Did you respond to the wrong comment? Because I’m having trouble imagining what you could possibly be referring to

RRR is fantastic

I didn’t say no one can leave the country, I said that it doesn’t allow people to escape. Obviously pre-approved people are going to be allowed to leave (more likely in the upper classes, no doubt). But I guess it’s on brand to change my words to slot into the strawman the US has built.

Lying by omission is still lying. Even if everything to come out of the NK government is 100% true, it can still be dishonest if they cut away all the parts that make them look bad, and it is still propaganda. That is what comes of heavily controlled tours and journalism, not open bald-faced lies.

I doubt any of the unredacted portions of the Epstein files are deliberately falsified, but you don’t see me saying that their release was an honest move.

Lmao

westerners are famous for being fully aware

it isn’t hard to point out western propaganda

Pick one. I’m also sure the next thing you’re going to say is that you are fully aware.

It sounds like you are saying that by pointing this out when it is happening it isn’t fair because the US is also bad, so their enemies also deserve to be called bad, even by the US, even when it is easily proven to be a lie?

Not what I’m saying at all. The examples you gave are ridiculous and I’ve never heard anyone claim those. I’m talking basic shit like North Korea not allowing people to escape the country, and visits there being heavily chaperoned, so the only coverage is either directly from the North Korean government or from controlled journalism (or western propaganda). But I still see government “news” posted on hexbear and y’all treat it like 100% truth.

But when it’s pointed out that “hey maybe the governments you look up to aren’t being totally honest either” we get shit like

westerners are famous for being fully aware

The meme I shared takes the position that those you call “puppets of US imperialism” are fully aware that they are being showered with propaganda and that the US is an evil state which lies about everything.

We constantly criticize the US for its bullshit but the second we criticize the “communist” nations of the east we are gobbling up western propaganda and sucking the cocks of the US elite

Please point to where I said I support imperialism

I don’t see how but go off I guess

Alright man. Let’s say, hypothetically, that I tell you “everything in the universe is matter”

Then I proceed to tell you what matter is, that it’s made of protons, electrons, and neutrons, which are further comprised of subatomic particles.

Then I explain how this theoretical approach is applicable to anything and everything and how incredibly useful it is to think of stuff in this way. And how its basic composition allows for many different configurations and interactions of matter. Incredibly hot plasma caused by nuclear fusion in stars. The insane density of neutron stars. And how this is the most correct model we have to date.

Now you may respond in one of a few ways:

You can say “huh, that’s really neat” and move on. Or maybe learn more about it.

Or you can say “that’s really cool, but I only care about the stuff that we can see on earth” which is totally reasonable and which is what many people are doing in this thread.

You could also say “that’s dumb, only the stuff we can see on earth should be called matter” which is similar to the preceding response, but is not reasonable at all and is what OP is doing.

Or you could say “that’s dumb, if everything is matter then the term is meaningless” which is just an arbitrary semantic application of a phrase which, for some reason, you and OP are treating as a universal maxim and completely leaving out all context and nuance pertaining to the situation. Syndrome can say “when everyone’s super, no one will be” in the Incredibles because that is a difference of degree, while this is a categorical difference.

I explained that a meme is any piece of information that can be transmitted with or without modification, because that is the definition. If you want to stop there and say that “if everything is a meme, then nothing is” that’s your prerogative. But I am not over-intellectualizing, you are under-intellectualizing.

That is the working definition we have and it’s useful because all the rules of evolution that apply to genes also apply to memes, and so it tells us a lot about how humans interact with and exchange information. It would not work if the definition were any different. If you want to change the definition to eliminate things you don’t like, or that don’t fit within a specific community, I guarantee you will leave out things that you would say are memes unintentionally.

If you don’t want lazy text screenshots in a meme community, that’s fine. But that does not mean they are not memes.

I have been looking for something like this for ages. I could kiss you rn 😘

The carbon-silicate cycle. I suggest everyone watch The Deadliest Pattern in Nature on youtube.

See, that’s the thing. They are still memes. Bits of information that are transmitted with or without modification.

If a copypasta isn’t iconic, that doesn’t mean it’s not a meme. It’s just a less successful meme than the navyseals meme. Same thing with greentexts, images, comics, reddit posts.

Nah, OP is just straight denying that screenshots of text are memes. Claiming some bullshit like having to make some change to it for it to qualify as a meme. Just ignoring reposts of green texts, copypasta, reddit stories (poop knife, cylinder, cbat guy, etc etc etc etc), people getting ratioed on twitter, tumblr chains.

Like, wtf kinda change does OP want me to make if I wanna revive some old classic greentext. Draw a big red circle on it? Slap a wojak right in the middle?

Screenshots are lazy, sure, but they are definitely still memes. Whether an exact replica or not.

OP: 👏 TOMATO 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 FRUIT 👏

Everyone: tomatoes are botanically considered a fruit

OP: ackshually I don’t like it in my fruit salad, therefore it is not a fruit

An exact copy of a gene is a gene. An exact copy of a meme is a meme.

Well said.

Pretty sure they meant through the public education system

When everything is a meme, nothing is

“When everything is made of genes, nothing is”

This is just an assertion, and a false one too.

Everything is a meme, and they behave exactly like genes. They replicate themselves, perfectly or imperfectly, and are then subject to competition for users’ attention which will affect their future replication.

Another meme is attempting to outcompete the screenshot genus of memes, by using you as a propagation tool: the “screenshots of text are not memes” meme.

Edit: downvote me if you want but you can’t deny the facts. The idea I expressed in this comment was also a meme whose chances of propagation were diminished from your downvote.

It’s the dictionary definition

TIL letting my teacher make suggestions on my draft means they control the entire contents of the final paper