Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”
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And generally, the political discussions don’t even rise to the intellectual level of shitposting.
Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called stop supporting people who want me dead.
Like I genuinely get mad when people say stuff like “I don’t want politics in my x” or whatever, because YEAH. ME FUCKING TOO. Do you know how much I would love not feeling on the defensive at all times due to the pending casual extermination of people like me that you are either supporting or ignoring??? If all the libs wanted me to be a lib like them they could have simply not made me life hell.
I’m fine with politics on the internet, but why spam it on a memes community…
Because political memes are hilarious.
Haha yes! The threehundreth variation of the same joke, feels like the first time I heard it
That’s just how memes do, political or otherwise
I will always find charlie kirk with a small face hilarious and I refuse to apologize.
We all have our guilty pleasures, I enjoy Stalin with a comically large spoon -memes but wouldn’t bother others with them.
I like posting these
Though that never happened, it’s good that it happened. Warm regards from my moms basement.
I also like pointing out how homosexuals and trans folk have always been the first ones to get camped under communism.
And that equality is a liberal ideology.
And that social democracy fixes everything commies claim communism does, except that social democracy works.
Gets em everytime.
Yeah Im bisexual and it blows my mind to see the LGBT+ folks on hexbear. It’s as if they have no grasp on history, have no understanding of what a nation trying to have a unitary identity frequently means for LGBT+ people, and haven’t bothered to realize that the nations at the forefront of LGBT rights have never included a socialist nation until last month’s reforms in Cuba (much respect for Cuba in doing this).
I also like pointing out how homosexuals and trans folk have always been the first ones to get camped under communism.
East Germany, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, filipino maoist insurgent marriages, oh and also all current socialist countries are making massive progress on lgbt issues while the minority of capitalist countries where communist led lgbt movements have succeeded in scoring some victories are backsliding.
-10,000 social credit. Bing chilling.
LOL like I had social credit! I’m an anarchist, typically among the first or second wave of political dissidents executed whenever a communist regime that would impliment such a social credit system takes power. Simply put: by the time that matters I’m already dead and hopefully took a few out omw.
I like posting these
Well that’s just because he looks like he got grazed by his mad scientist father’s latest project.
Point me to a time/place when politics were not completely intertwined with meme communities.
Oh, right. That doesn’t actually exist.
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.
One time, back in the 90s, a baby danced.
The prevelance of computers are inherently linked with the corporate desire to minimize cost and maximize productivity and profit. The origin of computers comes from military use; first seen in WW2 to calculate angles for artillery use and crack codes as with Enigma. Later, financial and educational institutions saw an ability to reduce labor cost by using computers to automate some record keeping. Why would they be interested in reducing cost? Capitalism, of course! And who were the ones programming these machines? Mostly, wealthy white men. You see, because computers were still giant, expensive machines, they required a college education to learn to use them. At this point, this was the 50s/60s, and non-white people had very little wealth due to, yknow, all that discrimination stuff. Plus, wealthy people especially back then were also very misogynistic (“i hate my wife” jokes, anyone?) And these wealthy whites were sometimes passionate for the industry, and as computers miniturized, they brought these minicomputers home, where they could use them for much more casual use. Enter the 70s, and these computer users start to make video games. Companies for this new fad start to show up. Fast forward a decade and people start making these new home computers play recorded audio and videos too, and before long, the baby dances. But not everyone had the money for home computers in the 90s, so not everyone is aware of the baby - which is where the discrimination part plays in. Most of the people who experienced the dancing baby in its prime were wealthy, majority white families, so the experience was unfortunately not universal. Or fortunately, idk lmao
Of course I’m stretching super hard, but politics are everywhere when you look into it.
Back in the 2000s, most memes were just cat pictures. Longcat [is long], ceiling cat [is watching you], keyboard cat, grumpy cat etc.
Also #BrusselsLockdown hashtag was used in 2015 to ease political tension.
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.
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.
OK, fair enough.
I think the fediverse in general attracts a lot of people who are tired of capitalist assholes extracting wealth on various tech platforms, which probably explains some of it. People are very angry right now, and that’s gonna be hard to escape on Lemmy/kbin
When I go for a walk, the car-based infrastructure makes everything a nuisance until I get on a trail some distance from where I live. Turns out politics is everywhere.
You sure spent a lot of time making a clown of yourself in this thread. Take the L and go home.
Really? Every third post on my feed are tits
Really? All I get are boobies.
Trade you a red-footed for a Willow.
tits or boobies debate. Discuss amongst yourselves
This guy internets.
Wtf I get no tits in my feed. Why has lemmy forsaken me?!?
You sure spent a lot of time making a clown of yourself in this thread. Take the L and go home.
You guys are exhausting. My entire existence is political, I don’t need my social media to be political too. On the bright side, it has me coming on here less and less and less.
I’m genuinely curious what’s the difference between talking about our lives and politics?
“Why do people want to talk about stuff that affects their daily lives so damn much???”
I just want a picture of a got dang hot dog
How meta
Every fourth one is saying we should defederate from Hexbear
.world and sjw users when they ask to defederate after defederating
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The people who politicize everything cry about too much politics. They even politicized fucking pronouns.
They are addicted to politics, they just can’t handle seeing different opinions.
Exactly! “Why are you making everything about politics?”
I’m a gay person in a red state with first-gen immigrants and trans people in my family. I don’t have the luxury not to “make everything political.” The fact that I exist is political to these people!
I do use woke unironically, but in a prideful way. Eg, Brooklyn 99; “He means he was arrested for being black! Get woke, Scully!!”
Fair enough! I always thought that “woke” should be a good thing.
Same with SJW – it’s actually a positive thing to fight for social justice! Like, thanks for the compliment, I guess…
They also have a real affinity for the time-tested “BOTH SIDES ARE BAD” argument, the absolute most sure-fire tell of a right-winger.
They also have a real affinity for the time-tested “BOTH SIDES ARE BAD” argument, the absolute most sure-fire tell of a right-winger.
South Park “centrist” ideology. Not even once.
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Edit: this comment was meant to say that labeling people does more harm than good. Great to know there are ignorant people here
Like the person who made the above comment
lmao
Yes! Let’s put stickers on people
Yes, because more often than not, the sticker fits, like right now for smug bootlicking centrists like yourself.
Here, have this sticker.
Great to know there are ignorant people here :)
The smiley doesn’t hide your reactionary rage.
Careful. Hexbear caught your scent.
Now you’ll get a whole bunch of them replying to you nonstop for a couple of days.
this fucking lib again. Go lick your landlords boot
Lmao either stop having shitty opinions or shut up and stop sharing them with everyone.
It’s that simple.
Let’s live like a community.
Unless you’re gay or trans or non-religious. While you’re doing community activities with me, I’m going to spend every other waking moment trying to get your human rights taken away.
But when I have time, we’ll schedule some of those community things.
bad take
Lmao yes, arbitrary generational divides are exactly the same as political divides over who should be allowed to live and thrive in a society. It’s easy to say “let’s all chill and live as a community” if you’re not among the people that the right wants to remove from existence. And even if you’re not, how could you bring yourself to hang out with hateful fucks who would put you on a kill list without a second thought if you were a little darker or a little more neurodivergent?
Trust, nobody wants to just chill and live as a community more than leftists. That’s our whole deal. But as long as capitalism and it’s immune response called fascism exist, everyone outside it (and those of us inside it too) must fight for their survival or be subsumed.
What you’re talking about are extremists. Nobody in their right mind would live in a community with them. What I was trying to say is, that labeling people “leftist”, “right-wing” and any of the other names does more harm than good.
how can you identify extremists if you’re not supposed to talk about people’s politics? how can you even tell what constitutes extremism? this is such a “let’s get back to brunch” take.
Just consume product and get excited about next product.
No it doesn’t. Ideology is real. Pretending it doesn’t exist is also Ideology.
Increasingly rare
W.
true. His political tajes always seem to be garbage. Perhaps from a trash can
What you’re talking about are extremists.
There are currently around a hundred thoudand people in concentration camps at the souther border. As of 2018, the DHS reported that they had “lost” 1,488 children. The FBI itself, years ago, published concerns about nazi inflliltration of police and federal organizations. US police forces contain an entire ecosystem of cop gangs, many of which are nazi. These same police forces operate blacksites and execute civil rights organizers. We are currently sending another several billion dollars of weaponry to arm guys with sonnenrad and swastika tattoos. What the fuck have you been smoking if you think the mainstream isn’t extremist.
I do think the mainstream is extremist.
I bet this person drinks skim milk too lmao
Kind of meta how you’re cry posting about others complaining.
Lies! I went outside and I saw a poster about CLIMATE CHANGE, and then I turned the corner and heard a family complaining about minimum wage being too low! So unfair, I just want to be ignorant of other people’s suffering.
