• N00b22@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    105
    arrow-down
    17
    ·
    1 year ago

    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

    • balderdash@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      57
      arrow-down
      26
      ·
      1 year ago

      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

      • Schnitzel Bub@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        48
        arrow-down
        19
        ·
        1 year ago

        No, they really don’t. For most of us, “stop making everything political” is a simple and clear request that can be fulfilled with 0 follow-up questions.

        • saltesc@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          17
          arrow-down
          13
          ·
          1 year ago

          Now all I can imagine is a Simpsons character named Political Perry who struggles to live in a society not interested in politics as much as a second year college student.

          Wife left with the kids, doesn’t get invited to social events, nothing in life going right for him, but he doesn’t understand why.

          “Oh, shit. It’s Political Perry. Once asked the guy if he wanted ketchup and was ranted to about the corporate exploitation of the agricultural sector for half an hour. No one look.”

          • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            That sounds exactly like something the Simpsons would do. Either that, or it would be Lisa it happens to.

            • saltesc@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              Yeah, I imagined someone like Gill, but aggressively political instead of constantly shattered by luck. Instead of getting sympathy from the audience, they get facepalms and, “Oh my god, I have this guy at work…”

    • TheEntity@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      45
      arrow-down
      30
      ·
      1 year ago

      The very fact you’re able to do all of this is an effect of politics. And there are people that also would like to have similar rights to exist the way the feel is right for them, but they can’t.

      • benni@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        19
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        The very fact that they’re able to do all of this is also an effect of the mitochondria in their cells. But if people tell me to stop talking about mitochondria 24/7, then I should just find a group of other mitochondria enthusiasts to interact with instead of ranting about how I’m ““right”” to make everything about mitochondria.

    • Facebones@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      Some people do this and have a grand ole time with no concerns

      Some people do the exact same thing and have police called on them every time because they “must be up to something.”

      So yep, political.

    • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      33
      arrow-down
      53
      ·
      1 year ago

      Freedom of association = (meeting with friends) that’s definitely political

      Barbecue = relatively safe to use and won’t explode because of government regulation, politics.

      Jalapeño poppers = safe to eat due to food safety standards, again politics.

      Conversation with friends = regulated by societal norms and acceptable behaviours, an output of the political environment - ‘let’s not talk about Trump or abortion to keep it “civil”’

      Games/books/puzzle = function of the economy regulated by the government and laws. Consumer protections etc etc

      I know you’re trying to be dismissive and funny but yeah…you’re just proving the point.

  • SrTobi@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    58
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    57
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • explodicle@local106.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      That’s for people who want only political memes. Someone should start an “apoliticalmemes” group.

      • Haui
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        Haven’t thought of that. Thanks :)

    • Facebones@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      40
      arrow-down
      23
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      That same dad when I happen to mention my trans friend in passing because it’s my friend:

      three hour rant about me being men and testicles are a thing for a reason and this mother fucker is destroying America

      Y’all “let’s not politic” folk politic ALL the time, you just think you can “nuh uh” to pick and choose what qualifies. Denying Healthcare to people isn’t political to yall, but I just cut a friend out because he literally shushed me for “being too political” for… Saying I’d like half hour busses back.

      • dafo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        19
        arrow-down
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        You’re making a big generalisation based on someone not wanted to see political memes and memes to about people not wanting to see political memes when they’re taking a dump or just trying to make the day pass.

        I would definitely be a leftist in the USA and probably be considered progressive even, just because I’m used to how things are here in Sweden and the social climate we have. (I even argue with Americans quite often of how crappy their social climate and ideologies are)

        But I still would like to browse Lemmy while taking a crap without having US politics memes shoved down my throat. If I would want that I’d probably subscribe to a relevant community.

        • Facebones@reddthat.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          9
          arrow-down
          13
          ·
          1 year ago

          I would still like to browse lemmy without us politics being shoved down my throat

          The test determined, that was a lie. Y’all certainly stay engaged for extended periods of time for people who don’t want to think about it when you could, as people are wont to say, “Keep Scrolling.”

          What you mean is that you want to browse lemmy without being reminded that the world is broken and your apathy fuels it’s broken state.

            • Facebones@reddthat.com
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              6
              ·
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              #OneJoke

              Left: “I don’t want to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings”

              Right: “And yet here you are at Buffalo Wild Wings”

              If you don’t want politics, don’t engage. Don’t like how political a community is? Leave. Can’t find an “apolitical” one? Start your own.

              Otherwise, you WANT politics, you just want to screech at people you disagree with and say it’s not political because you say so.

    • NotSpez@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      22
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I agree. It’s like sometimes you just want to go for a walk and there’s some guy following you around screaming EvErYtHiNg Is PhYsIcS just to remind you that there are physical laws to explain the world around you. Just shut up and let me walk in peace sometimes.

      • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        21
        arrow-down
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        You’re very fortunate that you can take the time to ignore those politics. For many people, these issues affect them to such an extent that they can’t be ignored at all. As for the amount of memes challenging the status quo here… well… if you’re on Lemmy, the status quo didn’t work for you either.

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          13
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          What has their constant fixation on these problems achieved? I have problems that affect me every day, I can still fuck around on the internet or whatever for a while and get my mind off it. Constantly immersing yourself in this stuff is not healthy.

          • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            Exactly, armchair meme politics does literally nothing and it’s the only “activism” half these chuckle fucks have ever taken part in.

    • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      29
      arrow-down
      60
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      You’re wrong.

      Not a little wrong, just, wrong.

      Go and talk to a politic science professor and they will tell you this.

      You can’t escape politics because it’s linked to power.

      Power structures affect everything in our society therefore politics affects everything.

      When someone doesn’t want to ‘make it political’ all they are really doing is attempting to preserve an existing power structure they are a beneficiary of.

      • macniel@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        30
        arrow-down
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        Ever considered that politics is not always the essence of everything? I don’t care that fundamentally everything may be political. I don’t care that we are made up of millions of tiny organisms. I care about the things I care. And that’s not your political agenda.

        • Facebones@reddthat.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          14
          arrow-down
          22
          ·
          1 year ago

          Politics is not the essence of everything “To YOU” because you won the genetic/sociopolitical lottery. You sit comfortably atop the suffering of the “other,” who does not have the luxury of playing this apolitical card.

        • FunkyMonk@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          12
          ·
          1 year ago

          Great but you see when you say ‘I don’t care about other people’ then we loudly don’t want to care about you back. That is pretty much it, I don’t know why you need to foghorn that you are selfish, is it to rile up others to violence in name of their selfishness? Explain why you have to explain that you don’t need something so badly, we dont need anything if we dont wish to live so whats the actual fucking point here to "DONT NEED IT’ except to also say “OR ELSE” which is… ALSO A POLITICAL STATEMENT OR ELSE.

        • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          17
          arrow-down
          36
          ·
          1 year ago

          You’re apathetic about it because you benefit from the current structure.

          You don’t have to care when you’re already a winner.

          • AnonTwo@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            13
            arrow-down
            6
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Did you ever consider maybe it’s just people already talk about politics in a lot of other places, and don’t need to talk about it literally 24/7?

          • schmidtster@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            7
            arrow-down
            5
            ·
            1 year ago

            When I am cranking it to a model on Only Fans, that’s what I want to think about, not about what politicians may have paid to lick their butthole privately.

            So yeah, everything is absolutely political, but sometimes you need a few degrees of separation.

          • dsemy@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            arrow-down
            6
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Do you not benefit from the current structure? Who built your phone? I wonder how much they think about politics.

      • RQG@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        1 year ago

        Go to a physics professor and they’ll tell you everything is physics. Go to a math professor and they’ll tell you everything is math. Go to a philosophy professor and they’ll tell you everything is philosophical.

        Not everything is about power inherently. People can and often will make almost anything about power. But it’s not inherent to the thing. But you might disagree.

        However the degree to which things are political can vary greatly. Would you agree? Voting at the presidential elections is a more political act than watching birds or playing with my kids.

        I think what people mean in your view’s context is that they’d like to keep memes away which directly refer to a topic which is to a high degree politicized. Instead they prefer memes which are at maximum very indirectly related to politics.

        I’m sure you know that but this is my one try at a good faith discussion.

        • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          11
          ·
          1 year ago

          I don’t disagree with you about each professor thinking their subject is the most relevant.

          That’s interesting in and of it self though, maybe people should consider looking through things using different lenses. When they don’t look at a topic as political, maybe they should, perhaps it’d give a perspective they hadn’t previously considered.

          In saying people want to keep memes away from politics, the problem is if you accept my premise that anything can relate to politics it’s functionally not possible to keep memes away from politics.

          So instead what’s left is actually control on the discourse of what memes we can make and those we can’t. Or rather ‘which ones are political’ (not acceptable) and ‘which ones aren’t political’ (acceptable).

          Now practically I agree the bow gets longer to draw on a meme relating to beef stroganoff but who gets to decide the boundary line? I assert no one gets to decide because the boundary doesn’t ever exist. All memes have a political component so to attempt to stifle discussion based on a memes political content is useless.

          This is why people who say ‘let’s not make it political’ are really just saying ‘I don’t want you to talk about that topic because it’s unacceptable to me and not something I want to address’ - cool thanks for expressing your opinion, next time not saying anything would be better.

          • RQG@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            Now practically I agree the bow gets longer to draw on a meme relating to beef stroganoff but who gets to decide the boundary line?

            I think the boundary is set in this case by the community and ultimately by the moderators. Would it be an arbitrary and very fuzzy line? Sure. Will everyone like it? No. But that’s why it is good that one can simply make their own instances and communities. But I am glad we can agree that different degrees of closeness to politics do exist and that it is possible to differentiate them. You don’t think there is value in doing so as I understand it. And I think that’s a perfectly sensible point to take.

            This is why people who say ‘let’s not make it political’ are really just saying ‘I don’t want you to talk about that topic because it’s unacceptable to me and not something I want to address’ - cool thanks for expressing your opinion, next time not saying anything would be better.

            I think this is why your argument goes a bit into strawman territory. Your interpretation is pure guesswork and putting words in the mouth of others without giving them the benefit of the doubt.

            For me personally it is simply that I don’t want to have heavily political discussions all the time. As you can probably see from this post here I don’t mind a good discussion. Political or otherwise. Although you’d probably argue that every discussion is political.

            Sometimes I just want to look at funnies and not think about the complex power dynamics of societies and the world. That doesn’t mean I never want to discuss those. But I like to have places where I can go knowing it’s not that. And I think several people here want this memes community to be such a place.

            • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              People here don’t realise the boundary line of what constitutes acceptable political meme discourse is far away from their expectations.

              This the Marxist-Leninist meme community.

              If people ‘don’t want politics’ in their memes I’d suggest they go to a different community.

              ———

              My arguments about power are pretty well understood among social science academics. I didn’t come up with these ideas, I was taught them.

              That aside, what do you think someone means when they say ‘let’s not talk about this topic’ do you not accept that’s an attempt to exercise power of what is acceptable discourse?

              Who are they to decide?

              I’d argue they are exercising covert power.

              If you’re interested in the academic underpinnings of this view go read Lukes’ paper on the three faces of power.

      • schmidtster@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        15
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        Sometimes people just want to freely discuss stuff without the overarching politics.

        Did you ever think about that?

        • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          8
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Then they should say that instead of trying to refute that just about everything is political because just about everything is political.

          • schmidtster@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            They literally are? If they are having a discussion and someone brings politics up, “stop making everything political” would mean what else than I don’t want politics in this discussion…?

            • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              4
              ·
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              Thats literally an attempted refutation of everything is inherently political. Its already political, no one you’re talking to made it political, they just reminded you of something you tried to ignore. So again if you just dont want to talk about politics, just say that instead of trying to refute that pretty much everything is inherently political. Words have meaning, say what you mean, because implying that the person you’re talking to is making thing political is different from saying ‘hey im not trying to talk about politics’ and it doesn’t automatically mean the same thing as “Why do you make everything political”, especially in forms of communication like text only. Hell, one of them is a question and the other is a statement, so why would anyone who doesn’t want to talk about politics prompt someone with a question that in guaranteed to get an answer that’s directly about politics?

              • schmidtster@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                3
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                Only if you incorrectly take it that way, in the context of the conversation, it would mean, you’re trying to make this political, fuck off.

                • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  3
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  1 year ago

                  People can only respond to the words on the screen, not the ones you wanted to say, if you ask someone a question expect an answer. I can’t make it simpler.

      • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Just because it’s important doesn’t mean we aren’t allowed to have happy conversations that don’t involve politics which is basically what you are saying we should never do.

    • jasondj@ttrpg.network
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      I mean, depending on how much you value privacy and the virtues of FOSS…maybe not directly political, but I’m sure some correlations could be made.

      • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Every single time a gripe about privacy is brought up on Lemmy or some issue with iOS or Windows, Linux users come out of the woodwork. It is 100% political as privacy becomes more and more of a concern.

        Everything is political. My poli sci teacher said it best: when you boil it down, politics in the most simplest terms is just getting things done.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    32
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I was once up in some reddit thread during the George Floyd protests/defunding the police, and some dipshit had the lack of education to earnestly say “since when is the police a political issue?”

    My dude. They share a the same root word.

  • ArcticLynx@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    37
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    literally everything is politics

    how is nitrogen atom nr. 14729583929174 political?

      • ArcticLynx@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        19
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        yes I wrote “literally everything” but that does’nt mean that I meant “literally everything”

        I can accept that

        ok so now that we’ve established that there are things that aren’t political, it makes sense to say “don’t make everything political”, because there are in fact things that aren’t political (yet). however responding “literally everything is political, if you think otherwise, you’re profiting from the system” doesn’t make sense, since there are non political things

        • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          20
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          I don’t have time to explain how you moved the goal posts from:

          Everything is politics does not literally mean all matter is comprised of politics (I.e. atoms are a thing)

          To

          Atoms exists therefore there are social issues that aren’t political.

          All social issues remain political even in a world with atoms.

          Edit: turns out I did have time.

          • ArcticLynx@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            11
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            Atoms exists therefore there are social issues that aren’t political.

            I never said that and this isn’t my opinion.

            you didn’t say “every social issue is political” (which I agree with btw), you said “everything is political”. and since “everything” includes atoms, they are either political and you’re right or they’re not and you’re wrong.

      • ArcticLynx@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        “literally everything is political”

        ok then, can you remove the hyperbole and tell me the result?

        (spoiler: they wont)

  • hackris@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    25
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    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 :)