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.
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.
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.
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Lemmy has some very aggressive communists.
I’ve been lucky enough to dodge the crazy right wingers though.
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....
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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"
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Also every person who bitches about safe spaces: "ban dresses on men because it makes me feel funny"
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.
And the other two thirds are politics posts.
You don't have to make everything political. It's okay just to have fun and like things.
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I'm genuinely curious what's the difference between talking about our lives and politics?
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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.
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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.
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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
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Who talks about politics on the internet? Round here we yell and fight about politics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
But deciding to go for a walk is politics too
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
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Maybe post on a political meme community instead? Is it really that difficult?
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Just do your discussions on Pornhub then…
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