original post in: https://lemmy.world/post/23364294
You know, i do actually very often concur with these kinds of content, like the ones saying billionaires are leaches on society and governments are often used as a weapon to protect the ruling classes.
But man… when i come to lemmy i kinda want to only see memes, and funny stuff… even communities that are not niches to political content get political way too often. Like gotdammit, when i get to c/comics i just want to see funny drawings, i’m way too tired to want to see your lame class war comic…
Is that a feeling i’m the only one feeling?
edit: i think what makes it worse is that very often they’re not even funny, just literal propaganda, “good guy propaganda”, maybe, but still propaganda
edit n2: edited title and body slightly to be “open ended” on mod’s request
People who complain about content on lemmy should probably just look for different communities. Or maybe not be psychotic right-wingers looking for 8chan edgelord content.
OP, please reword to be an open-ended question.
like that?
No
The amount of hate I get every time when I call out political opinions posted as “memes” is incredible. Every time it’s either some mental gymnastics about how it actually counts as meme or alternatively ad-hominem accusations about my underlaying motives of only calling out left-wing political memes and never right-wing ones (I wonder why).
The truth is that my feed is almost exclusively politics despite me blocking every single political instance other than the ones for general news. I bet there’s even a community dedicated to political memes but no. Some people absolutely have to inject their political views everywhere.
That stuff is still a bit of a problem on reddit.
Anarchist? No.
Communist? Yes.
My opinion:
I just wish someone would stop with all those leftist memes like ‘future of humanity under socialism vs. capitalism’ because it’s just, in a crude manner, cringe. They’re not very unique, and fail to underline even the basic differences between the two ideologies.
Capitalism is not understood by everyone here, and I feel like those making this stuff are extremely young, have yet to understand what the world offers.
It’s clear that socialism does have its merits but making memes simply mocking capitalism without showing crude memes… not worth it.
I just downvote those kind of posts, they’re awfully low quality and low effort.
What annoys me is the assumption that socialism or communism would fix all of our problems and noone would ever do or feel something bad again.
I don’t mind edgy leftist memes, I just get annoyed at how overconfident MLs in particular are about their broader grasp of political philosophy.
I love it when they try to give me reading assignments. I was there when the deep magic was written, freshman!
In 99% of the cases they haven’t even read beyond the Wikipedia summary anyway, in my experience.
You’re lucky if they get that far. I’ve had people argue over facts that were easily verifiable by multiple sources. I’m too old to do their research for them.
It does get very predictable and repetitive. I feel like the conversation goes the same way under each political meme.
You are not the only one. I am starting to unsubscribe from communities that I feel like it is simply too much of. I get that people want it, and that’s their choice, but it’s feeling a bit overwhelming lately. I thought it might decrease after the USA election but… nope.
As moderator of the community !anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.com I very much enjoy the leftist and anarchist stuff. Thanks for asking. ;)
opinion acknowledged, opinion respected.
Yeah, sometimes.
But, like Lemmy is (almost) entirely populated by people who so strongly disagreed with the political drama (either uspol or redditpol) of reddit that they took specific action about it.
It’s a wonder Lemmy isn’t all radical politics.
I saw a post about someone who made sliders (mini hamburgers) and everyone they’d served them to so far liked them. I wish we had more posts like that one. The problem with Lemmy is there is not enough active niche communities for peoples interests. This is one thing Reddit does much better due to the scale of the user base.
It feels like a brief respite every time I stumble on a post like that.
I’m tired of seing the same superficial content everywhere in general. I just accept it and try to quickly scroll past them.
OP be careful, you’ve inadvertently spoken the sacred incantation and summoned the dreaded political content right into this very thread!
