Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

Yeh that’s a year old and also fake.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/98nulz/denver_antifa_aka_the_left_youth_of_finland_fake/

"A small lesson about the internet. A couple of years ago the Left Youth group of Eastern Finland decided to get a picture together. The group has summer camps and study groups, organizes gigs, etc..

But currently this picture is spreading on the internet as a ”Denver Antifa” update in order to make the movement look silly. In other words it's from troll account, that managed to find the picture from the abyss of the internet. Just incomprehensible and in a way amusing, but people get fooled by this stuff."

this picture is spreading on the internet as a ”Denver Antifa” update in order to make the movement look silly

Like it needs any help with that

bOtH SidEs!

fuck off.

fuck off

And people complain that political discourse has coarsened in recent times.

Again. Fuck right off.

Nobody is under any obligation to engage in polite discourse with anyone that suggests anti fascism is some sort of fucking option.

Have a chat with yourself.

Again. Who the fuck are you, yeah?

Prick fight!

Nobody is under any obligation to engage in polite discourse with anyone that suggests anti fascism is some sort of fucking option

Thanks for letting me know how you feel, but if I ever meet anybody who thinks there's no need to oppose fascism I'll probably still try to talk them around to the idea that it's worth doing.

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less posturing, more memes

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I would love to have been on your cruise ship to witness it if you'd encountered a fellow passenger that was a fascist.

It would be the genesis of one of those classic weird stories in the Metro about mass riots in holiday transportation except instead of drunken argument over fancy dress wearing an aging fixed gear enthusiast took exception to the political mores of another cruiser so went Popeye and plopped them overboard.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you but are you suggesting that people who don't think that fascism needs opposing (normally fascists) just need a good stern talking to?
I'm very much of the opinion that people like that need a decent slapping.
I can't think of too many historical examples of a chat being an effective countermeasure to fascist beliefs.

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If anything history in Germany, Italy, Spain shows that the extreme right is a minority, the extreme left is a minority, and that both commit atrocities and violence in the name of defeating the other whilst staging and falsifying propaganda to win support for their respective causes from the ever docile and centrists. Most Nazis were not ideologues. Most 'Fascists' were not ideologues. They were opportunists, allowed themselves to be led by popular opinion, or just scared of voicing opposition.

It seems evident to me that the right wing is always better funded and more prepared to plumb the depths of human behaviour and less contained by moral limits simply because of the type of people it attracts who see like Trump, Mogg or Hunt, an opportunity for personal gain.

So what I'm saying is that the left really needs to up it's Dank Meme game or we're all fucked.

I'm very much of the opinion that people like that need a decent slapping. I can't think of too many historical examples of a chat being an effective countermeasure to fascist beliefs.

I'm very much of the opinion that resorting to violence is counterproductive if you're trying to convert opponents to your political viewpoint.
I can't think of too many historical examples of assault being an effective countermeasure to fascist beliefs.

It seems evident to me that the right wing is... more prepared to plumb the depths of human behaviour and less contained by moral limits

It seems evident to me that you're allowing your personal political sympathies to blind you to the historical facts of Communist genocides.

I can't think of too many historical examples of assault being an effective countermeasure to fascist beliefs.

read that back to yourself. out loud if necessary.

also: facism / white supremacy isn't a "political viewpoint", it's a threat aimed at people guilty of the crime of not being white.

This docile centrist needs moar memes

You're probably right but I was thinking more of the actions of seizing power rather than what comes after

Communists took power in Russia having had the state send millions to be butchered against Germany and still denied the workers basic rights. The centrists/middle classes also found it harder to defend the actions of the Tsar and worried that they'd be on the losing side, tipping the balance out of expedience or self preservation.

What happened when they were in power later of course, was despicable.

It seems evident to me that you guys don't realize that the debate thread is over there

Anyway, as a topical interlude, a selection of memes from Socialist Meme Caucus.

They're quite poor.

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They're quite poor.

Just more evidence of systemic inequality

Maybe I'm just a closet fascist, or worse, a reactionary.

Sort-of political discourse that is cracking you up at the moment