Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 days agoThe Greatest Lie about the Red Scare is that it Endedlemmy.mlimagemessage-square202fedilinkarrow-up1960arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1912arrow-down1imageThe Greatest Lie about the Red Scare is that it Endedlemmy.mlCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square202fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarezjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down8·3 days agoHow is this a meme?
minus-squarehexabs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoYou won’t get it if you’re taking the old bloke and his words at face value. The meme value comes from the context, being a scene from LOTR.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 days agoThe gandalf pictures, it’s humourously describing the process of pitching Socialism to Americans. Simple.
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 days agoHow is this not a meme?
minus-squarezjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agosorry, the first time I saw it the image didn’t load on my instance, so I thought OP was saying the title text alone was the meme.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 days agoOh lol of course not, that contextualizes your confusion lol
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·3 days agoI mean, a purely text post does seem like the type of meme a Marxist would post. Haha
How is this a meme?
You won’t get it if you’re taking the old bloke and his words at face value.
The meme value comes from the context, being a scene from LOTR.
The gandalf pictures, it’s humourously describing the process of pitching Socialism to Americans. Simple.
How is this not a meme?
sorry, the first time I saw it the image didn’t load on my instance, so I thought OP was saying the title text alone was the meme.
Oh lol of course not, that contextualizes your confusion lol
I mean, a purely text post does seem like the type of meme a Marxist would post. Haha
Fair, lol