Let's see, we have nonpolitical memes, political memes, memes complaining about political memes, memes making fun of memes complaining about political memes. Let's see what the next iteration will bring
Finally some good fucking stuff
Capitalism has fallen, billions must now huff poop from a bag
Literally everything is politics.
People need to grow up and actually address real world problems if it makes them uncomfortable talking about them in meme form.
I think at least some of the complaining about politics on Lemmy is being misinterpreted.
As to my personal opinion: I really don’t mind political memes, polotical news articles posted and discussed, political discussion threads, etc. I like to participate in those every now and again. What I don’t really like (but tastes may differ on this one) is that sometimes posts that are just silly/funny/weird/beautiful/entertaining get highjacked or derailed in the comments section when out of nowhere a (to me mostly unrelated) libs vs tankies or left vs right discussion appear.
A lot of us are well aware that there are A LOT of real world problems, but we come to these internet forums to blow off some steam and just to have a chill time. To have a break from it all, if you will.
I’ve made the following point in another post: yes, in a way everything is politics. But some of these lemmings are capable of (and this is an illustration, not a particular situation I witnessed) highjacking a post with a picture of a beautiful sunrise and say “if it were up to politician A from party X we would never again have a sunrise in country Z…”.
Politics are important. And the day we stop talking about it is a very bad day for democracy, I think most - if not all - of us will agree. But maybe just let us have some lighthearted non-divisive topics as well?
Nobody is "uncomfortable." Just unamused. Some people just want to look at memes and be amused. Politics are not fun.
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