Even chosen linux distro?
Damn
I mean, depending on how much you value privacy and the virtues of FOSS…maybe not directly political, but I’m sure some correlations could be made.
Every single time a gripe about privacy is brought up on Lemmy or some issue with iOS or Windows, Linux users come out of the woodwork. It is 100% political as privacy becomes more and more of a concern.
Everything is political. My poli sci teacher said it best: when you boil it down, politics in the most simplest terms is just getting things done.
Especially Linux distro! Now, give me a pulseaudio snap package for my Unity desktop.
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According to Lemmy that’s the most important political decision there is.
I work in the government and let me tell you: Yes
“Everything is political” shares the same vibes:
I agree. It’s like sometimes you just want to go for a walk and there’s some guy following you around screaming EvErYtHiNg Is PhYsIcS just to remind you that there are physical laws to explain the world around you. Just shut up and let me walk in peace sometimes.
You’re very fortunate that you can take the time to ignore those politics. For many people, these issues affect them to such an extent that they can’t be ignored at all. As for the amount of memes challenging the status quo here… well… if you’re on Lemmy, the status quo didn’t work for you either.
What has their constant fixation on these problems achieved? I have problems that affect me every day, I can still fuck around on the internet or whatever for a while and get my mind off it. Constantly immersing yourself in this stuff is not healthy.
Exactly, armchair meme politics does literally nothing and it’s the only “activism” half these chuckle fucks have ever taken part in.
“Political Memes” is extremely vague. To demonstrate, I opened the community, and this was the 3rd meme that came up. Imo this blurs the line or what counts as political. I’m sure you can find many others.
Hey son how about we stay out of politics or whatnot and focus on this nice family time?
Normal response: Okay sorry dad, guess I was making everyone uncomfortable. It was just one of my hills to die on. So how’s the food?
OP’s response: But everything is political? How do you taste of that animal exploits cooked with nature crushing electricity dipped in yet another animal cruelty and forced labor? Family? What is family anyway? Do you realize that by forcing me to have a nice family time is actually only beneficial to fat capitalists? These things matter. And if you don’t want to hear these wherever you go then it’s your problem not mine.
That same dad when I happen to mention my trans friend in passing because it’s my friend:
three hour rant about me being men and testicles are a thing for a reason and this mother fucker is destroying America
Y’all “let’s not politic” folk politic ALL the time, you just think you can “nuh uh” to pick and choose what qualifies. Denying Healthcare to people isn’t political to yall, but I just cut a friend out because he literally shushed me for “being too political” for… Saying I’d like half hour busses back.
You’re making a big generalisation based on someone not wanted to see political memes and memes to about people not wanting to see political memes when they’re taking a dump or just trying to make the day pass.
I would definitely be a leftist in the USA and probably be considered progressive even, just because I’m used to how things are here in Sweden and the social climate we have. (I even argue with Americans quite often of how crappy their social climate and ideologies are)
But I still would like to browse Lemmy while taking a crap without having US politics memes shoved down my throat. If I would want that I’d probably subscribe to a relevant community.
I would still like to browse lemmy without us politics being shoved down my throat
The test determined, that was a lie. Y’all certainly stay engaged for extended periods of time for people who don’t want to think about it when you could, as people are wont to say, “Keep Scrolling.”
What you mean is that you want to browse lemmy without being reminded that the world is broken and your apathy fuels it’s broken state.
#OneJoke
Left: “I don’t want to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings”
Right: “And yet here you are at Buffalo Wild Wings”
If you don’t want politics, don’t engage. Don’t like how political a community is? Leave. Can’t find an “apolitical” one? Start your own.
Otherwise, you WANT politics, you just want to screech at people you disagree with and say it’s not political because you say so.
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No its not, when I close Lemmy it disappears (IMAGINE BELIEVING THAT POSTING MEMES IS “CHANGING THE STATUS QUO”) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Memes help share ideas and they reflect the zeitgeist. You can see the pattern if you’re older and experienced the birth of internet memes and over time they became more depressing, surreal, and self deprecating, reflecting the current socio-economic situation of many. During 2020 - 2023, the memes were quite surreal and making commentary about one in a life time events happening many times, shits on fire, economic inequity and more. Millenials and zoomers are depressed they can’t afford a house.
Now imagine you are someone who has a masters degree and can’t find a decent paying job because the marking is fucked. You want to purchase a house and you just can’t. You now see a meme reflecting those ideas and you feel a form of solidarity. You get emboldened by those ideas.
I think, the current wave of unionization and striking partly contributed by these memes. They shared a spotlight on the inequities of the world and got people worked up. You can also see the “power” of the Dark Brandon memes, oh, and Donald fucking Trump became a serious candidate and elected because of memes.
Imagine believing that changing the status quo happens out of the blue without civil political discourse.
Memes are quite similar to caricatures and cartoons of the printing age, except they have an even bigger role in our modern age. It is a more accessible way of spreading ideas, making arguments, or the like.
You of course will not be taking down a government with a meme alone, but the meme can be part of the first steps of spreading awareness and bringing societal problems to attention, preceding real change.
While I do agree that most things in life are somehow connected to politics and that it needs to be discussed, when I come somewhere, in real life or online, and I want to chill out, I really don’t want to hear about it. Political communities exist, even here on Lemmy. Let’s keep politics out of cooking, meme, and other not politically oriented communities please :)
I once got warned in a discord server for being political. Brought up that everything was politics and they backed off.
About a week later I got hints that they might be a bit of a nazi bar which was confirmed when I called it out.
The left can’t meme
Go blame immigrants
The world isn’t divide in two
You literally started so don’t even try.
You are the one falsely accusing me. i live in a country that has open its borders to immigrants since its very beginning and has received millions of them and im deeply proud of it.
You people need to chill. Again, the world isn’t divide in two
I have the impression that you didn’t get what I‘m talking about. So let me explain:
The meme this person made is saying „everything is political“. Wether the meme is funny or not, it is not conveying a particular political leaning imo.
But you had to bash „the left“ without any reason, hinting that you are on the opposite side.
Taking your unprovoked bashing back to you, I accused you of being anti immigration (also without any evidence).
And now you know how it feels getting bashed for no reason. Instead of being a good sport about it or taking the joke further (like, idk „go cry to stalin.“) you decided to play the victim.
This is the reason why the actual joke „the right cant meme“ is so funny. Because right wing jokes are very easy to grasp and „on the nose“ because right-wing ideology historically appeals to the uneducated with easy answers and strong leadership figures.
Granted, the joke in question here is not really complex either.
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You better have a bidet, since it reduces paper consumption which is better for the environment.
Fuck I did the thing
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I hope it was one of those poops where you felt lighter afterwards, and that wiping afterwards wasn’t an ordeal
That was… extremely nice of you to say.
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Jesus christ you’re insufferable.
We all know Jesus can’t save us now.
You better watch out. It takes Jesus 4.5 seconds to get to earth
Shit, he’s closer than the sun! How long is it relative to him?
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No, that’s not what they mean.
They need to more precisely say what they mean, then.
No, they really don’t. For most of us, “stop making everything political” is a simple and clear request that can be fulfilled with 0 follow-up questions.
Now all I can imagine is a Simpsons character named Political Perry who struggles to live in a society not interested in politics as much as a second year college student.
Wife left with the kids, doesn’t get invited to social events, nothing in life going right for him, but he doesn’t understand why.
“Oh, shit. It’s Political Perry. Once asked the guy if he wanted ketchup and was ranted to about the corporate exploitation of the agricultural sector for half an hour. No one look.”
That sounds exactly like something the Simpsons would do. Either that, or it would be Lisa it happens to.
Yeah, I imagined someone like Gill, but aggressively political instead of constantly shattered by luck. Instead of getting sympathy from the audience, they get facepalms and, “Oh my god, I have this guy at work…”
Hmmmmm you sould like a rightoid 🧐🤔 /s
Seriously, OP is straw-manning. There’s not this much politics on other sites. Lemmy has a ton of tankies so everything is about communism here
Yeah, when I’m doing the whole “no politics” thing it’s because the same issues keep being rehashed and even if I’m invested in them it still gets unpleasant when a conversation becomes circular.
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I reject this! This sounds edgy but muddies the water and distracts as to recognize what politics is. Politics is everything regarding decision-making in groups! not more not less. Recognize when that’s the case and fight!
I think our definitions of politics are fundamentally different.
I would say politics is the struggle for power.
Power is an underlying factor across all of society so politics affects everything.
I think our definitions of politics are fundamentally different.
I think that’s cos you sound like you’re 12 mate lmao
If you want to understand why the other definition is more useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjcmDGY2vA
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“Not everything is political”
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“I am priveledged enough that my right to exist and thrive is never questioned or under fire, and things that I care about are protected by the status quo and the suppression of others”
I exist in several categories of people who’s right to exist have been threatened many, many times throughout history, I agree that everything is political, or rather, that politics encompasses everything.
However, not every discussion should become politically oriented, as it’s not particularly the most productive in many cases. This is most prominent on the internet, where nuance, which is ESSENTIAL for productive political discourse, is often absent. I find much political discussion. This is especially true in dialogues where it is either discussed on a broad scale, or where it is discussed in a reactionary manner. When my answers to political topics are so often “it depends”, this stuff tends to be quite straining, especially when my attempts to create dialogue are shot down.
In short “not everything is political” exists because you’re either detailing a discussion to talk about how horrible everything is, or you’re on the internet and internet politics just suck.
It’s confronting for a cis gendered white male to accept they are the pinnacle of the power structure in western societies by serendipitous occurrence.
Some of the replies to this post make that clear.
The pinnacle of the power structure is wealth, not any of your liberal buzzwords.
Intersectionality and solidarity, dude
Acknowledging things beyond class isn’t liberalism, man. Socialists can be against racism, too…
I think you’re missing a glaring obvious issue there. It’s right there. Just look a little harder.
-cis gendered white guy (only sort of old)
Yep, s’all buzzwords.
Not marginalized people across the country clawing desperately for the right to mind their own business and live their life in peace as adherents to the status quo dedicate their free time to attacking them and arguing they don’t deserve recognition as people.
Just buzzwords. -.-
Yawn, do always just write in platitudes?
Florida now teaches that slavery was a good thing, but go off king
buzzwords
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Regular words can seem like buzzwords when you’re ignorant.
Buzzwords can seem like regular words when you use them too much
Facts
“I am priveledged enough that my right to exist and thrive is never questioned or under fire, and things that I care about are protected by the status quo and the suppression of others”
so someone who this doesn’t apply to thinks that some random star in our neighbour galaxy is political?
Theoretically, politics is defined as anything where decisions are made to solve conflicts. However, this is ‘broad politics’. A much more common interpretation of politics adds the requirement of it not only being a single, but regular occurrence or rather the main job of someone. Ergo, politicians of a country, or part of it, and their decisions .
Replying “everything is politics” to someone expressing they do not want to talk about politics is like telling someone their offspring cannot be called “kid” anymore as they are over 18 now, after a mother cried that their “kid died of cancer”. It’s technically correct, but you’re a major annoying asshole or just plain stupid to persist on the meaning that was not intended.
As I do not believe there are that many people with a room temperature IQ, in C, or maybe autistic people for that matter, which of course are not responsible, only one explanation remains. If you, or anyone else repeating this pattern, is not an asshole, they should just shut up, or argue for politics if they really want to discuss this topic. A much better solution would be to move to politics only instances tho.Nope
