this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
424 points (92.9% liked)

Political Memes

5501 readers
2306 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 16 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is there any other kind of genocide besides institutionalized?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I guess commonplace decentralized pogroms like what happened to Jews and Roma throughout Europe historically

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

if everyone would mutually agree on killing certain people they could commit it without an institution ig

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is class warfare institutionalized? Seems like a non conscious consensus sometimes

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because the big players there are not serious idealogues, they are paid a paltry sum through private channels to constantly spread Russian and Chinese disinformation in their larger psyop campaign against the West.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Highly doubtful. The amount of time, money, and effort would be much better spent elsewhere. Lemmy’s audience is very small.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

Time

Basically none on the part of the handlers. Often this arrangement is handled by a private firm that doesn't necessarily have to be Russian or Chinese, I have heard of one operating in Australia. The posters themselves are spending a lot of time, but they're the ones selling it.

Money

Again, they're not exactly paying these guys a living wage, and even if they were, it's peanut crumbs for state-level actors.

Effort

A lot of people say that Lemmy is not worth the effort to demoralize because it's too small, I say the effort is too small to not be worth the investment. I would even say that Lemmy users are self-selected for radicalization in some ways, broadly speaking they are fed up with corporate social media and corporatism in general.

It's also a somewhat important step to have a place they can speak unfiltered amongst themselves, no matter how small the clubhouse is. That's where the real funky shit happens.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Exactly. Watch the downvotes for your comment roll in as day becomes night in the west.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A whopping two downvotes, yeah I'm sure the paid social media spam targets the 17k active users on lemmy.world and not the billions of users on Facebook

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It’s only 2 PM in California.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

as day becomes night in the west.

Title of my wild west themed romance novel

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

I think I saw that in LaGuardia. Cover has a cowboy rubbing his horse’s backside as the sun sets behind the old saloon?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can't speak for the other Lefties on here but I'm a Western citizen and former proud Liberal persuaded by arguments on this very website

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

For anyone that needs to hear it, you can have both. You can live in a free society and also plot to bisect your nearest oligarch next time they go to their favorite sushi restaurant

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›