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Wish this sub would not allow politics and move the shit over to the politics meme place instead.
The only issue is what is considered a political issue? Are we filtering based on US politics? Based on the politics of other countries?
I could post a meme about the wealthgap or the cost of living right now, and I would probably get a lot of concurrence because despite it being a political issue, it is something most people can relate to and agree with.
On the otherhand, I could make an LGBTQ related meme, and I would get some backlash because it is controversial to some people.
I could probably agree with OP's meme being political because it is literally an Anarchocommunist poking fun at liberals or American Democrats. On the otherhand, there are several memes here posted daily that are going to "political" to some, and completely benign to others. And in the end, when a sub bans "political" content, it usually comes down to what are the political leanings of the moderation or admin staff.
the "no politics" crowd is speaking from a place of intense privilege and i know this because politics and fucked my life and seeing people support politicians who are responsible for those politics is maddening.
indeed. there are states in the US that are nonviable for me to live for discrimination reasons. I don't have the ability to be ignorant
One of my best friends almost died because of the abortion bans so I can't afford to sit this one out either 😞
I engage with politics quite a bit, and do my best to try and stay informed about current issues. However, being bombarded with it 24/7 is a great way to make people numb to politics and stop caring. It's good to be able to choose when you have the energy to engage with it, and being able to filter it out at times is part of that. Yes it is privileged, but that doesn't make it negative.
I have literally never experienced this.
The people that stop caring are privileged enough to not be impacted by politics. If laws being passed are actively making your life harder, you care. You don't have the option not to.
I get what you're saying, but I still think it's a seriously outsized response to someone asking to categorize memes better lmao.
Not allowing political memes here wouldn't be categorizing, it would be censorship on a popular community while pushing that content to a smaller community with less visibility.
You always have the option to just keep scrolling.
So because politics screwed up your life that means online communities that do not discuss politics are not allowed to exist?
Username checks out.
Politics, like it or not, is a big part of our culture. Art (memes included), comments on culture. I agree it can get exhausting, but it’s not something that we can hide from either. Personally, I prefer white quips about the subject compared to the doom scroll articles seen on political news communities.
Block the sub and find a meme community that's sanitized to your liking.
is this you @[email protected]
All the fuckin normies on lemmy.world. No piracy, no politics, no fun.
look at the responses in other fediverse instances; the no piracy, no politics, no fun crowd is the majority
No. A loud and opinionated minority does not a majority make. Most people aren't insufferable on the internet, it's just that those are the easiest ones to spot and the hardest ones to avoid.
See for example: the amount of American libertarians who "bow to nobody and never stop fighting for their freedom and independence" in online discussions vs the amount of people who vote for the US Libertarian Party rather than the GOP.
You're in the wrong instance if you don't want politics, the .ml is short for Marxism-Leninism
Actually it's short for Mali
actually its short for mike lindell
Actually it's short for mein leben
Because scrolling past them is too hard?
I agree. I had Reddit filtered pretty well to avoid politics, but Lemmy has very few communities which outright ban politics which makes it very difficult to avoid. I even agree with most of the politics on here but it gets annoying and exhausting when it's absolutely everywhere. I've seen the above meme like 5 times already, I didn't enjoy it the first time and I'm sure as shit not going to the fifth.
I too hate how lemmy doesn't censor people and communities...