original post in: https://lemmy.world/post/23364294
You know, i do actually very often concur with these kinds of content, like the ones saying billionaires are leaches on society and governments are often used as a weapon to protect the ruling classes.
But man… when i come to lemmy i kinda want to only see memes, and funny stuff… even communities that are not niches to political content get political way too often. Like gotdammit, when i get to c/comics i just want to see funny drawings, i’m way too tired to want to see your lame class war comic…
Is that a feeling i’m the only one feeling?
edit: i think what makes it worse is that very often they’re not even funny, just literal propaganda, “good guy propaganda”, maybe, but still propaganda
edit n2: edited title and body slightly to be “open ended” on mod’s request
I normally only look at communities I am subscribed to and am not subscribed to places where such things are usually posted. You could try that too.
In general I dislike communities with concepts like “pics”, “comics”, “memes”, etc., I don’t want to see just any pics or comics, I want to see ones I might find interesting. Lemmy is unfortunately not yet a big enough place that it has specialized communities for everything.
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My opinion:
I just wish someone would stop with all those leftist memes like ‘future of humanity under socialism vs. capitalism’ because it’s just, in a crude manner, cringe. They’re not very unique, and fail to underline even the basic differences between the two ideologies.
Capitalism is not understood by everyone here, and I feel like those making this stuff are extremely young, have yet to understand what the world offers.
It’s clear that socialism does have its merits but making memes simply mocking capitalism without showing crude memes… not worth it.
I just downvote those kind of posts, they’re awfully low quality and low effort.
What annoys me is the assumption that socialism or communism would fix all of our problems and noone would ever do or feel something bad again.
I’m still trying to figure out why people think that yelling about Socialism is a great idea.
The Right figured it out years ago; go along to get along. Reagan was smart enough to put the first woman on the Supreme Court and made African-American Colin Powell his Number One guy.
It’s like they’d rather lose and be able to talk about how noble the cause is.
edit =getting down voted, but no one bothers to actually explain why they feel the need to use the unpopular term.
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OP be careful, you’ve inadvertently spoken the sacred incantation and summoned the dreaded political content right into this very thread!
No ?
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The answer is to block instances you don’t want. That’s how I’ve freed myself from the onslaught of certain special interests that I have no interest in
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No
Hey you tried posting content instead of just bitching about what you “don’t like to see”?
But don’t you see, this is technically content
Ah a fellow enjoyer of sarcasm. Man you know what I miss those posts about people bitching about people bitching about reddit.
You are not alone. This place often feels like an astroturfed propaganda disbursement machine, even with a lot of filters and block lists.
I don’t see that much of it, honestly, but I avoid image-based and political communities.
Yeah. But I also tend to get tied up in it. Less of it would be better for my brain, probably.
They usually don’t post anything else. Or comment about anything else. Just block a few to thin the herd
