I posted this meme to the Lemmy Shitpost community. I reckoned that it might generate a bit of debate, and would probably end up locked, but the entire post got deleted, and moreover, I’m now forbidden from sharing political posts to the community. Political posts are not against the rules of the community.
I have reason to believe that the post was deleted not because it was controversial, but because the moderator (Decoy321) disagreed with the political slant of the meme. The reason I find this suspicious is because other controversial posts, such as one about veganism remains up, and Decoy321 seemed to enjoy the fact it was controversial:
Information changes us, whether it be dictated by deterministic or indeterministic forces.
That said, my motivation in my response’s here isn’t to change your mind. A past version of me would have been motivated by that, but I know full well that the real honest reason I’m doing this is to kill down time at work and to essentially intellectually challenge myself. (Again, because in a certain way it feels good… sometimes)
Changing people’s mind via argument is a fool’s errand. The past few US elections essentially have proven this to me. You might change 1 in 20 people’s minds via debate, and only slightly.