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Need a politics-free safe space? It's called "going for a walk"

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Lemmy has some very aggressive communists.

I’ve been lucky enough to dodge the crazy right wingers though.

[–] Wogi 8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Hey I'm not an aggressive communist. I like to think I'm a pretty laid back communist.

I mean unless we're talking about the rich. But like my whole political ideology kinda hinges on aggression in that direction so....

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I'm fine with politics on the internet, but why spam it on a memes community...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Point me to a time/place when politics were not completely intertwined with meme communities.

Oh, right. That doesn't actually exist.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One time, back in the 90s, a baby danced.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

My main problem is that most of the memes aren't even funny.

Make memes that are funny and then we can talk

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's literally just circlejerking the same dumb political views with different variations of "if you don't agree you're stupid"

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[–] Lightor 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Politics impact our lives, of course we talk about it. In the US basic human rights are being fought over. I bet if you were in danger of losing some civil rights you'd be interested in how it's going lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The definition of Privalage is not having to worry about politics because you are so secure in your place in our Capitalist Society Hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I'm genuinely curious what's the difference between talking about our lives and politics?

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[–] Steveanonymous 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Really? Every third post on my feed are tits

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Wtf I get no tits in my feed. Why has lemmy forsaken me?!?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This guy internets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? All I get are boobies.

Trade you a red-footed for a Willow.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And the other two thirds are politics posts.

You don't have to make everything political. It's okay just to have fun and like things.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Going for a walk?!?

That has surprisingly become political in the US

[–] EmpathicVagrant 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leftie propaganda from big sidewalk! They want to see your precious calories burn!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if there are any conservatives who get upset about nutrition labels when they find out the food has trans fats in it.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Also every person who bitches about safe spaces: "ban dresses on men because it makes me feel funny"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Who talks about politics on the internet? Round here we yell and fight about politics.

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[–] Ineedcoffee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in São Paulo state, very leftist person. My city voted 86% for Bolsonaro, so good luck going for a walk to find a politic free space.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

South Dakota in the US here. Very red state. Can't avoid politics unless I stick my head in the sand even for a moment and let the fascists run unchecked

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[–] EqMinMax 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you can still block a community.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Well, I saw [email protected] was US only. So I blocked it.

That's pretty much the extent of my involvement in moaning/bothering about politics here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”

Unfortunately, walks don't last forever. Another option is to delete your lemmy/kbin account, because everything in these places is politics or related to politics or turned into politics.

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[–] uis 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But deciding to go for a walk is politics too

[–] GrammatonCleric 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe post on a political meme community instead? Is it really that difficult?

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[–] aJazzyFeel 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This post showed up below a post showing a statistic of Lemmy losing users. Ironic.

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