To the butthurt downvotes: yep, you misunderstood the meme. Maybe it’s my fault, maybe it’s group thinking… I don’t know… it’s literally meant to make fun of actual people who support genocide… what kind of person would use this meme format unironically?
Edit: this thread has been the most reddit-y I’ve seen on lemmy… thank you for robbing me of some hope
Could you explain to me the problem here?
Edit: judging from the downvotes, no, lol Well thanks, may I never know the errors of my ways then
You made a post essentially advocating for genocide. Not generally the kind of opinion that gets a lot of support around here. Maybe that wasn’t your intention, but that is how it comes off.
Except the meme meant the opposite…
Edit:
Just to clarify, you misunderstood how the “We are not the same” meme is used. Here is one example from know your meme:
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2522986-we-are-not-the-same
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2520395-we-are-not-the-same
Some of them are actually about the poster but geez I didn’t expect anyone would think that people who support a genocide would just say it out loud…
Like this one could be an OP’s:
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2662511-we-are-not-the-same
Like for example, do you think this one one promotes porn addiction? https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2505276-we-are-not-the-same
I understand the meme just fine and I’m not judging, but you did ask why all the down votes.
Also, when talking about a controversial subject, the meme behind it can get easily forgotten in the reaction. You might get more mileage with a slightly less confrontational format.
If you understood the meme just fine, would you have accused me of “making a post openly advocating for supporting genocide”? I don’t think so. I think you started understanding it just now.
Excuse my scepticism, but it’s hard to believe you on that.
Fair point about that last bit… Unlucky for me, I actually knew how this meme was used and didn’t think people would misunderstand on a Meme page.
But yeah my bad, next time I’ll spell it all out until the haha is squeezed right out of the joke 👍
I wasn’t so much accusing you as pointing out how it looks, sorry, probably should have made that more clear the first time.
I see. Sorry on my end as well. I think it’s thick-headed of me to assume everyone else is at fault for misunderstanding it, when instead it may have just come off like that.
Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me.
careful with that edge little bud
Wish it were egdy 🤷♀️
In theory, you can gather a following of people with like-minded opinions on genocide and form a group that can then fulfill their own goals.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
You think the meme refers to me personally? Is this like r/me_irl or is this Political Memes?
Did I reply to your post or to your comment? This has nothing to do with the sub, you know what you’re doing
Oh, enlighten me, what am I doing?
PS: you replied to my comment to a comment to the post, still on the same topic.
You should’ve titled it something like
Netanyahu rn:
Cool, I will do that then. I didn’t think people would think I’m Gus Fring… So excuse my apparent lack of sensibility 😅🤷♂️
hell yeah, didn’t know you could change post titles. nice.
Ceasefire now.
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