(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
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      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.

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    2 years ago

    Thank you for this. I know some people won’t appreciate it but not every community needs to be a full time political outlet.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
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      2 years ago

      Sometimes people want a breather, myself included. If there weren’t so many other places to browse that kind of content, we wouldn’t have the rule.

      The population on Lemmy is very politically aware and has strong opinions, which is good, however that also means that it’s very easy for any community to become overwhelmed by it and suddenly have little else.

  • rose56@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    /J /J /J /J Nooooooooooo, thats not fair! How come you Ban USA politics! how? how people will know stuff they already know or spam USA politics memes so they can fight even more in the comments! This is an atrocious Rule, made to push away USA based users! Poor USA citizens are being turned away! What will they post now? USA is a super power and Meta, Apple, Tesla and Amazon will talk to President so they can crash you! You can’t stop USA politics dude! This is a war, like the other wars USA started! Be aware, you are going down! /J /J /J /J /J /J /J /J /J /J /J /J /J