Just remember a few weeks ago people complaining about memes communities being overwhelmed with political content, so thought this one could use some promotion
Personally, I agree with the statement that politcs are invading a lot of memes communities. Just had a look at [email protected] (also, did we really have to keep that name), one meme was about a nice joke with a "made my boyfriend a goblin keychain", the top post is about Republicans claiming they supported Obama.
Plenty of women, non-white and gay (and also trans, autistic, etc. etc.) people do not enjoy constantly being bombarded with politics, even if it relates to their immediate struggles.
Most people just need a chill place to have fun and distract for a second from worldly problems. Please, do not deny them that and let everyone choose their level of exposure to the political content.
Nice try but again just because you dont like it, doesnt mean your censorship will result in anything other than silencing marginalized people's perspectives, while allowing the status quo to go unchecked. Everything's political.
Attached image addresses noone specifically, but rather that dynamic and faux-enlightenment.
Politics are becoming more and more of the center of a lot of issues, of course it's going to be everywhere. Just like if a comet is about to hit earth and you complain about all communities talking about it, even if unrelated.
Your stance is looking a lot like enlightened centrism at this point, and that's definitely not a good thing.
I'm well aware politics are more prevalent than ever, but does that mean they have to be everywhere?
If a comet was about to hit earth, would you look at it non-stop or would you sleep from time to time to rest from the issue at hand?
And I'm not even touching about the fact that it's US politics that are getting posted everywhere. A large size of the Lemmy population are not US citizens, getting flooded with politics from another country isn't really something people are enthusiastic about.
This right here is most especially tedious to me: all the "politics" discussion really meaning "American political obsessions". There's only 350 million or so Americans and yet they act as if their politics are all that matters to the remaining 7.7 billion or so of us.