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.
All Hail Eris.
All Hail Discordia.
Nailed it. This is my new motto.
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?
We must
I’ll get the lube
ಠ_ಠ
Isn’t that what you just did?
Nah I’m just heckling.
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Please post more political memes particularly about non-US politics.
EU memes about electricity are missing here, for sure.
I’m intrigued. What about electricity?
Global electricity prices in Europe (short of France that is self reliant with nuclear reactors) have gone up dramatically since the gas stopped flowing from Russia.
In 2022, the pricing of 1 kWh in residential areas in Germany are 0.6 USD. That’s 3 times the US if I’m not mistaken.
In Finland our prices jumped up for a while but have since gone back to normal. At least insofar as it’s not a news topic anymore.
short of France that is self reliant with nuclear reactors
I have some bad news on that front…
Well, shit.
Shit indeed. The thing that was going to supplement renewable energy to stave off climate change becoming less and less effective and safe because of climate change is one of the cruelest cases of tragic irony ever!
Maybe desalination at the cost of reduced energy output should be considered, or desalination in general. Even if the weather stabilizes, having those around on low maintenance wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Only problem is, it will take around 3-5 years to build, probably.
Last year I could have bought a new PS5 every month for the cost of electricity. Things have settled now but it’s still expensive - I switched a lot of my personal infra to the cloud and Intel NUCs to cut down the cost 😭
IMO If people want to post hard political material on a mainstream meme community, I wish they would make a minimum effort to make it relatable to those outside of the various originator echo chamber communities.
The constant “US Bad” “China Bad” and adjacent topics targeting a specific political audience gets annoying with how repetitive it is - if it’s not politics related to my region OR suggesting ways I can improve things, I could not honestly give a bigger dump
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.
The internet IS very US-centric, so this is kinda true, but it’s also very easy to abuse and bore people out. I’m Honduran and I know more about US Politics than about my country’s own politics. I know more about US politics than I do about every other country. This is not a flex, it’s a fucking burden on my mind and mental health.
I kinda liked how Lemmy wasn’t too US-centric at first, but I’m feeling similar levels of burnout from Lemmy as I did from Reddit, which was mostly due to how much US shit was posted there just about everywhere.
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I know more about US politics than my own country politics and this is pretty blessing imo, it’s like so depressing and toxic
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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
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.
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.
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I find it quite difficult to block only US politics due to how it’s the “default” so people rarely specify it’s the US. It also just tends to be constant work as new scandals and stuff pop up.
If anyone has some good filters please let me know.
Ya that’s called usdefaultism.
That’s why I no longer specify which unit of measurement I am talking about anymore. It’s funny to watch Americans tell me I’m wrong.
“Ya that costs like 30 bucks” and they come screaming about how I’m getting scammed because it’s only $20. Meanwhile I’m talking about CAD, not USD.
Or when I’m talking about temperature, cities, etc.
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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.
You’re on the memes community for a political instance. If you were complaining about politics in the lemm.ee or lemmy.world meme communities I’d be entirely with you.
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
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.
Considering that the Germans still upload the memes using fax, it’s impressive that they are the biggest and loudest meme creators here in Europe.
I have half a mind to learn German just so I can more easily understand the memes lol
I don’t understand a lick of German, but I probably look at 50% of the stuff they put up. It’s interesting seeing memes from other cultures.
I just wish I could read. Do the comments translate?
Honestly, I just enjoy looking at the images and looking for patterns. It’s not like I sit there doing it for hours. If I see one that looks like it could be funny, I’ll look at it for 20 or 30 seconds and see what I can divine lol
All of this is to say I don’t translate anything and often have literally no idea what is being said
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. Let’s stop shipping our memes overseas and start meming in our local communities
We could fund universal healthcare and free university for every American if we cut out Meme Force budget by just 10%, but then China’s Meme Force would be larger than the US and we can’t have that
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?
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Americans must be better posters than EUers. Step up your game Europe
Can’t be bothered to
I’m not smort enough to make memes :-(
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.
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. 🤷♂️
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?
Stuff that brings me joy. Posting left wing political shit on lemmy is like, the epitome of preaching to the choir. Every time I see some unnecessary political take that everyone here agrees with anyway, like there’s always that one person in any thread that has to bring politics into things and I’m just like nope, I’m out. Got better things to do than have my mood ruined by thinking about the worst parts of life. Its like you people are intentionally trying to make everyone miserable.
Yes, 1000%. This is exactly how I feel about this stuff.
We’re here to escape from the world to some extent, not constantly be reminded about it, specifically the worst parts
I come here, to the memes place, to see memes
Do you expect memes to contain no opinions in them?
I expect opinions to not be the subjects of the memes usually
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a meme that isn’t expressing an opinion. Do you have any examples in mind?
Almost all the memes I have saved are pretty much void of any real statement or opinion, except maybe “this is humorously absurd”. Unfortunately they’re all images and I don’t want to go to the trouble of transcribing them
In general if something appears to he trying to sway or convince me toward something, it isn’t a meme, it’s a political cartoon or an advertisement, even if it’s trying to be humorous.
Does posting images work on lemmy?
Ok I see there are some memes that are in the meirl category but at least half(probably more) of memes have a clear point of view that is being expressed.You’ve got saved memes? Post em! The only one that can change the balance of memes is you.
I feel like memes almost exclusively include opinions, usually the most popular ones.
I absolutely want smug liberals to stop coming here. If this meme offends you then please stop coming here. Thanks.
I’m neither smug nor a liberal. I’m simply tired of repetitive, dumb and US centric political memes. Lemmy started out sort of ok but it’s turning into a very annoying place.
I’ve been using Lemmy for four years now, and this instance only started becoming an annoying place after Reddit migration with people constantly complaining that Lemmy isn’t like Reddit.
Except that I’m not complaining about that and my acccount is not in your instance. But yeah, sure buddy. Believe what you want.
Not sure why you think it’s relevant what instance your account is on. As long as instances federate we see each others posts.
I know how Lemmy works. You’re the one who said “this instance”.
And since this instance federates with your instance, you are part of the content here.
I got smug assholes, what’s a smug liberal? (Are they Karens?)
Karens is a pretty accurate description
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.
Stop posting memes with color blue!
Yet, your avatar has the color blue. Curious.
Maybe we were the memes all along.
“You don’t get snakes from chicken eggs”
Ha, ain’t happening. StUpid title!
