatphobic dogwhistle!!!1
Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”
Unfortunately, walks don't last forever. Another option is to delete your lemmy/kbin account, because everything in these places is politics or related to politics or turned into politics.
Or...bear with me...you could create and moderate a politics-free meme community.
There are already, like antiquememeroadshow, adhdmemes and my_mouldy_memes. But the most generic meme communities, or the flagship meme communities if you prefer it that way, are infected.
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Every fourth one is saying we should defederate from Hexbear
.world and sjw users when they ask to defederate after defederating
Who talks about politics on the internet? Round here we yell and fight about politics.
No we don't you fascist swine!
The truth is somewhere in the middle, like always
Edit: apparently I should have put /s at the end
You absolutely should, since there is crapton of people out there which really prefer to throw that line completely seriously instead of moving their grey matter for a while.
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Well, I saw politics@lemmy.world was US only. So I blocked it.
That's pretty much the extent of my involvement in moaning/bothering about politics here.
The world has become political and its not for the better, but it is what it is. You don't get to choose to not be involved anymore. World doesn't work that way.
Don't wanna play the game? Go touch grass.
You guys are exhausting. My entire existence is political, I don't need my social media to be political too. On the bright side, it has me coming on here less and less and less.
Awwww =3 poor widdle doom scroller. Is there too much politics? Well tough tits, youngin! Everything is political and you should be able to accept it popping up everywhere.
As for fatigue from politics that try to subvert and enrage you, have you tried not listening to said politics? What? You watch Tucker Carlson?! GTFO here...
Everything is political and you should be able to accept it popping up everywhere.
True, god forbid people have an escape from real life's bullshit in something like a meme community.
I seriously don't understand this original post or comments like this here at all. It doesn't make any sense to me how you guys can't see why people are annoyed at seeing politics 24/7 on Lemmy, even in random completely unrelated places, like memes. If you want to start your own politically charged memes community, then go for it, but I don't understand at all why that content should be posted here in a general memes community that has nothing to do with politics in the slightest, or how/why you guys are justifying it. I don't think it's a big ask at all, but I digress.
Just do your discussions on Pornhub then…
Just reading some of the arguments between people of different political persuasions on this post would fry your brain.
Kind of meta how you're cry posting about others complaining.
I don't see any complaining. OP is ridiculing them.
Funny, never seen anyone complain about it.
Maybe it's just you.
maybe its Maybelline! Now off to go ban more hexbear communities...
I wish I could ban hexbear as a whole.
Why did you join lemmy.ml then? You could instead use an instance which defederates from hexbear and lemmygrad...
Why not? Im a full grown adult person who can objectively look at different opinions, but when it comes to plain old trollposting I can just as well edit them out.
"What is or isn't politics is itself a political question" mfers when my politic is that nothing is political, there is only what the Irish call craic
Thoughts on George Habash? —He was a good doctor innit
Thoughts on the GERD? —It's a marvel of engineering innit
Thoughts on indigenous language education? —I like flicking through the Dakota dictionary sometimes. I don't understand any of it but yeah
Thoughts on the South China Sea? —yummy fishies there innit
Thoughts on trans people using public restrooms? —I'll answer your question with another question: why's it called a "public" restroom when you aren't shitting out in the open?
Thoughts on the world's interlocking systems of marginalization, exploitation, and oppression, including the core contradiction between the working and owning class, causing the slow demise of the planet under a world order which can only justify itself through unsustainable constant growth? —Them systems can't be reformed innit (※this opinion is apolitical because I have declared it to be common sense.)
Thinking that nothing is political is just admitting you like being ignorant
How meta
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