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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 19 points 3 days ago

What's even more fucked is just how personally responsible Epstein is to the modern right wing movement. While online Nazis and crass as fuck assholes were common, the way how they became such a concerted and active and effective politicial movement was done entirely through Epstein motivated and funded shit.

You know how so many major gaming channels always make a ton of right wing advocacy? Their money and funding came from the motherfucker and his network.

I remember when online gaming channels were AVGN type fun stuff. Either with retro or with modern games.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's called "sane-washing" and the media won't stop doing it. Even NPR, though less so recently.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

You would think with their funding cut off they would stop doing the "fair and balanced" act and stop carrying water for Republican liars.

You would. But one thing I noticed is that even when money isn't involved people will gravitate towards bullying, bullies, and harassment by default.

All the media we consumed as kids of the underdog kid getting even with bullies? That is wish fulfillment and fantasy. In real life even a genuinely hard working and intelligent kid being harassed by a dumbass with serious academic and behavioral issues will have adults and authority figures take the side of abuser over him.

In real life it is like that all the fucking time. Trump in his first term when he HAD to have actually competent people talk to him he would sarcastically call them Einstein or childish nicknames for smart people before just dismissing what they have to say. Thinking his own instincts were always superior to what anyone else had to say.

Seeing the media try to make what Epstein and the others did look somehow legal or acceptable is exactly what I expected them to do. They will still recycle the old, tired 'Muslim grooming gangs' narrative to paint all Muslims and/or brown people as rapists when literally all the major leadership were ritualisticly fucking children and beating them up afterwards.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago

Personally I don't understand it how in the world one could be fair and also balanced at the same time. If you're being fair then clearly you're going to be leaning a lot harder left.

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[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 3 days ago

I listened to part of a segment on my local NPR station last night about melania's new movie. The reporter was gushing about how great and strong melania is; how she loves fashion and children and supports her husband.

I was revolted and thought to myself about how far NPR had fallen.

Those traits are admirable* but not noteworthy. Millions of devoted parents and spouses exist, but my mother and my wife don't have access to a film crew to document them and pick highlights.

*unless your spouse is a known domestic abuser, pedophile, rapist, fraudster (...) and actively dismantling democracy in America, in which case... maybe don't support him unless you are also a monster.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 167 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Another one:

Epstein is a convicted sex offender. They keep calling him, "disgraced Financier"

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 30 points 4 days ago

They dont want the other financiers tarred with the same brush, even though the capitalist scum deserve it.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Even that's too soft for him, makes him sound like the creep who moved in down the block.

In reality, he was the most connected and influential international child sex trafficker in history. "Convicted sex offender" sounds like one of his customers.

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Even the term "soliciting prostitution with a minor" really shouldn't exist because it implies some sort of consent by the minor.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 98 points 4 days ago (6 children)

They're not sugarcoating it, they're normalizing it...

And the answer to "why" for all those questions is oligarchs bought the news stations after Clinton de-regulated it with the Telecoms act of 1996.

The media isn't run for the sake of journalism, it's not even run for profit anymore. The oligarchs goobled it all up so they could influence everyone else, and they don't like it when anyone from their class is held accountable for anything.

It's the same as when medieval royalty would always side with each other no matter what.

They don't see us as the same species as them.

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Because the names in the signatures on their paychecks are in the Epstein files.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Totally agree, but it is also our responsibility to stop consuming it. Stop using X before chomo musk starts his Social Education addon. When everyone is logging into S E X and seeing pictures of AI generated naked children will people finally stop!?

Seriously get the fuck off X! I am going to start considering anyone still using that platform a supporter of child rape.

I am glad I was never on Twitter. I did make an account many, many, many years ago but never used it.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

The legal system created these terms, and the media is complacent. People are adverse to hard issues, and it makes those issues even harder.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 36 points 4 days ago

More like the people that own these news companies are also in the files and tweaking the narrative as a result. Something something follow the money something

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (13 children)

The minimization is CRAZY. Like people are saying "Oh, no, he didn't rape the kid he just had sex with her." Like the child CONSENTED to it. Sex, by definition, is engaging in sexual pleasure with both persons consent.

Our country that was fought for by thousands of soldiers, many whom died for this land, so we could have freedom and a break away from the king of Britain. He was a dictator, and now we are in the company of one such other dictator. A rat, who gained entry only by his father's money and influence. Who used that influence and abused it, who corrupted young minds and brainwashed people to believe that he was doing good.

That he was making America great again.

When the only thing he did for us was give us empty promises, and shoved us down the path of an emptier future.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The same people who are in the files run the media. Not 100% positive, but this might have something to do with it.

[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

They do everything they can to normalize it. It goes back to when I was a kid, Britney Spears was 16 when she made that hit me baby one more time song and video, while I liked it cause I was 14 at the time, I feel like I can see now that this is the continued work of the elites to normalize the fetishization of minor girls.

[–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 days ago

🎼 Some of those who work newsrooms

Are the same who rape kiddos

SHILLING IN THE NAME OF! 🎶

[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

The rot is so deep global revolution is the only answer.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 63 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't want to risk missing out on precious clicks and shares due to keyword-sensitive advertiser friendliness algorithms.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That could be part of it. But the main reason is the same as what we saw during the manufacturing of consent for the Palestinian Genocide.

Israeli Citizens Slaughtered by Hamas

54 Palestinians dead after Israeli targeted strike of Hamas leaders

Palestinians "die" in news headlines. Israelis are slaughtered.

It got as bad as media giving us headlines of "Israeli hostage kidnapped from tank". Not even kidding. They labeled an IDF soldier in a tank as a kidnapped hostage. We have a word for that already: prisoner of war.

Once you notice this type of passive language used to describe the crimes of who the US government supports vs. who it sees as an enemy. Man, you'll start to go crazy at noticing how much it's used.

Journalist and talking heads on TV are told exactly what vocabulary to use when covering a specific topic. It's more directed at the interest of those in power and those with wealth than it is to fit an algorithm.

I mean, the people directing the vocabulary are the same group of people that ensure that algorithm favors them. They allow very extreme vocabulary like "rape" or "beheadings" through their filters when they want to lie about something that favors their narrative.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 21 points 4 days ago

Journalist and talking heads on TV are told exactly what vocabulary to use when covering a specific topic. It’s more directed at the interest of those in power and those with wealth than it is to fit an algorithm.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Underage female". I'll never forget this. He was a serial child rapist, to start with.

[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Distorsión of reality by linguistic manipulation.

This is straight out of 1984 book:

In the novel, "Newspeak" wasn't just about being concise; it was designed to shrink the vocabulary so much that "heretical" thoughts became literally impossible because the words for them no longer existed.

Here is a breakdown of how linguistic manipulation distorts reality, both in the book and in our world:

1. The Erasure of Nuance

In 1984, if you wanted to say something was "terrible," you just said it was ungood.

By removing "bad," "terrible," and "horrific," the emotional weight of the experience is flattened.

  • The Result: When we lose specific words for our feelings or experiences, our ability to think critically about those experiences atrophies.
[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ungood is very similar to "unalived"...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The "news" is the same people as the accused. It's all the ultra wealthy ruling class. They are also destroying the environment with fossil fuels, buying up livable property and jacking up the rates, shorting water stocks and such, etc.

Their time may be up soon, but I want to see them rot in prison, not the other option, because that'll be way more chaotic and could lead to worse outcomes.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 40 points 4 days ago

“Adolescent women” to refer to a 13 year old was used in that one witness account of the women who worked as a recruiter for his parties.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Because the news is largely owned by the oligarchy.

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[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)

X.com? Supporting the abusers, i see.

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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

Because they are actually okay with all of it. Kind of like how Diddlin Donnie can shit himself in front of a room full of people and not 1 person yells “OMFG he shit himself!”

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Have you checked who owns big media corporations? 🤔

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 3 days ago

It's because of they don't play nice with the government they get uninvited to government press conferences, especially under the Orange administration.

[–] CityPop@lemmy.today 27 points 4 days ago

The media machine is complicit with the state. Always has been.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

To actually answer the question:

Because most of the old media functionally has the CIA as an editorial board.

Immensely ironically, we know a lot about that because of Noam Chomsky.

Who... is also in the Epstein files.

Quite a lot.

Yeah, it wasn't just the right wing of the country that has been existing in a constructed media hyperreality, it has also been the left wing of the country.

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[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

People need to be calling out networks and reporters/authors by name for doing this. Stop blaming "they" and put a name on it.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is why you should get your news from alternative media. I usually recommend Breaking Points. There's even a reporter on their staff that punched Jesse Watters in the face once.

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