Liberals have to reduce everything down to a clean black and white metaphor because actually reckoning with the plain, bare reality of what they support would lay bare the monstrousness of their utterly incurious, self-serving imperial ideology. Much easier to exist in the hazy cloud lands of equivalence and metaphor, where nazi-occupied Ukraine becomes an assaulted woman and support for Palestinian genocide becomes a trolley problem.
Mmm yes, it technically has the requiremebt for a meme, but isn't there more to a meme than a jpeg and a text ? Like the representation of situations, or things, by the reuse of cultural reference or relatable situation ? Idk, this is is what i think is a meme, here i see a flag with a statement.
I see memes as a way to convey a message, you could maybe have a meme like : *picture of something bad * and a caption saying : "this is ukraine" that convey the statement "ukraine bad"
Note that what i am criticizing here is not the statement, only that the way it conveyed doesn't really fit a meme community imo
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radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d
SignDown@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 113d
So much Russian and Chinese propaganda here.
I don't like Reddit but at least it's not a shit hole like this
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 112d
Everything is prooaganda, you just hate this specifically because it's true and it contradicts your programming
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d
Its like blaming the victim for dressing provocatively.
RiverRock@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 114d
Liberals have to reduce everything down to a clean black and white metaphor because actually reckoning with the plain, bare reality of what they support would lay bare the monstrousness of their utterly incurious, self-serving imperial ideology. Much easier to exist in the hazy cloud lands of equivalence and metaphor, where nazi-occupied Ukraine becomes an assaulted woman and support for Palestinian genocide becomes a trolley problem.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d
Lovely. Now what about the facts?
RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 113d
The facts:
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 113d
Russia started the war.
RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 113d
Wrong and also that's your response to supporting nazis? "But the other guy started it"? Okay, you still support nazis. That makes you a nazi.
Eight years of Ukro shelling and fourteen thousand dead civillians "started it", my guy.
m532@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 112d
Are you running a marathon with those goalposts?
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 112d
The US overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed a puppet regime specifically to threaten Russia
roux2scour@jlai.lu · 0 pts · 114d
Where the funny
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 112d
Meme =/= funny
roux2scour@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 112d
I know, but here there is no meme Edit: (where's the funny is also a meme)
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 112d
Text on background has been a shitload of memes
roux2scour@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 111d
Mmm yes, it technically has the requiremebt for a meme, but isn't there more to a meme than a jpeg and a text ? Like the representation of situations, or things, by the reuse of cultural reference or relatable situation ? Idk, this is is what i think is a meme, here i see a flag with a statement.
I see memes as a way to convey a message, you could maybe have a meme like : *picture of something bad * and a caption saying : "this is ukraine" that convey the statement "ukraine bad"
Note that what i am criticizing here is not the statement, only that the way it conveyed doesn't really fit a meme community imo
harcesz@szmer.info · -1 pts · 114d
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