Looking at media from the other side of the world there are a great many people saying and thinking the same thing and only need someone to get out on the street and drum them up.
there are other organizations that have been good substitutes, and the far right wing wants to say their specific church (you know the one) should be The Organization, but like my local library has so many great groups and clubs and ect ectect. if people simply show up it can be a great little community on its own.
There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He's going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.
They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don't know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.
You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.
It isn't. The memes comm has a "no politics" rule but somehow shitpost doesn't. It's infuriating.
What I've been doing is going through the posters post history whenever they post something political here, and if there's more in their history I block them. There's no other solution until the mods decide to do something about this.
Shitposts don't have an agenda other than being amusing.
I don't see any other political posts posted in shitposts in their history, so I won't block them unless it happens again.
Then why are you posting about it in a shitposting instance?! I get that things are bad right now. Really bad. But can't we have one corner of Lemmy, just one, where we can just post silly shit? A wee break? It's all over everyone's feed everywhere else.
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ReginaldBarclay@startrek.website · 29 pts · 230d
I'm ready to start taking it back but I need to know I'm not gonna be the only one trying.
Gnugit@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 230d
Looking at media from the other side of the world there are a great many people saying and thinking the same thing and only need someone to get out on the street and drum them up.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 11 pts · 230d
This is why organizations are so damn important, and why the decline of unions has been so damaging to US political culture.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 229d
there are other organizations that have been good substitutes, and the far right wing wants to say their specific church (you know the one) should be The Organization, but like my local library has so many great groups and clubs and ect ect ect. if people simply show up it can be a great little community on its own.
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social · 10 pts · 230d
Why dont you start with telling us what you plan on doing?
This will help you know whether you die alone in a ditch from a police sniper or part of a revolutionary protest.
bunkyprewster@startrek.website · 7 pts · 230d
There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He's going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.
They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don't know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.
You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.
What happens next?
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 230d
"Let's roll"?
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 230d
the problem is that there are an army of gunmen
FishFace@piefed.social · 19 pts · 230d
How is this a shitpost?
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 230d
It isn't. The memes comm has a "no politics" rule but somehow shitpost doesn't. It's infuriating.
What I've been doing is going through the posters post history whenever they post something political here, and if there's more in their history I block them. There's no other solution until the mods decide to do something about this.
Shitposts don't have an agenda other than being amusing.
I don't see any other political posts posted in shitposts in their history, so I won't block them unless it happens again.
FishFace@piefed.social · 5 pts · 230d
I do something similar but haphazardly. Maybe I should be more militant about it.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 230d
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 230d
What's like to be a prisoner of world events.
hayvan@piefed.world · 8 pts · 230d
I wish I could be Catwoman.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 229d
Merriweather? Kitt? Pfeiffer? Berry? Hathaway? Bicondova? Kravitz? Heaven forbid Newmar?
hayvan@piefed.world · 2 pts · 229d
My favorite would be Pfeiffer but Kitt also has a special place for me.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 230d
Then why are you posting about it in a shitposting instance?! I get that things are bad right now. Really bad. But can't we have one corner of Lemmy, just one, where we can just post silly shit? A wee break? It's all over everyone's feed everywhere else.
maus@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 230d
Is the shitpost in the room with us?
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
You forgot guillotines and I hate this timeline. Come on!