Dark Brandon? Dementia? Rail Safety? Actual 404 page from joebiden.com.
Capitalism adopting meme culture is so god damn cringe. I hate it.
It's to the point where I wonder how many trending memes are forced by corporations and how many are organically popular
:astronaut-2::astronaut-1:
First time I really remember this is the thanos memes on reddit or a bunch of friends or acquaintances who weren't star wars nerds sharing 'may 4th star wars day lol' memes on facebook the first year after disney bought that IP.
Whoever disney pays for guerrilla marketing is real good at it
That vin diesel "family" meme a couple years back was incredibly astroturfed. Or felt incredibly astroturfed
I think to some extent it's done through meme page admins on Facebook and the like, who play the algorithm and get paid if they produce enough content. So these are professional memers who are constantly just pushing out as much shit as they can come up with if it will bring clicks. So Thanos memes just come from these people scrambling to the next relevant thing to be first.
The free market :bawllin-sad:
No doubt it's hard to separate organic trend-following from the paid-for shit. But the way Disney trash gets memed is something else. The star wars one especially, that may 4th was a year before they put out any of the new movies, it was cool to hate the prequels and IP as a whole after the third one, and yet all of a sudden a bunch of non-nerds are sharing this shit all over the TL? Slamming :doubt: that it came from organic algo boosting alone.
Like we have so much evidence of the artificial boosting the cryptofash do on social media, it seems entirely consistent that monopolist money spends the same as Koch money with these 'reputation management' firms.
Your comment did remind me of that time the people behind the oCcUpY DEmOCraTs account touted how hard they work on those shitposts, ty for that
Absolutely agree there's astroturfing involved no doubt. Memes are perfect for astroturfing and propaganda because they appear as organic grassroots culture. But it's so easy to just inject any kind of sus shit into memes. For example so many memes about Brendan Frasier, it felt fake (imo)
Keanu too. Which is a shame because some of the stories (ann arbor or wherever in michigan community theater) reflect well on him. An unfortunate casualty of the internet is that I just don't believe a single thing that makes it into the collective consciousness about any public figure or art
The capitalists will sell us the memes with which we will make them look cringe.
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I'm assuming this comes up whenever you try to pull up a policy page for any of his campaign promises.
YOU'RE LOST, JACK. We never promised to take those kids out of the camps. We never promised student loan forgiveness. COVID? That's over, Jack, we solved it.
joebiden.com/covid redirects to joebiden.com/covid19 which is a 404 so :yea:
At least the Canadian Liberal Government has expanded LGBT rights under Trudeau.
It's nearing the end of Biden's first term, and what does he have to show for it? He let the GOP walk all over him.
It's good to remind libs that abortion rights were lost while Biden was President. And no they can't point to the supreme court since Biden could have packed the court (or simply threaten to do so).
I then like to rhetorically ask "what does that tell you about the Democratic party"
I like bringing this up around 2 AM after drinking heavily.
It's annoying when you live in a lib state and they just turn it into a states issue. They have so many off ramps to shift responsibility away from themselves.
Several months ago libs said: "it's okay because people can still get abortion pills sweaty."
Now: "..."
the dem party had enough legislative control to codify Roe and didn't even try
He let the GOP walk all over him.
He IS the GOP. They're on the same team, They are not enemies. They are the bourgeois class.
You're right, of course, but libs will reject that outright. They have a harder time arguing he accomplished anything (source: me bullying libs).
Just give him another 4 years. I'm sure he'll actually bother to do something this time.
Had an elderly relative try to tell me that he's gotten more done than any other president but was hard pressed to name any one specific thing.
It's a very low bar since Obama got so little passed. But the infrastructure and energy investments probably out scale what other recent presidents have done.
Yeah, "he's done nothing" is outkicking our coverage. Better to press on big issues (abortion) where he's done nothing or simply watched GOP wins.
Put me back on the rails? That sounds okay. I was worried you were going to help Norfolk Southern keep fucking their workers as they light me and my hazardous contents on fire, just to clear the rails fa$ter
I hope this means I will be able to buy sweet official merch like a sweater with an image of a train going off the rails and into Trump's face or something
