Got sick of bigots, and pedants, and trying to figure out if something is “meme enough” to count, and of feeling like I’m spamming other spaces, and very quickly of the lemmy UI too (still love you blahaj.zone!) so am opening my own space where I can make my own rules and post my collection in peace. ❗BE WARNED: SOME OF THE IMAGES YOU SEE HERE MAY NOT TECHNICALLY BE MEMES❗ Now that we got that out of the way, let the infodump commence! Expect a mix of slightly outdated: mostly leftist (but never tankie) content, many cats, and some general old memes I’ve collected over the years. There are many, so will try to mix it up! Update: looks like 🐝Beehaw🐝 have banned this magazine. If you want real leftism rather than "nice" (more like "unchallenging to the status quo and the comfort of libs") leftism, I guess you'll have to follow from elsewhere!
tweet by Calum @MrMakeFun:
Right: Let's do genocide
Left: Let's not do genocide
Center: Guys, you're gonna have to compromise, let's just do /some/ genocide
Right: I guess I can live with that for now
Left: No
Center: See, this is why no one likes the left, you guys are the real extremists, smh
The system isn't broken, it's working as intended (including it bein a theatre).
And I don't blame those at the bottom for believing what they've been socialised to, but I also refuse to coddle them in to thinking it's ok, not in the age of information when they can do better.
Also don't call people dumb, that's ableist.
Broken to me, and many, I should have specified. I agree on the coddling, which is why I call bullshit when I can. Sometimes you have to pick your battles as some people just want to be angry, in which case im just not dealing with you on a personal level at all ftmp. Sorry about my choice of words, my bad. It was low hanging fruit for something far more nuanced than "dumb".
I get where you're coming from but think it's still important to point out that you (and me and all working class people) experiencing only a "broken" system is also in itself a feature not a bug. Keeping us struggling and downtrodden means we'll work that much harder too reach the (impossible) dream they motivate us with, or to avoid even worse struggles like homelessness that they always keen on display.
It isn't something you are doing wrong, nor is it something you can avoid through any action or inaction. It's just how the system is, and the only way to change it is to abolish the system.
And to get the numbers we need to do that, we need to wake more people up, even if it makes them uncomfortable. The alternative being much much more uncomfortable, they just don't see themselves as the targets yet.
here are some alternative words to consider in the future, there are several lists like this out there to check out!
I'm with you 💯 your words ring true in my mind. I will look at this list right now.