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Why the Left can't meme


               
2020 May 3, 7:18pm   9,046 views  97 comments

by MisdemeanorRebel   follow (13)  



Not a bad explanation, but I think it boils down to:

Humorless Prigs have a hard time being funny, and virtue signaling requires a long drawn out explanation of who is oppressed and who isn't that precludes humor

The only pithy leftist "memes" are basically unfunny insults, like OrangeManBad Ugly, or Conservatives are dumb.

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1   richwicks   @   2020 May 3, 7:27pm  

In 2003, it was the right that couldn't meme, because they were in a carefully constructed denial of reality, like Saddam Hussein really did have a weapons of mass destruction, and we couldn't wait for the final proof to come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Jon Stewart became rich and famous making fun of Fox news just LYING constantly, and the Bush administration LYING constantly.

Notice Jon Stewart left when a black clone of George W. Bush that took some diction classes replaced him, and did exactly the same thing.

The group that "can meme" is the group telling the truth. Today, the democratic establishment are the group of complete liars. That won't last forever.
2   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   @   2020 May 3, 7:37pm  

There’s a step further.....they don’t relate to others and won’t actually change opinion when proven wrong.

I’ve had a couple arguments recently with others that are neither Republican nor democrat arguments.

The first one is that the governor of CA and other political leaders in CA should have known they only had a finite amount of time before people started breaking the shutdown in such large numbers that they wouldn’t be able to enforce the shutdown any longer. That has now happened...took about six weeks. One very wrong Democrat and establishment supporting friend cannot wrap her head around this. No acknowledgement whatsoever that it was foreseeable this would happen. Only continued insistence that people need to follow orders and they’re gonna make corona worse. It’s blind stupidity. The person isn’t actually dumb. She was born with more capacity for intelligence than I am. But she doesn’t understand human nature in any way shape or form.

The other is the continued insistence that the corona crisis was caused by President Trump. It’s a line parroted by leftist propaganda media in many opinion pieces. It’s not true and easily disproveable, mostly because Dr Fauci made multiple public statements in January and February that the US had nothing to be concerned about.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/saraaca...ed-states/amp/


“This is not a major threat to the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States should be worried about right now,” Dr. Fauci told Newsmax’s Greg Kelly on January 21.

Dr. Fauci has backtracked on his original message. He now says the U.S. has yet to receive the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak. He has even encouraged a national shutdown after telling NBC in late February that Americans should go about their normal lifestyles.

Dr. Fauci has been the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, serving under every U.S. President since Ronald Reagan.


I have yet to find one person who believes in this fairy tale of Trumps inaction leading to disaster in the US willing to admit they are wrong.
3   marcus   @   2020 May 3, 7:52pm  

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The fact that liberals aren't constantly telling you the right can't meme, tells you you everything you need to know about which side is the most arrogant and the most dishonest with themselves.I might think your memes are stupid, and reflect poorly on you, but I'm not going to incessantly tell you that you don't know how to do it.

Because it was never for an instant questioned that you were communicating with like minded morons. I always felt that pretty much went without saying.
4   Karloff   @   2020 May 3, 8:08pm  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
The person isn’t actually dumb. She was born with more capacity for intelligence than I am. But she doesn’t understand human nature in any way shape or form.


The NPC character sheet has distinctly separate Intelligence and Wisdom scores to fill in. While the NPC may have high intelligence, a defining characteristic is low wisdom. They also suffer a -6 penalty to saving throw vs propaganda.
5   MisdemeanorRebel   @   2020 May 3, 8:11pm  

jazz_music says
And the memes are mostly silly lies that ironically makes y’all feel good. Many attacks are nothing at all except silliness. Ok so feel good, life is good. Funny lies are great because you have a whole group high fiving the opponent as deserving unfair attack. Boom.
NoCoupForYou says
Humorless Prigs have a hard time being funny, and virtue signaling requires a long drawn out explanation of who is oppressed and who isn't that precludes humor

jazz_music says
Punishment simply schoolyard style punishment for being the “other.”

Also, everybody gets shit in school. Maybe some got more than others. Humbug over it ain't grounds to hate normies or the basis for political ideology. Forgiveness is some powerful shit, think about it.

Now this is humorous:

Karloff says
The NPC character sheet has distinctly separate Intelligence and Wisdom scores to fill in. While the NPC may have high intelligence, a defining characteristic is low wisdom. They also suffer a -6 penalty to saving throw vs propaganda.
6   Patrick   @   2020 May 3, 9:09pm  

The "carefully constructed denial of reality" seems correct.

The false basis for the Iraq war is a good example. It was a lie, and most people suspected it was a lie, but they wanted to attack someone and the actual murders being Saudis made that difficult. So a carefully constructed denial of reality was used to make secular Iraq take punishment which should have rightly been imposed on The Islamic Dictatorship of Saudi Arabia. And it was difficult for the political right to meme about this, lest the lie be exposed.

Now it is the media, academia, and the Democratic Party which have been carefully constructing various denials of reality, and viciously attacking anyone who dares to point out the truth. The political left can't meme because they have to consult their victimization handbooks and look over their shoulders to make sure the PC police are OK with their memes. And those PC police just have no sense of humor at all.

The right, on the other hand, now has carte blanche to come up with whatever pithy and biting meme they like without worrying about the PC police at all, or about contradicting a web of lies.

So memes from the right these days are like guerrilla warfare, hit and run without worrying about centralized authority, or keeping straight lines while attacking, etc. Meme creators on the right can just go for it! That's a ton of fun, and very effective psychologically.

The reason the conservative memes work is because everyone knows they are true at some level. Examples:







7   Onvacation   @   2020 May 4, 1:17pm  

marcus says
never for an instant questioned that you were communicating with like minded morons.

Just because!
8   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   @   2020 May 4, 2:04pm  

marcus says
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The fact that liberals aren't constantly telling you the right can't meme, tells you you everything you need to know about which side is the most arrogant and the most dishonest with themselves.I might think your memes are stupid, and reflect poorly on you, but I'm not going to incessantly tell you that you don't know how to do it.

Because it was never for an instant questioned that you were communicating with like minded morons. I always felt that pretty much went without saying.


Did President Trump incorrectly delay action on the corona virus?

If yes, when should he have gone against dr Fauci’s advice and what action should he have taken.
9   Onvacation   @   2020 May 4, 2:29pm  

Not expecting cogent answers.
10   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   @   2020 May 4, 2:35pm  

Onvacation says
Not expecting cogent answers.


I’m expecting links to opinion pieces. That’s the standard.
11   richwicks   @   2020 May 4, 2:56pm  

jazz_music says
It's not at all cute, the right wing is a huge embarrassment to itself continually too, especially their asinine leader.


It's people like you whining that we don't have yet another Neocon as president that starts a new war once the CIA is done with a false flag operation.

1 attack on a Saudi Arabian oil facility blamed on Iran, 2 limpet mine attacks blamed on Iran. Here, you want a laugh? See the comments section of this "proof" that Iran attacked oil tankers with limpet mines:

www.WFcjzKAcC-c

Read the comments. You are the one that still believes this BS and want to go to yet another war.

Our previous 4 "presidential" meat puppets would have gone to war by now. Clinton would have, so would Mitt Romney, John McCain, John Kerry, Al Gore, and Bob Dole. They aren't real presidents and they weren't running for that position - they were running for the position of pretend marionette. It was the "republican base" that first realized that our przdidents are all meat puppets, and took a shot at an unknown, who has so far, kept us out of war and openly points out our intelligence agencies are liars because they obviously are.

I would have never guessed it in 2004, but it turns out the Republican base was the first to wake up to the utter corruption of the government, the intelligence agencies, the leadership of both parties, and the propaganda that laughably calls itself "a free press". They realize this - you don't apparently. You will in time, but it might take some additional time. People like you should have woken up first - find that weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq yet, that many "liberals" PROPERLY protested over?
12   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   @   2020 May 4, 3:10pm  

jazz_music says


It won’t even embarrass them


that explains left a lot of the left:

why wearing rainbows as an adult is not embarrassing to them.
why left pretends that looking for hand outs is not embarrassing, but somehow work is embarrassing.
why men on the left dress like women without understanding why they should be embarrassed.
why left thinks its not embarrassing to ask for others to pay for them.
why being a whiny baby is not embarrassing.
why men fucking men is not embarrassed.
why they think identity politics don't make them look dumb.
why being a worthless pedophile is just a gender identity and is not emberassing.

this list can go really far, honestly all the loser behavior on the left up there to list.
13   Onvacation   @   2020 May 4, 3:47pm  

richwicks says
I would have never guessed it in 2004, but it turns out the Republican base was the first to wake up to the utter corruption of the government, the intelligence agencies, the leadership of both parties, and the propaganda that laughably calls itself "a free press".

That begs the question, is Trump for real? Or just the reality show actor with a history of womanizing hired to lose to Hillary?
14   richwicks   @   2020 May 4, 4:11pm  

Onvacation says
richwicks says
I would have never guessed it in 2004, but it turns out the Republican base was the first to wake up to the utter corruption of the government, the intelligence agencies, the leadership of both parties, and the propaganda that laughably calls itself "a free press".

That begs the question, is Trump for real? Or just the reality show actor with a history of womanizing hired to lose to Hillary?


If Trump isn't for real, well, at least he's no worse than Hillary Clinton and hasn't begun a new war.

Some jerkoff carnival barker didn't make it to the Oval Office without some support though. I just don't know if the support was from the same people that selected that disgusting murderous pig Hillary Clinton.

www.6DXDU48RHLU

Time will tell. I have hope he works for a different team, but I'm far from certain that he does. He may be just ushering in a new fascism. It's better than communism though, at least the trains run on time.
15   Shaman   @   2020 May 4, 4:17pm  

personal
16   Patrick   @   2020 May 4, 6:26pm  

jazz_music says
Patrick says
The right, on the other hand, now has carte blanche to come up with whatever pithy and biting meme they like without worrying about the PC police at all, or about contradicting a web of lies.
No

The glaring difference is the left wing memes are not lies and fantasies for the sake of dry humor.

Look at them!

Self-congratulatory fantasies for being such a sucker for billions of dollars yearly for right-wing media designed to make you feel proud to neutralize yourself as an effective member of an electorate. Laugh that off!!!

It's not at all cute, the right wing is a huge embarrassment to itself continually too, especially their asinine leader.


Esteemed patrick.net user jazz, left wing memes are for the most part just sadly parroted talking points written up by our owners. No creativity, no willingness to push boundaries and make people a bit uncomfortable.

Most of the media is utterly owned by the political left, not the right. Fox News barely counts as journalism, sadly.
17   marcus   @   2020 May 4, 6:41pm  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
Did President Trump incorrectly delay action on the corona virus?



I was responding to a post and hread about how the left can't meme. Not sure what conversation you're in.
18   marcus   @   2020 May 4, 6:43pm  

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Patrick says
No creativity, no willingness to push boundaries and make people a bit uncomfortable.


Jazz is right the truth should make you uncomfortable, and the idea that Trump doesn't represent the oligarchs is indeed the most bizarre aspect of your supposed view.


19   marcus   @   2020 May 4, 6:44pm  

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21   marcus   @   2020 May 4, 6:44pm  

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22   marcus   @   2020 May 4, 6:45pm  

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23   Shaman   @   2020 May 4, 6:52pm  

marcus says
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You don’t even know why that is stupid.
“We” is a collectivist term. It implies conformity and shared destiny in whatever the group decides.
“Me” implies self-determination and individualism. If the “we”s are trying to subjugate the “me”s then we have a problem.
And they are and we do.
24   Shaman   @   2020 May 4, 6:53pm  

marcus says
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This is just Leftards putting their sick fantasies in a comic that makes a jab at Trump trying to make peace with the dictator of NKo.
I guess they’d rather have war.
25   Shaman   @   2020 May 4, 6:55pm  

marcus says
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And this is just wrong on every level. No, the government doesn’t like the KKK. And no, neither does Trump. And no, the MAGA movement has nothing to do with Hate. If we hate something it is how poorly the Democrats and the Clerisy have run the country.
26   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   @   2020 May 4, 6:58pm  

marcus says
FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
Did President Trump incorrectly delay action on the corona virus?



I was responding to a post and hread about how the left can't meme. Not sure what conversation you're in.


Lol.
27   Onvacation   @   2020 May 4, 7:06pm  

marcus says
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Where are the flags? If this "meme" were accurate one side would proudly be flying the US flag while the other side would have Palestinian, Mexican, and a couple hammer and sickle flags flying.
29   richwicks   @   2020 May 4, 7:42pm  

Patrick says

Esteemed patrick.net user jazz, left wing memes are for the most part just sadly parroted talking points written up by our owners. No creativity, no willingness to push boundaries and make people a bit uncomfortable.


The left, could CERTAINLY meme. You just don't remember it.











It's not left or right, it's whose lying and who isn't. I am fully aware that Obama was lying. So was Bush. This isn't a left and right issue. Obama was a clone of Bush with a great tan after a diction class. He wasn't at all different.

The people who unreasonably hate Trump and are complaining that Clinton, that warmonger, isn't president - they are wrong. Those people can't meme, because they are lying. That's the only reason they can't.

The only reason you laugh at the memes of the current right is because you have a dark sense of humor. It's absolutely monstrous what the left is currently doing. They tried to do a coup - but it is not the left, it's the establishment. If Jeb Bush was prezdident, there would have been no coup attempt, because Jeb Bush is completely controlled. He was a puppet. Just as Mitt Romney was, just like everybody else that was running on the Republican ticket in 2016.

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