No, that’s not what they mean.
Seriously, OP is straw-manning. There’s not this much politics on other sites. Lemmy has a ton of tankies so everything is about communism here
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Hmmmmm you sould like a rightoid 🧐🤔 /s
They need to more precisely say what they mean, then.
No, they really don’t. For most of us, “stop making everything political” is a simple and clear request that can be fulfilled with 0 follow-up questions.
Now all I can imagine is a Simpsons character named Political Perry who struggles to live in a society not interested in politics as much as a second year college student.
Wife left with the kids, doesn’t get invited to social events, nothing in life going right for him, but he doesn’t understand why.
“Oh, shit. It’s Political Perry. Once asked the guy if he wanted ketchup and was ranted to about the corporate exploitation of the agricultural sector for half an hour. No one look.”
That sounds exactly like something the Simpsons would do. Either that, or it would be Lisa it happens to.
Jesus christ you’re insufferable.
“Not everything is political”
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“I am priveledged enough that my right to exist and thrive is never questioned or under fire, and things that I care about are protected by the status quo and the suppression of others”
I exist in several categories of people who’s right to exist have been threatened many, many times throughout history, I agree that everything is political, or rather, that politics encompasses everything.
However, not every discussion should become politically oriented, as it’s not particularly the most productive in many cases. This is most prominent on the internet, where nuance, which is ESSENTIAL for productive political discourse, is often absent. I find much political discussion. This is especially true in dialogues where it is either discussed on a broad scale, or where it is discussed in a reactionary manner. When my answers to political topics are so often “it depends”, this stuff tends to be quite straining, especially when my attempts to create dialogue are shot down.
In short “not everything is political” exists because you’re either detailing a discussion to talk about how horrible everything is, or you’re on the internet and internet politics just suck.
“I am priveledged enough that my right to exist and thrive is never questioned or under fire, and things that I care about are protected by the status quo and the suppression of others”
so someone who this doesn’t apply to thinks that some random star in our neighbour galaxy is political?
It’s confronting for a cis gendered white male to accept they are the pinnacle of the power structure in western societies by serendipitous occurrence.
Some of the replies to this post make that clear.
The pinnacle of the power structure is wealth, not any of your liberal buzzwords.
Intersectionality and solidarity, dude
Acknowledging things beyond class isn’t liberalism, man. Socialists can be against racism, too…
Yep, s’all buzzwords.
Not marginalized people across the country clawing desperately for the right to mind their own business and live their life in peace as adherents to the status quo dedicate their free time to attacking them and arguing they don’t deserve recognition as people.
Just buzzwords. -.-
Yawn, do always just write in platitudes?
Florida now teaches that slavery was a good thing, but go off king
buzzwords
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Regular words can seem like buzzwords when you’re ignorant.
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The very fact you’re able to do all of this is an effect of politics. And there are people that also would like to have similar rights to exist the way the feel is right for them, but they can’t.
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Freedom of association = (meeting with friends) that’s definitely political
Barbecue = relatively safe to use and won’t explode because of government regulation, politics.
Jalapeño poppers = safe to eat due to food safety standards, again politics.
Conversation with friends = regulated by societal norms and acceptable behaviours, an output of the political environment - ‘let’s not talk about Trump or abortion to keep it “civil”’
Games/books/puzzle = function of the economy regulated by the government and laws. Consumer protections etc etc
I know you’re trying to be dismissive and funny but yeah…you’re just proving the point.
Does anyone ever talk to you in real life?
Bad meme and bad opinion.
Isn’t there literally a community called politicalmemes because people wanted to sort these into another place?
At this point you’re not even posting to be funny, you’re just posting to be annoying.
some would even consider it not only annoying, but spamming as well
That’s for people who want only political memes. Someone should start an “apoliticalmemes” group.
I reject this! This sounds edgy but muddies the water and distracts as to recognize what politics is. Politics is everything regarding decision-making in groups! not more not less. Recognize when that’s the case and fight!
I think our definitions of politics are fundamentally different.
I would say politics is the struggle for power.
Power is the underlying factor across all of society so politics affects everything.
Alright then:
breathes deep
The toilet paper is supposed to point away from you.
Over the top is the correct way and I will die* on this hill.
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- not really, at most I’d probably reply once, maybe twice, to a rebuttal if it is interesting. And then id just forget it. But oh boy, the next time it’s brought up, I’ll claim to die on that hill again.
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Alright, everyone, calm down. Let’s not kink-shame this guy for setting up his toilet paper to dom him every time he poops.
You reach for that shit-rag, you miserable degenerate. You don’t deserve to have it presented to you, and don’t let anyone tell you different!
Calm down satan
I still think about this guy who was trying to get into local government, he had a campaign talking point along the lines “I will bring common sense, politics isn’t a place for ideologies”.
No doubt there were people who voted for him because of that.
literally everything is politics
how is nitrogen atom nr. 14729583929174 political?
At least pick a noble gas
Becauses a scientist says it exists and that made God cry so we gotta burn him.
And this is how you get from “everything is politics” to “we have to burn god”
Edit: After rereading the above I noticed the possibility of the scientist having to be burned
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Yes yes I used hyperbole.
Sue me.
yes I wrote “literally everything” but that does’nt mean that I meant “literally everything”
I can accept that
ok so now that we’ve established that there are things that aren’t political, it makes sense to say “don’t make everything political”, because there are in fact things that aren’t political (yet). however responding “literally everything is political, if you think otherwise, you’re profiting from the system” doesn’t make sense, since there are non political things
“literally everything is political”
ok then, can you remove the hyperbole and tell me the result?
(spoiler: they wont)
Are bodily functions political? Is breathing political? Lol
Euthanasia, Abortion, Air quality
Yes. All political.
You absolute sad sack.
My opinion:
I think this community should ban political memes, and instead have another community for only political memes. I’m from Costa Rica and I don’t care about the USA politics or stuff
I am also from the 97 fuckin percent of every human on the planet that couldn’t give a shit about US politics
Right? It’s such a US way of thinking to assume the entire world needs to hear about your issues.
“Political Memes” is extremely vague. I opened the community, and this was the 3rd meme that came up. Just to show you that it doesn’t take much to find an example that really blurs the line of what would be a political meme and what isn’t.
You don’t really get that by banning a topic, but rather by fostering a culture where that sort of thing is frowned upon.
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Nope
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