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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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To: PeterPrinciple

41 posted on 04/07/2019 6:17:18 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Stepan12

Samnatha Bee is not funny. She goes beyond disgusting. In fact, she’s sickening.


42 posted on 04/07/2019 6:19:00 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Drew68
This quote from the article proves that Media Matters, and the Left on general, really do live in an alternate universe.

Media Matters’ Carusone says people on the left are more concerned with nuanced facts and gray areas that can’t always be boiled down accurately into a photo with a caption. On the left, he says, “every meme has to have a million qualifiers, so that it’s no longer a meme. It’s a Medium post.” Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to communicate their ideas “in ways that are very reductionist. They’re also much more comfortable lying, and their audiences are much more likely to accept it.”

43 posted on 04/07/2019 6:20:29 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: Drew68

“Graham is coolly adjusting his tie and smiling, while in the background, a police officer restrains a hysterical-looking woman who’s screaming at him”

Add to that the smug, amused, and satisfied look on his face. Could be one of the best photos of the year,


44 posted on 04/07/2019 6:20:46 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Drew68

“Media Matters’ Carusone says people on the left are more concerned with nuanced facts and gray areas”

hogwash. the simple fact of the matter is that one has to have a sense of humor to meme and progressive/leftist/socialist/marxists/communists do NOT in general have senses of humor ... most whom i’ve had the misfortune to have had contact with are dour, sulky, whinny complainers ... they also can’t accept the world the way it is and see no humor in the world because of their disconnect from reality ...


45 posted on 04/07/2019 6:22:17 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Stepan12
Is Samnatha Bee funny?

I had never heard of Samantha Bee before I started seeing ads on the sides of NYC busses for her TV show. They featured this drippy looking lady (Bee) with the caption "Watch or you're sexist!" That was humor, as liberals see it, I guess.

It made the show look about as fun and funny as toenail fungus. The 7 seconds of the show that I actually watched proved my instant analysis correct.

46 posted on 04/07/2019 6:23:10 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Drew68

The left has become the stick up their a-s prudes


47 posted on 04/07/2019 6:25:00 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: Drew68

Liberal memes just don’t go viral. Conservative memes do.
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Conservative memes have the advantage of being true.


48 posted on 04/07/2019 6:25:16 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MayflowerMadam
I pulled the awesome Graham image out of that original picture, so I can drop it in front of any other situation I find humorous.


49 posted on 04/07/2019 6:25:34 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: dead

PERFECT, Dead!


50 posted on 04/07/2019 6:26:54 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: dead

PERFECT, Dead!


51 posted on 04/07/2019 6:26:56 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: dead

It’s good, but it can never be as good as with that hysterical screaming witch in the background.


52 posted on 04/07/2019 6:33:01 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Drew68

When you’re wrong it’s hard to make a meme that’s not.


53 posted on 04/07/2019 6:34:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: MayflowerMadam
The original.


54 posted on 04/07/2019 6:35:31 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Drew68

There are so many creative conservative artists with a fabulous sense of humor at Free Republic that I think we should start a meme contest. All memes must be original.

Weekly prize for the best meme. Keep them all on one thread.


55 posted on 04/07/2019 6:36:30 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Drew68

It’s much simpler than all of that.

The power of a Meme directly correlates to the power of any truth it contains.

Truth is not a liberal forte...


56 posted on 04/07/2019 6:36:47 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Good ideas/truths don’t need fluff. If they have to blow a bunch of smoke up your ass it is not a good idea/truth.


57 posted on 04/07/2019 6:41:01 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: EasySt

Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to communicate their ideas “in ways that are very reductionist. They’re also much more comfortable lying, and their audiences are much more likely to accept it.”

Continue believing that libtards.


58 posted on 04/07/2019 6:41:29 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Fiddlstix

I still remember Samantha Yellowjacket’s remarks to the first daughter and calling that kid dying of brain cancer a Nazi. Her praise of women batter Schneiderman was funny, but not in the way she meant.


59 posted on 04/07/2019 6:43:38 PM PDT by Stepan12 (potusm)
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To: Drew68

Memes are supposed to be funny.

Liberals are too meme-spirited to be funny...


60 posted on 04/07/2019 6:45:27 PM PDT by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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