Still looking for the right community for this meme

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨iloveDigit@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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I understand political memes are prohibited here, but my last meme was borderline political and people liked it. This one is more directly political, but every subreddit I’ve posted it in so far has hated it.

I made this meme because I noticed parallels in how Republicans and Democrats block my access to guns and vaccines, violating my rights and putting me and my loved ones in senseless danger.

I’m not quite ready to give up on finding a community where people like this meme. I know it’s actually one of my most well-crafted ones yet, no matter what some people say.

Image text (Morpheus meme format, repurposed to represent US uniparty politics, not blindly misused without understanding it as some commenters keep saying)

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

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TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I think you’re struggling because the message of the meme only makes sense superficially and really falls apart when it’s considered critically. And after one considers it critically and sees its obvious flaws, it just feels like “I’m 14 and this is deep” edgelord shit.

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- socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  OP just wants to master debate. It’s an obvious troll. They’ve been spamming this shit for literally days and then just sealions all over the comments.
  
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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It seems like if you had an answer for this, you’d have made it unnecessary to ask instead of just insulting me, but what do you mean?
  
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  - TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Th effects of guns and the effects of vaccines on a populace are so wildly different that to compare the regulations around them similarly is comparing apples and oranges.
    
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Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
“I know pol memes aren’t allowed, I know this is one and everyone else already disliked it. I will post it anyway.”

Dude, what? 😂

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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’ll copy and paste so you can try again, maybe it just takes you a few tries to read things correctly:
  
  I understand political memes are prohibited here, but my last meme was borderline political and people liked it. This one is more directly political, but every community I’ve posted it in so far has hated it, so I’m trying here.
  
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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The stove isn’t hot; it’s all in your head, and everyone telling you otherwise are idiots who just cannot appreciate your unique genius.

Go on, touch it again. This time it’ll work, surely.

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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Weak gaslighting attempt. If you feel like gaslighting me, I recommend trying on nostr. I think I take people more seriously there because they’re at least replying where there are no bans / post removals
  
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socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Try Truth Social. Stop spamming this shit.

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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I am not helping you chuds grow Truth Social after you banned me from the Donald Trump subreddit after the one time I voted for him 9 years ago. If you’re having trouble getting people to join your new thing now, I’m laughing at you - I’m not the person to ask for help.
  
  I have not quite given up on finding a piefed/lemmy community where this will be appreciated.
  
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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
All complaints about the message aside, you’re misusing the meme format.

It should be ‘uneducated people making vaccine policy’ on the red pill and ‘big pharma making vaccine policy’ on the blue pill on the first image; uneducated people making gun policy on the red pill and gun industry making gun policy on the blue pill on the second. You’re supposed to put opposing choices on opposing pills. It makes no sense the way you have it.

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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Red and blue are the color code for Republican and Democrat in the US
  
  But yes, I am stretching the meme format
  
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bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Thank you for this post!!! I didn’t see the other ones and you were not on my blocklist yet.

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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Good riddance
  
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MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Have you considered it’s also just not a very good use of the format?

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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It is very good use of the format.
  
  Until someone can think of a better format for the same meme, and then it would be downgraded to just a good use of the format, not very good.
  
  But that hasn’t happened yet.
  
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  - MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Lol, it would be weird if you didn’t think it was good.
    
    Believe it or not, others can disagree. As has been the case.
    
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
No industry should self regulate.

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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Exactly, now we’re cooking
  
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Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This just makes no sense. Who are the people who pretend to know nothing about weapons but do? Wut?

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- iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Who are the people who pretend to know nothing about weapons but do?
  
  Mainly donors and lobbyists, I guess.
  
  It’s an oversimplification - it’s more like they confuse you about who’s making the decisions, than that they pretend to know less than they do. But when they formulate arguments based on lies, that’s also pretending to know less than they do, so the oversimplification isn’t actually wrong.
  
  Complex thing being described simply: decisions are made by people who know how guns work, but a public figure announcing a decision might embarrass himself talking about guns. He might know how guns work, and just be pretending not to. But if he actually knows how guns work, the people sending him out to do the public speaking are the ones “pretending not to know more” - or rather, making you think “wow this guy is an idiot” instead of “wow these decisions are being made by lying donors and lobbyists.”
  
  Simpler thing that makes it kinda correct: even if the guy doing the public speaking genuinely doesn’t know how guns work, it’s still dishonest of his handlers to send him up, and in the process, they still make false arguments that omit their knowledge on the topic, meeting the exact original statement.
  
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