• Waker@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You’re entitled to your opinion. It doesn’t make it less wrong though, the content of the memes is clearly not political.

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        Acknowledging the fact that politics exist is not inherently political. Please explain how that third meme is even remotely political?

        Regardless, the lack of a clear and simple political-or-not binary is not an excuse to avoid moderation. The political nature of some things will be argued and some things will slip through the cracks. It happens with all spectrums. But on the other hand, some things are so clearly political that it’s nigh impossible to argue they’re not. I’m sure you can see the massive difference in a meme about Microsoft shoes and a meme about Trump or Biden bad. Those clear extremely political memes are the ones people want banned to their own communities.

        And to be clear, I actually like political memes. I just find your rebuttal to be in bad taste.

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          So basically you want to go with “whatever the mods think in their gut is political, is political” and expect that you’ll have a well moderated community with that as your rule?

          I mean, you do you, but that doesn’t sound like a recipe for success to me.

          If you have to ask why the 3rd meme is political I encourage you to go read the thread beneath it. Look at how much discussion and conflict it caused. It’s clearly political and basically that entire thread’s discussion is proof positive.

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        They are wrong because those memes aren’t politic. They are not mentioning any party or political affiliation in any way.

        Do companies influence politics? Absolutely. But that’s not the point of the meme.

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          Got it. So only memes that directly mention a political party or political party position is political.

          Since there are many communist parties across the globe, that means that any post referencing capitalism is political since making any statement on capitalism is political since it’s related directly to the party stance of political parties around the world, both pro and against.

          So the Microsoft Nike crossover meme is political by your definition. Glad we agree!

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              “You’re almost in the direction of my feelings about what is political and what isn’t based upon how I feel about it!” smuglord