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Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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The Greatest Lie about the Red Scare is that it Ended

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The Greatest Lie about the Red Scare is that it Ended

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Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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  • zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    How is this a meme?

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      How is this not a meme?

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        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.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOP
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          Oh lol of course not, that contextualizes your confusion lol

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          I mean, a purely text post does seem like the type of meme a Marxist would post. Haha

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            Fair, lol

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      The gandalf pictures, it’s humourously describing the process of pitching Socialism to Americans. Simple.

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      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.

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