Infamousblt [any]

I think the fediverse would be better off without Beehaw, so yeah, get off Lemmy and go build your own platform by yourself. I wish you the absolute best of luck, and thank you in advance for taking all the worst kind of people off the fediverse with you.

Sometimes too it’s that the right and the left come to similar sounding conclusions but for entirely different reasons. I think the Isreal/Palestine conflict is a great example. Both the right and the left agree that Isreal is bad, so it sounds like we “agree”. However the right thinks Isreal is bad because they hate Jews, whereas the left thinks Isreal is bad because we hate genocidal apartheid states. So although it sounds like we agree because we both say “Isreal bad”, the reality is that our viewpoints couldn’t be more different, and as a result what we mean when we say “Isreal bad” are actually completely different things.

I think you will find this is true for a lot of things that perhaps you think sound conservative on Hexbear. It’s why people think that the horseshoe theory of political viewpoints is valid; because they hear something high level that sounds similar between two seemingly different groups and just immediately jump to “well they must be the same!” rather than investigate why two different groups might be saying something that sounds similar. So if you see something you aren’t sure about I would suggest you ask about it rather than jump to an incorrect conclusion about it. Lots of opportunity to learn even if you don’t agree.

I’d love to know why you think we’re conservative. Or some examples of conservatism being supported on Hexbear

Hey look someone who didn’t read Capital talking about Capital.

Marx definitely wrote literally chapters about industrialization

Capital, clearly. Not a single anti communist has ever read it because they never once refute a single talking point from the actual book. But every anti communist acts like they totally understand what’s in the book and some go so far as to lie about having read it. And then you ask them what it says or why they’re anti communist and they just make shit up or parrot 1950s Nazi propaganda and pretend like that’s what’s in Capital or what communism is about.

It annoyed me the first few times it happened to me but now it just makes me laugh. Having a book on your shelf or knowing the title of it is not the same thing as reading it or understanding it

That only happened because Bernie is a pinko commie who is pro China, so he runs his office like China. In fact Bernie’s office is actually inside of a Chinese embassy, which means that it’s actually part of China. We know this because nobody would EVER be arrested for protesting in the White Free Western world, so the only logical explanation is that it must be China.

Funny that you think I haven’t been arrested for protesting, because I have. So no, not really. The smell of tear gas in my neighborhood doesn’t smell very freeing to me.

+20 US credit score. Congrats, you now qualify for an exploitive student loan that you won’t ever be able to repay!

China has gay people in movies. Where do you people even get these dumb ideas from

Hmm I wonder what minerals we can dig up from that natural hole that just opened in the earths crust!

You can go grab pizza on your break!

When can I have my break?

Well we’re busy today so I’ll clock you out for it but I need you to keep working

“No”

At the rate we’re going we’re not even going to survive either

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!

Yeah but see the capitalist provided the bucket, so that means they’re entitled to everything inside of the bucket.

Also they own all the buckets in the world, and if you try to make your own bucket, they will use the threat of police violence to put you in jail. So you have to use their bucket.

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.

Can you provide an objective reason why my thoughts on this are wrong?

But I think they’re political. Is my opinion on what is and is not political invalid for some objective reason?

You’re pretty upset that I asked a question aren’t you? I wonder why that is.

Government and politicians I think are pretty self explanatory and I would agree those are inherently political, no argument there.

What do you think is part of a general culture of a country, or not? How would you define culture that has conflicting opinions? Is it solely up to your discretion, or would you agree that if anyone has any disagreement about a meme that would make it automatically political?

Is this one political because it references the FBI, a governmental organization? https://startrek.website/post/1847371 I would argue that it is political.

Is this one political because it references culture related to advertising in capitalism? I would think everyone should agree that any reference to or commentary of an economic system is inherently political because of course economic systems are controversial. I don’t see how anyone could argue that references to a combination of two major brands isn’t a commentary on marketing: https://programming.dev/post/3200916

I mean this one references politics so it’s clearly political right? https://lemm.ee/post/8502748

I’m just curious about what you and others think is political versus not. You can’t have a discussion about if something should or should not be allowed if you can’t clearly define the boundaries of that thing. I find the discussion around what is and isn’t politics to be an interesting one, that’s all.

What does being political mean to you?