My opinion:
I think this community should ban political memes, and instead have another community for only political memes. I’m from Costa Rica and I don’t care about the USA politics or stuff
Right? It’s such a US way of thinking to assume the entire world needs to hear about your issues.
If an American said this about any of the international news we see, I’m sure it would get a ton of upvotes
I am also from the 97 fuckin percent of every human on the planet that couldn’t give a shit about US politics
“Political Memes” is extremely vague. I opened the community, and this was the 3rd meme that came up. Just to show you that it doesn’t take much to find an example that really blurs the line of what would be a political meme and what isn’t.
You don’t really get that by banning a topic, but rather by fostering a culture where that sort of thing is frowned upon.
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“Not everything is political”
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“I am priveledged enough that my right to exist and thrive is never questioned or under fire, and things that I care about are protected by the status quo and the suppression of others”
Isn’t there literally a community called politicalmemes because people wanted to sort these into another place?
At this point you’re not even posting to be funny, you’re just posting to be annoying.
That’s for people who want only political memes. Someone should start an “apoliticalmemes” group.
No, that’s not what they mean.
Hmmmmm you sould like a rightoid 🧐🤔 /s
Seriously, OP is straw-manning. There’s not this much politics on other sites. Lemmy has a ton of tankies so everything is about communism here
They need to more precisely say what they mean, then.
Even chosen linux distro?
Damn
I work in the government and let me tell you: Yes
literally everything is politics
how is nitrogen atom nr. 14729583929174 political?
Becauses a scientist says it exists and that made God cry so we gotta burn him.
And this is how you get from “everything is politics” to “we have to burn god”
Edit: After rereading the above I noticed the possibility of the scientist having to be burned
Rules are simple: both enter, one leaves.
Do we give them a lighter or something beforehand?
Emotional damage only.
Oh that would be even more interesting to watch
I reject this! This sounds edgy but muddies the water and distracts as to recognize what politics is. Politics is everything regarding decision-making in groups! not more not less. Recognize when that’s the case and fight!
I think our definitions of politics are fundamentally different.
I would say politics is the struggle for power.
Power is an underlying factor across all of society so politics affects everything.
The left can’t meme
Go blame immigrants
I once got warned in a discord server for being political. Brought up that everything was politics and they backed off.
About a week later I got hints that they might be a bit of a nazi bar which was confirmed when I called it out.
While I do agree that most things in life are somehow connected to politics and that it needs to be discussed, when I come somewhere, in real life or online, and I want to chill out, I really don’t want to hear about it. Political communities exist, even here on Lemmy. Let’s keep politics out of cooking, meme, and other not politically oriented communities please :)
