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Coconut tree (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by nieminen to c/politicalmemes

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[–] FuglyDuck 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

If...I understand... and I'm not sure i do... it's a reference to a retort Harris had a while back. (maybe this speech)

My mother used to — she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, “I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” (Laughs.)

You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.

part of a swearing in ceremony for something. in any case, IIRC her father is Jamaican, so there's some of that too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you

Relatively speaking to the American quality of discourse, that's almost a Marxist dialectical analysis.

[–] pyre 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i don't know why people meme on it. it's not nonsensical. it just means "you think you came out of nowhere?"... it's pretty clear that's what it means too. people acting like it's some indecipherable saying.

[–] Frozengyro 4 points 5 months ago

Yea, or you could take it literally, as in you'd be disoriented and maybe have a concussion if you just fell out of a coconut tree.

[–] ohlaph 4 points 5 months ago

Makes sense.