Submitted 3 weeks ago by iloveDigit@piefed.social to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Red pill:
Let people who pretend to know nothing about vaccines decide who can get what vaccines
Blue pill:
Let people who pretend to know nothing about guns decide who can get what guns
Red pill:
Let the weapon industry dictate gun policy
Blue pill:
Let big pharma dictate vaccine policy
This is not at all how this meme works.
Seems like it should be red-pill = science based, informed decisions. Blue pill = weird, ignorant, gut responses which deny reality.
I wish!
Also yes, the meme format is misusing the “red” and “blue” pills as political stand-ins. You’re right
Also yes, the meme format is misusing the “red” and “blue” pills as political stand-ins. You’re right
Excuse me, is you’re name Claude? Because you drop that “you’re absolutely right” like a bot.
why do the colors swap between panels?
Panel 1:
Blocking access to vaccines is a mainly Republican policy idea, and blocking access to guns is a mainly Democrat policy idea.
Panel 2:
Republicans are happy to go along with Democrats and block access to guns in accordance with whatever the firearms industry says to do, stopping people from protecting themselves / their loved ones, leading to pointless deaths.
Democrats are happy to go along with Republicans and block access to vaccines in accordance with whatever big pharma says to do, stopping people from protecting themselves / their loved ones, leading to pointless deaths.
“Pretend to know nothing” or “actually know nothing”?
The people actually making the decisions are pretending to know nothing when they present people who actually know nothing as their public speaking people.
But also, sometimes the public speaking people are just pretending to know less than they do themselves.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The pills need to be opposed decisions. Not the same thing with a different industry.
iloveDigit@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it would be good if at least one of the two parties wasn’t just “the corporatist party”
MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Well in that case, the image is based on the false dichotomy that doesn’t exist of the parties’ policies. Most dems don’t want to remove all guns. They just want to keep guns out of crazies’ hands and some want to limit availability of particular things so any subsequent mass shooter has a harder time just endlessly popping off shots like the Vegas shooter… They do not fail to understand guns.