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So we can't post memes about ..... checks notes the general culture of our country?
So no memes about anything with literally any specifics.
You realize if you got your wish memses would just be "how many of yall like breathing"
Maybe you could point us to an example of an acceptable meme with no politics involved.
Earlier in this thread, I said:
I also clarified that it has to be contentious, in a way where people condemn each other for thinking differently.
Here are some non-political memes posted in this community in the past hour:
https://lemmy.ml/post/5184036
https://lemmy.ml/post/5185652
https://lemmy.ml/post/5185650
https://lemmy.ml/post/5186256
https://lemmy.ml/post/5186204
That's 5 of the 6 memes posted in that timespan.
1 and 3 are pretty directly political lol
Here let me give you the codex.
When this person says "political" they mean "things I dont agree with"
I don't think "I don't like my job" is politically divisive. You don't really get people up in arms about it unless you're complaining about capitalism or work in general. Even boomers have their "I'd rather be fishing" meme about it.
This is absolutely a political statement. Your work and conditions are political and can be changed only through seizing control and unionization, both political actions.
Tl:DR work under capitalism fucking sucks because it's exploiting us and not fighting for your liberation is politically divisive
Well by that logic, merely saying "I have a job" is a political statement.
Also I'm not reading all that, thank you.
Because claiming to be "nonpolitical" continues to mean wishing to be willfully ignorant and comfortably within the realm of political norms you're so used to that you just don't notice them.
spoiler
Ask yourself a simple question. What happens to someone that doesn't have a job in our society?
smh these lemm.ee tankies aren't participating in good faitherinos
Exactly you dweeb
Yes
You'd be so close if your attention span was longer than a goldfish.
Also you can't talk shit about sonething and then admit you didn't read it.
Also also were not libs so nobody is impressed by you refusing to interact with things that don't already confirm your beliefs.
My notifications are full of Hexbear.
People have a lot to say about my position on something. Should i examine some of my underlying assumptions and unexamined opinions regarding this issue?
No, its the hexbears who are wrong
There comes a point where I can't juggle conversations with 20 different people on the same topic and I have to step back instead of trying.
I've had this exact conversation with an irl friend about how life is political, and you don't get to pretend that your worldview is somehow so above it all and apolitical so that you can tell other people to stop posting memes in the meme channel.
Yeah so shut the fuck up
I know how you feel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lot more where that came from.
It's alright. I appreciate you guys in a way. Honestly I don't want my feed to be on an echo chamber, that's not good for anyone.
I just don't think this is the right community to do it.
"I don't like my job" is so political people bled and died to the american government for your right to not have to do it 80 hours a week as a 12 year old.
First one is about technology and alienation under a capitalist mode of production, discussing work and leisure. That's political.
Third one is about dating and advertisements online, which is related to sexual politics and commodification of sex work online. Political.