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Elves, I'm pretty sure that's two elf characters from Lord of the Rings, Legolas and whoever the significant woman one was (I didn't really engage with LOTR so we're lucky I know Legolas). And as far as I know elves vs. dwarves is a common fantasy trope, but not dwarven misogyny or homophobia.

If you were making a joke, sorry! I could imagine myself asking that question unironically, but can also see how it could be a joke.

I came from !NiceMemes@lemmy.sopuli.xyz which bans it, and I think that's fine instead of something that not everyone will care for—its point is memes that won't "absolutely destroy your mental health." I'm not so sure about everyone else, but I know for me politics everywhere in so many threads and comments = doomscrolling and destroyed mental health, regardless of if it is people who agree with me or disagree and I'm honestly unsure how so many others on the Threadiverse manage to embrace it. Politics is not the point of that community at all, and I'm inclined to find the rule appropriate instead of something that should not be present because it controls what topics may be discussed. It could also be viewed as a sub-rule of "stay on topic" for non-political communities.

I also personally see it as a huge minefield of conflict that is likely to derail into a big tangent that starts a slapfight and kills the mood if you see it browsing comments. I do engage in the political process in real life, perhaps more than most others I know, but I super do not come into the Threadiverse to stress myself out and fall into the anger/outrage loop with people's poor behavior towards each other on like 80% of the online political discussion I have had the misfortune to run across and views that anger me. I'm here to have fun. And just look at the long paragraph my current disagreement with you made me feel like typing out! I'd like to opt out of that kind of experience.

Your community is your own though, not going to force you or shame you for not conforming to one person's wishes! Just disagreeing on the idea that banning that as a topic is inappropriate in general, and further explaining my negative sentiment towards most online political discussion. I appreciate you making the community at all and running it.

Oh no, I do not have a problem with antimemes that were originally political! My problem is more about the comments getting political, and yes, my usual approach is to just disengage.

Pinging @SmokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com about it too because their poll seems to operate under the assumption I had an issue with antimemes who were originally political instead of me having a problem with the comments turning political as if it were the normal version of the meme, as if this were PoliticalMemes or any Lemmy politics community and not AntiMemes.

Friendly advice: if you are not in the mood for discourse and debates and political discussion, don't check the comments if you know the regular version of the meme is often used to make political statements. I clicked on the comments for two antimemes whose normal version is often used for political commentary instead of just scrolling by and upvoting, not knowing what to expect. Found the expected sociopolitical commentary for if the regular version of the image was posted while extremely not in the mood for politics and just wanting a fun antimeme, and some of those comments made me angry, so I came here and typed this advice to use that anger productively (and also conveniently in a way that likely won't invite conflict from anyone based on my views).

Not sure if this is intended and allowed behavior for the community, and thus I just need to adjust my behavior to match my advice to get what I want out of it, or if this something the community maker did not want and it should be added to the rules and reported.

monkey in the middle!

For what it is worth I do try to contribute with posts in communities I am in and I understand the challenge. I mod !blood_donors@healthy.community. I mostly just post whenever I donate, which is bound to be very occasional because of the required donation intervals (2 weeks for platelets if I recall correctly, 8 weeks for regular whole blood) and what my own schedule can accommodate. I sometimes seek out scientific research on blood donation to post, but eventually I'm going to run out.

Thank you for the long reply! I suppose I should post my funny internet images here again to help out, even if I am admittedly not too pleased with the seemingly-new direction (though better inspirational pictures I don't vibe with than the depressing or political stuff that actually makes me feel bad).

I thought it was more about her facial expression being happy and cute, with the implied joke we're subverting being that girls take notifications of medical obesity well (happy) but notifications of something less bad for their health much worse (skull). I did not see the meme as trying to say that specific anime girl is medically obese.

I get where you are coming from too, though.

I kind of like this artstyle, especially for the guy in bed.

https://youtu.be/WO23WBji_Z0

Both. I want to exploit "underreact to things you are expected to have a big reaction to" and briefly considered becoming a 911 dispatch because being calm in a crisis is an asset as one. Nobody wants the 911 dispatch who starts crying in empathy and saying "I'm so sorry, that must be hard," they want the one who sends them the darn emergency vehicles. But then I thought about how I might screw up and be responsible for a life in a more immediate, "your fault" way than in the ways I am responsible for lives and can't opt-out of. And unfortunately, like most people who don't have my "underreacts to crises" trait, I don't think I'd be able to handle that weight too easily if I did cause an accident. Perhaps I would react more "typically" with guilt, even if I'd be cool as a cucumber in the moment, during the screwup, and while handling the fallout of my screwup. (Becoming a surgeon would also take advantage of this trait, but my guilt and personal responsibility would be even worse with a screwup, and I'd probably get sued for malpractice. And the more immediate issue: I'm so squeamish.) Like typical people I don't want the consequences of that type of job, so sadly my "underreacts to crisis, cool in a crisis" trait goes unexploited for the benefit of myself and others. Except for the two (2) total times in life an emergency happened in front of me and I called 911.

(What I mean by saying I am responsible for lives in a way I cannot opt out of: maybe I take a left in traffic onto an empty road instead of going straight, and 5 seconds later another car is behind me instead of getting the stretch of road to themselves like they would have if I just went straight. I stop at a stop sign and go on my way. This 10 second extra delay in their travel might be the difference between a speeding car hitting them or them being gone already. Without me, they would not have been hit, but you can't really hold me responsible for something I had no way of foreseeing or controlling beyond this speculation that it could happen.)

I am glad you figured out a cure.