sToP pOsTiNg pOliTicAl mEmEs!!!

We live during a critical point in history, and I am determined to laugh at it
- You can laugh or you can cry. Personally, I choose both.
  
  It's called horrormirth, and it's a Discordian tradition.
- Nailed it. This is my new motto.
- We live ~~during a critical point in history, and I am determined to laugh at it~~ in a society
  
  fascism is on the rise across the world
  Climate change has finally caught up with us in a big way with politicians still doing almost nothing to stop it or even slow it down
  peaceful protesters are being labeled as terrorists and sometimes murdered while ACTUAL terrorists are protected by cops and half of the ruling elite
  income and wealth inequality and thus poverty are worse than they have been since the great depression and it's only getting worse faster and faster
  the financial elite and their imitators are profiteering away people's ability to survive and people are blaming it on the government spending money to help keep the victims of said profiteering alive
  there's a war in Europe where the rich countries care about it and the political alliance that the aggressor belongs to has just expanded to consist of countries containing half of the people in the world
  the least bad realistic option for US President is an octogenarian who entered politics before the invention of the pocket calculator and thinks the solution to police brutality is to throw money at cops
  the other realistic option is the career criminal grifter leader of a Christofascist cult, who is also a malignant narcissist, a sociopath and as bright as Greenland in December
  This isn't regular society, this is multiple crises piled on top of each other and about to explode into even worse catastrophe.
- I too think a revolution is coming.
- You don't. It's a time like any other and nothing will change anyways.
  
  I hear the view from orbit is rather pretty. Is Hadfield there?

:"Everything I don't like is political. If it's something I like, then it's not political, but just common sense and has been that way since the dawn of time."
- Sounding an awful lot like Gamers.
  Two genders, male and political.
  Two races, white and political.
  Three sexual orientations, straight, hot lesbians, and political.

Please post more political memes particularly about non-US politics.
- I'm intrigued. What about electricity?
- Damn too bad there's no countries other than the US that speak English.
  
  Ce drăcie grăit-ai despre mine, mojicule? Țiu să-ți aduc întru știință căci fusei întîiul din Școala de Rezboiu de la Viana și fusei în multe misii neștiute la Înalta Poartă și pre mulți am prăpădit. Sînt școlit în rezboi de vicleșug și niminea nu mînuiește mai acătări ca mine archebusul în toată armia cea sfîntă. Mi-ești dară numai o șaibă. Te voi mătrăși cu atîta pricepere ce n-a văzut întreg Stambulul, ascultă voroavele mele. Îți închipui că vei rămîne slobod dupe ereziile ce mi le grăiești pre ceastă jalbă? Rogu-te a chibzui iară. Numai ce vorbim de am trimes soli către iscoadele mele din țările rumâne iară copita murgului tău e taman vegheată așa că proptește-te întru viforul ce-are să vină, mamelucule. Viforul ce-are să spîrcuiască nimicnicia ce tu găsești de cuviință a numi vieață. Ești pristăvit, mojicule. Poci ca să fiu orișiunde, fieștecînd și poci a te stropși în șapte sute de chipuri, iară asta doar în brînci. Iată că nu doar ce sînt înalt școlit în trîntă, dară poci umbla la armurăria dorobanților și am să mă slujesc de dînsa întru totul pentru a-ți nimici șezutul de pe fața gliei, zamparagiule. O, numai de-ai fi vezuit ce amărăciune vei fi ispitit asupra-ți cu ceastă şăgalnică cuvîntare, pasămite ai fi muțit. Dară nu-ți fu în putință, n-ai cadaticsit, iară acum vei da tribut, nărodule. Iată voi slobozi urgie asupra-ți și de îndată te vei năbuși într-însa. Ești pristăvit, mojicuțule.
- Is someone stopping people from doing so?
  
  I'll try to watch some world news and see if i can find anything meme worthy. America is just so easy to meme, its low hanging fruit really.

Political memes -> memes complaining about political memes -> memes complaining about memes complaining about political memes
Can we go deeper?
- We must
  
  I'll get the lube
- Isn't that what you just did?
  
  Nah I'm just heckling.
- One can perform meme-ception but at a great risk. If you go too far into the meme-hole, you could disappear up there forever. At that point, your only hope of return is a new social media platform where retreading old memes becomes suddenly cool again, for a moment.

- yOu'Re NoT mAkInG mE rEaD tHaT!

- "I don't have time to discuss politics, I'm too busy getting the master and slave drives to work together."
  
  I never got the complaints about that. It's not inherently bad to have one thing exert complete control over another thing.. the problem is when you start doing it to people

There does seem to be a huge disconnect between people who believe in the existence a meaningful category called "non-political" and reality.

For me it’s not even about that. I do not care about US politics, I just want to see some funny memes
- I dunno where you're from but as a Canadian I'm dismayed when Canadians say they don't care about u.s politics. Considering u.s politics influence our every day life just as much as the politics of our own Parliament. Anyone who has been to a major Canadian city and has seen Canadian idiots with the same Maga mentality, will tell you that u.s politics is a huge part of our life
  
  I’m from the UK, our politics is bad enough without throwing US in there
  
  I somewhat agree, but for my own mental health I’ve had to try and avoid it if I can. I still stay informed, I just don’t want US politics in every area of my life. I probably agree with most people on this site politically, I just don’t want to be so involved in that mind space all the time.
  It also feels very US-defaultism to put US memes here all the time. Sure, most people here are probably American, but not everyone is.
  
  We have our own issues to solve first and foremost . I live in a major Canadian city and I've never seen maga people, I honestly blame those people watching too much American politics in the first place.
- I find it quite difficult to block only US politics due to how it’s the “default” so people rarely specify it’s the US. It also just tends to be constant work as new scandals and stuff pop up.
  If anyone has some good filters please let me know.

I miss the good ol' days when politics weren't so political.

what even is a non-political meme? you can make a political analysis essay for every meme in existence.
- Man_getting_hit_by_football.gif
  
  Man Getting Hit By Football is a short film about rampant ableism and ageism within Springfield. As we can see with Sherman chastising Homer's boorish behavior, the film is not a comedy, but Homer is unable to see the film as anything but a comedy due to his rampant ableism and ageism, as repeatedly demonstrated throughout the years with his willful and malicious neglect of Grandpa Simpson.
  
  you see he was going to be politician and he got assasinated

Are we supposed to read every post and every comment even if we don't like it ?
That seems so unfair ! We should have a right not to read posts and comments if we find them about a subject we don't want to interact with right then.
- Otherwise we might become like those tankies in their echo chamber.

I don't mind political memes, we're adults and politics plays an important part of our lives, satire on politics is a welcome part of life, BUT... why must they all be foreign memes from the Americas?
We should have a mix of political memes from all around the globe! Gods knows, Sunak or Braverman are deserving of memery.... :-P
I'm not smort enough to make memes :-(
- Because y’all aren’t making other memes lol
  Well except the Germans. I see a lot of German memes on Kbin lol
  
  Honestly the Germans have been killing it with content creation.
  
  I just wish I could read. Do the comments translate?
- why must they all be foreign memes from the Americas?
  We have the best memes. We are a meme force to be reckoned with.
  Also, we're desperate for some mirth to lighten the burden of how horrible some of our politicians are.
  
  Y'know I'm a patriot and all, but I wish we didn't spend so much of our national budget on the Meme Force. Let's stop shipping our memes overseas and start meming in our local communities
- I'm not smort enough to make memes :-(
- Americans must be better posters than EUers. Step up your game Europe
  
  Can't be bothered to
- I'll never understand people who say this stuff. Like, make your own? Ask other Europeans to make them? What are we supposed to do, NOT post, because the minority of users don't feel like their relevant?

Imao!!! This is so fucking true.

STOP POSTING ABOUT POLITICS. I'M TIRED OF SEEING IT. MY FRIENDS ON LEMMY SEND ME MEMES. ON KBIN IT'S FUCKIN' MEMES. I WAS ON AN INSTANCE, RIGHT, AND AAAAAAALLLL OF THE COMMUNITIES ARE JUST POLITICS STUFF. I- I SHOWED MY CHAMPION UNDERWEAR TO MY GIRLFRIEND, AND THE LOGO, I LOOKED AT IT, AND I SAID, "HEY BABE, WHEN THE COMMODITY IS FETISHIZED" [ding-ding-dings to the tune of The Internationale] I FUCKIN' LOOKED AT A TRASH CAN, I SAID, "UNDER CAPITALISM, WASTE PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN THE ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY THAT UNDERPINS THE ENTIRE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM". I LOOK AT MY PENIS, I THINK OF THE OMNIPRESENT PHALLOCENTRISM IN OUR PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY, AND I GO, "POLITICS? MORE LIKE POLY-DICKS!"
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Guess the anthems:
  Ding ding ding ding, di-ding, ding ding ding ding, di-ding, ding ding ding ding.
  Ding di-ding ding ding DING! Ding di-ding, ding ding ding.
  Ding di-ding, ding ding, di-ding, ding, ding di-ding, ding ding, di-ding!
  Ding, di-ding ding ding, ding, ding di-di-di-di-ding ding, di-di-di-di-di-di-DING.
  Ding, ding, di-ding...
  Ding, di-ding, ding, ding, ding, di-di-ding. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, di-di-DING.
  
  What does the fox say?
  
  United Kingdom (or Liechtenstein, whose anthem uses the same melody)
  United States of America
  Dunno
  People's Republic of China
  Canada
  Dunno
  Hopefully number 3 and 6 will come to me later!

- Political memes are a subset of memes therefore political memes can be posted in a meme channel.
- What does being political mean to you?
- Exactly. We complainers aren't saying they can't post about politics, just requesting they post their political memes in the designated political meme space.
  EDIT: A message to people from Hexbear
  Thank you for your input, but I stopped responding to arguments here at least 24 hours ago because I can't juggle that many conversations at once. I would ask that you respect that and not continue to argue with me about what is and isn't political, because I'm just going to ignore it anyways. Thank you.
  
  The concept of having 'free speech zones' where political speech is allowed is ... very inherently political though.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
  Civil liberties advocates argue that free speech zones are used as a form of censorship and public relations management to conceal the existence of popular opposition from the mass public and elected officials.[24] There is much controversy surrounding the creation of these areas – the mere existence of such zones is offensive to some people, who maintain that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution makes the entire country an unrestricted free speech zone.[24] The Department of Homeland Security "has even gone so far as to tell local police departments to regard critics of the War on Terrorism as potential terrorists themselves."
  
  What does being political mean to you?
  
  Political memes are memes. sorry you dont like it sweetie
  
  "Please keep your demonstration within the designated Free Speech Area"
  
  Exactly! Just like how nobody was saying Rosa Parks couldn't ride the bus. She would have gotten to her destination anyway had she just ridden at the back like we requested!
  
  A message to people from Hexbear
  Not from Hexbear, do I get to respond?
  
  You're on the memes community for a political instance. If you were complaining about politics in the lemm.ee or lemmy.world meme communities I'd be entirely with you.
- The funny thing is, deciding which memes are political and which memes are not political is itself a political decision
  You just can't escape it
  
  I think I can figure out where "DAE X political party bad?!?!?!?" should be

I don't care which side is saying it I'm just tired of it (for the same reason I am tired of advertising)
- Lmao. This post is specifically made for
  like you. I literally saw you commenting on a meme about conservative physics and one about tax evasion. Both very political things. Yet I did not see you complaining there. For someone who claims to be tired of seeing politics in their memes, you sure do love them.
  
  ya got me there
- What, you can't have your paper thin consumer behaviour challenged huh??? Huh?!?

Nah but this is all Lemmy is at this point. That sucks. We need more than this.
It's ok that this has a place here. But we need more than this.
Want some hard truths? Blinders off, reddit is still a much better place for content than Lemmy.
Honestly I'm getting tired of it.
Edit - I feel the need to say that there is actually one consistent thing on Lemmy that is fantastic - rpgmemes, specifically the ongoing series about a goblin high priestess playing dnd.
https://ttrpg.network/post/1125391
- Yeah the memes on Lemmy are all absolute garbage-tier and get praised just bc they're content.
  I guess I could repost my back-catalogue of reddit OC - at least then I'd be contributing content. 🤷‍♂️

Stop posting memes with color blue!
- Yet, your avatar has the color blue. Curious.
  
  Maybe we were the memes all along.

"You don't get snakes from chicken eggs"

- If you want a clearer source of concern, the FBI vets ever video poker device to make sure they are not cheating but voting machine software is somehow proprietary.
- I took the post to be making fun of people who see posts about things like gay characters in fiction or minorities in the news as somehow inherently political.
- Stop hanging out in spaces defined by political affiliation then. It's your responsibility to chose spaces that meet your needs. Don't hang out in the wrong place then sulk because it's not what you want it to be.
  
  For example, memes on lemmy.world instead of lemmy.ml

Do you want people to stop coming here? Because this is how you can get people to stop coming here.
- Why do you come here if not to see other people's opinions?
  
  Stuff that brings me joy. Posting left wing political shit on lemmy is like, the epitome of preaching to the choir. Every time I see some unnecessary political take that everyone here agrees with anyway, like there's always that one person in any thread that has to bring politics into things and I'm just like nope, I'm out. Got better things to do than have my mood ruined by thinking about the worst parts of life. Its like you people are intentionally trying to make everyone miserable.
  
  I come here, to the memes place, to see memes
- I absolutely want smug liberals to stop coming here. If this meme offends you then please stop coming here. Thanks.
  
  I'm neither smug nor a liberal. I'm simply tired of repetitive, dumb and US centric political memes. Lemmy started out sort of ok but it's turning into a very annoying place.

It's about not posting shit tier "memes". And yes I must use the quotes because many of you people don't actually know what a meme is and have taken the boomer Facebook approach off putting shitty text over a picture and calling it a day.

lol I just found out that I can block users

Oh the irony.

Oh yeah, I'm sure these political memes are making some very deep points and are gonna change the minds of alllll those staunch MAGAs who are obviously all over Lemmy.

Online socialists be like
- Says the person who spends most of their time commenting "leftists bad".
  
  Who says leftists bad?
  Is this an undercover hexbear again 😉 I wont tell i promise.

im not even a conservative but someone post hardcore conservative memes to show the communists why non-stop spamming their ideology is annoying
edit: the responses prove my point
- im not even a conservative but
  
  rofl
- What does being political mean to you?
- If conservatives were funny we probably wouldn't be having this conversation, you are right.
- someone post hardcore conservative memes
  It's nice to have something to point and laugh at sometimes
  
  Are you laughing because you understand something we don't, or just because you think it'll make us go away?
- Ah yes the opposite of communism is child marriage, lack of reproductive rights, and telling trans-people they don't exist. Such good meme potential, that's why truth social is the funniest place on the internet.
  /s
  
  It appears you have a paper thin understanding of the world around you. Some conservative meme spam should fix that.
  
  Conservatism isn't the same thing everywhere. Your post is very American centric.
- Please no.
- Lemmy.ml is fundamentally a communist community. Leave it and join somewhere like Lemmy.world if you want to be part of a community that doesn't have a political agenda. This energy you are expanding complaining that a social network isn't meeting your expectations could be more productively spent just checking which ones do and which ones don't. You might as well be complaining about all the Star Trek memes on the Star Trek Lemmy instance.
  
  Lemmy.world is not apolitical. They're zionists. I submit for proof, the post that resulted in my site wide ban:
- In its majestic equality, the law allows conservatives and communists alike to make posts, get votes, and to cry if nobody clicks it.
  
  Yeah but more importantly, if you go to a website specifically aimed at communists and don't like all the communism that's a you problem.

Just fuck off mate
- That's why I'm here.

EDIT: A message to people from Hexbear