Every third post on Lemmy

I'm fine with politics on the internet, but why spam it on a memes community...

Point me to a time/place when politics were not completely intertwined with meme communities.
Oh, right. That doesn't actually exist.
- One time, back in the 90s, a baby danced.
- 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.
- 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.
Because political memes are hilarious.
- Haha yes! The threehundreth variation of the same joke, feels like the first time I heard it

Lemmy has some very aggressive communists.

I’ve been lucky enough to dodge the crazy right wingers though.

From what I see, it's full of wannabe rebel communists, who claim to be communist because they like the idea of revolution. The type of people that think that wallstreetbets is communist because "they fight the system".
Marx and gramsci are turning in their grave reading some lemmy post
- I'm sorry but the Marxist and communist discussions on here are an absolute far cry from wallstreetbets lmao, not to mention using WSB favorite word gets you banned in a lot of these communities
Hey I'm not an aggressive communist. I like to think I'm a pretty laid back communist.
I mean unless we're talking about the rich. But like my whole political ideology kinda hinges on aggression in that direction so....
- I mean unless we’re talking about the rich. But like my whole political ideology kinda hinges on aggression in that direction so…
  I think the common Communist definition of "Rich" and Marx's might differ vastly, and I think the vagueness of the word is half the reason. I see too many Communists calling for the death to (for example) computer programmers because many of them are able to save up a couple million by retirement. I know a few that ended up with $10M cash because they worked for a profit-share startup. While I'm not an expert on Marx, I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant when he referred to the bourgeoisie.
  Hell, I don't think he ever predicted the massive number of "petite bourgeoisie" that we have now in much of the west, people who put in 60-80 hours simply to live the same life the rest of us live but not have to obediently answer a boss. You'd think Communists could make allies of both the successful proles (like programmers) and the petite bourgeoisie.
  If you draw "rich" somewhere close to the $100M mark or higher and include some asterisks on the ones you think should be murdered in the streets, maybe most people will agree you're not an aggressive communist (but still be terrified of you like we are of anyone who wants to kill someone for who they are). If you're going to look at a grandma who has $2M in savings after her husband dies, the world's got problems with you.
  I mean, if you want to peacefully dismantle people like Musk, then I'm 100% on board with you. If you would support someone taking sudden and violent force to him, as much as I think he's a douche, that's why we use the word "aggressive".
- Hey yknow that’s a good point.
A whole bunch of these self proclaimed "communists" are supporting trump/trumpism...started with unfunny memes and well, I think we can all guess where they're all going to end up.
The funniest part is arguing about current "forms" of communism and capitalism and not realizing that it's just the same shit from different assholes and a far cry from either.
- Are you lying about the communists supporting Trump or are you just repeating lies about the communists supporting Trump?
- wow that's so enlightened, tell us more
- Exactly

Also every person who bitches about safe spaces: "ban dresses on men because it makes me feel funny"

They also have a real affinity for the time-tested "BOTH SIDES ARE BAD" argument, the absolute most sure-fire tell of a right-winger.
- Exactly! "Why are you making everything about politics?"
  I'm a gay person in a red state with first-gen immigrants and trans people in my family. I don't have the luxury not to "make everything political." The fact that I exist is political to these people!
I do use woke unironically, but in a prideful way. Eg, Brooklyn 99; “He means he was arrested for being black! Get woke, Scully!!”
- Fair enough! I always thought that "woke" should be a good thing.
  Same with SJW -- it's actually a positive thing to fight for social justice! Like, thanks for the compliment, I guess...

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!
- I mean it does though? If my wife died because she couldn't get healthcare she needed, I feel like that might maybe affect me.
- There was a way to word this where you wouldn’t be a hypocrite but ya kinda just face planted fam.
  The whole point of being progressive is to identify things we’ve been missing and things we’ve been doing wrong and to fix them.
  Not to only swing the pendulum the other way. Not cool.
- I don't know why people are down voting you when you're right. Hell people are mad at you just for talking about it
- Maybe I can't differentiate because people make my life political. Good for you that's not a problem but other people exist like me and have this issue. A lot of people seem to lack awareness of others and act like they're in the right. It's childish.
  I once worked for someone who thought like you. He was a real redneck. When I walked in, he looked at the hiring manager and rolled his eyes. I ended up doing the best out of anyone on my first day and it was physically intense. He apologized to me later because he gained an awareness that other people can exist differently without him being a bitch about it. You should learn from him.
- When politics imprest your life on such a level that it could mean not getting the health care you need, yeah it is part of your life, there is no difference. I think people like yourself see politics like sports, just boring talk, no one cares about your team. That's not what it is, these are major things impacting people's lives, and not talking about them could lead to less awareness and even more rights being taken away.

Politics impact our lives, of course we talk about it. In the US basic human rights are being fought over. I bet if you were in danger of losing some civil rights you'd be interested in how it's going lol.

The definition of Privalage is not having to worry about politics because you are so secure in your place in our Capitalist Society Hierarchy.

Going for a walk?!?

That has surprisingly become political in the US

Leftie propaganda from big sidewalk! They want to see your precious calories burn!!
- I wonder if there are any conservatives who get upset about nutrition labels when they find out the food has trans fats in it.
The call for walkable cities is a fatphobic dogwhistle!!!1
France go for a walk every year, and in Russia you can be beaten to death for jogging.

Really? Every third post on my feed are tits

Wtf I get no tits in my feed. Why has lemmy forsaken me?!?
This guy internets.
Really? All I get are boobies.
Trade you a red-footed for a Willow.
- tits or boobies debate. Discuss amongst yourselves

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 mymouldymemes. But the most generic meme communities, or the flagship meme communities if you prefer it that way, are infected.

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

I live in São Paulo state, very leftist person. My city voted 86% for Bolsonaro, so good luck going for a walk to find a politic free space.

South Dakota in the US here. Very red state. Can't avoid politics unless I stick my head in the sand even for a moment and let the fascists run unchecked
- never ever ever let the fascists run unchecked. they tend to end upside down somewhere in Italy.
- Fellow South Dakotan, /me tips hat

you can still block a community.

It's always this sub.. with the stupid Joe Biden memes. I don't care.. stop showing me politicians.

.world and sjw users when they ask to defederate after defederating

Maybe post on a political meme community instead? Is it really that difficult?

Who gets to decide what is and isnt "political"?

This post showed up below a post showing a statistic of Lemmy losing users. Ironic.

Fr it really has me considering leaving. Going back to reddit? Probably not. But it really has become a problem. Feels like I'm just browsing the old ChapoTrapHouse board sometimes
It's called quality over quantity.
- The news bot posts are more annoying to me than the politics.
  At least here there’s more than trump lovers and trump haters.
  I hate scrolling into infinite bot posts with 0 comments
Lot of bots, lot of unironic cringe-posting.
- I hate to tell ya this but it’s like that all over the internet with any population of reasonable size. This is the noise of smashing huge amounts of people from all walks of lives and experiences together.
  Of course the thing in common to talk about is the thing that impacts our lives the most.
I went to the internet and they were talking about not talking about politics.
Feel like this was half of the comments on that post. The other half was politics.

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.

Imean, it was always that way... The perception that it wasn't is exactly why we're having so many problems today.
The system is very much not self-correcting.

But deciding to go for a walk is politics too

But I don’t want my views challenged!!!

How dare you make me question my deeply held beliefs that I’ve been taught by my parents and the Murdoch media.

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.
Stop typing like a cringe weeb trying to roleplay being tough

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.

"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

Filter Trump and Musk. It's less than 1 in 20 after that.

It just sucks how many don't include them in the title so you think you're getting a meme and instead you get some dumb shit.
It would be great if Lemmy implemented a user tagging system so people could tag posts and use those for filters

Just do your discussions on Pornhub then…

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...