sToP pOsTiNg pOliTicAl mEmEs!!!

We live during a critical point in history, and I am determined to laugh at it

You can laugh or you can cry. Personally, I choose both.
- It's called horrormirth, and it's a Discordian tradition.
Nailed it. This is my new motto.
We live ~~during a critical point in history, and I am determined to laugh at it~~ in a society
- fascism is on the rise across the world
  
  Climate change has finally caught up with us in a big way with politicians still doing almost nothing to stop it or even slow it down
  
  peaceful protesters are being labeled as terrorists and sometimes murdered while ACTUAL terrorists are protected by cops and half of the ruling elite
  
  income and wealth inequality and thus poverty are worse than they have been since the great depression and it's only getting worse faster and faster
  
  the financial elite and their imitators are profiteering away people's ability to survive and people are blaming it on the government spending money to help keep the victims of said profiteering alive
  
  there's a war in Europe where the rich countries care about it and the political alliance that the aggressor belongs to has just expanded to consist of countries containing half of the people in the world
  
  the least bad realistic option for US President is an octogenarian who entered politics before the invention of the pocket calculator and thinks the solution to police brutality is to throw money at cops
  
  the other realistic option is the career criminal grifter leader of a Christofascist cult, who is also a malignant narcissist, a sociopath and as bright as Greenland in December
  
  This isn't regular society, this is multiple crises piled on top of each other and about to explode into even worse catastrophe.
I too think a revolution is coming.
You don't. It's a time like any other and nothing will change anyways.
- I hear the view from orbit is rather pretty. Is Hadfield there?

Political memes -> memes complaining about political memes -> memes complaining about memes complaining about political memes

Can we go deeper?

Please post more political memes particularly about non-US politics.

Is someone stopping people from doing so?
- I'll try to watch some world news and see if i can find anything meme worthy. America is just so easy to meme, its low hanging fruit really.

For me it’s not even about that. I do not care about US politics, I just want to see some funny memes

I dunno where you're from but as a Canadian I'm dismayed when Canadians say they don't care about u.s politics. Considering u.s politics influence our every day life just as much as the politics of our own Parliament. Anyone who has been to a major Canadian city and has seen Canadian idiots with the same Maga mentality, will tell you that u.s politics is a huge part of our life
- I’m from the UK, our politics is bad enough without throwing US in there
- We have our own issues to solve first and foremost . I live in a major Canadian city and I've never seen maga people, I honestly blame those people watching too much American politics in the first place.
- I somewhat agree, but for my own mental health I’ve had to try and avoid it if I can. I still stay informed, I just don’t want US politics in every area of my life. I probably agree with most people on this site politically, I just don’t want to be so involved in that mind space all the time.
  
  It also feels very US-defaultism to put US memes here all the time. Sure, most people here are probably American, but not everyone is.

I don't mind political memes, we're adults and politics plays an important part of our lives, satire on politics is a welcome part of life, BUT... why must they all be foreign memes from the Americas?

We should have a mix of political memes from all around the globe! Gods knows, Sunak or Braverman are deserving of memery.... :-P

I'm not smort enough to make memes :-(

Because y’all aren’t making other memes lol

Well except the Germans. I see a lot of German memes on Kbin lol
- Honestly the Germans have been killing it with content creation.
- I just wish I could read. Do the comments translate?
why must they all be foreign memes from the Americas?

We have the best memes. We are a meme force to be reckoned with.

Also, we're desperate for some mirth to lighten the burden of how horrible some of our politicians are.
- Y'know I'm a patriot and all, but I wish we didn't spend so much of our national budget on the Meme Force.
I'm not smort enough to make memes :-(
Americans must be better posters than EUers. Step up your game Europe
- Can't be bothered to
I'll never understand people who say this stuff. Like, make your own? Ask other Europeans to make them? What are we supposed to do, NOT post, because the minority of users don't feel like their relevant?

STOP POSTING ABOUT POLITICS. I'M TIRED OF SEEING IT. MY FRIENDS ON LEMMY SEND ME MEMES. ON KBIN IT'S FUCKIN' MEMES. I WAS ON AN INSTANCE, RIGHT, AND AAAAAAALLLL OF THE COMMUNITIES ARE JUST POLITICS STUFF. I- I SHOWED MY CHAMPION UNDERWEAR TO MY GIRLFRIEND, AND THE LOGO, I LOOKED AT IT, AND I SAID, "HEY BABE, WHEN THE COMMODITY IS FETISHIZED" [ding-ding-dings to the tune of The Internationale] I FUCKIN' LOOKED AT A TRASH CAN, I SAID, "UNDER CAPITALISM, WASTE PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN THE ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY THAT UNDERPINS THE ENTIRE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM". I LOOK AT MY PENIS, I THINK OF THE OMNIPRESENT PHALLOCENTRISM IN OUR PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY, AND I GO, "POLITICS? MORE LIKE POLY-DICKS!"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Guess the anthems:

Ding ding ding ding, di-ding, ding ding ding ding, di-ding, ding ding ding ding.

Ding di-ding ding ding DING! Ding di-ding, ding ding ding.

Ding di-ding, ding ding, di-ding, ding, ding di-ding, ding ding, di-ding!

Ding, di-ding ding ding, ding, ding di-di-di-di-ding ding, di-di-di-di-di-di-DING.

Ding, ding, di-ding...

Ding, di-ding, ding, ding, ding, di-di-ding. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, di-di-DING.
- What does the fox say?
- United Kingdom (or Liechtenstein, whose anthem uses the same melody)
  
  United States of America
  
  Dunno
  
  People's Republic of China
  
  Canada
  
  Dunno
  
  Hopefully number 3 and 6 will come to me later!

Place for memes: Exists
Political memes: Is this !politicalmemes?

Exactly. We complainers aren't saying they can't post about politics, just requesting they post their political memes in the designated political meme space.

EDIT: A message to people from Hexbear

Thank you for your input, but I stopped responding to arguments here at least 24 hours ago because I can't juggle that many conversations at once. I would ask that you respect that and not continue to argue with me about what is and isn't political, because I'm just going to ignore it anyways. Thank you.
- A message to people from Hexbear
  
  Not from Hexbear, do I get to respond?
The funny thing is, deciding which memes are political and which memes are not political is itself a political decision

You just can't escape it
- I think I can figure out where "DAE X political party bad?!?!?!?" should be

Are we supposed to read every post and every comment even if we don't like it ?

That seems so unfair ! We should have a right not to read posts and comments if we find them about a subject we don't want to interact with right then.

I don't care which side is saying it I'm just tired of it (for the same reason I am tired of advertising)

What, you can't have your paper thin consumer behaviour challenged huh??? Huh?!?

Imao!!! This is so fucking true.

Nah but this is all Lemmy is at this point. That sucks. We need more than this.

It's ok that this has a place here. But we need more than this.

Want some hard truths? Blinders off, reddit is still a much better place for content than Lemmy.

Honestly I'm getting tired of it.

Edit - I feel the need to say that there is actually one consistent thing on Lemmy that is fantastic - rpgmemes, specifically the ongoing series about a goblin high priestess playing dnd.

https://ttrpg.network/post/1125391

Yeah the memes on Lemmy are all absolute garbage-tier and get praised just bc they're content.

I guess I could repost my back-catalogue of reddit OC - at least then I'd be contributing content. 🤷‍♂️

"You don't get snakes from chicken eggs"

Stop posting memes with color blue!

Yet, your avatar has the color blue. Curious.
- Maybe we were the memes all along.

Ha, ain't happening. StUpid title!

Do you want people to stop coming here? Because this is how you can get people to stop coming here.

Why do you come here if not to see other people's opinions?
- I come here, to the memes place, to see memes

It's about not posting shit tier "memes". And yes I must use the quotes because many of you people don't actually know what a meme is and have taken the boomer Facebook approach off putting shitty text over a picture and calling it a day.

Oh the irony.

lol I just found out that I can block users

Online socialists be like

Says the person who spends most of their time commenting "leftists bad".
- Who says leftists bad?
  
  Is this an undercover hexbear again 😉 I wont tell i promise.

Oh yeah, I'm sure these political memes are making some very deep points and are gonna change the minds of alllll those staunch MAGAs who are obviously all over Lemmy.

im not even a conservative but someone post hardcore conservative memes to show the communists why non-stop spamming their ideology is annoying

edit: the responses prove my point

If conservatives were funny we probably wouldn't be having this conversation, you are right.
Ah yes the opposite of communism is child marriage, lack of reproductive rights, and telling trans-people they don't exist. Such good meme potential, that's why truth social is the funniest place on the internet.

/s
- It appears you have a paper thin understanding of the world around you. Some conservative meme spam should fix that.
- Conservatism isn't the same thing everywhere. Your post is very American centric.
someone post hardcore conservative memes

It's nice to have something to point and laugh at sometimes
In its majestic equality, the law allows conservatives and communists alike to make posts, get votes, and to cry if nobody clicks it.
Please no.

Just fuck off mate

That's why I'm here.

sToP pOsTiNg pOliTicAl mEmEs!!!

EDIT: A message to people from Hexbear