for someone following lefty memes for a while it saddens me greatly to see our current state. I know that the political left is notoriously bad at this. but man most of the more recent memes simply aren’t that funny. How can we claim to have any sort of coherent ideology, when most of our memes aren’t actually memes but infographics on why capitalism bad? (throwing in a meme for good measure)

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    2 days ago

    The problem is that you need less words to vomit some inane bullshit than you would to say an accurate and grounded truth. As such we’re always in a losing ground when it comes to memes - because memes need to be short and to-the-point, otherwise as you said they won’t be funny.

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      1 day ago

      You can be fairly truthful and not too inaccurate without writing an essay. Sometimes it’s ok to do some simplification in order to communicate concisely. We’re not getting graded on our memes.