I get the vibe “lefty memes” is a misnomer, and an actual progressive like me won’t be accepted here, so I’ve never tried posting anything in here yet - but everywhere else I’ve posted this so far has hated it, so I’m trying here now.

I made this meme because I noticed parallels in how Republicans and Democrats coordinate to block access to guns and vaccines, violating my rights and putting me and my loved ones in senseless danger.

I’m not quite ready to give up on finding a community where people like this meme. I know it’s actually one of my most well-crafted ones yet, no matter what some people say.

Image text (Morpheus meme format, repurposed to represent US uniparty politics, not blindly misused without understanding it as some commenters keep saying)

Red pill:

Let people who pretend to know nothing about vaccines decide who can get what vaccines

Blue pill:

Let people who pretend to know nothing about guns decide who can get what guns

Red pill:

Let the weapon industry dictate gun policy

Blue pill:

Let big pharma dictate vaccine policy

  • whoever loves Digit 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏴‍☠️@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    The thread you can’t see anymore was the thread you had replied to me in at the time.

    My facebook wall and posts are mine

    Not exactly. You can be banned if you say “fuck Zuck” a lot and tell the truth too much for the authorities to allow. Happened to me years ago. It also really shows you how worthless most social connections are, because most people (at least in my generation / region I grew up) don’t even care about social connections enough to keep them going through a facebook ban.

    I’m unaware of any reason Mastodon should, or you would expect them to, handle comments on blog-posts or whatever any differently.

    I don’t get what you’re saying. Are you suggesting there should be no warning label to let readers of a thread know a person being replied to can’t reply back, just because other platforms don’t have one? What’s the point of piefed if it’s just going to do whatever existing platforms do and not solve problems?

    • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      I didn’t say anything about labelling, but facebook does have it in place. Its not just that they can’t reply back; They can’t even see their own comment or the OP any-more, let alone your reply.

      EDIH: I agree with you that labelling is best and getting notified about something you can’t reply to is stupid, but beyond that, I’m in favor of thinking of communities more as private spaces. Whether its right or not, mods, admins, blog authors or peertube videographers can treat those threads as if our comments are un-wanted trespassers and they have no obligation to explain their reasoning.

      There’s no point in getting worked-up about it. 99 times in a hundred, its not hard to anticipate how what we want to say will be recieved in a given space.

      We aren’t prisoners, so we are also free to choose to take our comments elsewhere, or start our own instances or communities to host them. That said, if you anticipate moderating the replies to what you have to say to be too much work, well, that’s often how the mods in other places are looking at it.

      Its often not just “letting you say what you want”, but also, likely putting more effort into moderating the replies on your comment than yourself will have to. Work and effort you mostly won’t see or acknowlege.