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Steve the Builder's avatar

IDK, throwing in the mustache man there is a bit dodgy. I completely understand the impetus and have to fight my own sympathetic feelings towards those things, but in the cold light of reality, outside the hokey jokey ironic stuff.... that is some really dangerous, powerful poison that could cause a lot of brutality toward people who won't deserve any of it. Families and kids and shit, you have to keep that in mind. The jokes are meant to make you lose sight of that so you let it in but that's the end point of that meme, you know that, everyone knows that, don't lie to yourself about what it is.

You can do the motte and bailey of 'it's just memes bro', but everything is just memes and that one is really starting to catch on.

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Tree of Woe's avatar

Excellent article, especially your insight on the utility and necessity of memes.

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