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

What's the meme there?

I don't get this one at all.

Is it about his hair transplant, jawline fix and other bits of gender affirming care that he's undergone?

My shit edit. Was more about how even tho the Olympics is on Elon is managing to get the headlines...

#memefail

Must be the algorithm. Because for past week or so I have seen many olympic related coverage/headlines, but maybe one or two (including this here) mentions of Elon

These are the nice things which we cannot have https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/09/excess-memes-photos-and-reply-all-emails-are-bad-for-climate-finds-study

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The only way we can have nice things is if we stop expecting this neofeudal dumpster fire to provide them for us, and accept responsibility for building a civilisation that actually makes sense, in time to save some of the furniture from the looming consequences of not doing so until now

in time to save some of the furniture from the looming consequences

Is this about couch fucker Vance?

Are we okay with alternative facts, as long as they're working for us?

Serious question, not sure myself

Are we okay with alternative facts, as long as they're working for us?

We're OK with "alternative facts" as long as we know them for what they are, and they tell a truth about the character of an actor if not the literal truth of an action.

So the ones literally drinking the blood of infants are the Republicans!

Got it, cool.

and they tell a truth about the character of an actor if not the literal truth of an action.

What does that mean? What does the "alternative fact" of JD Vance fucking a sofa tell us about his character, given that it is literally not true?

It works for Trump so obviously... um...

It's OK when the good people do it? Er...

They they're believably the kind of person who would do such as thing.

What does the "alternative fact" of JD Vance fucking a sofa tell us about his character, given that it is literally not true?

We only know that it's literally not true that he described such an event in "Hillbilly Elegy". The fact that we don't immediately conclude that it definitely didn't happen reminds us that he's the kind of odious frat bro who would probably do that and talk about about it to his bros.

Not sure if the right place and copied (but not linked) from The Twitter

“No point in people kicking off about Breakdancing being in the Olympics

It’s like that

And that’s the way it is”

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lol

But it ends up being circular. Most of us knew nothing about him before that anecdote so the reason that we think "he's the kind of odious frat bro who would probably do that and talk about about it to his bros" is the existence of the anecdote itself.

it ends up being circular

It's not circular, just replace "reminds us" in my post with "informs us" if you weren't paying attention before. If you saw the "alternative fact" from an initial position of innocence, you might try to find out why it had such traction, and you'd discover the disgusting truth about what kind of person Vance is.

And also, what's the point of trying to be factual anymore? That horse has bolted; who wants to keep playing fair when that amounts to fighting with one hand tied behind your back?

Go high, into political irrelevancy. Go low, and maybe later you can pass a few laws to stem the tide of bullshit...?

I've never understood why there's this huge appetite for misinformation. There's universal access to the facts. That was a promise of the internet which has been fulfilled. So why do people like nonsense so much? Is it a failure of education? In the US I think that's part of it. Public school standards are low. Many people think that acquiring knowledge is a poor use of their time unless it's something that pays, like technical knowledge for their job. I think the UK is similar. If the arts and humanities are seen as a waste of time, current affairs also get ignored.