I had posted this as a response to a recent (at the time) news article about Jerry Seinfeld visiting Epstein Island. The post was immediately removed by the admin, citing the no politics rule. Which I thought was a bit ridiculous, as it's news if anything, not politics. But you can argue that anything is politics, so I didn't feel like fighting it. I did make this altered version, which technically fit the rules that stated "no politics outside of what is mentioned in the show" because I blocked out words so that all that was left was actual dialog from the episode. But I didn't end up posting it at all. Not sure if this joke makes much sense now considering it's no longer a timely reference.

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[–] 6 points 5 days ago (1 child)

People who say they want "no politics" always mean they want no politics that challenge their political views.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    I'll stick up for the previous custodians of 30 Rock Lemmy memes. They wanted it to be a place of escapism, to get away from the tendency towards "Hard to Watch: based on the book Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate" that we can sometimes trend towards on Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed. I don't know them beyond occasional Lemmy interactions, but I never got any sense that they were Epstein class apologists whatsoever.

    That said, I'm more inclined to think that as long as we keep a balance not unlike the show, and keep our level of indignation close to that of our Johns, both Oliver and Stewart, then we can keep it a joyful space without the need to pretend we have a userbase other than what we have.

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