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The Left Can't Meme (Liberals Worry that Right-Wing Groups are Winning the Meme Wars)
Mother Jones ^
| 04/02/2019
| STEPHANIE MENCIMER MARK HELENOWSKI
Posted on 04/07/2019 5:39:07 PM PDT by Drew68
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Mother Jones hyperventilating aside, this is a decent article admitting that conservatives use memes far more effectively to get their message across (often as a workaround to social media algorithms designed to silence conservative viewpoints) than liberals do.
Liberal memes just don't go viral. Conservative memes do. This worries libs greatly.
Article was published last week and just a couple of days ago we've had even more meme warfare victories with Carpe Donktum's Joe Biden videos retweeted by President Trump (earning Donktum a New York Times writeup).
And just today: Axelrod: 2020 Democrats Are Unprepared To Wage Meme War Against Donald Trump (Brian Stelter concerned).
Keep spreading those dank memes!
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:39:07 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
Maxists have no sense of humor and only hatred.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:43:44 PM PDT
by
bray
(Pray for President Trump)
To: Drew68
Conservatives use humor.
Lib's forte is ridicule.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:44:29 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: Drew68
There is just way more material on the left. If there was a Conservative version of Saturday Night Live it would dominate times 20.
To: Drew68
Saul Alinsky said to ridicule your opponent.
Suck it, Democommies.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:45:36 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: bray
Groupthink, lack of humor, and PC keeps the dingaling lefties from being able to think of memes.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:46:11 PM PDT
by
dforest
(Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
To: Drew68
My favorite - Trump bouncing a golf ball off of Hillary’s quite sizeable back side.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:46:52 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Global warming is AWESOME!)
To: Drew68
When Saul Alinsky wrote his erstwhile tome he didn't take into account that conservatives read too.
Now we're turning his own words against him.
ROTFL!!
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:47:05 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:47:59 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
It takes an active imagination and a willingness not to follow orders to meme.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:48:08 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: bray
To: Fiddlstix
When Saul Alinsky wrote his erstwhile tome he didn't take into account that conservatives read too.President Trump might be the greatest "Alinskyite" practitioner ever!
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:49:20 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
Very True, That!!
GO TRUMP GO!
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:50:43 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Drew68
I call for a new front on the meme war. Let’s meme as the left would to make fun of there efforts.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:50:56 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(Not sure how that would work.)
To: Drew68
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:51:33 PM PDT
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: Drew68
A large handicap faced by the left wingers is their lack of a sense of humor. The hatred is so thinly veiled that it spoils their efforts at cleverness.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:52:22 PM PDT
by
hinckley buzzard
(Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
To: Drew68
One difference (out of many) between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives have a sense of humor. You see that here on Free Republic. You see it at that goofy website Zero Hedge. Heck, you see it on every conservative website.
But there is no humor at a liberal website. None, ever. Here's what passes for a witty comment there: "Trump. He looks like an orange."
Typical conservative:
Typical liberal:
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:52:42 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: All
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:52:55 PM PDT
by
ak267
To: Drew68
They make it easy, because everything insults them and everything is off limits to them for PC reasons. Out meme-ing them is like punching kittens.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:57:06 PM PDT
by
dead
(Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
To: Drew68
Their ham-fisted attempts to appear hip with millenials is also just goofy AF.
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posted on
04/07/2019 5:59:58 PM PDT
by
dead
(Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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