SoOrry. Pffffft.
if the mods are going to pin this, why not just start a user vote to disallow political memes? !politicalmemes@lemmy.world is already a community
There is a correct amount of doom each person can engage with before it negatively impacts their mental health so much that they will be less effective at doing anything to make the world better.
I don’t presume to know what that is for you, or anyone else, I just know that if we let Lemmy bucketize things in line with its design then people can opt in and that self determination will do a better job than either of us.
I don’t even think that there should be a rule against politics here, but people posting an article that’s not a shitpost in any sense are getting more upvoted than things that are clearly shitposts because people viewing from their subscribed feed upvote before noticing the com. The pinned post’s ratios are very telling to me that the people clicking the com vs the general public are voting much differently and I have no idea how to fix it.
Maybe we require a minimum bar of editing (ignoring quality of edit obviously) for pictures of certain topics, and block URLs from OPs? Clearly there are some shitposts that are political and fantastic, but ffs it was getting bad enough for this backlash.
When people say to stop being political on here, it’s not necessarily that they don’t think politics is important and should never be discussed, it’s that you should turn “off” once and a while and talk about literally anything else. Even Anne Frank wrote about other stuff in her diary sometimes, and her life was under threat by actual Nazis so I don’t buy the “Everything’s on fire so we should never shut up ever” argument. I’m not even asking you to change your mind, just to change the subject once in a while.
I’m just sick of seeing this:
I agree with you on this. There’s a time and place for everything
Yes but today it is Palestinians, tomorrow it is us.
There is no correct amount to think about or talk about a genocide while it is unfolding, it is relevant to every single one of us in every single moment.
I’m not saying it’s not important, I’m saying could you please not post about it in a completely unrelated community. I swear Lenny’s motto should be “sir, this is a Wendy’s.”
But mooom!!! I wanna post news about the Gaza genocide in the cute pictures of cats community!! Why does the evil early_riser not let me do it and wants to constrain me to topic relevant communities???
Surprised to hear that considering how little I hear about Uyghur genocide under the CCP.
I miss beans
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Is that the fabled Drive B: ?
Rated B for Bean
Ooh that takes me back, B was my mid-90s family computer’s 5.25" floppy drive. :)
Ah nice, upgrading to Michaelsoft Beanbows 11
BeanOS
Needs more beans. Bean-cooled!
Vans were also nice
No. Only beans
Bean van?
Ok, bean-van is ok. For now.
I don’t miss the resulting stink smell.
This is political
also random flashback:
did anybody play “zombies vs. Humans” in PE class? Where some kids were Humans and the other were zombies and the goal was to “eliminate the human race” as my PE teacher told us. It was like tag, sharks and minnows, dodgeball and red light green light combined to make the most chaotic game of all time. And the rainbow parachute that you got to wave around and the hula hoops and the little rock wall and…oh, memories.i miss elementary school :(
Oh that parachute!
I too miss being a kid. I miss when my biggest worry was whether I’d get to play Nintendo when I got home.
long live the parachute
MORE FUCKING CORN
All Hail
This post is political
What ever do you mean? Are you trying to say that being able to ignore politics is in and of itself a political stance, since being able to ignore politics is a sign of the privilege you have?
Crazy talk.
Thank you for adding some smartass to the shitpost, it is appreciated
“just put the boobs in the bag bro”
I love this art
I LOVE CORN
Is the corn supposed to be opposed to being political?
No that’s acorn
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that bitch gonna get her corn holed.
Ok corn, back into your hole
Wait so why the corn?
Started as people not wanting political posts and everyone just ran with it.
I was posting corn because I felt like it and wanted to contribute lmao. I didn’t realize it was because politics lo.
Corn is political
As if there was ever a real choice
