Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 3 months agoDon't go red!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1419arrow-down156
arrow-up1363arrow-down1imageDon't go red!lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squareBgugi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·3 months agoOk. Then it’s just poorly framed. The first frame should have been “America, 2025: a second communist revolution”. As written, it reads like boilerplate “not real communism, and it wasn’t that bad” revisionist history.
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThat would spoil the joke by spelling it out. Part of the humor is in discovering that what you’re looking at isn’t quite what you expected.
Ok. Then it’s just poorly framed. The first frame should have been “America, 2025: a second communist revolution”. As written, it reads like boilerplate “not real communism, and it wasn’t that bad” revisionist history.
That would spoil the joke by spelling it out. Part of the humor is in discovering that what you’re looking at isn’t quite what you expected.