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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the Revolution hasn’t happened

conclusion first, then cherry picked the points in history that supported his conclusion

you hear those self-aware wolves howling?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam

Wer're Sorry Try Again

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There hasn't been any anti-capitalist revolutions in the last 150 year.

Maybe read a history book?

I seems to recall the US losing a war to communists in the 1970s for instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oh ya I forgot about this one, total classic political cartoon meme too

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

truly amazing meme

thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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an electric guitar made for dwarves

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a metaphor. Hopefully this helps clarify things.

The version from David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” commencement speech at Kenyon College:

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?”

And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?“

The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6p9L3LK_9g

more info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology

ideologies may function as prepackaged units of interpretation that spread because of basic human motives to understand the world, avoid existential threat, and maintain valued interpersonal relationships. ... such motives may lead disproportionately to the adoption of system-justifying worldviews. Psychologists generally agree that personality traits, individual difference variables, needs, and ideological beliefs seem to have something in common.

so in this sense memes are like little atoms of ideology aka "prepackaged units of interpretation that spread because of basic human motives to understand the world"

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