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Reminder about Rule #2: No politics (self.memes)

submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/memes

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I just want to post a reminder that this is the general memes community, and we'd prefer for political memes to be directed to c/political_memes.

I don't want to remove posts that already have conversations going (unless they're getting out of hand) because I know there's a lot to talk about, but Rule 2 will be enforced more strictly moving forward.

Thanks, TPM

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's amazing how many people are raging about the rules of a couple communities about no politics when I can count dozens of active communities who are political based.

Everything's over. I'm mentally drained. I just want to zone out and look at memes.

[–] FenrirIII 4 points 3 weeks ago

I just cruise NSFW subs. Nothing political there. Everyone loves a nice butt or pair of breasts

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for this. I know some people won't appreciate it but not every community needs to be a full time political outlet.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sometimes people want a breather, myself included. If there weren't so many other places to browse that kind of content, we wouldn't have the rule.

The population on Lemmy is very politically aware and has strong opinions, which is good, however that also means that it's very easy for any community to become overwhelmed by it and suddenly have little else.

[–] toiletobserver 20 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for being a refuge from some of the noise in the world

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

🙏

[–] Pacattack57 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you 🙏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

good rule

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Now to make some memes

[–] RangerJosie -1 points 3 weeks ago

Coke or Pepsi?

[+] [email protected] -13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Pointless rule. Everything is politics.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

In this context "politics" clearly conveys "things directly related to governments, such as wars, elections, or socio-economical ideologies". It is only a subset of the definition of politics that you're probably using, something like "things direct or indirectly related to human groups and their conflicts of interest".

We got a whole Lemmy to talk about Israel vs. Hamas, late stage capitalism, elections etc. We could - and should - have at least one community to chill and talk about other stuff, and without that rule we won't have it. For example without that rule 99.99999% of the content as of late 2024 would be about Trump, as if Americans didn't have multiple communities to talk about it already.

[–] grue 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] GrammarPolice 2 points 3 weeks ago

Make the deuce i just dropped while reading your comment political. Come on, go ahead. I DARE YOU!!

[–] nl4real 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's a good rule of thumb for media, but I don't care for it's use as a justification for constantly spamming low effort political memes like on r/adviceanimals. Winding yourself up about things you can't control doesn't make the world better, it just fucks up your mental health. There are no shortage of political communities to use on this site.