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...
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.
Because political memes are hilarious.
Haha yes! The threehundreth variation of the same joke, feels like the first time I heard it
I will always find charlie kirk with a small face hilarious and I refuse to apologize.
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
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....
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?
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.
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.
Really? Every third post on my feed are tits
This guy internets.
Wtf I get no tits in my feed. Why has lemmy forsaken me?!?
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.
Who talks about politics on the internet? Round here we yell and fight about politics.
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
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.
Maybe post on a political meme community instead? Is it really that difficult?
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.
This post showed up below a post showing a statistic of Lemmy losing users. Ironic.
But deciding to go for a walk is politics too
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.
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.