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    8 months ago

    Drop “at” and “this.” Tighter joke, less visually irritating with the awkward pacing for reading. Great though lol

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    But being insulting is fun because you get to laugh with someone else’s situation without caring about yours : )

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      There’s a new batch out. They actually have two jokes now. Just say something racist and replace the problem words with “woke”.

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    does “bigotry” against landlords and the bourgeoise class count

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    stuff holy fucking shit i actually spelled burggwasury right on the first time

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      If it does count as bigotry, I’m screwed. I blame capitalism for stuff all the time.

      Also, lol at “burggwasury”

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      The right, when called out by a meme and feeling sensitive about it ^

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          Let me translate: “I made an utterly tasteless and shitty abortion/miscarriage-adjacent meme that got moderated and I CANNOT stop whining about it, but liberals are the sensitive snowflakes around here”

          Suuuuuuure, everybody is sensitive but you, pal.

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            No, there is definitely a list of things you can make fun of on this site, capitalism, American healthcare/infrastructure/etc, bills/how expensive things are, killing the rich, etc. It doesn’t matter how tasteless or dark the meme is so long as you direct it at the right subject matter. This is effectively an echo-chamber.

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            The caption said: my wife out-drinking everyone at the table; our unborn son:

            Then it has a picture of Tom the cat with eyes bulging that I edited to be in a womb. Guess darker memes aren’t allowed here?

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              So the punchline is “if you drink your kid may get FAS, here’s Tom depicting it”? That’s not so much offensive as just…not funny? Like it’s just a dumb, poorly executed joke.

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                It isnt funny, it is also dumb

                But that description also fits many of the stuff i myself put here.

                As a far left anarchist i have to disagree with censorship of “dumb and not funny”, though I also respect the will of a collective (lemmy community) to decide what topics they find acceptable in their space, subjective humor and intelligence isnt a good reasons for exclusion (borders discrimination).

                Imagine the joke was funny, would it have been acceptable? Obviously in a community for recovering addicts or one exclusively for pictures flowers it would not, but others?

                We must be intolerant of the intolerant and only the intolerant otherwise we risk becoming intolerant ourselves.

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                  It’s not “censorship” as you mean it I imagine because we aren’t a state entity. Every forum engages in censorship to some degree, even if only to protect themselves legally. I think too many think we have some (misguided) mandate to protect free speech to the point where we should endure the feds banging at our doors.

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                1. The joke is in the image: of course the text description of it won’t land. But I can’t post it because it would get taken down
                2. Whether its funny is beside the point. Why did it get taken down? I see people screenshotting unfunny tweets and posting it to meme communities and it gets 1k upvotes.
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                  Let me ask you this: should I find a Tom and Jerry depiction of somebody dying of lung cancer in their final moments funny?

                  I just don’t see the comedy here. It’s overlaying a cartoon over tragedy. But because (I’m assuming) there is little sympathy for a mother who drinks and thus impacts their child, it’s suddenly acceptable and funny because it’s appropriately judgmental.

                  Edit: I think you should reframe this as “people find this joke tasteless.“ I find being tasteless different from being offensive. I don’t get offended by 9/11 jokes. But I’ve definitely heard a couple that I found tasteless. Though some people rightfully find it offensive as well - would you share this meme with someone who suffered a miscarriage or has experienced/been around FAS in some capacity? Would you knowingly share it with a NICU nurse?

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              You don’t get it. Only what they find funny is funny and only what they think is biggoted is actually biggoted.

              Any other world view other than theirs is extremely inferior to the point of being an insult to exist.

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                Are you guys making your own echo chamber in the middle of an echo chamber? Seems rather echonomical ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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                  Jokes about school shootings are jokes about America and its priorities. The punchline is America and its ruthless protection of firearms, not dead kids.

                  Jokes about obesity are jokes about a person and their weight. They’re the subject and the punchline and there is no meaningful observation other than “I find them repulsive.”

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                  I think the big issue is that joking about school shootings is satirical to bring up how common it is in hopes to change it, while joking about fat people is just to be mean. No one is going to change because you made fun of them, in fact it might make the problem worse as state of mind is a factor in being unhealthy.

                  You could probably make the same argument about abortion jokes being satirical, but I don’t think abortion jokes are made in order to enact social change. It’s usually just to be offensive. Satire is usually used to point out how ridiculous something is, the hope is that we as a society will see it and do something about it.

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      By definition, something offensive must be something that can cause someone to take offense. Saying “haha, people get offended when I say offensive things” is rather redundant.

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      The portion of the left which is insecure and obnoxious, that is. Trust me, we’re annoyed by them, too. They make the rest of us look like whiny, judgmental assholes.

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      Please don’t be offended, but maybe you just need to hang out with better memes breh 👐

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      I have noticed that a lot of leftist memes are just walls of text. Right-wing memes tend to be concise and to the point, often only containing a few short words. They target very different demographics.

      Edit: this was meant to roast the right for being simple-minded, but I worded it poorly.

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        I’m gonna get vilified for this, but do you mean one side makes memes with sharp commentary and the other makes memes for dumb people?

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          I think they meant that they dont attribute either brevity to the level of not conveying a point effectively or verbosity to the point of eroding interest as being particularly good means of communication.

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            I mean, leftist memes are sometimes not very funny if they’re too long-winded, but I meant it as a dig at the right.

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        I think the science actually supports this. Studies have shown leftists tend to be more self-critical and are concerned for the nuances - the “shades of grey”. So their memes must cover more angles of an argument to be effective. Right-wing are more black and white thinking, and don’t question themselves once they make a decision. So their meme’s are straight to the point and simple (and usually so full of logic holes and lacking in comedy that leftists say: “the right can’t meme”).

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        probably because the right lack reading comprehension :)

        edit: fix typo

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          That’s literally what I’m saying. People seem to have misinterpreted my tone. I was roasting the right, though the irony of being misunderstood here is not lost on me lol.