(edit 3/23/25: re-stickying this since we’ve gained a lot of new users in recent months)

I just want to post a reminder that this is the general memes community, and we’d prefer for political memes to be directed to c/politicalmemes.

Thanks, TPM

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
      2·
      12 days ago

      The spirit of the rule is to keep the memes community from being a place for proselytizing one’s politics.

      So, for example, using a >50 year old event in a meme to show “this is why communism is bad” or “It’s like we’re all on the Titanic, because we’ve gotta watch out for ICE!” would both be rule-breaking, but something like “local man named Abe Lincoln refuses to go to theater” would be fair game.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzdeleted by creator
      112·
      2 years ago

      In this context “politics” clearly conveys “things directly related to governments, such as wars, elections, or socio-economical ideologies”. It is only a subset of the definition of politics that you’re probably using, something like “things direct or indirectly related to human groups and their conflicts of interest”.

      We got a whole Lemmy to talk about Israel vs. Hamas, late stage capitalism, elections etc. We could - and should - have at least one community to chill and talk about other stuff, and without that rule we won’t have it. For example without that rule 99.99999% of the content as of late 2024 would be about Trump, as if Americans didn’t have multiple communities to talk about it already.

    • nl4real@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s a good rule of thumb for media, but I don’t care for it’s use as a justification for constantly spamming low effort political memes like on r/adviceanimals. Winding yourself up about things you can’t control doesn’t make the world better, it just fucks up your mental health. There are no shortage of political communities to use on this site.