Reminder about Rule #2: No politics (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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(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/political_memes.

Thanks, TPM

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months 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.