• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    The right needs to create elaborate theories of victimhood in order to even construct a punch-up joke. Is this why they prefer bullying humour, or is it why they have a persecution fetish?

    Hey everyone guess what, I found something less funny than comedy theory: trying to understand unfunny people! 😀

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      Don’t forget they have to contradict themselves at every turn. “Go woke go broke” vs “cancel culture”, “the 2nd protects the 1st” vs cheering on cops beating up protesters, party of traditional family values vs supporting a dude who’s divorced several times and is in court for misappropriation of campaign funds to pay off a sex worker.

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      is it why they have a persecution fetish?

      They want to persecute others, so they assume others want to persecute them. It’s always projection.

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        Comrades, partners, sex-workers? Ego is harder to stimulate than both clitoris and prostate, but it makes it all sweeter. Call 1-800-EGO-STROKERS to find a lefty source of stimulus in your area!

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      Also, it is the wrong usage of the meme, which is hilariously ironical.

      The meme should be “basic version -> fancy version”… Instead, we got opposing points.

      I guess the left really can’t meme.

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        That joke is so old they literally made fun of it in a movie about how repressive the 50’s were.

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          ya, right-wing humor, conservatives aren’t known for their plurality of new ideas

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    7 months ago

    All political images macros are the first one because they are a terrible method of communication

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    This Daniel guy makes memes and also huffs his own farts.

    I’m openly left wing but I’m not gonna pretend that the majority of lefty memes are shit like this dude

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    To be fair, you need a very high IQ to understand lefty memes. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of dialectical materialism most of the jokes will go over a typical user’s head. There’s also the intersectionalist perspective, which is deftly woven into online communities - the horniness draws directly from the old r/196, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about CAPITALISM. As a consequence people who dislike lefty memes truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in the popular characterization of the bourgeoisie as friggin’ piggies, which itself is a cryptic reference to 19th century propaganda. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as HappyRoadKill’s genius unfolds itself on their phones’ screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Karl Marx’s tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the femboys’ eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 points of class consciousness coefficient of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 months ago

    Also a picture of somebody being a nuisance with a pickup with a caption about how tough they are for doing it isn’t exactly what I’d qualify as a good meme.

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    Love the irony of calling out kneejerk assumptions… This post is effectively “Left wing people are smart. Right wing people are dumb. Upvote if you agree”

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      No, the post is pointing out that reinforcing existing beliefs doesn’t require an explanation while giving reasons to change does. Explanations are always longer.

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        So, leftist memes are long and nuanced? Leftists must not hang around Lemmy and Reddit then, because by the time I see anything long and nuanced around here it’s not a meme any more.

        Moreover, a short, meme-length satire absolutely can challenge and give reason to change, as it draws attention to the incongruity in the reader’s expectations. If course it can also be dumb, wrong, maligned or ignored.

        No, I do think this post is essentially “my memes clever, your memes dumb”; and, “stop having fun at your own satire. You’re all stupid and you need to know you’re all stupid”; and back again, “see guys, I called them stupid. Now we can all feel relief and walk away.”


        Boring endnote, please stop reading…

        I take to the comments again to complain that there’s too much oversaturation of defending good things with dumb takes. I’m not, above, trying to defend right-wing memes; what frustrates me so often on Lemmy and Reddit is seeing good values - caring for the poor, having justice in society, treating women with respect, making policies with science not assumptions… - seeing good and important things defended often with lies, ad hominem attacks and other bad takes. If your true goal is for the ‘poor’ to win, then lies and tantrums make superficial logical sense, but (a) watch your necks when today’s poor become tomorrow’s rich and (b) do you actually care for the poor or is it “my segment of society” win? But if your true goal is for society to be good and kind and just and honest, then while you fight for justice, be just; and be honest, while you fight for honesty; and be kind to those you don’t like, while you fight for people in power to be kind even to those they don’t like; and choose your sources with integrity when you fight for science; and consider your own views when you fight for people to seek truth outside their echo chambers. But do you care about the people you’re memeing to? Or do you really want to make yourself look good.

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    7 months ago

    Both sides can have ultra cringe meme’s. Both sides can have great meme’s. Both sides make up meme’s the other side never made to make the other side look worse.

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    Can we all agree to stop using terms like political left and political right in such wide context? There are a lot of complicated issues considered to be political, and using aforementioned terms is just oversimplification. There is no need for all of this, it just helps dishonest people. There is even scientific study showing impact of labeling of different proportions es left or right.

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      This is exactly the kind of nuance that the meme is referencing!!!

      I think it’s valid to talk about left and right (in addition to other labels with more detail) as long as we have a two-party system. But I also agree that the tenancy to oversimplify everything only helps the religions fascists and the capitalists that manipulate them.

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        as long as we have a two-party system.

        So, like most of the liberals on here, you don’t actually understand why we even have such concepts like “left” and “right.”

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          That’s quite a statement, stranger. Amazing how you know so much about me from that one comment.

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            That’s quite a statement, stranger.

            No. It isn’t. It’s a pretty damn mundane one.

            The only way you can see anything left in the right-wing racketeering “two-party system” is if you don’t have the foggiest idea what left and right actually means.

            I take it this is the first time you’ve been informed of this?

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              You have been extremely condescending and rude, making sweeping assumptions about me based on a few sentences. I took a look at your comment history, and it seems that this is basically all you do here, attacking others to presumably make yourself feel better.

              I’m fine with disagreement, but I have better things to do than help you compensate for whatever inadequacies you think you have.

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                You have been extremely condescending and rude,

                Perhaps if the liberal hive-mind was less immunized against reality the “condescending and rude” behavior wouldn’t be required.

                making sweeping assumptions about me based

                This you?

                I think it’s valid to talk about left and right (in addition to other labels with more detail) as long as we have a two-party system.

                So I was wrong about you being completely uninformed (at best) or grossly misinformed (at worst) about the subject matter at hand?

                I’m fine with disagreement,

                We haven’t disagreed on anything. In order for us to actually disagree, both of us needs to at least have a working knowledge of what it is we are talking about, don’t we?

                One of us knows what the terms “left” and “right” actually means in a political context - the other doesn’t.

                Nuance is not something to hide behind.

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    Lol, the leftist memes I see look just as much kneejerk propaganda reinforcement.

    More a case of,

    When I look at my side’s meme, it’s humorous relief at the horror of the other side’s madness.

    When I look at the other side’s meme, it’s dumb echo chamber and propaganda.

    When they look at their meme, they’re dumb and reinforcing their dumb biases with no thought.

    When they look at my meme, it challenges them to think and they don’t like that.

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      it’s humorous relief at the horror of the other side’s madness.

      Yeah… imagine the madness of us not being in league with Nazis. The horror.