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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
the whole idea that discussing politics is lame is a neoliberal brainworm.
Don't discuss politics with your family, just enjoy the time! — okay weird but sure
Don't talk politics with your friends — what the hell why not
No politics at work — that's a deeply political place wtf are we doing
When people say no politics, that means no arguing. This applies to office politics, family politics, and of course government politics.
The no arguing thing is key. Everyone eventually finds a topic that they don't agree on, because politics, in the greek philosophy (aristotle based) sense of the word (I actually loved nicomachean ethics), is about the pursuit of the good life writ large. The chances of two people believing in the exact same life goals is almost zero, so there will be a fundamental disagreement at some point that, because we are talking about using governmental authority as a cudgel (in the modern sense of the word politics) to bring about a 'good life' for society, will cause a lot of friction.
In environments where we can't control who we interact with, and that are semi-public with an 'audience,' such as work and family dinners, it's just easier to say no politics and focus on the agreed areas of shared interests. Otherwise those little frictions can build into socially driven, highly charged arguments.
Keep political discussions to where everyone can easily walk away, where it's one-on-one, or where everybody comes wanting to talk politics, and things are fine.
Don't yell about politics in the work place. Just complaining about straw men is tiring.
no way im going to talk politics at work, i have work to do.
The cranky unhappy politics wonk endlessly droning on about the evils of the world are a drain on everyone else’s joy.
This may be because I'm autistic, but I think apoliticals are the most boring people in the world. Apoliticals always want to talk about the weather and their favourite reality TV show and what they did while drinking on the weekend. But My political friends talk about political stuff like science fiction, history, cool movies, fun gossip.
Politics is what humans are best at in all the animal kingdom. If a human wants to be apolitical, well they're just not living up to their potential. I'd get just as much engaging conversation from a dog, and it would be cuter.
Is this not a victim-blaming meme telling me to shut up and stay at home? The last domino is going to hit the rabbit.
I think it's more something like if you don't confront bigotry it'll grow and eventually crush you.
Yeah, my first thought was that it’s a reference to how facism has grown by allowing people to discuss it in anonymous echo chambers.
Ah, OK I see that. I thought it also looked a bit like it would apply to the downward slope of social media and polarization of everyone into hate-filled groups where "no one is wrong."
Thanks for explaining your perspective!
Hah, bunny suicides.
Forgot about this book. Was a coffee table staple in my late teens.
So, I need to annoy people more is what i'm hearing?
Yes, but just annoy someone slightly taller than you. Then they will annoy someone slightly taller than them.
Edit: I apologize, I didn't click to enlarge the graphic so I didnt see the words. All I saw was the picture of the bunny with the dominoes.
And I was reading down the comments and wondered why everyone's getting political about this bunny-dominoes picture 🤣
This makes fuck all sense.
If people don't speak about politics, nobody ever sees any criticism
I criticised the OP without mentioning politics at all.
I disagree
Then politics for you is a meaningless concept, and not the same one that people mean when they say "don't talk about politics in [x]" (where x is never "public", for the record).
Actually, it's the other way around. I have a coherent and useful definition of politics, while most people are being manipulated by a harmful meme that shapeshifts its definition so it matches whatever they don't personally like.
It's not useful if it causes you to misunderstand people, which you obviously have done.
If your employer's office policy is "no politics in working hours" are you able to not get fired?
I'm perfectly capable of understanding you, I simply disagree with you.
You understand the meaning of the word politics but disagree with it? Good how does that work?
I understand the meaning you assign to it and think you're wrong. I think you haven't thought through the logical and ethical consequences of your meaning.
Meanings are arbitrary. They don't have "ethical consequences". It's only what you do with the concepts you have at hand that have ethical consequences.
If we changed the definition of murder to be "eating strawberries" but kept all practical actions the same, there would be no ethical consequences. We would no longer say, "murder is wrong" though (because eating strawberries is perfectly acceptable) or "if you are found guilty of murder you'll go to jail" (because what we now call murder would not be illegal)
So, what you object to is not a world in which politics means "decisions and activities concerning the governing of a population", but a world in which certain things which are labelled politics are suppressed.
I'm glad for this opportunity to clarify your own position, but it was weird that I had to do it...
I already clarified My position on My blog, not once, nor twice, nor even thrice, but quice, each time building upon the ideas and exploring the definition of politics in a new context.
But it will not take Me an entire blog post to dismantle your claim that definitions can't have ethical consequences. I can simply point out Trump's definition of gender, or Albanese's definition of antisemitism, as definitions with the potential to cause a great deal of harm. We choose how to construct our understanding of the world around us, and with this power comes a responsibility to do so wisely.
I don't remember the exact definitions they chose for those terms, so I don't want to comment on those without knowing them precisely.
Domino effect surely
Butterfly: a rectangular playing piece with dots indicating the numbers to match.
Not to be confused with Dominoes, which is, of course, a pizza place.
A small silence can snowball fast — that’s the scary part of the dominoes. Quiet moments matter more than they seem.
