Cmon guys, this is c/memes and not c/politics yet you make it look like we’re in a fucking civil war lol
I totally agree and I find it weird that some people (very loudly) don’t. You can make a community for it, but right now this one is the largest general community for people who just want to laugh and politics sometimes can make me cry.
Yes, I wouldn’t care if it was occasionally (1/20 or 1/30), but it’s more like 1/3 and always the same sub narratives and the same people joining in with their pre-written comments they already used in 5 memes or so. And I don’t want to tackle someone specifically as I have seen various examples on all political sides.
And it’s not that I’m apolitical. I just don’t think I need to convince anyone that my personal beliefs are the only correct ones out there. Our fundamental views and beliefs are being shaped by our environment and our personal experiences alongside many other factors. You may have certainly had other experiences in life than me and that’s perfectly fine.
Sometimes when seeing a political comment I’m thinking about only replying “Cool 👍” regardless of whether I agree or not… Better than writing half an essay wasting another hour of valuable life time for literally nothing.
It’s especially awesome how Americans won’t shut the fuck up about their godawful politics. I so sick of hearing about trump.
Fuck it, this one time imma say sth:
Ah yes, now decide between unelectable and literally unelectable
I love this take. I feel very similarly and understand that everyone has their own reasons for their political beliefs. But at the end of the day, politics are usually just depressing and I just wana laugh at some funny, non-policical memes.
Thanks for the compliment kind Lemming :D
Can’t agree more
If you don’t want to see politics just elect me and I promise I will handle everything for your sweet little head. Just keep playing with your toys now, no I earned all this money.
If we burn you in the town square, do we get the same benefits?
Sorry, most I can do is treason charges and life without parole. Don’t mind that I myself burned my oppoenents in the town square last week.
I think the best politicised meme is this one
Its got what plants crave.
Every community on every platforms has the same problem; very frustrating!
Is this where we say all the NATO nations are Nazis and that Putin is just trying to save Ukraine from them? From what I gather it’s appropriate to make anti-west, pro china/Russia comments everywhere. When the yuan hits my account I just start blasting.
They usually lean a certain way too…
Perhaps the tankies are making you question some deeply held beliefs you have and that’s making you uncomfortable?
It’s easy to dismiss most of their rhetoric, I do as well (I.e. running people over with tanks is a bad idea), but it’s harder to ignore the fact we have a significant portion of the value of our labour taken by capitalists.
They have brought up some good points, but the good points they make are over shadowed by the whole genocide denial and “dunking on libs”.
The following example is not meant to represent hexbear users, but to show an example of how I could see it.
Think of a fascist who brings up some good examples of modern problems in about 1/10 of their messages, while the rest are talking about how Mussolini was actually good, since he brought up the living standard in Italy and expanded the public sector. And when someone brings up the bad things Mussolini did, the fascist just says “It’s clearly western propaganda”.
You wouldn’t want to read their messages, since they are full of this fascist apologetic garbage, and the good points they bring up are ignored because of their other opinions.
It doesn’t matter how good willed your opinions are if no one wants to associate with you.
Mussolini did not make living standards better though, and his crimes are well documented and aren’t just propaganda. So it’s a false equivalence.
It was never meant to be an equivalence. I made it to draw a rough picture of how a person can have some good ideas, but be a person no one wants to associate with due their other ideas.
Sure, but it may be the case that the “other ideas” also aren’t actually wrong and the people who don’t want to associate do so out of not wanting to challenge their own wrong ideas about things.
As long as politics is not based on the sovereignty of the people but on that of an elite and large corporations and as long as politicians are not employees of these people, but rather see themselves as their bosses, any political ideology is a mere label and becomes a feudal dictatorship. It only deserves a debate between different opinions when this pyramid scheme is reversed, before it leads to nothing.
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“… a based centrist appears”
I wouldn’t call myself that. Not on Lemmy and certainly not irl.
I usually manage to piss off both sides because whilst I do agree on a lot of things I usually fail to mention these ending up in listing the topics I disagree with them.
The word centrist itself it very relative as is “being right” and “being left”… one “being left” in the US would arguably be center right in many EU state. In the same way, “being center” on Lemmy means something entirely different than “being center” on X.
Tho I am certainly leaning more towards a certain ideology I do think that too much of it isn’t healthy as is with pretty much everything. And just like a wise man once said: “Only the Sith deal in absolutes!”
