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Why do the political right use more memes than anyone else?

IMO, the more right wing you are, the more likely you are to communicate your political ideas in memes. I'm a socialist and I rarely communicate in less than five paragraphs.😜

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MethDozer · M

Any politics adside it comes down the truth the left can't meme and doesn't get it really.It isn't that right really memes more. It's that meme and internet culture of triggering and reveling in absurdity. That said the left is easier to trigger and not see a joke as a joke as a joke. So they tend to gravitate towards on side on the surface for that effect. Then it sometimes gets sewriously co-opted from a small group on the right. We see it all the time with numerous examples. The current one being the NPC meme which many on the left who don't get memes thinking it is some right wing thing when it isn't really at all.

The tech community and popular internet giants lean left, so if th point is to trigger and get some LULZ out of people taking something seriously the memes follow the opposite path. The left as a general rule doesn't have the skin or the self humor to meme.

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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@MethDozer You take that nonsense way too seriously - and the NPC meme is already long played out.

There is a simpler answer - the modern edgelord leans right 🤷‍♂️

Then on this site we have boomers meming all over the place which is just sad. We’re a step away from being flooded with minions.

St0ut · 51-55, M

@MethDozer

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@St0ut Figures, you had to go and post a bunch of minions 🙄

St0ut · 51-55, M

@MethDozer

St0ut · 51-55, M

@MethDozer

[b]when impede Justice by slandering the investigator in public then you get accused of impeding justice [/b]

MethDozer · M

@QuixoticSoul Never takes long for a perfect example to show it's head. All memes get played out in short time once the average people start to use them. That's what makes them meme, the fact they fall out into the general populace and become a thing. They become " dank memes" AKA played out.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@MethDozer Yup, memery is best left to the teens.

MethDozer · M

@St0ut Classic examples of the inability to meme. These are ineffectual and don't have anything to become a trend. These are just captions, there is no meme here.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@MethDozer To be fair, retarded captions on "funny" pics [b]is[/b] what Brunsley is talking about. That's 99% of right wing memes too. 100% if we're talking about SW.

MethDozer · M

@QuixoticSoul That may be, but your response proves my point.
I say the left can't meme and you get triggered into taking as an attack.
They start off and are intended as jokes 98% of the time and normies for it as something serious.

MethDozer · M

@QuixoticSoul Yet not all captioned images are memes. It only becomes a meme when they are repeated by people who don't really know why or where they came from.

What Stout posted aren't popular or repeated memes. The left can't can't meme. It's not a good or bad thing, it just is.

St0ut · 51-55, M

@MethDozer Lol. Trigged much

St0ut · 51-55, M

@MethDozer why meme when trump is the joke

MethDozer · M

@St0ut Ummmm,, no. Do we not know what triggered means?

MethDozer · M

@St0ut Fair..... Yet Trump is not the be all and all either.

St0ut · 51-55, M

@MethDozer I am not left either

MethDozer · M

@St0ut I know your not. I'm way farther left than you are I would assume by reading your posts.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@MethDozer I repeat - you're taking that nonsense way too seriously. You don't need a theory of memes lmao. That shit's just for retards - left or right.

MethDozer · M

@QuixoticSoul Well devotion and strong interest in politics period is retarded.

Whether it is for retards or not wasn't the question. I'm not taking that seriously at all. Just pointing out why one group of retards is more effective at spreading them than the other. It's not me who takes them too seriously, it's the normies that take them too seriously. Even you now are taking them seriously, which is taking the bait.

St0ut · 51-55, M

@MethDozer ok. Don’t bitch when policyis laws and othe civic issues don’t go your way

MethDozer · M

@St0ut I will make a meme about it!🙃

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@MethDozer Nah, interest in politics is normal. When only the retards are interested in politics, you get issues - and we might be heading there, but we haven’t arrived yet.

The reason why one group of retards is more effective at spreading memes is found in the premise of the original question - there are simply more of them.

How am I taking them seriously?

MethDozer · M

@QuixoticSoul It's all retarded nonsense. You said it yourself.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@QuixoticSoul Maybe half the reason I'm on here is to argue with idiots. It's funny and easy. I think it is semi serious though. If one side is unopposed on any forum, their ideas permeate. The Trump supporters on here lean towards the far right, whether they realise this or not.

FYI we usually heart each other's posts but I think there are big political differences between us. The SW dividing line is crazy ultra-right troll vrs sane people. Lol

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 Basically. Hell, in left-leaning spaces I am sometimes perceived as a right wing troll 😂

SW is definitely a bizarre collection of folks hahaha.

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