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It's an easy way to point out a problem, but it's also an easy way to feed anti-socialist brainworms.
its not antisocialist tho, its pro socialist. its just not sure what socialism is lol.
its saying people are offered “socialism” (painted as good things like housing and healthcare) to go abroad and defend capitalism
That's not the only way to interpret it. It can also be interpreted to say benefits should be taken away from them.
☠i mean anything is possible i guess
It's basically what right-libertarians believe? In their minds, government doing stuff = socialism = bad
I think it's also important to use the clues and context from the material like with literally any other piece of literature, media or literally anything else you would ever consume. Obviously, I'm not a right-libertarian.
Unironically, it is a part of it. It’s capable of showing what a worker-controlled governance could do for it’s people if it was a socialist model. There is a scientific definition of socialism and one that could be used to refer to a welfare/public service part of governance to the average American. I think this would reach them better from personal experience than a 4-page theory block condensed into a meme.
Once you are close with, are talking to, etc with a person, feel free to drop the 4-1000s of pages of theory on a governance controlled by the working class.
This reminds me of my friend when I posted a quote from a Soviet sniper saying that a "Good nazi is a dead nazi" and my friend starts going off on me about "how that's the same kinda thing fascists say". Literally use the context.
If you expect normies to use context clues to sus out the true meaning of your memes you aren't going to reach them, they're just going to interpret it through the dominant ideology and reach right-wing conclusions. They'll conclude that it's unfair that veterans get to have benefits and think we should take those benefits away from them or that everyone should be forced to serve in the military so that they can all get healthcare. They aren't going to make a leftist critique and jump to the idea that everyone could have healthcare, they're just going to feed their brainworms and metabolize this meme from the right.
That doesn't mean we need our memes to be 4-page commie blocks of text, we just need to be careful is all I'm saying.
That isn't really what has happened on the page though. Instead people look at the meme, invest further or get curious on the page and learn more about what the meaning actually is. People don't take one look at this meme and start metabolizing Starship Troopers or neoliberal austerity as their ideology. It's appealing to nostalgia.
Can you explain what you mean by "the page" actually? Is that whatever leftistgamermemes is? I'm just speculating based on pessimism and vibes, maybe this performs better in the real world than I expect.
It's leftistgamermemes on both fedbook and fedgram. Not sure if they are on other platforms but I mentioned it in the description.
Yeah, I guess if this is posted to a lefty meme page it's going to have the intended reception.
I'll just say I do not think this would work the same if it was posted outside of an explicitly left space.
sure, to you, because it's not playing on your nostalgia. Works just fine on their own however.
Unironically, it is a part of it. It’s capable of showing what a worker-controlled governance could do for it’s people if it was a socialist model. There is a scientific definition of socialism and one that could be used to refer to a welfare/public service part of governance to the average American.
They'd be more receptive to this message than me sitting there and explaining 50 pages of theory on a 4-page meme. There is a reason the channel/page that makes these is popular.