The purpose of many memes is to make your pov seem more relatable. Even OP's meme is an example of this. Then you have the comment section, which serves to reinforce relatability of the meme, and then the upvotes which are a digital "amem" or "yeah".
So in a way, memes on redditlike sites are more or less a propaganda machine with a feedback system built in. Want to push a political pov with little effort, and an automatic way of gauging popularity while showing users "See! I'm not the only one!" Post a meme with a political message tied to it.
Also, a lot of people seem to call anything they don't agree with "political" as well, so sometimes a harmless meme about being gay gets grouped with a meme about eating the rich.
The point is as long as people have different point of view, memes pages are always going to seem political. Combine that with the fact that lemmy.ml tends to be more leftist than reddit politically, it might come to a shock to a lot of libertarian mind refugees who are used to their humor being accepted, or leftists who are shocked by the kind of content they're seeing on their front page.
There are several different memes spaces on the fediverse. The only real solution I can give is to block the ones that don't meet your standards, and build up the ones that do. Considering the different natures of each instance, I'm surprised each one doesn't have its own active meme page.
The fact this is a bipartison bill should have everyone concerned, and figuring out who exactly is supporting this bill, and when is their relelection coming up.
That if these people really cared about social justice, they would have put their money where their mouths were and left long ago, instead of constantly making excuses and justifying their continued presence there.
I don't care how they spin it, their activity on x undermines the marginalized people they claim to support. By continuing to post updates and posts there, and nowhere else, they keep their userbase on the site, which contributes to site traffic, which contributes to ad revenue, which contributes to Musk financially, which contributes to politicians, organizations, and causes that wish to peel back rights to workers, racial minorities, women, and queer people.
These are some of the same people that argued continuing to consume Harry Potter, or shopping at Hobby Lobby and Chic-Fil-A were harmful acts. As a queer person, I often agree with their messages, but I am getting so. fucking. tired of the hypocrisy in some of these people. And twitter/X has been the biggest integrity check for me.
And no, they can't use the system argument that explains why they participate in capitalism despite being anti-capitalists. We all need to interact with capitalism in one way or another to survive. Most people don't need fucking twitter. Especially when there are so many alternate platforms, and I'm not even talking about just microblogs either.
Fuck they don't even throw a line to some of the smaller platforms. If they did that at least, people who don't feel safe using the site, or don't want to support Musk financially, wouldn't have to view their content from halfway broken nitter. But nope, no account on any mastodon server, no attempt to establish themselves on bluesky, or hell any regular updates on the threads account they made but never use.
And many of us queer users, these stripping away of protections and features hurt us the most. Many left cause they didn't feel safe anymore, and that is part of the reason many of us are on fediverse. We see better than anyone who these influencers and content creators actually care about. None of them followed us here. None of them even throw us a bone. We're are forced to look through a frosted window, or do without, and at this point, I have found myself doing more of the latter.
Either stick to your fucking principles or admit you have an addiction you can't easily kick. But please for the love of god stop trying to paint your remaining there as righteous or justified.
Musk: (literally shocks you with electricity for using the site)
Twitter leftists/liberals: My followers are here, fediverse is CoMpLiCaTeD, I need to stay here to reach people, there are no good alts, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, I'm staying in protest, I can leave whenever I want...
@Roundcat
@kbin.social