abbotsbury

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[–] abbotsbury 8 points 1 day ago

As long as it's not disparaging a group of people, I'm okay with a person being displayed as a funny monkey.

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[–] abbotsbury 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know I'm talking about functional illiteracy, that's why I said "Most likely functionally illiterate" in my comment.

The person who replied to me brought up media literacy/illiteracy, which is a separate concept, and mistakenly referred to it as illiteracy, which I corrected.

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[–] abbotsbury 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

No, most people are not illiterate, you're confusing literacy with media literacy because that's what you want to talk about instead.

There is a difference between "I don't know what that sign says" and "I don't know what this book means."

[–] abbotsbury 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

asking why be upset with them when there’s other people to be upset about is just whataboutism

I don't think so, many people didn't vote, and leftists are an extreme minority in this country, so it's certainly a choice to focus on them and not all non-voters.

Like yes, all those others are also bad. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna cut them any slack.

Who's saying anything about cutting slack? Yes all non-voters are to blame, but the meme is about Pro-Palestinians causing the apocalypse, not non-voters.

It's not whataboutism to ask why one focuses intensely on a small minority, when you admit that the problem is beyond that minority.

[–] abbotsbury 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why do you focus on leftists often?

[–] abbotsbury 40 points 3 days ago (16 children)

Most likely functionally illiterate and not 100% "I can't read," but I've overestimated instagrammers before

[–] abbotsbury 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

memes are supposed to be memish, and for the most part that means silly

Untrue, memes are just a pattern of information, they can be comedic, silly, satirical, anything. Silly is not a base component.

Are you incapable of this level of discourse?

Are you? I said the idea was silly, and you said that was doing its job because its a meme.

I never said " it’s just a meme " or any of those other things you’re trying to cram in my mouth.

"Right, so memes blaming them for the apocalypse is extra silly"

You replied with:

Memes are supposed to be. So, mission accomplished?

Before you can question the attributes of someone’s intellect, you might want to actually have some for comparison.

The absolute irony of this statement. Firstly, I was questioning your intellectual *cowardice* by being too much of a pussy to stand by your statements and instead say its okay to have silly opinions because the opinions were delivered by memes.

So maybe work on your reading comprehension before you want to attack someone's intellect.

[–] abbotsbury 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

it absolutely means something

So then why the deflection with "memes are supposed to be silly?" Obviously I'm referring to the meaning of the meme, passing it off as "just a meme" is intellectual cowardice.

[–] abbotsbury 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

So why use them as an example of the flawed logic that all non voters have?

[–] abbotsbury 2 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Hating statistically irrelevant leftists is counter productive.

[–] abbotsbury 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

"it's just a meme bro it doesn't mean anything"

okay, at least you agree it is silly behavior

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Like what are the practical steps to take? Stuff like universal healthcare isn't even a controversial policy. How do we form a voting bloc around that?

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