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Completely agree. Would be better if mods would make people repost to a political community.

I have little patience for memes, and even less so political memes. The right wing stuff is all woman hating fascists, and the left wing stuff are people who would send me to a camp or chase me out of the country for having a slight disagreement with them on my specific take on socialism.

There's often no room for discussion or disagreement, because "its a joke". So at that point it's just political brainwashing, no matter which side it is on.

Of course, sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's good. There's a role for humour to play in highlighting injustice and systemic absurdity. I'm not completely against it. I just have little patience for for it.

Which is why I mostly use this platform to look at pictures of owls.

The answer is to block instances you don't want. That's how I've freed myself from the onslaught of certain special interests that I have no interest in

I don't see that much of it, honestly, but I avoid image-based and political communities.

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

I don't think its your intention, but this kind of reads like "go be poor somewhere else". The uptick in the messages you're seeing are from people that are on the losing end of society, and that losing end is growing more and more all the time. So far I'm lucky (and it is just luck) to not be there, but I recognize that ignoring, or worse silencing, them is the wrong way to go.

Their messages have value because they aren't being heard. If that keeps up, it will mean the shredding of our society and we all lose. So in short, I'm fine with the "class war" messages as they are here against the rich establishment.

They usually don't post anything else. Or comment about anything else. Just block a few to thin the herd

It is really interesting that the original post got removed. Guess people don't complain about .ml without reason.

Reddit is about the same

A subreddit called "AdviceAnimals" is literally "Politics" but v2.

Pics is just random photo of a politician, instead of like... you know, landscape, cityscapes, planets, whatever, cool stuff. why is a picture of a politician in "Pics"?

Posts complaining about "politics" and "propaganda" are invariably made by people who want to see those things, just the kind aligned with their politics.

I think the first time I saw this meme format was around 2002-2004. And I've seen it 10,000 times since then. And if OP is posting this in good faith, this will be the first time.

And BTW, there is no such thing as a space without propaganda or politics. Only spaces where the politics and propaganda are homestyle and cozy.

tired of seeing political content in non-political communities. I'm sure there's a political memes community let us live in peace please.

I normally only look at communities I am subscribed to and am not subscribed to places where such things are usually posted. You could try that too.

In general I dislike communities with concepts like "pics", "comics", "memes", etc., I don't want to see just any pics or comics, I want to see ones I might find interesting. Lemmy is unfortunately not yet a big enough place that it has specialized communities for everything.

I'm still trying to figure out why people think that yelling about Socialism is a great idea.

The Right figured it out years ago; go along to get along. Reagan was smart enough to put the first woman on the Supreme Court and made African-American Colin Powell his Number One guy.

It's like they'd rather lose and be able to talk about how noble the cause is.

edit =getting down voted, but no one bothers to actually explain why they feel the need to use the unpopular term.

As moderator of the community [email protected] I very much enjoy the leftist and anarchist stuff. Thanks for asking. ;)

Yeah. But I also tend to get tied up in it. Less of it would be better for my brain, probably.