You could redo the meme with that in mind. The fruit is nuclear, the cocaine 'green new deal', and elmo is Climate Campaigners.
United States The Left Can't Meme
- Thread starter Bear Ribs
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Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Probably, though somehow, I doubt the original meme-maker would appreciate it if you replied to them with your redone version.
Kinda’ makes me wish someone would do exactly that, to be honest!
Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Today's theme is Wall o' Text again.
Well, in fairness, that last one does have a point. After all, no one likes the buzzkill who gives deconstructionist sermons about how an exciting time is just a roundabout “Source of false hope!” or some crap.
bintananth
behind a desk
The first one is why you never trust someone who calls themselves a "libertarian-socialist" or insists that they're always smarter than you are.Well, in fairness, that last one does have a point. After all, no one likes the buzzkill who gives deconstructionist sermons about how an exciting time is just a roundabout “Source of false hope!” or some crap.
Bear Ribs
Well-known member
I feel like all three actually make legit points, they're just really crappy memes because they're walls of text that wokescold, and the actually potentially useful message is buried in the process.Well, in fairness, that last one does have a point. After all, no one likes the buzzkill who gives deconstructionist sermons about how an exciting time is just a roundabout “Source of false hope!” or some crap.
Bigking321
Well-known member
Huh...
That second one kinda hits home about now.
That second one kinda hits home about now.
bintananth
behind a desk
Noam Chonsky would be absolutely clueless if he were try and decipher Cray-1 machine code and he calls himself a language expert.
I'd probably need a few weeks to turn it into something even remotely resembling English and I have access to a Cray-1 hardware manual and the source code of a failed attempt.
Cherenkov
Member
Understanding a particular machine instruction set makes you an expert (or at least knowledgeable) on the architecture of that particular machine. It doesn't make you any more or less knowledgeable about human language, which for one isn't even an "instruction set" for the human brain.
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Bear Ribs
Well-known member
It's a mistake to take @bintananth's weird non-sequiturs too seriously.
As a threadtax, Today we'll look at "We just made our facts up" as a theme.
The number of communist events and natural disasters in this list are staggering... I think they actually make up the bulk of the list.
Did you know the Jan. 6 Riot successfully overthrew the US government?
The DPRK did nothing anybody could reasonably dislike them for.
Is that supposed to be an insult or compliment? I mean, the leftoids do love Stalin for his role as a communist dictator.
Well… at least they’re comparing Trump to someone other than Hitler for once.
bintananth
behind a desk
In terms of mass murder Stalin was actually worse than Hitler.
the only one who matches mao is gengis Khan.
bintananth
behind a desk
The mongols actually followed the laws and customs of war - as they understood them - and generally didn't go "we're killing everyone" unless someone went past the bounds of what was considered acceptable.
This is not entirely true.
The Mongols followed the laws and customs of war as they believed them to be. However, these laws and customs were not universal. A major one that came up multiple times was how many more settled peoples had no compuncture about killing a messanger who bore demands and sending their head back to the person who made the demands as a formal "no, fuck you". This was no special thing to many settled peoples; however, for Mongols messangers were offered near sacred status and killing a messanger was a massive taboo that demanded disproportionate response. As such, when such things happened the Mongols tended to eradicate entire cities involved... or stage multiple massive sea invasions that they really could not afford.
(Aside, this discrepancy in the value of messangers makes sense when you consider the difference between a nomadic culture and a settled one. In a settled culture a messanger is a dime a dozen, just about everyone knows where important places are and those important places don't move... meanwhile for nomadic peoples a messanger who can quickly and reliably deliver messages between tribes on the steppe even as that migrate is someone who's not just a swift rider, but also a good tracker and has to know massive amounts of territory to swiftly travel over it, thus it is a highly skilled and difficult job deserving special respect... as opposed to a job any shmuck can do like in a settled society.)
killing diplomats in genneral is still a massively douche move.
bintananth
behind a desk
And the mongols had "you do not kill the messenger" as one of their rules.
bintananth
behind a desk
IIRC, that was caliph Al-Musta'sim in 1258. What the Mongols did to Baghdad was not pretty. When the Mongols captured him they made him watch the destruction before they stuffed him in a sack and trampled him with horses.