Memes

Clicked without looking, knew without checking.

I think Memes@lemmy.ml doesn't understand why so many of their posts get mass downvoted, like pointing out this revelation to other instances...

We. Freaking. KNOW!

Western fediverse instances know there was a freakin Nazi battalion in Ukraine, and rampant corruption, and other problems. We know 'the west' has been, and is, imperialist, hypocritical, genocidal and transactionally shit to other countries. This isn't /r/conservative with bots preaching on about the virtues of western patriotism in 2025, this is a refuge for deep internet dwellers either watching their countries burn down around them (like me in the US), or, according to polls, barrel headfirst into the same techno-fascist utopias (largely Europe right now).

Memes like this are pretentious. It's insulting, and most of all, insensitive.

How ridiculous would it look if Americans repeatedly pointed out how awful a trading partner China is in the geopolitical space compared to the US? Or if we constantly filled Lemmy with memes about how inclusive and virtuous and definitely-not-racist the American megacorps are compared to, say, North Korea? What if we set Ukraine aside for a sec and started memeing on the crises in Russia's backyard, while utterly refusing to even acknowledge the dumpster fires in our own?

...So, yeah.

Even setting a ton of stuff aside, you're preaching to the choir, in a really unfun way.

This meme is also wrong, at least on the top half, because apparently the majority of my country thinks rebadged, redneck/cyberpunk flavored neo-nazism is the way forward :(

I guess it'd be nice if I had a victim complex big enough to obsess over other countries instead of my own, but I'm sorry, I can barely think over Fox News raging about how white Christians and Donald Trump are victims in the background.