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 Expect a mix of slightly outdated: mostly leftist (but never tankie) content, many cats, and some general old memes I’ve collected over the years.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!
photo of an adult talking to a child
top text: "Dad, why do I have to go to school?"
bottom text: "SO YOU CAN BE MOLDED INTO A STATE APPROVED HOMOGENOUS DRONE THAT CANNOT THINK OUTSIDE OF THE PRESCRIBED CONSENSUS. YOU WILL LEARN TO REPEAT INFORMATION INSTEAD OF HOW TO THINK FOR YOURSELF SO THAT YOU DON'T BECOME A THREAT TO THE STATUS QUO. WHEN YOU GRADUATE YOU WILL GET A JOB, PAY YOUR TAXES, IN ORDER TO PERPETUATE THE CORPORATE SYSTEM OF INDENTURED SERVITUDE FOR YOUR POLITICAL OVERLORDS"
If corporations truly had that much power, we wouldn't even have schools. The children would be in the mines or meat packing plants (which is starting to make a comeback).
This meme is bullshit anti-academic propaganda. There's a reason right-wing politicians love to defend and attack schools. They wanted schools segregated. They want vouchers for private schools. There's been a rise lately in conservative parents turning to home schooling to avoid evolution, sex ed, or the many boogymen alt-right politicians have made up.
You mean like it used to be before workers put up a fight for each and every right you have today, which corporations (and their governments) actively fight against to this day?
Yeah, it's this meme that's the propagamda and not the history you were taught that included none of that producing the confidently incorrect and wilfully ignorant kind of thinking you've displayed here roday. Sure..
Schools are part of what those workers fought for and corporations fought against.
Have corporations worked to poison the curriculum in places? Sure. But to act like schools exists purely to push corporate interests is anti-academic bullshit. There's incredible value in exposing children to each other and to new ideas. A lot of the states in the US still teach about evolution, slavery, and sex ed: there's just a handful of y'all'queda states that get headlines for being exceptionally dumb.
Dad? Why did you just yell that whole spiel at me?
Ha, I really should have put the image description through a case converter shouldn't I 😂
Can't edit it now either 😬
Look, as a teacher, I'm actually really trying to get kids to think for themselves. I'm supposed to teach them critical thinking. But it's really hard to learn how to do that if you never have before, and kids just want to play on their phones in class.