This is great stuff, thanks!

Thanks a lot for the suggestions!

This is what I don’t get. Everyone here had the sentiment of “we will vote for anyone who is not Donald Trump”. But then they balked at the suggestion that Biden should drop out and insisted that no one could replace him.

Now that Biden has been replaced… they’re saying Biden being replaced was a low percentage gamble. Something here doesn’t add up.

This comment alone is making me interested in Greek mythology. I’d like to know more. Any reading suggestions toward that end?

inb4: the God of the Abrahamic religions hurr durr

Water? You mean that stuff that goes in toilets?

Priorities lmao

It needs to be said. If we can’t acknowledge how contradicting narratives were fed to us within the same month, then it shows an alarming lack of cognitive dissonance on our part.

There are people on Lemmy who argued that Biden is not our best bet against Trump; they were told that Biden was the best that the party can do and that there was not enough time to replace Biden. Now, we’re all supposed to move on like that didn’t just happen.

That said, I am pleasantly surprised to see the community admitting the mistake. I assumed this post would be downvoted heavily but the post felt necessary for the reasons above.

In contrast, people that are right on big, important issues I try to pay more attention to

Jon Stewart comes to mind

This is literally not a meme

I don’t understand. If a mod from memes.world bans me from a meme community, I can still comment on memes.world from another instance? Or are you saying just go to another community on another instance that has the same kind of content? Because if it’s the latter then Lemmy’s userbase number problem comes into play. Even popular subjects only have like one or two big communities.

Kinda feels like the site isn’t developing much at all tbh. I know mods have been asking for more tools for a while now

better mods?

Does anyone have this meme template?

This is a completely disingenuous response that I keep hearing. Yes, it being an election year intensifies the problem. But Lemmy’s intolerance to criticism of anything left-wing pre-dates 2024. Go back a year ago and look at the posts on [email protected] . Same shit different day.

The fact that everyone is paying attention to politics right now actually makes it a great time to call the democrats on their shit in the hopes that they will at least promise to make more foundational changes. But that’s not going to happen: we continue to settle for the status quo.

Well said. It’s a problem that we should all be able to at least recognize, but I think people are too focused on their team winning. Trump madness intensified the problem, but this has been developing for quite some time now.

This is a great comment and I agree with everything you said. At the risk of sounding contradictory, let me state that I’m not arguing against voting for democrats. Sure, my hopes for the democratic party continues to dwindle as I get older, but the cost of an afternoon to cast a ballot isn’t much to ask for. And (I feel like I have to say this on Lemmy) the Republican party is a non-starter. So we both agree on those points.

My issue is with the obvious bias in political posts or political memes (see: literally all of [email protected]). Lemmy has decided on a simple formula: pro-democrat post=upvote, anti-republican post=upvote, everything else=downvote. Doesn’t matter if the article linked is any good or if the meme is funny. This community is completely unable to acknowledge the flaws of the democratic party because that hurts “our team” and somehow makes you a republican.

Your comment is ironically self-righteous. Memes on Lemmy don’t determine the fate of democracy. No one is campaigning against Harris here. What I’m saying is this place is so intensely one-sided that it’s hard to see these memes and headlines as anything other than propaganda. These online echo-chambers are exactly what got us here in the first place.