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.

Water? You mean that stuff that goes in toilets?

Clever meme lol

Agreed, Facebook is terrible. But I’d say that Lemmy and Reddit are on a par (as regards users and mods). Perhaps Lemmy’s major upside is the decentralized structure, but then you lose out on the niche content that Reddit offers.

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?

Fair enough

This is a reach. Borderline cringe.

Does anyone have this meme template?

Mods allowing a post to stay up doesn’t mean it’s tolerated by the community. But we’re getting into semantics at this point. I just wish I could find an online community that didn’t lean so hard in one direction. Everywhere I go is extremely right-wing or left-wing. These online spaces just parrot the party talking points.

Yes, both parties are not the same, but we should still be able to criticize (dare I say laugh at?) both sides of the aisle. And even though both parties have different aims, the two-party system itself is one of many things that they agree on.

Americans get so swept up into voting red or blue that we’ve given up on any hope of a better system. And so any criticism of a party feels like an attack on a “team”.

Agreed, but my point is that neither are allowed on Lemmy. People asking for Biden to step down were downvoted. Memes about Biden’s age were definitely downvoted. Anything that even sounds like criticism of the left is not tolerated.

We can all see that this shit need radical change but every four years we’re supposed to vote for the lesser of two evils. As though this system has a chance of self-correcting from within. A year from now, we’ll be back to complaining about the same issues. I’m probably as progressive as most of the users on this site, but seeing all this pro-establishment shit makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

This is the same logic we were fed when a minority of us were calling for Biden to step down and we were told that there was not enough time for anyone except Biden because, checks notes, fate of democracy. All I’m hearing from this comment is shut up and get in line.